Session	Speakers	From	To
Registration		08:30 AM	10:00 AM
Opening Ceremony (Lighting the Lamp, Saraswati Vandana, Inaugural Addresses)	Distinguished Guests: Prof. Tapas Chakraborty (Vice Chancellor, MAKAUT) Mr. Raj Jain (CMD, RS Software Ltd.) Prof. Dinesh Kumar (Director Incharge, IIM Bangalore) Prof. Indranil Bose (Distinguished Professor, Neoma Business School, France) Mr. Ambarish Dasgupta (Senior Partner, Intueri Consulting LLP., Protiviti Global) Prof. Deepankar Sinha (Professor & Head - Research Division, IIFT,Kolkata) NSHM Leadership Team	10:00 AM	11:15 AM
Keynote - Good Decisions with Complex Data: Advanced Analytics for a Sustainable Future	Prof. Arnab Laha (Professor, IIM Ahmedabad & RBI Chair Professor, Indian Statistical Institute (on deputation))	11:30 AM	12:00 PM
Panel Discussion – Carbon Efficiency Achievement to Meet CBAM Requirements	Dr. Nilanjan Ghosh (Vice President – ORF Kolkata and Development Studies - Panel Moderator) Prof. Deepankar Sinha (Professor & Head - Research Division, IIFT,Kolkata) Mr. Tridibesh Bandopadhyay ( Founder and CEO, InQube - Digitizing Farm-Food-Forestry Value Chain for a Net Zero World) Mr. Ajeya Bandyopadhyay (South Asia Lead (Advisory), Decarbonisation, Circularity, Energy, Smart Manufacturing, International Finance Corporation) Ms. Madhura Mitra (Executive Director, Sustainability and Climate Change, PwC) Prof. Binoy K. Choudhury(Professor, Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management)	12:00 PM	01:30 PM
	Lunch	01:30 PM	02:30 PM
Panel Discussion – Smart Connectivity for Smarter Decisions – Industry 5.0	Dr. Indranil Mitra (Partner – AI and Advanced Analytics –PwC - Panel Moderator) Mr. Prasenjit Talukder(Lead Vice President – Data & Analytics, HSBC) Mr. Chirabrata Bhaumik (Principal Scientist in TCS Research & Innovation) Mr. Bishwanath Ghosh (ex-CIO, Mahindra and Mahindra) Mr. Dhrubajyoti De (IPS) ( IPS, Additional CP (SB), Kolkata Police)	02:30 PM	03:45 PM
Keynote - Smart Systems, Smarter Decisions: Building Future-Ready Organisations and Talent in the Age of AI and Analytics	Dr. Ganesh Singh (Professor & Programme Director - New Age Courses, Centre for Management Education, All India Management Association)	04:00 PM	04:30 PM
Panel Discussion – Data-Driven Real-Time Decisions for Sustainable Education	Prof. Somprakash Bandopadhyay (Director & Personal Growth Consultant: Career and Life Design Counselling, Former Professor at IIM Calcutta, IIT Kharagpur & IIT Bombay - Panel Moderator), Prof. Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhyay(Vice Chancellor, Sister Nivedita University, Kolkata) Prof. Shyamal Kumar Das Mondal (Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur) Mr. Vivek Iyer (Managing Director, D2L India) Prof. Jyotsna Kumar Mondal (Professor, University of Kalyani) Swami Kamalasthananda (Principal, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara, Kolkata)	04:30 PM	06:00 PM

Session 1A - Paper Presentation	Session chairs: Dr. Sumit Misra(SVP, RS Software), Prof. Sipra DasBit(Professor, IIEST), Prof. Swapna Dutta Khan(Faculty, NSHM Knowledge Campus Kolkata)	11:30 AM	01:30 PM
	Lunch	01:30 PM	02:30 PM
Session 2A - Paper Presentation	Session chairs: Prof. Chandan Mazumdar, Prof. Bikash Kumar Saha(Faculty, NSHM Knowledge Campus Kolkata), Prof Dhrubasish Sarkar(Faculty, NSHM Knowledge Campus Kolkata)	02:30 PM	04:00 PM
Session 3A - Paper Presentation	Session chairs: Prof. Samarjit Kar(Professor, NIT Durgapur), Prof. Rajib Bhattacharya(Faculty, NSHM Knowledge Campus Kolkata), Prof. Atri Sanyal (Faculty, NSHM Knowledge Campus Kolkata)	04:15 PM	06:00 PM

