SHOMA CHAUDHURY
Founder, Lucid Lines

Hot, Flat. And Split 

Nature, tech, and geopolitics. 
Decoding an era of acceleration. And a world on fire

Thomas Friedman
3-time Pulitzer winner I Global Trend Spotter I New York Times columnist

Part 1: Enter the Machine Divine

The power, promise & peril of AI. How to harness it

ERIC DAIMLER
Former Obama adviser on AI I AI entrepreneur I CEO, Conexus AI

RUMMAN CHOWDHURY
Forbes ‘One of 5 shaping AI’ I AI Ethicist I Founder, Parity AI

Part 2: How to Train a Dragon 

Culture classes for AI. And introducing the human in the machine

PEEYUSH RANJAN
VP, Google Engineering I Shaping AI for end users

IRENE SOLAIMAN
Former bias researcher, ChatGPT @OpenAI I Head of Global Policy, Hugging Face

Limitless, Uncaged 

Super athletes to patients. Pain to power. The science of pushing body barriers

DAVID PUTRINO
Rehabilitation innovator, Mt Sinai I Chief Mad Scientist, Not Impossible Labs

The God Principle 

Defying death. Reversing age. The awe & ethics of rewriting life as we know it

ELIZABETH PARRISH
Patient Zero I Biohacker I Founder, BioViva

AVI ROY
Biomedical scientist
I Longevity entrepreneur

Co-Discussant I Sanjeev Galande
Dean, School of Natural Sciences, Shiv Nadar University

Rule Breaker, Rural Maker

Meet a bootstrap billionaire revolutionising tech with village talent. And bucking Silicon Valley trends

SRIDHAR VEMBU
Value Tech Entrepreneur I Co-founder, Zoho

LUNCH

Machines Like Me 

Can human creativity survive the era of AI?

JAVED AKHTAR
Star lyricist

RAJKUMAR HIRANI
Star director

SHEKHAR KAPUR
Star director

SONU NIGAM
Star singer

Abundance Shock 

Utopia. Dystopia. Windows into a world without work

DANIEL SUSSKIND
Former adviser to UK government I Economist, Oxford I Author

Miracle Molecules 

The science of psychedelics.
And why they could be the new wonder drug for
anxiety, stress & mental health

VIDITA VAIDYA
Psychedelic researcher I Award winning neuroscientist, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Homo Excelsior 

Bio-enhancement. Mind-uploading. Digi-immortality. The edgy universe of post-humans

ANDERS SANDBERG
Radical Futurist I Philosopher, Oxford I Techno-optimist I Neuroscientist I Mathematician

Move over AI, Enter Brain on Chip 

Brain without bodies. Intelligence in a dish. The jaw drop world of biocomputing. And ethics of frontier science

BRETT KAGAN
Co-creator, 'DishBrain’ I CTO, Cortical Labs

Ex Machina 

AI. The future of human nature. And how it’s changing the inner wiring of our intimate selves

MICHAEL SANDEL
Rockstar philosopher who fills stadiums I Harvard professor I Master of Socratic Dialogue

Audience Interactive Session

SCI-FI VALMIKI  

New heroes. New ways of thinking. Meet a narrative engineer creating a new framework for the 21st century

ANAND GANDHI
Polymath philosopher-artist I Award winning director | Co-founder, Memysys Culture Lab

Missions Impossible 

Meet the Tom Cruise of human medicine. Whose work has touched 4 billion lives

Robert Langer
Edison of Medicine I Most cited engineer in history I Co-founder, Moderna

Cocktails, dinner.  

And soul stirring music with Indian Ocean

The Watcher, the Knower, the Spirit Self

Insights from the Vedanta. And arguments over
consciousness in an era of AI

SWAMI SARVAPRIYANANDA
Scholar, Seeker, Vedanta Master I Head Monk, Ramakrishna Mission, New York

Empires of Attention

Hacked & hijacked. Why we need to defend ourselves from digital czars. A sharp take from a legendary insider

JARON LANIER
Inventor of Virtual Reality I Prime Unifying Scientist, Microsoft I Philosopher I Musician I Silicon Valley savant

Tech Genies

Exuberance, ambition, enterprise.
The story of young blood & must solve problems.

RAJAN ANANDAN
Merchant of moonshots I Innovation accelerator, MD, Peak XV & Surge

Interstellar

Our eye in the sky. And a journey across spacetime into the origins of the Universe

MARK McCAUGHREAN
Astrophysicist, European Space Agency I Inter-disciplinary scientist, James Webb Space Telescope

Orbit Change

Digital good, digital danger. The complex story of India’s tech transformation. From a man at the heart of it

SHARAD SHARMA
Accelerator, IndiaStack I Public tech Evangelist I Co-Founder, Spirt

Tech Tonic 

Imagine digital twins. Patients on a chip. AI diagnostics.
And Formula 1 data models for next gen healthcare

AJIT SINGH
White space investor in health & AI I Partner, Artiman Ventures

HANY ElOSMAN
Big Data Scientist I Bioinformatics specialist @NEOM, Cognitive City Experiment

LUNCH

Don't Look Up 

Nature. Humans. Technology. 
And the most urgent conversation of our times. 

Harnessing the sun to save the earth
MARTIN GREEN
The father of solar technology I Scientia professor, UNSW

What’s love got to do with climate change
PETER SELIGMANN
Trailblazing EnvironmentalistI Chairperson, Conservation International I CEO, Nia Tero

Voices from the wild side
MALAIKA VAZ
Award winning filmmaker I National Geographic Explorer I CEO, Untamed Planet

Apocalypse Now 

Autonomous. Anonymous. Asymmetrical. 
Technology as the bewildering new minefield of war

Lt. Gen. M.U. NAIR
National Cyber Security Coordinator, India

ANSHUMAN TRIPATHI
National Security Advisory Board

EFRAIM HALEVY
Former Mossad chief

Society of Atoms 

The mind-bending world of quantum. What it says about the nature of reality. Why it’s scrambling the world order

URBASI SINHA
Scientist of the powerful unknown I India’s lead quantum physicist, Raman Research Institute

FERNANDO DOMINGUEZ PINUAGA
VP, Sandbox AQ I Formerly at Google X secret innovation lab I Former World Cup Rugby player

The Outrage Machine 

Democracy. Toxicity. Discontent. How the internet is breaking our brains. And how to fix it

TOBIAS ROSE STOCKWELL
Investigator of the internet I Journalist I Author

Machines & Manifestos 

Aligning tech to humanity is not just an engineering problem. It’s a political one. What can the Global South teach the world?

PALANIVEL THIAGA RAJAN
Politician with a Purpose I Minister of IT, Tamil Nadu

ERIC DAIMLER
Former Obama adviser on AI I AI entrepreneur I CEO, Conexus AI

The Alpha Imagination  

The science of spectacle.
And tech as collaborator of the human imagination

RANA DAGGUBATI
Enthusiast of mythology & metaverse I Multi-Hatter Actor I Producer

NAG ASHWIN
Director, Kalki 2898 AD, India’s most expensive sci-fi film

Authority Interrupted

AI & adventures in a 21st century classroom. A teacher seeking the key to learning

ORLY FRIEDMAN
Educationist I Formerly Khan Lab School I Founder Red Bridge School

Code of Life 

Vaccines, mRNA, drug discovery.
New bionic technologies. Atomic level windows
into Nature’s grand design

ROGER KORNBERG
Nobel Laureate

Cocktails, dinner.  

And foot tapping music with A-26