Shekhar Mande
Partha Pratim Majumder
L S Shashidhara
Somdatta Sinha
Ram Ramaswamy
Uday Balakrishnan, Former Registrar, IISc Bangalore
Chandrima Shaha
S Sivaram
Sourav Pal
Soumitro Banerjee
Venkat Srinivasan
Shobhana Sharma
Sharmila Mande
Gertrud Schüpbach
Eric Francis Wieschaus
Mathangi Ganesh
Anil Sahasrabudhe
Indrani Basu
Saumitra Das
Mrinal Kanti Musib
Sohag Sen
Suresh Gopinathan Menon
Radha Uday
Avijit Majumder
1. Building an Indian Institution of Excellence: Personal Experiences, Lessons and Outlook
Speakers: Prof. Vinod Singh, Prof. V Chandrashekhar, Prof. K N Ganesh, Prof. Partha Pratim Chakrabarti
2. Diversity and Inclusiveness in Academia
Speakers: Avijit Majumder, Bidisha Sinha, Ishan Chakraborty, Shobhana Sharma
3. Experiences of entrepreneurship – challenges and rewards
Speakers: Sujata Bogawat, Dipanjan Purkayastha, Kedar Khare
4. The need for communicating research and the power of the media
Speakers: Pallava Bagla (NDTV), Spoorthy Raman (Research Matters), Shubhra Priyadarshini, Nature India
5. The importance of public outreach and ways of reaching out to a large cross-section of society
Speakers: Subhabrata Chaudhuri, Maitree Bhattacharyya, Palash Baran Pal