Program - India Science Festival

PROGRAM

DAY 1 | 11th JAN, 2020 | Saturday

Time	Turing Lawn	Hodgkin Huxley Lawn	CV Raman Auditorium	Feynman Show and Tell Theatre
10:30am-11:15am	Outside-In: Bringing the world into our brains Shubha Tole, TIFR	What machines can and cannot see: Progress over forty years Narendra Ahuja, ITRA	Ajanta - A Pigment of our Glorious Imagination S. Swaminathan, Tamil Heritage Trust
11:15am-12:00pm	Has the terminator arrived - AI becomes smarter than humans? Subbarao Kambhampati, ASU	How do we form our memories and how do we know where to look for them? US Bhalla, NCBS	Black holes: Beacons in our search for a quantum theory of space-time Spenta Wadia, ICTS-TIFR	InQuizitive India - hunt for the next quiz wiz (Science Game)
12:00pm-12:55pm	Embodied brains and disembodied minds: a neurological perspective on human nature VS Ramachandran, UCSD	ISF TYT Talk 1 Angira Rastogi	ISF TYT Talk 2 Anchal Varshney
12:00pm-12:55pm		Genomic Quirks: How our Genes make or break us? Ramesh Hariharan, Strand Life Sciences	Teaching Machines to Read and Write Our Language Sunita Sarawgi, IIT-B	Speculative Fiction: Imagining the Future Tashan Mehta, Author, The Liar's Weave
12:55pm-1:40pm	Technologies for Development: Can Cloud and AI Cross the Digital Divide? Sriram Rajamani, Microsoft Research India	Humans are not alone, AI discriminates too: Controlling bias in AI Nisheeth Vishnoi, Yale	New models of doing and funding science - What the future holds. Vivek Jayaraman, Narendra Ahuja, D. Dendukuri, Bishesh Khanal Moderated by: Pankaj Mishra	Exhibit Talks - AI Driverless car - Ati Motors - Genetically modified flies - Science in action: CSpark Research
BREAK \| AI DRIVERLESS VEHICLE RUN
2:00pm - 2:45pm	Project Prakash: Merging Science and Service Pawan Sinha, MIT	The Next Billion Users: Can Mobile, Internet, and AI include the masses? Payal Arora, Erasmus School of Philosophy	Why reinforcement learning is the next big thing in AI? Ravindran Balaraman, IIT-M	SketchPad - unleash your imagination (Science Game)
2:45pm-3:45pm	ISF PYP Talk 1 Ankit S. Gupta	ISF PYP Talk 2 Anubhav Mishra	ISF TYT Talk 3 Vikas Vazhaiyal
2:45pm-3:45pm	Extended Intelligence: Coupling Human and Artificial Intelligence Arnav Kapur, MIT	Do our brains use the same principles as deep learning? Rajesh PN Rao, Subbarao Kambhampati, US Bhalla, Nandini Chatterjee Moderated by: Venkatesh Murthy	Blood on a chip: Technology for diagnostic tests at doctor's offices Dhananjay Dendukuri, Achira Labs
3:45pm-4:30pm	Can science tell us who we are? Mani Bhaumik, UCLA	How did China become a science superpower in two decades? Cong Cao, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China	Can AI democratize healthcare innovation: Learnings from Nepal Bishesh Khanal, NAAMI	Exhibit Talks - Pollution @ your fingertip - AI to smile: Aspiring Minds - App to analyze Cough
4:30pm-5:15pm	Can AI do more than adding dog ears to selfies - like fighting social injustice and improving society? Milind Tambe, Harvard & Google Research India(Affiliate)	The many roads taken - life as a scientist, policymaker or entrepreneur Anna Agarwal, Ramesh Hariharan, Amit Aggarwal, Anil Sahasrabudhe Moderated by: Nisheeth Vishnoi	AI and Art: Human Machine continuum Harshit Agrawal, Adobe Design Lab	Elephant’s head for Ganesh – did ancient Indians know how to transplant organs? Rajesh PN Rao, VS.Ramachandran, R. Gopu, Shubha Tole Moderated by: Saurabh Chandra
5:20pm	Keynote Remarks: Varun Aggarwal, Aspiring Minds
5:30pm-6:45pm	Should science be priority for India - the fastest growing economy? Rajan Navani, Spenta Wadia, Cong Cao, Payal Arora Moderated by Varun Aggarwal
7:00pm-7:45pm	Evening Program: Role of AI in changing cinema Vani Tripathi, Prahlad Kakar Moderated by: Dwarika Prasad Uniyal

