Schedule
Four parallel tracks across the conference day, July 4, 2026.
Talks Dialogues Exhibition Activities Other
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 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
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 Live Stream
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. Sandeep Karmarkar, Head of Design, AtlassianAreena Arora, Editorial Coder, The HinduHamsa Ganesh, Founder, ThoughtputModerated byAnushka Gokhale, Lead Designer, EPIC WorldAuditorium Live Stream
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, JanaagrahaTushar Chakrabarty, Associate Manager, JanaagrahaThurro's Data Playground SPONSORED | Thurro Akhilesh Tilotia, Co-founder, Thurro Exhibition: Data, Otherwise
Puddle Beneath the Plate Shreya Dan, Information Designer, NID BengaluruPanes of Heat Kashvi Bansal, Editorial Designer, The KenSilent Cities Vishal Garg, Data Risk Leader, Visual StorytellerVanishing Wings Meghana Singh, Professor, Shrishti Manipal InstituteFading Out to Extinction Aswanth Choyan, Information Designer, NID BangaloreThe Pollution That Wasn't Aditya Jain // Aman Bhargava // Vivek Matthew, Diagram ChasingThe Scent of Grounded Change Sadhana Lokesh, UX Designer, Health Care OrganisationKlimate Kundli Nithya Kirti, Designer, ShikshaLokam