Schedule – Day 1 : 22 May 2026, AV Rama Rao Auditorium, CSB, IISc
Time
Session
Speaker
- 09:00 am - 10:00 am
- Registration
- 10:00 am - 10:05 am
- Welcome Note
Dr. Prashanth Upadhya
Wadhwani Innovation Center for Quantum Technologies, IISc
- 10:05 am - 10:10 am
- Launch of “InQubate”
- 10:10 am - 10:20 am
- Inaugural Remarks
Dr. Shirshendu Mukherjee
Wadhwani Innovation Network
- 10:20 am - 10:25 am
- Inaugural Remarks
Prof. B. Gurumoorthy
Foundation for Science Innovation and Development, IISc
- 10:25 am - 10:30 am
- Inaugural Remarks
Prof. Govindan Rangarajan
Director, IISc
- 10:30 am- 10:40 am
- Inaugural Remarks
Dr. Ajay Kela
Wadhwani Foundation
- 10:40 am - 11:00 am
- Special Address by Chief Guest
Shri A. S. Kiran Kumar
ISRO
- 11:00 am - 11:15 am
- Tea/Coffee Break
- 11:15 am - 11.45 am
-
Building a Sustainable Quantum Ecosystem
(Plenary Talk)
Prof. Arindam Ghosh
IISc
- 11:45 am - 12.15 pm
- InQubate - IISc's comprehensive Quantum startup acceleration platform
Prof. Akshay Naik
IISc
- 12:15 pm- 12:30 pm
- Building India’s Quantum Computing Future: Technology, Talent, and Startups
Vijay A Ramanujan
Foundation for QC Innovation
- 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
- Lunch
- 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Pitching Session on Quantum Algorithms
- 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm
- Closing the Map Gap with Quantum Magnetic Navigation
Dr. Subhajit Roy
QuBeats (Ecosystem Partner)
- 3:15 pm - 3:30 pm
- Scaling Innovation for Business Impact
Dr. Manjunath Ramachandra
Wipro (Ecosystem Partner)
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
- Networking and Tea/Coffee Break
- Building Quantum Ecosystem - Session 1
- 4:30 pm - 4:45 pm
- An overview of Quantum sensing and metrology: NQM perspectives
Prof. Kasturi Saha
Qmet Tech
- 04:45 pm - 05:00 pm
- Enabling the ecosystem to achieve Quantum Utility
Dr.Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy
IBM
- 05:00 pm - 05:15 pm
- Quantum Computing Ecosystem: Commercialization Opportunity for Engineers
Prof. Chetan Singh Thakur
IISc
- 05:15 pm - 05:30 pm
- Accenture’s role in advancing clients’ quantum journeys
Karishma Khanna and Syamasundar Gopasana
Accenture (Ecosystem Partner)
Schedule – Day 2 : 23 May 2026, AV Rama Rao Auditorium, CSB, IISc
Time
Session
Speaker
- 9:00 am - 10:40 am
- Pitching Session on Quantum Hardware
- 10:40 am- 11:00 am
- Tea/Coffee Break
- 11:00 am - 12:35 pm
- Pitching session on Quantum Hardware
- 12:35 pm -12:50 pm
- Quantum Design role in Accelerating the commercialisation of Quantum
Mandar Kumthekar
Quantum Design India Pvt. Ltd. (Ecosystem Partner)
- 12:50 pm - 2:00 pm
- Lunch and Networking
- Building Quantum Ecosystem - Session 2
- 02:00 pm - 2:15 pm
- Building blocks for India’s sovereign Quantum Ecosystem
Dr. Aditya Vyas
QMD Foundation
- 02:15 pm - 2:30 pm
- Building a Quantum Secure Nation.
Mr. Ravindra Barlingay
CDOT Samgnya Technologies Foundation
- 02:30 pm - 2:45 pm
- Cooling the Quantum Revolution: Building India’s Cryogenic Ecosystem for Quantum Technologies.
Dr. Deep Talukdar
CryoNano (Ecosystem Partner)
- 02:45 pm - 3:00 pm
- Building a globally relevant semiconductor product company from India
Dr. Hareesh Chandrasekar
AGNIT
- 03:00 pm - 3:15 pm
- Enabling the Future of Quantum Computing in India
Mr. Nishanth G
VT VACUUM TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD (Ecosystem Partner)
- 03:15 pm - 3:30 pm
- Interactive Session with IISc Quantum Ecosystem Leads
- 03:30 pm - 3:45 pm
- Prize Distribution & Closing Remarks
- 03:45 pm- 4:30 pm
- High Tea & Networking Session
