Sessions | VizChitra 2026

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The Infinite Graphic Space: Beyond Grammar

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Independent Data Journalist

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The Curator's Dilemma

When making is easy, choosing is the craft.

Anand S

LLM Psychologist, Straive

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The Shape of Health Costs

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

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

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

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

Creative Technologist

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Atlas of Intangibles

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

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

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

Founder, Veditum India Foundation

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The Stories our Charts don't Tell (yet)

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

Lakshmi Chockalingam

Doctor of Education Candidate, Bath

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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

Senior Product Designer, Resolve to Save Lives

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A Collective Autopsy of Chart Crimes

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

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

Information Designer, NID Bengaluru

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Exhibition

Panes of Heat

Windows into a future too hot to step outside

Kashvi // Surbhi // Parth

The Ken // CRED

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Silent Cities

The city sounds different when sparrows disappear

Vishal Garg

Data Risk Leader, Visual Storyteller

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Vanishing Wings

Threads that trace the disappearance of insects

Meghana Singh

Professor, Srishti Manipal Institute

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Fading Out to Extinction

When species disappear, the data fades with them.

Aswanth Choyan

Information Designer, NID Bangalore

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The Pollution That Wasn't

A portrait of emissions prevented through public transit

Aditya // Vivek // Aman

Diagram Chasing // Diagram Chasing

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The Scent of Grounded Change

An olfactory archive of rain, land, and urban change

Sadhana Lokesh

UX Designer, Health Care Organisation

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Klimate Kundli

A personal horoscope for a planet in transition

Nithya // Arkoprabho

ShikshaLokam // VuNet Systems

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Unlocking Public Sector Data & its Value

Public data holds enormous promise. This roundtable asks what actually stands in the way.

Anupama Kashyap

Partnership Lead, People + AI

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AMA: So You Want to Work with Data.

Anushka // Sandeep // Hamsa // Areena

EPIC World // Atlassian // Thoughtput // The Hindu

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Activities

Decode the Chart Game

Follow the clues. Uncover the story.

Arshi Saleh

Tableau Developer, Data Visual Designer

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Thurro's Data Playground

You bring the question, Thurro brings the data.

Akhilesh // Aarushi

Thurro // Thurro

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The Cities We Don’t See

The numbers are there. The narratives are not.

Shobana Venkatasubbu

Senior Manager, Janaagraha

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Morning Melody

Your voice is already here. Let's find it together.

Nikita Deshpande

Art & Animation Director, Illustrator

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Afternoon Rhythm

Every beat is data. Every pattern is yours.

Ashok Kumar

Djembe. Artist. Actor.

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Workshops

Agentic DataViz: Build Systems, Not Charts

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

Karthik Shashidhar

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

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

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

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

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

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

Senior Graphics Editor, Reuters

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Interactive DataViz using AI Coding

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

Kenneth // Rasagy

Independent // Capital One