Our Keynote Speakers


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Dr. Renu Swarup

Secretary, DBT, Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India


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Prof. Ashutosh Sharma

Secretary, DST, Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India


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Dr. Dinakar M. Salunke

Director, ICGEB, New Delhi


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Dr. Simon Kay

Welcome Trust, UK




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Prof. Jennifer A. Thomson

OWSD, Italy




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Dr. Wendy Harwood

BBSRC, UK





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Dr. Glenda Gray

President & CEO South African Medical Research Council



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Ms. Pramila Acharya Rijal

South Asian Women Development Forum (SAWDF. Nepal


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Ms. Deepanwita Chattopadhyay

Chairman & CEO of IKP Knowledge Park, India



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Dr. Jahnavi Phalkey

Director, Science Gallery Bengaluru




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Ms. Harinder Sidhu

Australia High Commissioner




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Dr. Karishma S Kaushik

Assistant Professor/ Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellow, University of Pune


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Dr. Purnima Jalihal

Senior Scientist, National Institute of Ocean Technology, India


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Ms. Millicent Liani

PhD Fellow, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK


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Dr. Sachie Panawala

Project Scientist, The Coordinating Secretariat for Science, Technology and Innovation (COSTI)


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Dr. Rupamanjari Ghosh

Vice-Chancellor, Shiv Nadar University


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Prof. Sandhya S. Visweswariah

Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore


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Dr. Vibha Dhawan

The Energy and Resources Institute



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Dr. Smita Jain

Executive Director, IndiaBioscience



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Ms. Subhra Priyadarshini

Science Journalist/Editor in Chief, Nature India


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Dr. Shahid Jameel

Chief Executive Officer, The Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance


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Dr. Mariyam Shakeela

Addu Women's Association Male, Maldives


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Dr Nusrat J M Sanghamitra

Founder, CEO CyCa OncoSolutions


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Ms. Kalika Bali

Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research India



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Ms. Samina Bano

Policy Entrepreneur & Crusader for Social Justice


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Prof. Sourav Pal

Director, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata


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Dr. K. Rajeshwari

Founder and Managing Director, Bioklone Biotech Private Limited, Chennai


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Dr. Lakshmi Devi

Hony, Director, CECOP, University of Delhi



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Dr. B. Chagun Basha

STI Policy Fellow, Office of the PSA, Govt. of India


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Dr. Savita Ayyar

Founder, Jaquaranda Tree


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Ms. Hema Annamalai

Founder and CEO, Ampere Vehicles Pvt. Ltd.


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Prof. Rohini Godbole

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore


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Prof. Gagandeep Kang

Executive Director, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute


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Dr. Sabhyata Bhatia

Scientist VII, NIPGR, New Delhi




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Dr. Manju Sharma

Former secretary, DBT, Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India


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Dr. Dasaradhi Palakodeti

Associate Investigator, InStem, Bengaluru



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Mrs. Shirley Jayawardena

President, Women’s Chamber of Commerce and Industries Central Province, Sri Lanka


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Dr. Atya Kapley

Vice President of the Asia Pacific Region, OWSD



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Dr. Swati Subodh

Co-Founder 1 Million for 1 Billion and SSO, India Health Fund, New Delhi



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Prof. Jitendra Paul Khurana

Vice President, International Affairs, Indian National Science Academy


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Dr. Shobhona Sharma

Former Scientist, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai



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Dr. Vinita Sharma

Former Advisor, DST, Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India



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Prof. Ellora Sen

Scientist VI, National Brain Research Center, New Delhi




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Dr. Preetha Rajaraman

US Health Attache, India & Regional Representative, South Asia, Embassy of USA, New Delhi


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Ms. Tania Friederichs

Counsellor, Head of Research & Innovation Sector, Delegation of the European Union to India



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Prof. Melanie Welham

Executive Chair, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, UK Research and Innovation


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Dr. Shobhana Narsimhan

Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore