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DAY 1 - 27 October 2026 (Tuesday) DAY 2 - 28 October 2026 (Wednesday) DAY 3 - 29 October 2026 (Thursday)

07:00 - 08:45

Registration, High Tea & Seating at the Plenary Hall

10:00 - 11:45

Inaugural Programme: Hon’ble Prime Minister

  • 10:00 - 10:05 | Photograph Session with Plenary Speakers
    Venue : L2 VIP Entrance, Bharat Mandapam
  • 10:05 - 10:25 | Inauguration of Exhibition by Hon’ble Prime Minister
    Venue : L3 Multi-purpose Hall, Bharat Mandapam
  • 10:25 - 11:45 | Inauguration of the Event and Inaugural Address by Hon’ble Prime Minister
    Venue : L3 Plenary Hall, Bharat Mandapam
11:45 - 12:15 | Break

12:15 - 13:30

Panel Discussion: Path-breaking Science and Disruptive Technologies for Athmanirbhar Bharat

Chair: Prof. Ajay K. Sood, PSA to GoI

Panelists:

  • Dr. Tessy Thomas, Former DG, Aeronautical Systems, DRDO
  • Gen. N S Raja Subramani, Chief of Defense Staff
  • Dr. Bhanu Jena, President & Director, Molecular Medicine Institute, Boston
  • Dr. Samir Saran, President, Observer Research Foundation
  • Dr. Sridhar Vembu, Co-founder, Zoho Corporation*
  • Ms. Jaya Jagdish, Country Head and Senior VP, AMD India*

* To be confirmed

Venue :L3 Plenary Hall, Bharat Mandapam
13:30 - 15:00 | Lunch

15:00 - 16:00

Plenary Talk 1

Speaker: Dr. Joachim Frank, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017

16:00 - 17:00

Plenary Talk 2

Speaker: Sir Richard J. Roberts, New England Biolabs

Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine 1993

17:00 - 17:30 | Tea Break, Posters, Exhibition and Networking

Three Parallel Technical Sessions (17:30 - 19:30)

Session I

Advanced Manufacturing

17:30 - 19:30

Session Chair: Dr. (Mrs.) N. Kalaiselvi, Secretary, DSIR and DG, CSIR

17:30 - 17:50

Keynote Address

To be announced

17:50 - 18:30

Invited Talks (10 min each)

Shri Rajat Verma Founder & CEO, LOHUM

Ms. Chaya Nanjappa Managing Partner, Nectar Fresh

Dr. Naresh Chandra Murmu Director, CSIR-CMERI, Durgapur

Discussions: 10 min

18:30 - 19:30

Panel Discussion: Beyond the Hype: Scaling Smart Factories and Advanced Manufacturing in India

Moderator:

Dr. C. Anandharamakrishnan Director, CSIR-NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram
Panelists:

Prof. U. Kamachi Mudali Vice Chancellor, Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Mumbai

Dr. Nagahanumaiah Director, CMTI, Bengaluru

Shri Ravi Chandran Purushothaman President, Danfoss India

Ms. Mohini Kelkar Founder, Grind Master Machines Pvt. Ltd.

Discussions: 20 min

Venue :L1 Meeting Room

Session II

Generative and Autonomous AI

17:30 - 19:30

Session Chair: Shri S. Krishnan IAS, Secretary, MeitY

17:30 - 17:50

Keynote Address

To be announced

17:50 - 18:30

Invited Talks (10 min each)

Prof. Mitesh M. Khapra Professor, IIT Madras

To be announced

To be announced

Discussions: 10 min

18:30 - 19:30

Panel Discussion

Panelists:

Shri S. Krishnan IAS Secretary, MeitY

Dr. Arastu Sharma Founder, Shodh AI

Prof. Balaraman Ravindran Professor, IIT Madras

Discussions: 20 min

Session III

System and Synthetic Biology

17:30 - 19:30

Session Chair: Prof. Rajesh Gokhale, Secretary, DBT

17:30 - 17:50

Keynote Address

To be announced

17:50 - 18:30

Invited Talks (10 min each)

Mr. Stefan Barot President, Balrampur Chini Mills Ltd., Kolkata

Prof. Raghavan Varadarajan Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

Dr. Nidhi Adlakha Associate Professor, Regional Centre for Biotechnology, Faridabad

Discussions: 10 min

18:30 - 19:30

Panel Discussion

Moderator:

Dr. Ramesh Sonti Director, ICGEB, New Delhi
Panelists:

Dr. Anil Kumar Tripathi Director, IISER Mohali

Dr. Anu Raghunathan Chief Scientist, CSIR-NCL, Pune

Dr. Himanshu Sinha Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

Dr. P.M. Murali Founder, Jananom Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru

Dr. Syed Shams Yazdani Group Leader, ICGEB, New Delhi

Dr. Vineet Sharma Head, Department of Biological Sciences, IISER, Bhopal

Discussions: 20 min

Venue :L1 Meeting Room
20:00 - 21:00 | Cultural Program (Venue: L3 Plenary Hall) & Dinner (Venue: Hall-14, GF)