DAY 2 | 12TH Jan, 2020 | Sunday

Time	Turing Lawn	Hodgkin Huxley Lawn	CV Raman Auditorium	Feynman Show and Tell Theatre
10:15am	Opening Remarks by Venkatesh Murthy, Harvard University
10:25am	Special Remarks by Manoj Kumar, Social Alpha
10:35am-11:45am	Lab to Market: Experiments, Challenges, Success Stories and way forward Manoj Kumar, Taslimarif Saiyed, B. Ravindran Moderated by: Chintan Vaishnav
11:45am-12:30pm	Brain 2.0 - Connecting human brains and machines Rajesh PN Rao, UWash	Should we shoot the world's deadliest messengers or just disarm them through genetic engineering? Suresh Subramani, TIGS	GPUs – From computer games to computer vision PJ Narayanan, IIITH	Interview Mission Mangal: Why women are not from Venus? Minnie Vaid in conversation with Niyaatii Swami
12:30pm-1:15pm	Google AI research: Global impact and opportunity for India Manish Gupta, Google Research India	How insects make smart decisions using past experience and internal models of the world Vivek Jayaraman, HHMI	Do Indian public health issues differ from the world-how to prevent, diagnose and cure? Gagandeep Kang, THSTI	Ying-Yang: science of art, art of science Harshit Agarwal, Pawan Sinha, Vijayendra Mohanty, Tashan Mehta, Moderated by: Jahnavi Phalkey
1:15pm-2:10pm	Gene Editing: How to get science to impact society - Opportunity and Challenges Ramarao Damerla, Sanjeev Galande, Cong Cao, Sudheendra Rao Moderated by: Shambhavi Naik	ISF TYT Talk 4 Anand Bhardwaj	ISF PYP Talk 3 Sivaranjani S
1:15pm-2:10pm		Stephen Hawking's legacy in fundamental physics Rajesh Gopakumar, ICTS-TIFR	AI to make lives better: Agriculture, Food, Waste management and more Gargi Dasgupta, IBM	InQuizitive India - hunt for the next quiz wiz (Science Game)
BREAK \| AI DRIVERLESS VEHICLE RUN
2:30pm-3:30pm	Machines, Medicine and You: Is Indian healthcare ready for AI? \| Plenary organized by LMSAI, Harvard University Ashwin Naik, Santanu Bhattacharya, Sunita Nadhamuni, Rahul Matthan; Moderated by: Satchit Balsari
3:35pm-4:35pm	ISF TYT Talk 5 Nitesh Mishra	ISF PYP Talk 4 Rajesh Thangavel Yadav	ISF PYP Talk 5 Arush Gupta	Exhibit Talks - Tinker with electronics - Brain Science in Action - Climate change, responsible consumption and the role of technology - Shubham Bansal, Leap Club - AI robot at your service
3:35pm-4:35pm	Why and how to build an MIT in India? PJ Narayanan, Rajesh Gopakumar, Bharat Agarwal, Jayant B. Udgaonkar Moderated by: Pawan Sinha	Solving problems using AI: Going beyond deep learning Varun Aggarwal, Aspiring Minds	Microbes in your mouth: Veg-Non Veg study using mobile DNA sequencer Ramesh Hariharan and Raja Mugasimangalam
4:35pm-5:20pm	Tamasoma Jyotisha Gamaya: The Men who knew Zero to Infinity R Gopu, THT & Badri Sheshadri, Synprosoft	Is deep learning the nirvana of AI? Payal Arora, Arnav Kapur, Bishesh Khanal Moderated by: Manish Gupta	Why science needs women? Minnie Vaid, Venkatesh Murthy, Shambhavi Naik, Karishma Kaushik Moderated by: Kavya Narayanan	Science JAM - "60 seconds to go" (Science Game)
5:30pm-5:45pm	Closing Ceremony and Prize Distribution
6:00pm-6:45pm	Evening Program: Comedy by Nishant Tanwar

