Welcome Address

KV Subramanya, Executive Editor, Deccan Herald

Keynote Address

Rahul Dravid, Legendary Cricketer

Coffee Break

Special address

Amanda Joy Puravankara, Whole - Time Director, Puravankara Limited

AI in Higher Education

Gurucharan Gollerkeri, Director, School of Social Sciences & School of Law, MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences | U Dinesh Kumar, Director In-Charge, IIMB | Dr. S. Vidyashankar, Vice-chancellor, VTU | Dr. J B Simha, Professor and Chief Mentor, School of Computer Science, REVA University | Gautham Machaiah, Senior Media Professional

Bengaluru 2040: Building a global cultural capital

Uma Mahadevan Dasgupta, Additional Chief Secretary and Development Commissioner, Government of Karnataka | Abhishek Poddar, Founder-Trustee, Museum of Art & Photography | B L Shankar, Chairman, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath | Nalini Malaviya, Bengaluru-based art consultant, curator, and writer

Framework for Bengaluru’s future infrastructure

Mallanna Sasalu, CEO - South, Puravankara Limited| M Maheshwar Rao, Chief Commissioner, GBA | Ashwin Mahesh, Urban affairs expert

Lunch

The Future of Jobs

Dr Manjula N, Secretary, IT/BT Dept, Govt of Karnataka | Kamal Karanth, Co-founder, Xpheno | Santhosh Rao, Partner & Executive Director, IBM Consulting

Can Bengaluru beat traffic?

Dr C N Ashwath Narayan, Former Karnataka Deputy CM & BJP MLA | Dinesh Gundu Rao, Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Govt of Karnataka | Ashish Verma, Convenor of IISc Sustainable Transportation Lab | Gayathri Kuppendra Reddy, Founder, KReate Foundation and NOW Venture Studio | Nithya Ramesh, Director – Planning and Design, Jana Urban Space

Coffee

Stand-up comedy

Atul Khatri, Stand-up artist

The AI–MedTech frontier: Bengaluru 2040

Manish Deshmukh, CMO, Meril | Dr Somashekhar SP, Chairman - Medical Advisory Board, Aster DM Healthcare - GCC & India | Harsh Gupta, Principal Secretary, Health & Family Welfare Services, Govt of Karnataka | Geetha Manjunath, Founder, CEO and VCTO of NIRAMAI Health Analytix | Dr. Jagdish Chaturvedi, ENT surgeon, medical device innovator and entrepreneur

Bengaluru’s clean energy transition

Huda Jaffer, Director, SELCO Foundation | Jai Asundi, Executive Director, Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP) | K P Rudrappaiah, MD - Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Limited, Govt of Karnataka | Lanvin Concessao, Program Manager – Energy for Equitable Development, WRI India

The future of policing in Bengaluru

Pronab Mohanty, DGP (Cyber Command), IPS | Ranjith Parakkal, MD, Eagle Eye Networks India | Devyani Srivastava, Senior Manager - Research, NLSIU

For a water-secure Bengaluru

Dr Ram Prasath Manohar, Chairperson, BWSSB | Satish Mallya, President, Bangalore Apartments' Federation | H S Sudhira, Founder, Gubbi Labs

Fireside chat

D K Shivakumar, Hon'ble Deputy CM, Govt of Karnataka

Closing Keynote: A Vision for Bengaluru 2040

Shalini Rajneesh, Chief Secretary, Govt of Karnataka

Vote of Thanks

SR Ramakrishna, Associate Editor, Deccan Herald