A SPACE TO CONNECT AND CREATE WITH DATA

VIZCHITRA 2026

Join us for talks, workshops, dialogues, and an exhibition.
Two days of data visualization, curated by India's data viz community —
in person in Bengaluru, or online from anywhere.

📍 Bangalore International Centre
📅 3rd & 4th July, 2026
💻 In person or online
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WORKSHOP DAY on Friday, 03 July 2026

Three hours, hands-on Workshop facilitated by leading practitioners at Bangalore International Centre (BIC) & Underline Center.

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Workshops

Agentic DataViz: Build Systems, Not Charts

Find the Story. Teach the Agent. Run It Again.
Karthik Shashidhar

Karthik Shashidhar

Fractional Data & AI Consultant
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Observe, Collect, Map: A Sensory Data Walkshop

Expand what counts as data. Learn to map it. Outside. Walking. Together.
Priti Pandurangan

Priti Pandurangan

Information Experience Designer
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Designing Data Stories for Small Screens

Redesign your visualisation for the six-inch screen most of your audience actually uses.
Areena Arora

Areena Arora

Editorial Coder, The Hindu
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Draw with Data: Custom Dataviz Using D3

Go from basic shapes to custom, interactive viz you always imagined in code
Schubert de Abreu

Schubert de Abreu

DataViz Developer, Revisual Labs
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A Dataviz Crash Course (Without The Crash Out)

Learn the decisions behind good charts and leave with a framework to make them yourself.
Prakriti Bakshi

Prakriti Bakshi

Data Storyteller, Independent
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From Tables to Maps with Datawrapper

No GIS software needed. Just your data & browser to make it a publish-ready map.
Prasanta Kumar Dutta

Prasanta Kumar Dutta

DataViz Developer, Reuters
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Data Rough: Sketching the Foundations of Data Stories

Learn to sketch your way to stronger visual data stories, whatever your drawing ability
Adolfo Arranz

Adolfo Arranz

Senior Graphics Editor, Reuters
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Interactive DataViz using AI Coding

Ship a live, interactive web visualisation from your own dataset.
Kenneth Dsouza

Kenneth  // Rasagy

Designer // Head of Design, Capital One

CONFERENCE DAY on Saturday, 04 July 2026

Full day of sessions including Talks, Dialogues, and the Exhibition at Bangalore International Centre (BIC), Bengaluru. Can't make it to Bengaluru? A virtual pass streams the day live.

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Talks

The Infinite Graphic Space: Beyond Grammar

Every grammar is a map with edges. This keynote charts what lies beyond them.
Arvind Satyanarayan

Arvind Satyanarayan

Associate Professor, MIT CSAIL
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A Majestic Map Redesign: Data, Design & Government

Maps shape how cities feel. One bus station showed it.
Shubhra Agarwal

Shubhra Agarwal

Creative Lead, Bengawalk
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Telling Timely & Timeless Stories with Data

A hundred ways to see India. Learning to see the difference.
Rohit Saran

Rohit Saran

Managing Editor, The Times of India
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The Data Viz Drift: What Nobody Tells You

Data viz rarely stays data viz. An honest reckoning with the careers behind the craft.
Sandeep Karmarkar

Sandeep Karmarkar

Head of Design, Atlassian
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eSankhyiki: Visualization at Scale

Public data should serve the public. The journey of doing it at India's scale.
Rohit Bhardwaj

Rohit Bhardwaj

Addl. Director General, MoSPI
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Dashboards of our Discontent

More dashboards than ever. Still waiting for ones that actually work.
Aman Bhargava

Aman Bhargava

Developer, Diagram Chasing
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There Are No Clean Maps

Maps look certain. The hidden work behind every one of them is not.
Supriya Joshi

Supriya Joshi

Senior Data Analyst, EPIC World
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What's in Your Bag? Really!