TYT: Talk Your thesis Talks

TYT 1: Angira Rastogi: Search for physics beyond the standard model

TYT 2: Anchal Varshney: Mechanism to control unstart phenomena in scramjets

TYT 3: Vikas Vazhaiyal: How to teach a robot to perform a brain surgery

TYT 4: Anand Bhardwaj: Factor affecting lift generation in insects and birds

TYT 5: Nitesh Mishra: Coevolution of Virus and bNAbs decoded in identical twins

PYP: Perform Your Project Talks

PYP 1: Ankit Santosh Gupta: Anveshan: Voice controlled robotic arm

PYP 2: Anubhav Mishra: Controlling humans and their free will

PYP 3: Sivaranjani S.: Battery-less UPS system using flywheel

PYP 4: Rajesh Thangavel Yadav: Duo-vent: AI-enabled smart ventilation system

PYP 5: Arush Gupta: KnightCryption: Algorithm inspired from sanskrit poetry

Workshops

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Day 1:

11:45-12:45: Genetically modified flies

12:55-1:25: Tinkering Labs

2:30-4:30: CSpark Research

4:40-5:10: Tinkering Labs

Day 2:

12:30-1:00: Tinkering Labs

1:10-2:10: Genetically modified flies

3:35-4:35: Genetically modified flies

4:45-5:15: Tinkering Labs

RoundTables

DAY 2: PhD Student Roundtable: Improving PhD programs in India

DAY 2: Nasscom Round Table: Industry-academia research collaborations - examples of successes

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INDIA SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2020 | THEMATIC PROGRAM
IISER, PUNE | 11th-12th JAN, 2020

AI:
Day 1
10:30-11:15 AM Hodgkin Huxley Lawn	What machines can and cannot see: Progress over forty years Narendra Ahuja, ITRA
11:15 AM-12:00 PM Turing Lawn	Has the terminator arrives- AI becomes smarter than humans Subbarao Kambhampati, ASU
12:00 PM-12:55 PM CV Raman Audi	Teaching machines to read and write our language Sunita Sarawgi, IIT-B
12:55 PM- 1:40 PM Hodgkin Huxley Lawn	Humans are not alone, AI discriminates too: Controlling bias in AI Nisheeth Vishnoi, Yale
2:45 PM- 3:45 PM Turing Lawn	Extended Intelligence: Coupling human and Artificial Intelligence Arnav Kapur, MIT
3:45 PM- 4:30 PM CV Raman Audi	Can AI democratize healthcare innovation: Learning from Nepal Bishesh Khanai, NAAMI
4:30 PM- 5:15 PM Turing Lawn	Can AI do more than adding dog ears to selfies- like fighting social justice and improving society? Miling Tambe, Harvard

Day 2
11:45 AM- 12:30 PM CV Raman Audi	GPUs- from computer games to computer vision P J Narayanan, IIITH
12:30 PM- 1:15 PM Turing Lawn	Google AI research: Global impact and opportunity for India Manish Gupta, Google Research India
1:15 PM- 2:10 PM CV Raman Audi	AI to make lives better, Agriculture, Food management and more Gargi Dasgupta, IBM
3:35 PM- 4:35 PM Hodgkin Huxley Lawn	Solving problems using AI: Going beyond deep learning Varun Aggarwal, Aspiring Minds
4:35 PM- 5:20 PM Hodgkin Huxley Lawn	Is deep learning the nirvana of AI? Milind Tambe, Payal Arora, Arnav Kapur, Moderated by Manish Gupta

