8:30 30 mins

Registration

09:00 10 mins

Welcome Address

Anith Niranjan Global Healthcare Academy

9:10 2hrs 15mins

Pathology to the Power of AI

Welcome, Track Introductions, Setting the Context

Introduction

Veena Ramaswamy Triesta - Unit of HCG

The Case of the Hidden Signatures: Designing Multimodal Imaging AI to Bridge Patterns, Predictions & Precision Medicine

Plenary Session

Satish E Viswanath Emory Univeristy

Foundation Models in Pathology: An Introduction To Next Generation Computational Pathology

Plenary Session

Juan Retamero Paige.ai / Tempus

Pixels and Patterns: From Digital Slides to Intelligent Workflows

Invited Talk

Rajendra Singh Perelman School of Medicine, U. Penn.

Building AI-Ready Breast Biomarker Workflows: Practical Lessons from a Cancer Hospital

Invited Talk

Veena Ramaswamy Triesta - Unit of HCG

Augmenting Workflow Efficiency through AI and Digital Transformation in a Clinical Lab

Invited Talk

Sujay Prasad Neuberg Anand Diagnostics

Upgrading Surgical Pathology: Transitioning to an Integrated Digital and AI Ecosystem

Invited Talk

Richard Rumnong Roche Diagnostics

AI in Digital Cytopathology - Past, Present , Future.

Invited Talk

Vani Ravikumar RV Metropolis Diagnostics Center

AI Algorithm Development : What the pathologists need to know

Invited Talk

Vikram Sreedhar NHS, UK

Building the Mutli-Omics Oral cancer Data Ecosystem for AI-Driven Oncology

Invited Talk

Nidhan K Biswas Nat. Inst. Biomed. Genomics

The Petabyte Pathology Problem: Scaling Storage

Invited Talk

Dayanand Papegowda IBM

AI Powered Pathology platform

Invited Talk

Gaurav Kumar Philips

Choosing AI Wisely in Cancer Care: From Radiology and Pathology to LLMs, Agents, and Trustworthy Adoption

Invited Talk

Arvind Rao Univ. of Michigan

Who is Responsible When AI Gets It Wrong?

Panel Discussion

Moderator: Intezar Mehdi HCG

Panelists

Ramesh Bilimagga HCG

S V Joga Rao NLSIU

Alok Dhawan ICMR

Shivakumar Swamy HCG

Sumana B S Manipal Hospital

Shabnam Ruhi Sakra Hospital

Vikram Sreedhar NHS, UK

12:05 1hrs 03mins

Inauguration

Welcome Address

Ramesh Bilimagga HAI Conclave Committee

Inaugural Address

B S Ajaikumar HCG

The AI Era: Applied to Healthcare

Plenary Talk

Harsh Dhand Google

Plenary Talk

Shravan Subramanyam BPL Medical Technologies

Guest of Honor

Bhagavan B C Vice Chancellor, RGUHS

Vote of Thanks

Anitha Niranjan Global Healthcare Academy

13:00 30 mins

Lunch

13:30 2hrs 35mins

Imaging to the power of AI

Welcome, Track Introductions, Setting the Context

Introduction

Santhosh Patil JNMC

Elevating Health Through AI

Plenary Talk

Chetan HD Siemens Healthineers

AI-Enabled Teleradiology: Radiology of the Future

Plenary Talk

Arjun Kalyanpur Teleradiology Solutions / dAIgnostiX

Smarter Scans: Using AI to Revolutionize Image Acquisition

Invited Talk

Prasad S Murthy Tanuh

AI in Cancer Imaging: Current Applications and Future Directions

Invited Talk

Shivakumar Swamy HCG

AI in Imaging – Addressing Inter-reader Variability and the Role of Centrally Trained AI Systems

Invited Talk

Kollerathu Varghese Siemens Healthineers (SKE, D&A)

AI in Radiology: Redefining Healthcare Today, Engineering Tomorrow's Future

Invited Talk

Akash Gandhamal United Imaging

A Scalable, End-to-End AI Platform for Ophthalmology

Invited Talk

Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula Chaksu.ai

Enabling Better Care for more people with AI

Invited Talk

Brajesh Singh Philips India

Unifying AI Inference (VLM) with a Robust Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) Framework

