Key Highlights

Intellectual Property Awards

Industry-Academia Collab. Expo

Leadership Talks

Release of TL Reports

Industry – Academia Partnership Awards

Industrial Innovation Awards

Networking & Collaborative Tie – ups

Engaging Panel Discussions
Speakers 2024

Dr Naushad Forbes
Chairman, CII National Committee on Technology, Innovation & Research, IP, & Industry-Academia Partnership Forum Co-Chairperson, Forbes Marshall )
Mr Sanjeev Krishan
Chairperson PwC India
Prof Unnat Pandit
Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks, Intellectual Property Office, Government of India
Dr Rajesh S Gokhale
Secretary Department of Biotechnology
Mr Sunil Chordia
Co- Chairman, CII National Committee on Technology, Innovation & Research, Chairman & Managing Director, Rajratan Group
Professor Abhay Karandikar
Secretary Department of Science and Techenology (DST)
Mr Sachin Maheshwari
Head – Corporate Development Lohum
Prof Ramgopal Rao
Vice Chancellor, BITS Pilani
Mr Masood Mallick
Chairman, CII National Committee on Waste to Worth Technologies, Managing Director, Re Sustainabilityi
Dr Vibhav R. Sanzgiri
Executive Director R & D, Hindustan Unilever Ltd.Global R & D Head, Skin Cleansing Category, Unilever
Site Leader India R & D (Unilever and HUL)

Mr Shaheen Majeed
Vice- Chairman, CII National Committee on Intellectual Property and Global CEO & Managing Director, Sami-Sabinsa Group
Mr Vivek Shah
Vice- Chairman, CII National Committee on Intellectual Property and CEO, Meril Life Sciences
Mr Abhijit Kamra
Director – Emerging Markets: Seller Experience and Smart Commerce, Amazon
Mr P S Jayan
Corporate Technology Officer Carborundum Universal Limited
Mr Sameer Gandhi
Managing Director, OMRON Automation India
Dr VL Ramprasad
CEO (India) MedGenome Labs Limited, India
Mr Manoj Rustagi
Chief Sustainability & Innovation Officer JSW Cement Limited
Mr Harsh Vardhan
Global Head – Digital Innovation Apollo Tyres
Dr Sailesh Gochhait
Senior Manager, Clinical Sequencing Division Thermo Fisher Scientific
Dr Suraj Rengarajan
SPG India Head Applied Materials
Dr Anju Khanna
Director-Patents, Lall & Sethi
Dr Heinz Goddar
Patent Attorney , European Patents and Trademark Attorney & Partner, Boehmert & Boehmert
Dr Dinesh Kumar
Head -IPM Dr Reddy's Lab
Dr Ajai Garg
Advisor, Consultant on Global Trade, Policy and Compliance for Digital Technologies, Anand & Anand
Mr Leo Paul Johnson
IP Counsel, Siemens India
Mr Nitin Sharma
QC Technology Counsel, Qualcomm
Mr M S Unnikrishnan
Chief Executive Officer, IIT Bombay - Monash University
Dr Susan Elias
Director - Research Centre for Research & Consultancy Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science (HITS
Dr Raviraja N. Seetharam
Chief Operating Officer, MAHE, Manipal
Dr Srinivas Oruganti, Ph.D, FRSC
Director, Dr Reddy's Institute of Life Sciences
Prof Kamal Kishore Pant
Director, IIT Roorkee
Prof Avinash Kumar Agarwal
Director, IIT Jodhpur
Dr R A Mashelkar
Former Director General, CSIR and Chair of Jury for CII Industrial IP Awards – 2024
Mr Vipin Sondhi
Chairman, CII National Forum on Industry-Academia Partnership for R&D and Innovation and Chair, CII Industrial Innovation Awards 2024
Mr R Saha
Senior Advisor, Confederation of Indian Industry
Mr Munish Sudan
Chief IP Counsel and Technology Intelligence, Tata Steel Ltd
Dr Arshad Jamil
VP and Global Head - Intellectual Property Rights, Biocon Biologics Limited
Dr Shankar Venugopal
Vice President, Mahindra & Mahindra
Mr Niraj P. Bhukhanwala
Managing Director, Bhukhanwala Industries Pvt. Ltd.D
Dr Alok Sharma
R & D Head & Technical Director, Renal Pathology & Transmission Dr Lal PathLabs Ltd.D
Mr A K Menon
Director, Strategi Automation Solutions Pvt Ltd
Dr Nagahanumaiah
Director, Central Manufacturing Technology Institute (CMTI)
Dr Charudutta Panigrahi
Public Policy, Illumina
Mr Vivek Prasad
Partner, PwC
Mr Rajiv Tandon,
CEO of Strategic Initiatives & Industry Research Partnerships BITS Pilani
Mr Aniket Gandhi
Head R&D, Strategy & Operations Site Leader Mumbai R&D, Unilever IN
Mr Anurag Chadha
Director Food & Beverage Biosolutions, South Asia Novonesis
Mr Nagesh Kumar
Director and Chief Executive of the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID)
Mr Yuvraj Dalvi
Senior Manager, IP Cell, Serum Institute of India Pvt Ltd (ISID)
Mr M Faisal
General Manager and Global Head, IPR Department, Tata Motors Ltd )
Mr Sahastrarashmi Pund
Head - IPR Endurance Technologies Ltd.
Mr Deepak Baid
Vice President-Research & Development, Unitary Cooling Products Blue Star
Mr Karthik Ekambaram
Executive Vice President & Director – DEI Solutions Avtar Group
Mr Tito Kishan
Founder, ProInn Consultancy
Mr Rajesh Kohli
Chairman and Managing Director HMT Group of Companies
Mr Prince Devaraj
Head of System Integration, Government/Public Sector L&T Technology Services
Mr B Thiagarajan
Managing Director, Blue star Limited
Prof Rishikesha Krishnan
Director, IIM Bangalore