• Smt. Meena Nagaraj C N, IAS, Director IT & BT, Department of IT, BT and S&T, Government of Karnataka & MD, KITS

• Ms Krishna Bhatia, Chief Representative - India, Basel Area Business & Innovation

• Dr Mrutyunjay Suar, CEO, KIIT-TBI, DG R&D, KIIT University

By Dr P M Murali, President-ABLE Council of Presidents, Chairman-Golden Jubilee Biotech Park and CMD-Jananom Pvt Ltd

Moderator:

• Mr G S Krishnan, President, ABLE

Speakers:

• Mr Krishna Mohan Puvvada, Regional President, Novozymes South Asia Pvt Ltd

• Dr Pramod Kumbhar, President and CTO Praj Matrix - R&D Center, Praj industries Ltd.

• Mr Varun Deshpande, Managing Director, The Good Food Institute India

• Mr Aditya Ravi, General Manager, Marketing, Laurus Bio

Moderator:

• Dr P M Murali, President-ABLE Council of Presidents

Speakers:

• Dr Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Hon. Non Executive Chairman ABLE & Executive Chairperson, Biocon & Biocon Biologics

• Dr Vijay Chandru, Member, Council of Presidents and CMD, Strand Life Sciences

• Dr Mahesh Bhalgat, Chief Operating Officer, Syngene International Limited

Moderator:

• Dr Anand Anandkumar, Co-Founder and CEO, Bugworks Research India Private Limited

Speakers:

Part 1:

• Dr Taslimarif Saiyed, CEO and Director, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP)

• Dr Jitendra Kumar, Managing Director, Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre (BBC)

• Dr Mrutyunjay Suar, CEO, KIIT-TBI, DG R&D, KIIT University

Part 2:

• Dr Manish Diwan, Head-Strategy Partnership & Entrepreneurship Development. BIRAC, Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India

• Dr Kavitha Iyer Rodrigues, CEO, Zumutor Biologics Inc

• Mr Ranjith Menon, Managing Director, Chiratae Ventures India Advisors

• Ms Tejasvi Ravi, Principal, Lightrock

• Dr Aditya Kulkarni, Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Avammune Therapeutics

Moderator:

• Dr K K Narayanan, Member, ABLE Council of Presidents and Director, AgriGenome Labs

Speakers:

• Dr C L Laxmipathi Gowda, ex-DDG ICRISAT & Co-founder, GRSV Consulting Services

• Dr D J Bagyaraj, NASI Hon. Scientist & Chairman, CNBRCD

Moderator:

• Mr Ravi Bhola, Hon. General Secretary, ABLE and Patent Chair, K&S Partners

Speakers:

• Dr Nitin Kumar Jain, Secretary, RCGM, Department of Biotechnology

• Dr S R Rao, Vice President, Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth University & Co-founder, APAR

• Dr Satish Kulkarni, Former Head, ICAR-NDRI and Consultant, Dairy and Food Industries

• Ms Neha Srivastava, Partner, Remfry & Sagar