Invited Talk

Roshan Christina Forus Health

AI and Its Impact on Clinical Pathways

Panel Discussion

Moderator: Hariharan Subramanian Siemens Healthineers

Nitin Bharadwaj Siemens Healthineers

Panelists

Arjun Kalyanpur Teleradiology Solutions / dAIgnostiX

Arjun Balaji Olympus

Supriya Seemanapalli Siemens Healthineers

Sudhir Kumar Kale Aster

Vimal Raj Narayana Health

Beyond the Hospital Walls: Building India's Distributed Care Infrastructure with AI

Panel Discussion

Moderator: Vijay Raaghavan PWC

Panelists

Charit Bhograj Tricog Health

Dikshant Dave Zigment

Sathish Kumar Philips

Chandrika Kambam Even Health

Reema Nadig Kites Senior Care

16:45 1hrs 30mins

India - First AI in Healthcare Symposium

The Scale Moment: Turning India's Health AI Pilots into National Programmes.

Panel Discussion

Moderator: Vikas Kharbanda ADL

Panelists

Guruprasad S Bosch

Ananth N Rao Fortis Hospitals

Mona Duggal ICMR-NIRDH

Varun Maheshwari Medtronic

Swetha Sahadev BPL Medical Technologies

Harini S Poovayya & Co

18:15 10mins

Health to the power of AI @ HCG

Preamble

B S Ajaikumar Founder & Chairperson, HCG

AI @HCG

Panel Discussion

Moderator: B S Ajaikumar Founder & Chairperson, HCG

Panelists

Manish Mattoo Executive Director and CEO, HCG

Manisha Kumar Regional COO, HCG

Veena Ramaswamy Pathology, HCG

Shivakumar Swamy Radiology, HCG

Lohit Reddy Radiotherapy, HCG

19:00

Dinner

8:30 60 mins

Registration

9:30 1hr 50mins

Health Informatics to the Power of AI

Welcome, Track Introductions, Setting the Context

Introduction

Vikram Patil JSS

AMIE: An Evidence Roadmap for Conversational Medical AI

Plenary Session

Mike Schaekermann Google

AI Solutions in Public Health

Plenary Session

Sudha Chandrashekar Swasti - Health catalyst

The Integration Tax: How Legacy Systems Are Killing your AI ROI

Invited Talk

Vinod Raman QCIL Hospitals

Invisible Data: Transforming Unstructured Clinical Information into Actionable Intelligence

Invited Talk

Chinmaya Suryavamse HCG

People's Water Data as Upstream Health Informatics - Implications for AI-Driven Public Health Systems

Invited Talk

Ramya Dwivedi IIT, Madras

The Last Linear Decade

Invited Talk

Vaibhav Prakash BHIO

Reimagining Healthcare Delivery with AI

Invited Talk

Arvind Raman Microsoft

Beyond Voice-to-Text: How AI Agents, Generative UI, and Doctor Memory Make Health Informatics Solve 10x More

Invited Talk

Sanjana SN Eka Care

CRIT AI 4.0: Offline AI-Augmented ICU Mortality Risk Prediction and Decision Support in Resource-Constrained Indian Settings

Invited Talk

Pratik Kumar Mitra HCG, Kolkata

Hospital Focussed Initiative, Healthcare Innovation Challenge Covering Some of the AI Deployment Successes

Invited Talk

Shantanu Gaur MeitY - NASSCOM Centre of Excellence

From Pilots Practice: How hospitals are adopting AI

Panel Discussion

Moderator: Sanjeev Malhotra NASSCOM

Panelists

Manisha Kumar HCG

Verghese Thomas St. John’s Research Institute

Rajesh Arasu Health Foundry

Sandeep Gudibanda HealthPlix

12:05 55 mins

Inauguration (in Hall A)

13:00 30 mins

Lunch

13:40 1hr 10mins

Health Informatics to the Power of AI

How some of the largest U.S. healthcare delivery systems are adopting and scaling these innovations

Plenary Session

Ravinder Singh Tech Mahindra

OPD Intelligence for the Next Billion Patients

Invited Talk

Raghuvamshi Thakur Prodoc

HI x AI in hospitals for better patient care

Invited Talk

Alok Dhawan IIIT / ICMR

AI driven clinical documentation and coordinated care

Invited Talk

Deepak Tuli Eka.care

Agentic AI Workflow for Autonomous Radiology

Invited Talk

Ashwin Amarapuram Aikenist Technologies

From Intelligent Operations to Personalized Care: How AI is Transforming Healthcare Delivery

Plenary Session

Abhinav Johri EY

Vending Machine Hospitals! Are we ready for automation?

