Meet our Speakers!

Abhay Bang

 Director

Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health (SEARCH)

India

Ajit Rangnekar

Director General

Research and Innovation Circle (RICH) of Hyderabad

India

Amrita Sadarangani

Executive Director

Gujarat Biotechnology University project at The University of Edinburgh

Ananyo Bhattacharya

Science Journalist and Writer

Freelance

UK

Aniket Aga

Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences 

Ashoka University

India

Aniket Bera

Associate Professor, Computer science 

Purdue University

USA

Anu Acharya

Founder and CEO

MapMyGenome – Know Yourself

India

Anurag Agarwal 

Pulmonologist and medical researcher

Dean, Trivedi School of Biosciences, Ashoka University

India

Arati Kadav

Writer & Film Maker

Archana Sharma

Particle Physicist

 CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research

 Switzerland

Arjun Srivathsa

Wildlife Biologist

National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore

India

Ashish Dhawan

Founder-CEO, The Convergence Foundation

Co-Founder, Foundation For Advancing Science and Technology, India

Ashok Venkitaraman

Cancer Researcher

Director, Cancer Science Institute of Singapore

Singapore

Avinash Kumar

Co-Founder

Quicksand & UnBox

India

Bidushi Bhattacharya

Founder-CEO, Astrohub

 Former NASA mission scientist

Singapore

Bitasta Das

Author, Educator, TEDx Speaker

Senior Editor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

India

Charu Srinivasan

Vice President of Engineering 

Microsoft

India

Chris Karp

Director, Discovery & Translational Sciences 

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

USA

David Price

Manager & Science Communicator

Science Made Simple

 UK

Darshana Joshi

Founder and CEO

VigyanShaala International

India

Debojyoti Chakraborty

Molecular Biologist

Principal Scientist

CSIR-IGIB

Deepanwita Chattopadhyaya

Chairperson & CEO

IKP Knowledge Park

Hyderabad, India

Desh Gaurav Sekhri

Co-Founder

Sports and Society Accelerator

Devangshu Datta

Publisher

Juggernaut Books

Dinesh C Sharma

Author & Journalist

Managing Editor, India Science Wire

India

Gagandeep Kang

Clinician Scientist & Professor

Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore

India

Gautam Menon

Dean, Research and Professor of Physics and Biology, Ashoka University

PhD. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Geetha Manjunath

Managing Director

NIRAMAI

India

Guy Brown

HoD & Professor at the Department of Computer Science 

University of Sheffield

United Kingdom

Iain Stewart

Research Chair in Sustainability, Jordan-UK El Hassan bin Talal

Professor of Geoscience Communication, University of Plymouth, UK

Ipsa Jain

Science Communicator and Illustrator, Ipsawonders

Faculty, Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology

Jaya Baloo

Chief Information Security Officer

Avast

 Netherlands

James Evans

Professor

University of Chicago

Chicago

Jayant Krishna

CEO

Foundation for Advancing Science and Technology

Jahanvi Phalkey

Founding Director

Science Gallery Bengaluru (SGB)

India

Jyotsana Dhawan

Stem Cell Biologist

Center for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CCMB)

India

K Vijay Raghavan

Chief Scientific Advisor

Foundation for Advancing Science & Technology (FAST India)

India

K G Kumar

Director, G.P Birla Archaeological, Astronomical & Scientific Research Institute

Director, B.M Birla Science Centre and Planetarium, Hyderabad

Karishma Kaushik

Clinical Microbiologist

Savitribai Phule Pune University

Founder, Talk To A Scientist

Kuldeep Yadav

Director, AI 

SHL

India

Lewis Hou

Founder & Director 

Science Ceilidh

EDI Advisory Group for Creative Scotland

Madhav Deo Saraswat

Principal

Hyderabad Public School

Hyderabad, India

Madhushree Kamak

Programme Manager

Science Gallery Bengaluru

India

Mallika Sarabhai 

Director

Darpana – Academy for performing arts

India

Manjari Tripathi

Professor – Neurology

AIIMS Delhi

India

Manoj Kumar

Founder

Social Alpha

India

Mark McCaughrean

Senior Advisor for Science & Exploration 

European Space Agency

Netherlands

Maya Sharma

Consultant Editor

NDTV

India

Mudit Narain

Director, Policy and Research

Foundation for Advancing Science and Technology,

India

Murthovic

Music Producer

Sound Designer

India

Pawan Sinha

Computational neuroscientist

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

USA

Pialy Ghanekar 

Founder 

Cell Savvy Group

Mumbai, India

Pranav Radhakrishnan

YouTuber, Educator

Creative Director, Science is Dope

India

Pranay Lal

Biochemist & Author 

India

Prateek Jain

Senior Staff Research Scientist

Google AI

Bangalore, India

Rachel Mason

Associate Director – Development

GCRF Action Against Stunting Hub

Science Made Simple, UK

Ramesh Loganathan

Professor Co-Innovation & Outreach, International Institute of Information Technology  (IIIT), Hyderabad

Ex-Chief Innovation Officer (interim) of TS State Innovation Cell

Rahul Seth

Scouting Director & Investor

Antler

India

R Gopu

Founder and Former Software Engineer

Varahimra Science Forum

India

Rohan Chakravarty

Cartoonist

Green Humour

India

Rohan Ganapathy

Director 

Bellatrix Aerospace

India

Sai Kiran Verma

Cheriyal Artist

India

Sarah Iqbal

Consultant

Foundation for Advancing Science & Technology (FAST India)

India

Sandhya Ramesh

Senior Editor – Science 

The Print

India

Satish Reddy

Chairman

Dr Reddy’s Laboratories

India

Shagun Sabarwal

South Asia Region and Global Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Director

Women Lift Health, India

Shannon Olsson

Global Director

The Echo Network

India

Shanta Thoutam

Chief Innovation Officer

Telangana State Innovation Cell

Government of Telangana, India

Shivanji Sisanthy

Director Emeritus and Senior Scientist

L V Prasad Eye Institute 

Hyderabad, India

Sonal Katyal

Communications Officer

National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, India

Sriram Raghavan

Vice President,

IBM Research AI

USA

Subhra Priyadarshni

Chief Editor

Nature India, Nature Research

India

Subhadra Jalali

Doctor

L V Prasad Eye Institute

Hyderabad, India

Subhash Lingareddy

Founder, MapMyGenome

President & CFO, Ocimum Biosolutions

India

Sunaina Singh

Freelance Editor

Cactus Communications

India

Sumit Gulwani

Partner Research Manager 

Microsoft

USA

Supriya Devarajan

Senior Scientist

MacDermid Alpha Electronics Solutions

India

Thomas Barlow

Director, Barlow Advisory Group

Council Member, Australian Institute of Marine Science

Australia

Udayan Ganguly

Professor

IIT Bombay

India

Varun Aggarwal

Founder

India Science Festival (ISF) & FAST India

India

Vedika Khemani 

Physicist 

Stanford University

USA

Vidita Vaidya

Neuroscientist

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai

India

Vikram Patel

Psychiatrist & Mental Health Researcher  

C0-founder, Sangath, India

Harvard Medical School, USA

Vrinda Kapoor

Founder

DV2JS Innovation LLP

India

Yoshowant Purohit

Project Director

Aga Khan Development Network

India