Schedule
DAY 1 - July 21, 2022
| Program | Time (IST) | Speaker & Talk Title | Time Slot (IST): QnA |
| Inaugural Session | 8:15 - 8:30 | ||
| Keynote 1: You can't spell success without you Chair: Jayashree Mohan (MSR) |
8:30 - 9:30 | Geetha Kannan (Wequity) | 9:15 - 9:30 |
Coffee Break: 9:30 - 9:45 |
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| Career Options (India & Abroad) - Industry, Academia, Entrepreneurship Chair: Chitra Babu (SSN College of Engineering) |
9:45 - 12:30 | Heena Rathore (UT) -- Revamping Quality for Academic and Placement Abroad-- 9:45 - 10:15 | 10:15 - 10:25 |
| Anisha Parikh (Hackberry) -- My Journey as an Entrepreneur --10:25 - 10:55 | 10:55 - 11:05 | ||
| Neeldhara Misra (IIT Gandhinagar) -- A career in academia: why and why not? --11:05 - 11:35 | 11:35 - 11:45 | ||
| Srujana Merugu (Amazon) -- Anatomy of a Data Science Career in Industry --11:45 - 12:15 | 12:15 - 12:25 | ||
Lunch Break (12:25 - 3:00) |
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Social Hour@ Gather.Town (3:00-5:00) |
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Activity 1: Mentorship in Groups (5:45 - 6:30) Moderator: ACM Student Volunteers; Mentors in individual breakout rooms |
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| IBM Interaction with Students Chair: Heena Timani (iAnanya Datalytix Pvt. Ltd.) |
6:30 - 7:00 | Renuka Sindhgatta Rajan | |
| Keynote 2 Chair: Sushmita Gupta (IMSc) |
7:00 - 8:00 | Barna Saha (UCSD) -- Sublinear Time Algorithms for Edit Distance -- 7:00 - 7:45 | 7:45 - 8:00 |
| Past, Present and Future of Women in Science & Engineering Chair: Pallavi Jain (IIT Jodhpur) |
8:00 - 9:15 | Abha Sur (MIT) -- 8:00 - 8:30 & Hema Murthy (IIT Madras) -- 8:30 - 9:00 | 9:00 - 9:15 |
End of Day 1 (9:15 - 9:20) |
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DAY 2 - July 22, 2022
| Program | Time (IST) | Speaker & Talk Title | Time Slot (IST): QnA |
Starting Day 2 (9:15 - 9:30) |
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| Keynote 3: Emerging Memory Technologies Challenges and Research Directions Chair: Renuka Rajan (IBM) |
9:30 - 10:30 | Hemangee Kapoor (IIT Guwahati) | 10:15 - 10:30 |
| Study Abroad: Opportunities, Scholarships, etc. Chair: Neeldhara Misra (IIT Gandhinagar) |
10:30 -11:10 | Sushmita Gupta (IMSc) | 11:00 - 11:10 |
Coffee Break (11:10 - 11:25) |
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| Importance of Conversations in Academia & Industry Chair: Lawqueen Kanesh (IIT Jodhpur) |
11:25 -12:45 | Sriparna Saha (IIT Patna) -- Summarization Systems --11:25 - 11:55 | 11:55 - 12:05 |
| Jayashree Mohan (Microsoft) --The power of conversations : Talk your way to opportunities --12:05 - 12:35 | 12:35 - 12:45 | ||
Lunch (12:45 - 2:00) |
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| Activity on Mental Health: Dealing with Stress, Anxiety, etc. & General Wellbeing Chair: Pallavi Jain (IIT Jodhpur) |
2:00 - 2:45 | Shipra Singh --Mental Health Matters | |
| Balancing Personal and Professional Lives Chair: Mitali Mukerjee (IIT Jodhpur) |
2:45 - 3:15 | Suchetana Chakraborty (IIT Jodhpur) -- Balancing work-life in Academics | 3:15 - 3:25 |
| Breaking Barriers: Inspiring Stories Chair: Romi Banerjee (IIT Jodhpur) |
3:25 - 4:45 | Arpita Patra (IISc) -- Miles to Go before I sleep... -- 3:25 - 3:55 | 3:55 - 4:05 |
| Shukla Bose (Parikrma Humanity Foundation) -- 4:05 - 4:35 | 4:35 - 4:45 | ||
Activity 3: Ask me anything! (4:45-5:30) Moderator: Richa Singh (IIT Jodhpur) |
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Closing of Event (5:30 - 5:45) |
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