Panel Discussion

Moderator: Ankur Dhandaria EY, Parthenon

Panelists

Vivek Rajagopal Narayana Health

Gaurav Srivastava KareXpert

Naman Kothari MeitY- Nasscom Center of Excellence

Taru Jain Kapture

Aditya Mishra NeuroDx

15:30 2hrs 0mins

Preventive Medicine to the power of AI

Welcome and Track Introductions

Introduction

Raghavendra Rao HCG

The invisible Patient: from unseen Risks to Foreseable Futures

Plenary Session

Hitesh Trivedi Microsoft

Three Million Patients Across Three Continents: What Continuous Monitoring at Population Scale Teaches Us

Invited Talk

Hemant Luthra Dozee

Ancient Science Meets Data Science: Unifying Yoga and Artificial Intelligence for Wellness, Preventive Healthcare and Pain Management.

Invited Talk

Muralidhr Somisetty Wellnesyst

AyurTech: AI and Ayurveda

Invited Talk

Sumit Kalra IIT, Jodhpur

Transforming Mental Health Assessment Through Data Driven Intelligence

Invited Talk

Abhishek Appaji BMS College of Engineering

Mobile App Based Solution For Detection Of Oral Cancer Lesion By Asha Workers

Invited Talk

Pragya Singh RAHA

The AI enabled Physician: Practical applications in daily practice

Invited Talk

Harsh Atul Hirani DocYantra

Role of AI in Preventive Health & Wellness

Panel Discussion

Moderator: Anjali Ajaikumar HCG

Panelists

Hitesh Trivedi Microsoft

Raghavendra Rao HCG

Uma Devi BMSCL

Omkar SN IISC

Jayaraj Kidav NIELIT

18:15 45 mins

Health to the power of AI @ HCG

19:00 Onwards

Dinner

09:00 30 mins

Registration

10:30 1hr 10mins

Pitch Dock Session I

Anusha and Nikita

Betting on Breakthroughs: Where Smart Capital Meets Healthcare AI

Panel - 1

Moderator: Anand Kannan (IFIA)

Panelists

Suraj Nair Ankur capital

Madan Padki 1bridge

Ravi Nayar CCAMP

Insights on Karnataka Innovation & Startup Ecosystem

Talk

Bharath Chandra BK Karnataka Digital Economy Mission

Inaugural Event (in Hall A)

14:00 2hrs 0mins

Pitch Dock Session II

Invited Talk

SwissNex Lena

The Funding Frontier: Navigating Risk and Return in Healthcare AI Investments

Panel - 2

Moderator: Shivakiran S Makam

Panelists

Sulesh Ideaspring

Kiran Vuppala

Harini Sudarsan Poovayya

Kiran Rudrappa Posspole

Lumos

Talk

10 mins Anjali Ajaikumar

Combines 4K head-mounted cameras with a secure, AI-driven SaaS platform to transform open and minimally invasive surgeries into continuous learning opportunities for surgeons and hospitals.

Pitch Session

Nuevata Prashanth Ray

AI revenue recovery platform for patient journeys that identifies revenue leakages across hospital operations and executes patient workflows via voice, WhatsApp, and human teams

Pitch Session

Anthropod Dr Punit Sar

16:15 55mins

Pitch Dock Session III

Capital Meets Code: Investor Perspectives on the Future of Health AI

Panel - 3

Moderator: Jayashree Bhat

Panelists

Vishal Gandhi BioRX

Nithin Sood 360One

Naman Kothari NASSCOM

Vaibhav Prakash BHIO

Pitch Session

Chaksu AI Pramath

09:00 60 mins

Registration

10:00 1hr 05mins

Drug Discovery to the power of AI

AI in R&D- from Promise to Reality

Plenary Session

Shobha Vijayaraghavan Accenture

AI for early and personalized care in cardiac, viral and cancer diseases

Invited Talk

Malay Kishore Dutta Amity University

Next Gen Interventions in Pharma Processes with a Potential to Impact Healthcare Systems

Invited Talk

Subhadra Dravida Transcell Biologics

AI Platforms and Robotic Execution: Optimizing Formulation Development

Invited Talk

Amjad Basha Persist.ai

AI and Drug Discovery: From Algorithms to Approved Medicine – Fact Check and Road Ahead

Invited Talk

Neelima Khairatkar Joshi Promethean Drug Ideas

11:20 2hrs 0mins

Keynote Conversation (in Hall A)

AI in healthcare is moving fast. Is it moving right?

