Hon'ble Union Minister of Science & Technology, Earth Sciences, Prime Minister's Office, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Atomic Energy, Space; Government of India
Key Speakers 2025
Dr Naushad Forbes
Chairman, CII National
Committee on Technology, Innovation, R&D &
Chairman, Forbes Marshall
Mr Chandrajit Banerjee
Director General Confederation of Indian Industry
Mr B Thiagarajan
Co-
Chairman, CII National Committee on
Technology, Innovation,
R&D
Professor Ashutosh Sharma
President, INSA,
Professor IIT Kanpur
Sasikumar Muthusamy
Senior Director, Engineering Collins Aerospace – Global Engineering & Technology Center, India
Mr Sameer Gandhi
Chair, CII National Committee on Robotics, Drones & Automation & Managing Director, OMRON Automation Pvt Ltd.
Mr Ashutosh Sharma
CEO, I-Hub Foundation for Cobotics (IHFC) Technology Innovation Hub of IIT Delhi
Mr Vivek Raj
Founder & CEO ,Panama Corporation
Dr Amit Rastogi
Executive Vice President & CTO Coromandel
Ms Archana Surana
Founder & Director ARCH College of Design & Business
Prof K K Pant
Director, IIT Roorkee
Mr Piyush Jain
CTO, LTTS
MS Vaishali Nigam Sinha
Chairperson, CII Women in STEM Initiatives and Chair,
ReNew Foundation
and Chief Sustainability and CSR Officer ReNew
Power
Mr Vipin Sondhi
Chairman, CII Industrial Innovation Awards 2025 & Former
MD and CEO,
Ashok Leyland and JCB India
Mr Subhomoy Bhattacharya
Consulting Editor, Business Standard
Mr Harsh Vardhan
Head – Digital Innovation, Apollo Tyres
R Saha
Senior Adviser, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)
Ms Roberta Romano-Goetsch
Chief Sustainability Officer, European Patent Office (EPO)
Ms Inge Buffolo
Co-
Business Development Director, EUIPO
Mr Ignacio de Medrano
Head of Promotion of IP, EUIPO
Ms Himani Pande
Additional Secretary, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade
Prof Unnat Pandit
Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks, Intellectual Property Office, Government of India
Ms Debjani Ghosh
Distinguished Fellow NITI Aayog, Government of India
Dr Gopichand Katragadda
Founder and CEO, Myelin Foundry
Mr Subodh Pandey
Vice President - Technology, R&D, NMB & Graphene Tata Steel
Dr Adishesha CS
Director - Technology & Innovation Collins Aerospace
Dr Vishal Sodha
Vice President and Global Head - Intellectual Property, UPL
Dr Ashish Mohan
Executive Director, Confederation of Indian Industry
Ms Smitha Rao
Founder, OjasQuest
Ms Sukla Chandra
Senior Director, Dolby Laboratories
Dr Matthias Hofmann
Patentanwalt European Patent and Trademark Attorney Partner ,BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT
Dr Anju Khanna
Director, Patents, Lall & Sethi
Mr Arvind Thakur
Former Chairman, CII National Committee on IP, and Member, Board of Management at NIIT University, Former CEO, Vice Chairman & Managing Director at NIIT Technologies Ltd
Mr M Faisal
General Manager and Global Head, IPR, Tata Motors Ltd.