Session 1B - Paper Presentation	Session chairs: Prof. Iti Saha Misra(Professor, Jadavpur University), Prof. Chandrima Ganguly(Faculty, NSHM Knowledge Campus Kolkata), Prof. Moumita Ghosh(Faculty, NSHM Knowledge Campus Kolkata)	11:30 AM	01:30 PM
	Lunch	01:30 PM	02:30 PM
Session 2B - Paper Presentation	Session chairs: Prof. Gupinath Bhandari (Professor, Jadavpur University), Prof. Reeti DebnathFaculty, NSHM Knowledge Campus), Prof. Sanjay Goswami (Faculty, NSHM Knowledge Campus)	02:30 PM	04:00 PM
Session 3B - Paper Presentation	Session chairs: Prof. Pinakpani Pal(Assoc. Professor, ISI), Prof. Suparna Biswas(Assoc. Professor, MAKAUT), Prof. Nilanjana Sinha (Faculty, NSHM Knowledge Campus Kolkata)	04:15 PM	06:00 PM

Session	Speakers	From	To
Keynote - Novel Chaotic Genai: Applications in Banking and Finance	Prof. V. Ravi(Professor, Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology)	09:45 AM	10:30 AM
Panel Discussion - Sustainability and Smart Systems: Promises and Pitfalls	Prof. Saptarshi Ghosh(Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur - Panel Moderator) Mr. Debasis Sen (IAS) (ex-IAS, Former Chairman of Smart City, Newtown) Prof. Madhumita Roy (Professor, Department of Architecture, Jadavpur University) Mr. Surojit Bose (Advisor, Intueri Consulting LLP.) Dr. Avik Bhattacharya (Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Roorkee)	10:30 AM	12:00 PM
Keynote - Impact of AI on Teaching and Learning	Swami Sarvottamananda (Vice Chancellor, RKMVERI)	12:15 PM	12:45 PM
Keynote - Data Analytics Using Quantum Neural Network	Dr. Debabrata Datta (Retd. Nuclear Scientist from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre,Mumbai, Joint Director, Research & Development and Professor in the department of Information Technology at Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata)	12:45 PM	01:00 PM
	Lunch	01:00 PM	02:00 PM
Keynote - Why Privacy Enhancing Technologies Matter Now?	Mr. Sanjay Kumar Das (WBCS (Executive), Special Secretary, Department of Science and Technology and Bio-Technology AND State Information Security Officer, Government of West Bengal)	02:00 PM	02:30 PM
	Smart-D'bate	02:30 PM	03:30 PM
Smart Quiz	Quiz Master: Dr. Sabarna Roy(Chief Technology Officer, Kejriwal Castings Ltd.)	03:45 PM	05:30 PM
Closing Ceremony	Mr. Ramkumar NR(CIO, HSBC) Prof. Krishnendu Sarkar(Director, NSHM Knowledge Campus Kolkata)	05:30 PM	06:00 PM

Session 4A: Paper Presentation

Session chairs:
Dr. Imon Mukherjee(Asst. professor, IIIT Kalyani),
Prof. Sanjay Kumar Pal (Faculty, NSHM Knowledge Campus Kolkata),
Prof. Soma Basu(Faculty, NSHM Knowledge Campus Kolkata)

10:30 AM

11:30 AM

Session 4B: Paper Presentation

Session chairs:
Prof. Chandreyee Chowdhury(Professor, Jadavpur University),
Prof. Debashis Chakraborty(Faculty, IIFT Kolkata),
Prof. Ashutosh Kar(Faculty, NSHM Knowledge Campus Kolkata)

10:00 AM

11:30 AM