A doctor-entreprenuer who's seen what works, and what fails.

A policy mind drawing the rules.

A scientist building the data India actually needs.

Three takes... zero fluff...
Followed by an open conversation that could go anywhere.
Come ready to question everything!

Keynote Conversation

B S Ajaikumar HCG

Anurag Agrawal Ashoka University

Shantanu Chowdhury Bharat Charitable Cancer Hospital & Institute (Trust)

13:20 30 mins

Lunch

13:50 1hr 20mins

Drug Discovery to the power of AI

AI in Drug Discovery: The regulatory angle

Plenary Session

Kempaiah Suresh DDC, FDA, GoK

AI guided translational drug repurposing

Invited Talk

Priyank Tripathi HCG

Pharmaceuticals Quality Assurance: Reactive to Proactive AI Deployment

Invited Talk

Raghunandan Hurulihalli RC2 Pharma Solutions

Building Pharma-Ready AI Talent for Discovery and Translational Research

Invited Talk

Y Lakshmi Prasad Stealth

Transforming Drug Discovery with Artificial Intelligence.

Invited Talk

Sameer Agarwal Molecule AI

Modernizing Medicine: AI in Clinical Trials

Invited Talk

Sandeep A V Astra Zeneca

From Bits to Biology: Engineering Autonomous Hybrid Intelligence to Accelerate Scientific Discovery

Invited Talk

Sunil Mahesh Neeradi Biosciences

Multi-Modal AI Integration: Blending Computational Data with Clinical Data to Predict How Human Cells Will Biologically Respond to Targeted Therapies

Panel Discussion

Moderator: Shobha Vijayaraghavan Accenture

Panelist

Girish Tunga MAHE

Shivaprakash Rathnam Ind. Pharm. Soc.

Sriram AV Aurobindo Pharma

Nivedita Mitra Siemens Healthineers

15:30 40mins

Valedictory Program

Welcome Address

Ramesh Bilimagga HCG

Conference Summary and Key Takeaways

NASSCOM

Chief Guest Address

UT Khader MoHF, GoK

Guest of Honour

B L Sujatha Rathod Directorate of Medical Education, GoK

Vote of Thanks

Anitha Niranjan Global HealthCare Academy

16:30

Tea

09:00 30 mins

Registration

09:30 60mins

Treatment to the power of AI

AI and Bias in Healthcare - Practical Considerations

Plenary Talk

Purvish Parikh Shalby Hospitals

Robotic Technology and Augmented Reality in Orthopaedic Surgeries

Invited Talk

Chirag Thonse Manipal Hospital

Future of Surgery

Invited Talk

Rohit Mahajan Intuitive

Specialist Knowledge Should Travel Faster Than Disease Progression: Building AI-Enabled Clinical Intelligence Networks for Rare and Complex Diseases

Invited Talk

Pramod Chinder HCG

TBD

Invited Talk

TBD

Invited Talk

11:20 2hrs 0mins

Keynote Conversation (in Hall A)

13:20 30 mins

Lunch

13:50 1hr 30 mins

Treatment to the power of AI

Closing the Gap: How Relational AI, Continuous Conversations, and Patient Data Can Transform Healthcare

Plenary Session

Justin Harris YOV

AI in Radiation Oncology

Invited Talk

Amrut Kadam Victoria Hospital

AI in Medical Prognostication: Current Evidence

Invited Talk

Krithika Sekhar HCG

From Incision to Precision: The Transformative Impact of Nanorobots in Healthcare

Invited Talk

Peddi Shanmukh Srinivas Theranautilus

Beyond the Snapshot: How AI Reads Cancer Dynamism

Invited Talk

Lohith G Reddy HCG

AI in Oncology

Invited Talk

Vinayak Makka Ramaiah Medical College

AI in Defence Health and Combat MedCare

Invited Talk

Lt Gen. Arun Ananthanarayan Independent

Healthcare AI: The Human in the Loop

Invited Talk

Shravan Subramanyam BPL

Treatment, Therapies and Transitions: The Rise & Rise of AI

Panel Discussion

Moderator: Rajarajan S ASRAM Hospitals

Panel List

Purvish Parikh Shalby Hospitals

Jagannath Dixit Manipal Hospital

Sushruth Shetty Mazumdhar Shaw Medical Center

Chirag Thonse Manipal Hospital

Ramesh Bilimagga HCG

15:50 30mins

Valedictory Program (in Hall A)