Brain Science:
Day 1
10:30 AM- 11:15 AM Turing Lawn	Outside- In: Bringing the world into our brains Shubha Tole, TIFR
11:15 AM- 12:00 PM Hodgkin Huxley Lawn	How do we form our memories and how do we know where to look for them? US Bhalla, NCBS
12:00 PM- 12:55 PM Turing Lawn	Embodied brains and disembodied minds: a neurological perspective or human nature. VS Ramachandran, UCSD
2:45 PM- 3:45 PM Hodgkin Huxley Lawn	Do our brains use the same principles as deep learning? Rajesh PN Rao, Subbarao Kambhampato, US Bhalla, Moderated- Venkatesh Murthy

Day 2
12:30 PM- 1:15 PM Hodgkin Huxley Lawn	How insects make smart decisions using past experience and internal models of the world. Vivek Jayaraman, HHMI
4:35 PM- 5:20 PM Turing Lawn	Brain 2.0- Connecting human brains and machines Rajesh PN Rao, UWash

Core Science:
Day 1
11:45 AM- 12:30 PM Turing Lawn	Making the world around us Intelligent- The internet of things Sanjay Sharma, MIT
12:00 PM- 12:55 PM Hodgkin Huxley Lawn	Genomics Quirks: How our genes make or break us? Ramesh Hariharan, Strand Life Sciences
12:55 PM- 1:40 PM Turing Lawn	Can we map what our universe hides? Priyamvada Natarajan, Yale
2:45 PM- 3:45 PM CV Raman Aud	Blood on a chip: Technology for diagnostic tests at doctor’s offices Dhanajay Dendukuri, Achira Labs
3:45 PM- 4:30 PM Turing Lawn	Can science tell us how we are? Mani Bhaumik, UCLA

Day 2
11:45 AM- 12:30 PM Hodgkin Huxley Lawn	Should we shoot the world’s deadliest messengers or just disarm them through genetic engineering? Suresh Subramani
12:30 PM- 1:15 PM CV Raman Audi	Do India public health issues differ from the world- how to prevent , diagnose and cure? Gagandeep Kang, THSTI
1:15 PM- 2:10 PM Hodgkin Huxley Lawn	Stephan Hawking’s legacy in fundamental physics Rajesh Gopakumar, ICTS- TIFR
1:15 PM- 2:10 PM Turing Lawn	Gene Editing: How to get science to impact society opportunity and challenges Ramarao Damerla, Sanjeev Galande, Cong Cao, Sudheendra Rao Moderated by: Shambhavi Naik

Art and History:
Day 1
10:30 AM- 11:15 AM CV Raman Audi	Ajanta- A pigment of glorious imagination S. Swaminathan, Tamil Heritage Trust
12:00 PM- 12:55 PM Feynman Theatre	Speculative Fiction: Imagining the future Tashan Mehta, Author
4:30 PM- 5:15 PM Feynman Theatre	Elephant’s head for Ganesh- did ancient Indians know how to transplant organs? Rajesh PN Rao, VS Ramachandran, R. Gopu, Shubha Tole, moderated- Saurabh
4:30 PM- 5:15 PM CV Raman Aud	AI and Art: Human Machine continuum Harshit Agarwal, MIT

Day 2
11:45 AM- 12:30 PM Feynman Theatre	Mission Mangal: Why women are not from Venus? Minnie Vaid: Interview
12:30 PM- 1:15 PM Feynman Theatre	Ying- Yong: Science of art, art of science Harshit Agarwal, Pawan Sinha, Vijayendra Mohanty, Tashan, moderated Jahnvi
3:35 PM- 4:35 PM CV Raman Audi	Tamasoma Jyotisha Gamaya: The men who knew zero to infinity R Gopu, THT Badri Sheshadri, Synprosoft

