Schedule
Four parallel tracks across the conference day, July 4, 2026.
Talks Dialogues Exhibition Activities Others
09:00 09:3010:00 10:3011:00 11:3012:00 12:3013:00 13:3014:00 14:3015:00 15:3016:00 16:3017:00 17:3018:00 18:30
REGISTRATIONS Scan your QR code and grab your goodie bag at the entrance booth
Morning Melody Nikita Deshpande, Art & Animation Director, Illustrator This is VizChitra Gurman Bhatia
Telling Timely & Timeless Stories with Data Rohit Saran, Managing Editor, The Times of India A Majestic Map Redesign: Data, Design & Government Shubhra Agarwal, Creative Lead, Bengawalk TEA BREAK Grab tea on the first floor and stretch your legs. While you're up, there's plenty to explore: the sponsor stalls, the community art pop-up, the book stall, and the participatory visualisations. Don't miss the book signing by Rohit Saran and Rukmini S in the Foyer on the first floor.
eSankhyiki: Visualization at Scale Rohit Bhardwaj, Addl. Director General, MoSPI What's in Your Bag? Really! Sneha Kaul, Statistics Analyst, UN Women Asia-Pacific Dashboards of our Discontent Aman Bhargava, Developer, Diagram Chasing LUNCH @ TERRACE Come to the terrace for the group photo, then grab a bowl and mingle. If you finish your meal early, you can also peek into the Data, Otherwise exhibition.
Afternoon Rhythm Ashok Kumar, Djembe. Artist. Actor. Kuch Kuch Data Hai: Bollywood, Visualised Surbhi Bhatia, Independent Data Journalist Atlas of Intangibles Priti Pandurangan, Information Experience Designer The Data Viz Drift: What Nobody Tells You Sandeep Karmarkar, Head of Design, Atlassian TEA BREAK Grab tea on the first floor, and make time for the sponsor stalls, the community art pop-up, the book stall, and the participatory visualisations before the closing sessions.
The Shape of Health Costs Saurabh Arora, Chief Technology Officer, Plum Caption This: Teaching Machines to Narrate Charts Jaidev Deshpande, Senior Software Engineer, Aftershoot The Infinite Graphic Space: Beyond Grammar Arvind Satyanarayan, Associate Professor, MIT CSAIL Data. Seen Differently. Amit Kapoor
NETWORKING @ TERRACE Wind down and connect with the community before you head out. Chat about what you most resonated with.
Auditorium Livestream Catch it on the big screen in the Hall
Designing Dashboards for Life and Death Tony Joy, Senior Product Designer, Resolve to Save Lives Design for Speed and Trust, Together. Bargava Subramanian, Founder & AI Builder Visualising care in rural healthcare Abhiram Jois, Creative Technologist Bite-Sized Views, Crore-Sized Backlog Shalaka Shinde, Independent Data Journalist There Are No Clean Maps Supriya Joshi, Senior Data Analyst, EPIC World Sand, Data, and Wicked Problems Siddharth Agarwal, Founder, Veditum India Foundation AMA: So You Want to Work with Data. Moderated byAnushka Gokhale, Lead Designer, EPIC WorldSandeep Karmarkar, Head of Design, AtlassianHamsa Ganesh, Founder, ThoughtputAreena Arora, Editorial Coder, The HinduAuditorium LiveStream Catch it on the big screen in the Hall
The Curator's Dilemma Anand S, LLM Psychologist, Straive The Stories our Charts don't Tell (yet) Lakshmi Chockalingam, Doctor of Education Candidate, Bath A Collective Autopsy of Chart Crimes Agriya Khetarpal, Software Engineer, Quansight Decode the Chart Game Arshi Saleh, Tableau Developer, Data Visual Designer The Cities We Don’t See SPONSORED | City Finance Shobana Venkatasubbu, Senior Manager, Janaagraha Thurro's Data Playground SPONSORED | Thurro Akhilesh Tilotia, Co-founder, ThurroAarushi Shah, Stem Cell, Thurro Exhibition: Data, Otherwise
Puddle Beneath the Plate Shreya Dan, Information Designer, NID Bengaluru Panes of Heat Kashvi Bansal, Editorial Designer, The KenSurbhi Bhatia, Data JournalistParth Bisen, Software Engineer, CREDSilent Cities Vishal Garg, Data Risk Leader, Visual Storyteller Vanishing Wings Meghana Singh, Professor, Srishti Manipal Institute Fading Out to Extinction Aswanth Choyan, Information Designer, NID Bangalore The Pollution That Wasn't Aditya Jain, Designer & TechnologistVivek Matthew, Engineer, Diagram ChasingAman Bhargava, Developer, Diagram ChasingThe Scent of Grounded Change Sadhana Lokesh, UX Designer, Health Care Organisation Klimate Kundli Nithya Kirti, Designer, ShikshaLokamArkoprabho Bhattacharjee, Senior Product Designer, VuNet Systems