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 B Thiagarajan
Co-
Chairman, CII National Committee on
Technology, Innovation,
R&D
Professor Ashutosh Sharma
President, INSA,
Professor IIT Kanpur
Professor Rishikesha T Krishnan
Former Director, now
Professor, IIM Bangalore
Mr Sameer Gandhi
Chairman, CII National Task
Force on Robotics and MD, Omron Automation,
India
MS Vaishali Nigam Sinha
Chairperson, CII Women in STEM Initiatives and Chair,
ReNew Foundation
and Chief Sustainability and CSR Officer ReNew
Power
Mr Alok Nanda
Co- Chairman, CII National Committee on Technology,
Innovation, R&D and
CTO, GE Aerospace
Mr Vipin Sondhi
Chairman, CII Industrial Innovation Awards 2025 & Former
MD and CEO,
Ashok Leyland and JCB India
Mr Vivek Shah
Vice-Chairman, CII National Committee on IP, and CEO Meril
Life
Sciences
Mr Subhomoy Bhattacharya
Consulting Editor, Business Standard
Mr Harsh Vardhan
Head – Digital Innovation, Apollo Tyres
Dr Saundarya Rajesh
Founder, AVTAR
R Saha
Senior Adviser, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)
Sacha Wunsch-Vincent
Head of Section, Economics and Statistics Division, and co-editor of The Global Innovation Index (GII) at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
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
Hon’ble Justice Prathiba M Singh
Delhi High Court
Shri Sanjay Kumar Agarwal
Chairman, Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs
Dr. (Mrs.) N. Kalaiselvi
Scientist, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
Prof Ajay Sood
Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India (PSA to GoI)