Conference Chair

KC Bansal, Former Director, NBPGR (ICAR) New Delhi, India

Conference Co-Chair

C. Vishwanathan, Joint Director (Res.), IARI (ICAR), New Delhi, India

Session Chair

Sudhir Kumar Sopory, Senior Emeritus Scientist, ICGEB, New Delhi, India

Ashok Singh, Director, ICAR - IARI, New Delhi, India

Devendra Kumar Yadava, Assistant Director General (Seed), ICAR, New Delhi, India

N. K. Singh, National Professor, ICAR - NIPB, India

Anil Grover, Senior Professor, DUSC, New Delhi, India

Ram Charan Bhattacharya, Director, ICAR - NIPB, New Delhi, India

Deepak Pental, Professor, DUSC, New Delhi, India

T R Sharma, Deputy Director General, ICAR, New Delhi, India

Jitendra Kumar, Assistant Director General, NASF, New Delhi, India

Convener

Kutubuddin A Molla, Scientist, ICAR-NRRI, Cuttack, India

Rita Sharma, Associate Professor, BITS, Pilani, India

Ajay Pandey, Scientist-F, DBT-NABI, Mohali, India

Ginny Antony, Assistant Professor, CU-Kerala, India

Keynote Speakers

Bing Yang, Professor, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA

Leena Tripathi, Director, IITA, Tanzania, Africa

C Tara Satyavathi, Director, ICAR - IIMR, Hyderabad, India

Ashwani Pareek, Executive Director, DBT - NABI, Mohali, India

Girdhar Pandey, Professor, Delhi University, South Campus, New Delhi, India

Arvind Kapur, Distinguished Fellow, TERI, New Delhi, India

Ram Kaundinya, Advisor, FSII, India

Speakers

Rakesh M Rawal, Professor, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India

Mukesh Jain, Professor, JNU, New Delhi, India

Siddharth Tiwari, Scientist F, DBT - NABI, Mohali, India

Satendra Kumar Mangrauthia, Senior Scientist, ICAR - IIRR, Hyderabad, India

Naveen Bisht, Scientist, NIPGR, New Delhi, India

Geraint Parry, President, Global Plant Council, UK

Anindya Bandyopadhyay, Head Biotechnology, CIMMYT, Mexico

Vilas Parkhi, Group Leader, Mahyco, India

Anil Kumar Singh, Principal Scientist, ICAR - NIPB, New Delhi, India

Gaurav Zinta, Senior Scientist, IHBT, Palampur, India

Muthamilarasan Mehanathan, Assistant Professor, University of Hyderabad, India

Wricha Tyagi, Principal Scientist, ICRISAT, India

S Gopala Krishnan, Principal Scientist (Rice Breeding), IARI, New Delhi, India

Tapan Kumar Mondal, Principal Scientist, ICAR - NIPB, New Delhi, India

S. Naresh Kumar, Principal Scientist, ICAR - IARI, New Delhi, India

Jitender Giri, Scientist V, NIPGR, New Delhi, India

Sanjeev Sharma, Principal Scientist, ICAR - CPRI, Shimla, India

Rohini Sreevathsa, Principal Scientist, ICAR - NIPB, New Delhi, India

M. Raveendran, Director of Research, TNAU, Coimbatore, India

Vetriventhan Mani, Senior Scientist, ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India

Debojyoti Chakraborty, Principal Scientist, CSIR-IGIB, New Delhi, India