16:30

Tea

09:00 30 mins

Registration

09:30 2hrs 0mins

Pitch Dock Session IV

From Pilot to Portfolio: What VCs Look for in Healthcare AI Startups

Panel - 1

Moderator: Sanjeev

Panelists

Prasad Anthill

Anjali Ajaikumar Lumos

Chandrasekhar Forus

Bhaskar Rajakumar Charaka

Talks

IFIA Anand Kannan

Accelerating AI-Driven Healthcare Innovation: How Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre Enables Translation from Lab to Market

Talks

Bangalore Bio Innovation Centre Shaheen - Sr Manager

Pitch Session

Alpha Grid Sachin M Y

Curing Healthcare's Cash Leakage

Pitch Session

Cupi Subham Jethwani

Keynote Conversation (in Hall A)

14:00 40mins

Pitch Dock Session V

Healthcare AI Funding in 2026: Why Data Matters More Than Models

Laxminarayan Navi grow

Beyond MIS, India First - Sovereign AI for Proactive Healthcare Leadership Intelligence

Naveen Kumar GritWiz

AI-driven digital pathology platform (OncoVision) for breast cancer grading and biomarker identification, helping hospitals make faster, more personalized treatment decisions.

Pitch Session

Rajasekaran Subramanian Digiclinic

Program Schedule

Registration

Welcome, Track Introductions, Setting the Context

Introduction

The Case of the Hidden Signatures: Designing Multimodal Imaging AI to Bridge Patterns, Predictions & Precision Medicine

Plenary Session

Foundation Models in Pathology: An Introduction To Next Generation Computational Pathology

Plenary Session

Pixels and Patterns: From Digital Slides to Intelligent Workflows

Invited Talk

Building AI-Ready Breast Biomarker Workflows: Practical Lessons from a Cancer Hospital

Invited Talk

Augmenting Workflow Efficiency through AI and Digital Transformation in a Clinical Lab

Invited Talk

Upgrading Surgical Pathology: Transitioning to an Integrated Digital and AI Ecosystem

Invited Talk

AI in Digital Cytopathology - Past, Present , Future.

Invited Talk

AI Algorithm Development : What the pathologists need to know

Invited Talk

Building the Mutli-Omics Oral cancer Data Ecosystem for AI-Driven Oncology

Invited Talk

The Petabyte Pathology Problem: Scaling Storage

Invited Talk

AI Powered Pathology platform

Invited Talk

Choosing AI Wisely in Cancer Care: From Radiology and Pathology to LLMs, Agents, and Trustworthy Adoption

Invited Talk

Who is Responsible When AI Gets It Wrong?

Panel Discussion

Panelists

Welcome Address

Inaugural Address

The AI Era: Applied to Healthcare

Plenary Talk

Plenary Talk

Guest of Honor

Vote of Thanks

Welcome, Track Introductions, Setting the Context

Introduction

Elevating Health Through AI

Plenary Talk

AI-Enabled Teleradiology: Radiology of the Future

Plenary Talk

Smarter Scans: Using AI to Revolutionize Image Acquisition

Invited Talk

AI in Cancer Imaging: Current Applications and Future Directions

Invited Talk

AI in Imaging – Addressing Inter-reader Variability and the Role of Centrally Trained AI Systems

Invited Talk

AI in Radiology: Redefining Healthcare Today, Engineering Tomorrow's Future

Invited Talk

A Scalable, End-to-End AI Platform for Ophthalmology

Invited Talk

Enabling Better Care for more people with AI

Invited Talk

Unifying AI Inference (VLM) with a Robust Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) Framework

Invited Talk

AI and Its Impact on Clinical Pathways

Panel Discussion

Panelists

Beyond the Hospital Walls: Building India's Distributed Care Infrastructure with AI

Panel Discussion

Panelists

The Scale Moment: Turning India's Health AI Pilots into National Programmes.

Panel Discussion

Panelists

Preamble

AI @HCG

Panel Discussion

Panelists

Registration

Welcome, Track Introductions, Setting the Context

Introduction

AMIE: An Evidence Roadmap for Conversational Medical AI

Plenary Session

AI Solutions in Public Health

Plenary Session

The Integration Tax: How Legacy Systems Are Killing your AI ROI

Invited Talk