Policy:
Day 1
12:55 PM- 1:40 PM CV Raman Audi	New models of doing and funding science- what the future holds Vidur Mahajan, Vivek Jayaraman, Narendra Ahuja, D Dendukuri, Bishesh, Pankaj
3:45 PM- 4:30 PM Hodgkin Huxley Lawn	How did China become a science superpower in two decades? Cong Cao, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China
4:30 PM- 5:15 PM Hodgkin Huxley Lawn	The roads taken- life as a scientist, policy maker or entrepreneur Anna Agarwal, Ramesh Hariharan, moderated by Nisheeth Vishnoi
5:30 PM- 6:45 PM Turing Lawn	Should science be priority for India- the fastest growing economy? Rajan Navani, Spenta Wadia, Cong Cao, Payal Arora moderated by Varun Aggarwal

Day 2
10:35 AM- 11:45 AM Turing Lawn	From Lab to market Manoj Kumar, Taslim Saiyed, B Ravindran, moderated by Chintan Vaishnav
2:30 PM- 3:30 PM Turing Lawn	Data Panel Harvard: Machines, Medicine and You: Is Indian health care ready for AI? Ashwin Naik, Santanu Bhattacharya, Sunita Nadhamuni, Rahul Mattan, Satchit
3:35 PM- 4:35 PM Turing Lawn	Why and how to build an MIT in India? PJ Narayanan, Rajesh Gopakumar, Anil Sahasrabudhe, moderated by Sanjay Sharma
4:35 PM- 5:20 PM CV Raman Audi	Why science needs women? Gagandeep Kang, Minnie Viad, Gargi Dasgupta, moderated by Kavya Narayanan

TYT: Talk Your thesis Talks
Day 1
12:45 PM- 12:55 PM Hodgkin Huxley Lawn	Search for physics beyond the standard model Angira Rastogi, IISER, Pune
12:45 PM- 12:55 PM CV Raman Audi	Control of unstart phenomenon in scramjet engines Anchal Varshney
3:35 PM- 3:45 PM CV Raman Audi	How to teach a robot to perform a brain surgery Vikas Vazhaiyal

Day 2
2:00 PM- 2:10 PM Hodgkin Huxley Lawn	Factor affecting lift generation in insects and birds Anand Bhardwaj, IIT Madras
4:25 PM- 4:35 PM Turing Lawn	TBD Nitesh Mishra

PYP: Perform Your Project Talks
Day 1
3:35 PM- 3:45 PM Turing Lawn	Anveshan: Voice controlled robotic arm Ankit S. Gupta
3:35 PM- 3:45 PM Hodgkin Huxley Lawn	Controlling humans and their free will Anubhav Mishra

Day 2
2:00 PM- 2:10 PM CV Raman Audi	Battery-less UPS system using flywheel Sivaranjani S.
4:25 PM- 4:35 PM Hodgkin Huxley Lawn	Duo-vent: AI-enabled smart ventilation system Rajesh Thangavel Yadav
4:25 PM- 4:35 PM CV Raman Audi	KnightCryption: Algorithm derived from chess, math and sanskrit poetry Arush Gupta

Workshops
To be announced soon

RoundTables
Day 1
PhD Student Roundtable	Improving PhD programs in India
Day 2
11:55 am-12:55 pm Nasscom Round Table	Industry-academia research collaborations - examples of successes Gargi Dasgupta (IBM), Ramesh Hariharan (Strand Lifesciences), Sunita Nadhamuni (Dell EMC), Badri Seshadri (Synprosof), Bharat Agarwal (VU), Rajesh Gopakumar (TIFR), Nandini Chatterjee (UNESCO MGIEP), Raman Batra (NIET), Ravindran Balaram (IIT-M), Narendra Ahuja (University of Illinois), Kashish Mittal (Plaksha)

	AI and Art: Human-Machine continuum
	Harshit Agrawal
	AI-Artist & HCI Researcher, Adobe Design Lab	Artificial Intelligence

	Why reinforcement learning is the next big thing in AI?
	Ravindran Balaraman
	Head, Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and AI, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras	Artificial Intelligence

	How do we form our memories and how do we know where to look for them?
	Upinder Singh Bhalla
	Professor of Computational Neurosciences, National Centre for Biological Sciences	Core Science