Data does not travel on its own. You have to construct the meaning.
Sneha Kaul

Sneha Kaul

Statistics Analyst, UN Women Asia-Pacific
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Kuch Kuch Data Hai: Bollywood, Visualised

First-day. Matinee show. In the Audi. Opening 04 July.
Surbhi Bhatia

Surbhi Bhatia

Independent Data Journalist
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The Shape of Health Costs

Every chart simplifies reality. The best ones carry complexity with care.
Saurabh Arora

Saurabh Arora

Chief Technology Officer, Plum
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Caption This: Teaching Machines to Narrate Charts

Generating captions is easy. Curating the right one is not. Can machines learn the difference?
Jaidev Deshpande

Jaidev Deshpande

Senior Software Engineer, Aftershoot
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Bite-Sized Views, Crore-Sized Backlog

One number tells you nothing. One hearing tells you everything.
Shalaka Shinde

Shalaka Shinde

Independent Data Journalist
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Visualising care in rural healthcare

Data should serve the people it's about. This is what that looks like in practice.
Abhiram Jois

Abhiram Jois

Creative Technologist
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Atlas of Intangibles

The senses hold data too. Mapped across cities, one walk at a time.
Priti Pandurangan

Priti Pandurangan

Information Experience Designer
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Design for Speed and Trust, Together.

AI in radiology creates high-stakes decisions. Good viz helps people make them thoughtfully.
Bargava Subramanian

Bargava Subramanian

Founder & AI Builder
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Sand, Data, and Wicked Problems

Open data alone does not build intention. You have to redirect the river.
Siddharth Agarwal

Siddharth Agarwal

Founder, Veditum India Foundation
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Designing Dashboards for Life and Death

Every dashboard has a north star. Choose it wisely and the system follows.
Tony Joy

Tony Joy

Senior Product Designer, Resolve to Save Lives
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Dialogues

The Curator's Dilemma

When making is easy, choosing is the craft.
Anand S

Anand S

LLM Psychologist, Straive
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Dialogues

The Stories our Charts don't Tell (yet)

Every dashboard assumes a worldview. This dialogue asks what yours is.
Lakshmi Chockalingam

Lakshmi Chockalingam

Doctor of Education Candidate, Bath
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A Collective Autopsy of Chart Crimes

Charts look objective. That's what makes them dangerous.
Agriya Khetarpal

Agriya Khetarpal

Software Engineer, Quansight
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Exhibition

Puddle Beneath the Plate

What if the water behind our food sat visibly at the table with us?
Shreya Dan

Shreya Dan

Information Designer, NID Bengaluru
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Exhibition

Too hot to open

Windows into a future too hot to step outside
Kashvi Bansal

Kashvi  // Surbhi

Editorial Designer, The Ken
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Exhibition

Silent Cities

The city sounds different when sparrows disappear
Vishal Garg

Vishal Garg

Data Risk Leader, Visual Storyteller
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Exhibition

Vanishing Wings

Threads that trace the disappearance of insects
Meghana Singh

Meghana Singh

Professor, Shrishti Institute
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Exhibition

Fading Out

When species disappear, the data fades with them.
Aswanth Choyan

Aswanth Choyan

Information Designer, NID Bangalore
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An Ancient River, A Modern Thirst

Living through the collapse of a river’s old rhythm
Kuhu Gupta

Kuhu Gupta

Data Visualization Engineer , Illumio
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Exhibition

The Pollution That Wasn't

A portrait of emissions prevented through public transit
Aditya Jain

Aditya Jain

Diagram Chasing
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The Scent of Grounded Change

An olfactory archive of rain, land, and urban change
Sadhana Lokesh

Sadhana Lokesh

UX Designer, Health Care Organisation
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Klimate Kundli

A personal horoscope for a planet in transition
Nithya Kirti

Nithya  // Arkoprabho

Designer, ShikshaLokam // VuNet Systems

HOW TO ATTEND

Be there in person in Bengaluru, or join online from anywhere in the world.

In person · Bengaluru

  • Conference Day, 4 July, at the BIC
  • Talks, Dialogues and the Exhibition
  • Add a hands-on Workshop separately
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Online · From anywhere

  • Stream the conference live
  • Join from any city or country
  • Virtual pass at ₹1,299
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