Key Speakers
RS Paroda
Former Secretary, DARE & DG, ICAR, Govt. of India & Founder Chairman, TAAS, New Delhi, India
ML Jat
Secretary, DARE & DG, ICAR Govt. of India, New Delhi, India
Ismahane Elouafi
Executive Managing Director CGIAR, Montpellier, France
T Mohapatra
Chairman, PPV&FRA Govt. of India, New Delhi, India
Renu Swarup
Former Secretary to Govt. of India, Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, New Delhi, India
Julie Borlaug
Member, President Borlaug Foundation and Advisor, WFPF, USA
Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted
World Food Laureate, WorldFish, Malaysia
Soumya Swaminathan
Chairperson, M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), Chennai, India
Plenary/Lead Speakers
Prabhu Pingali
Director, TCI, Ithaca, USA
Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted
World Food Laureate, WorldFish, Malaysia
Agnes Kalibata
Founder and Chair, C4Impact
Nitya Rao
Professor, UEA and Director, NISD, UK
Shireen Aseem
Vice President, ARC, Egypt
Nicoline de Haan
Gender and Youth Accelerator Director of CGIAR Platform, ILRI, Kenya
Britt Groosman
Senior Vice President, EDF, New York, USA
Invited Speakers
Josephine Okot
Vice Chair, IFDC and MD, Victoria Seeds Ltd., Uganda
Maureen Miruka
Director, GEYSI, CIMMYT, Mexico
Dina Najjar
Senior Gender Scientist, ICARDA, Morocco
Akriti Sharma
CEO, ZTM & BPD Unit, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi, India
Mamta Sharma
Principal Scientist, ICRISAT, India
Subroto Geed
President, South Asia, Corteva Agriscience, Hyderabad
Tara Satyavathi
Director, ICAR-IIMR, Hyderabad
Neena Mitter
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Charles Sturt University, Australia
Nidhi Bhasin
CEO, Digital Green India
Tamara Jackson
University of Adelaid, Urrbrae, Australia
Shilpa Divekar
Partner at AgVaya LLP and Former MD of Monsanto India
Mridula Devi
Director, ICAR-CIWA, Bhubaneshwar, India
Darshini Ravindranath
Project Lead, SoLAR, Research Group Leader - CPFP, IWMI, Sri Lanka
Panelists
Alessandra Galiè
Team Leader-Gender, ILRI, Kenya
Timothy J. Krupnik
Country Representative, CIMMYT, Bangladesh
Raka Saxena
Senior Adviser (Agriculture Policy), NITI Aayog, India
Srivalli Krishnan
Deputy Director, Agriculture Development - Asia, Gates Foundation
Arabinda K Padhee
Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Agriculture & Farmers' Empowerment, Government of Odisha, Bhubaneswar
Vinny Madhuri Gandham
Direct Seeded Rice Lead, Asia DSO Catalyst, Bayer Crop Science, Bangalore
Pratibha Singh
Regional Manager, South Asia, ACIAR, New Delhi
Kajal Gulati
DAFRE, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
Nutan Kaushik
Director General, Amity Food & Agriculture Foundation, Amity University, Noida
Swati Nayak
Lead - Seed System & Product Management, IRRI South Asia, New Delhi
Neema Joshi
Associate Director, Partnerships and Fundraising, SMSF, Gurugram
Surya Rathore
Principal scientists, (Extension Information Systems), NAARM, Hyderabad