	Can science tell us who we are?
	Mani L. Bhaumik
	Physicist and Philanthropist, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	Core Science

	Stephen Hawking's legacy in fundamental physics
	Rajesh Gopakumar
	Centre Director and Senior Professor, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR)	Core Science

	Tamasoma Jyotisha Gamaya: The Men who knew Zero to Infinity
	Badri Sesadri & R Gopu
	Researcher, Tamil Heritage Trust & Managing Director, Synprosoft (NHM)	History

	Google AI research: Global impact and opportunity for India
	Manish Gupta
	Director, Google Research India	Artificial Intelligence

	Genomic Quirks: How our Genes make or break us?
	Ramesh Hariharan
	Co-Founder and CTO, Strand Life Sciences	Core Science

	How insects make smart decisions using past experience and internal models of the world
	Vivek Jayaraman
	Head, Mechanistic Cognitive Neuroscience, Howard Hughes Medical Institute	Neuroscience

	Has the terminator arrived - AI becomes smarter than humans?
	Subbarao Kambhampatti
	Professor of Computer Science, Arizona State University	Artificial Intelligence

	Do Indian public health issues differ from the world-how to prevent, diagnose and cure?
	Gagandeep Kang
	Executive Director, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute	Core Science

	Extended Intelligence: Coupling Human and Artificial Intelligence
	Arnav Kapur
	Graduate Lead Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	Artificial Intelligence

	Can AI democratize healthcare innovation: Learnings from Nepal
	Bishesh Khanal
	Research Scientist and Chairperson, Nepal Applied Mathematics and Informatics Institute for Research (NAAMII)	Artificial Intelligence

	Using Adversarial AI to secure us from Hackers
	Una May O'Reilly
	Leader, AnyScale Learning for All, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Core Science

	GPUs – from computer games to computer vision
	PJ Narayanan
	Professor & Director, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad	Artificial Intelligence

	Can we map what our universe hides?
	Priyamvada Natarajan
	Professor of Astronomy and Physics, Yale University	Core Science

	Embodied Brain and Disembodied Minds: a neurological perspective on human nature
	VS Ramachandran
	Director, Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego	Neuroscience

	Brain 2.0 - Connecting human brains and machines
	Rajesh PN Rao
	Director, NSF Center for Neurotechnology, University of Washington	Neuroscience

	Teaching Machines to Read and Write Our Language
	Sunita Sarawagi
	Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Bombay	Artificial Intelligence

	Project Prakash: Merging Science and Service
	Pawan Sinha
	Professor, Vision and Computational Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Neuroscience

	Should we shoot the world's deadliest messengers or just disarm them through genetic engineering?
	Suresh Subramani
	Professor of Molecular Biology University of California, San Diego	Core Science

	Ajanta - A Pigment of Glorious Imagination
	Subramanian Swaminathan
	(Retd.) Professor of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi Founder, Tamil Heritage Trust	Science and Art

	Can AI do more than adding dog ears to selfies - like fighting social injustice and improving society?
	Milind Tambe
	Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University	Artificial Intelligence

	Outside-In: Bringing the world into our brains
	Shubha Tole
	Neuroscientist, Professor and Principal Investigator, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research	Neuroscience

	Humans are not alone, AI discriminates too: Controlling bias in AI
	Nisheeth Vishnoi
	Professor of Computer Science, Yale University	Neuroscience

	How did China become a science superpower in two decades?
	Cong Cao
	Professor in Innovation Studies, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China	Policy

	What machines can and cannot see: Progress over forty years
	Narendra Ahuja
	Director, Information Technology Research Academy (ITRA)	Policy

	The Next Billion Users: Can Mobile, Internet, and AI include the masses?
	Payal Arora
	Professor and Chair in Technology, Values and Global Media Cultures, Erasmus School of Philosophy	Policy

	Blood on a chip: Technology for diagnostic tests at doctor's offices
	Dhananjay Dendukuri
	CEO & Co-Founder, Achira Labs	Core Science

