Program Schedule - ESTIC-2025

07.00 – 08.45

Registration, High Tea & Seating at the Plenary Hall

10.00 - 11.45

Inaugural Programme: Hon’ble Prime Minister

• Round Table Meeting: Plenary Speakers, Young CEOs of Deep-Tech Start-ups (20 mins)
• Inauguration of Exhibition by Hon’ble Prime Minister (25 mins)
• Inauguration of the Event and Inaugural address by Hon’ble Prime Minister (60 mins)

12.15 - 13.30

Panel Discussion on Nurturing R&D and Innovation Ecosystem for ‘Viksit Bharat 2047

Chair : Prof. Ajay Sood, PSA to GoI

Panelist : Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala-IIT Madras, Shri Baba Kalyani-Bharat Forge, Prof. Govindan Rangarajan-IISc Bangalore, Lt. Gen. Madhuri Kanitkar-Maharashtra Univ. of Health Science, Shri J D Patil-Indian National Academy of Engineering, Dr. Pawan Kumar Goenka-IN-SPACe, Shri Sumant Sinha-ReNew

15.00 - 16.00

Plenary Talk - 1

Speaker: Prof. Andre Geim (University of Manchester)

16.00 - 17.00

Plenary Talk - 2

Speaker: Prof.Manjul Bhargava (Princeton University)

17.30 - 18.30

Plenary Talk - 3

Speaker: Dr. Jean-Yves Le Gall (Former President of French Space Agency)

19.00 - 20.00

Cultural Programme – Musical – Dr. Ricky Kej and Team