	Making the world around us intelligent-The internet of things
	Sanjay Sarma
	Vice President, Open Learning and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Artificial Intelligence

	Mission Mangal: Why women are not from Venus?
	Minnie Vaid
	Author and Founder, Little Doc Productions	Policy

	AI to make lives better: Agriculture, Food, Waste management and more
	Gargi Dasgupta
	Director, IBM Research India	Artificial Intelligence

	Can technology and sound policy solve India's energy access problem?
	Anna Agarwal
	Research Fellow, Centre for Policy Research	Policy

	Solving problems using AI: Going beyond deep learning
	Varun Aggarwal
	Co-founder and CTO, Aspiring Minds	Artificial Intelligence

	Black holes: Beacons in our search for a quantum theory of space-time
	Spenta Wadia
	Distinguished Professor, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research	Core Science

A billion hungry people - should science be the priority for India?
Sanjay Sarma(MIT), Cong Cao(University of Nottingham Ningbo, China), Priyamvada Natarajan(Yale University)	Policy

New models of doing and funding science - what the future holds.
Vidur Mahajan(CARING), Vivek Jayaraman(HHMI), Narendra Ahuja(UIUC), Dhananjaya Dendukuri(Achira Labs), Bishesh Kanhal(NAAMII)	Industry

Elephant's head for Ganesh – did ancient Indians know how to transplant organs?
Rajesh PN Rao(University of Washington), VS Ramachandran(University of California), R. Gopu(Tamil Heritage Trust), Tashan Mehta, Saurabh Chandran and Shubha Tole(Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)	History

Do our brains use the same principles as deep learning?
Rajesh PN Rao(University of Washington), Subbarao Kambhampatti(ASU), UP Bhalla(National Centre for Biological Science), Venkatesh N. Murthy(Harvard University), Sunita Sarawgi(IIT Bombay)	Neuroscience

From Lab to Market
Kunal Upadhyay, Taslim, Amitabh Kant, Renu Swarup	Industry

Is deep learning the nirvana of AI?
Milind Tambe(Harvard University), Manish Gupta(Google), Payal Arora(Erasmus School of Philosophy), Arnav Kapur(MIT)	Artificial Intelligence

Why and how to build an MIT in India?
P. J. Narayanan(IIIT Hyderabad), Cong Cao(University of Nottingham Ningbo, China), Rajesh Gopakumar(ICTS-TIFR), Sanjay Sarma(MIT) and Anil Sahastrabudhe	Society and Policy

The many roads taken - life as a scientist, policy-maker or entrepreneur
Anna Agarwal(Centre for Policy Research), Pramod Varshney(Syracuse University), Ramesh Hariharan(Strand Life Sciences) and Nisheeth Vishnoi(Yale University)	Career

Why science needs women?
Gagandeep Kang(Translational Health Science and Technology Institute), Minnie Vaid(Little Doc Productions), Gargi B DasGupta(IBM)	Society

Yin-yang: Science of Art, Art of Science
Harshit Agarwal(Adobe Design Lab), Pawan Sinha(MIT), Jahnavi Phalkey(Science Gallery, Bengaluru), Vijayendra Mohanty	Arts

Machines, Medicine and You: Is Indian healthcare ready for AI?
Santanu Bhattacharya(Airtel), Ashwin Naik(Manah Wellness), Rahul Matthan(Trilegal), Satchit Balsari(Harvard Medical School), Sunita Nadhamuni(Dell EMC)	Health and Data Privacy

Gene Editing: How to get science to impact society - Opportunity and Challenges
Ramarao Damerla, Sanjeev Galande, Cong Cao, Sudheendra Rao Moderated by: Shambhavi Naik	Policy

Should science be priority for India - the fastest growing economy?
Rajan Navani, Cong Cao(University of Nottingham Ningbo, China), Spenta Wadia(TIFR), Payal Arora(Erasmus School of Philosophy), Varun Aggarwal(Aspiring Minds)	Policy

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