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JANUARY | 16th – 19th

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
GENDER AND TECHNOLOGY 2025

Beyond Boundaries: Gender, Tech and Transformative Change

Amritapuri Campus
Kerala, India

Co-Sponsorship

SPEAKERS

Dr. Mehdi Snene

Senior Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General’s Tech Envoy

Smt. Uma Mahadevan 

IAS, Additional Chief Secretary and Development Commissioner, Govt of Karnataka, India

Dr. Tim Curtis

Director UNESCO South Asia Regional Office

Eunsong Kim

Chief of SHS Section
UNESCO Regional Office in New Delhi for South Asia, India

Dr. Mariagrazia Squicciarini

Chief of Executive Office at Social and Human Sciences Sector (SHS), UNESCO, France

Dr. Akhilesh Gupta

Senior Adviser at the Department of Science and Technology (DST), India

Dr. Divya S Iyer

Vizhinjam International Seaport & Director, Cultural Affairs Department &
Project Director, Kerala Solid Waste Management Project, IAS, Govt. of India

Rama Devi Lanka

Head of Emerging Tech Wing of the IT, Electronics, and Comm Department (ITE&C), Government of Telangana-Govt of India

Pauline Lengeris

Kenya Parliament member, Women’s Representative for Samburu County, Kenya

Agendra Kumar

President of ESRI, India

Dr. Viswanath Venkatesh

Eminent Scholar and Verizon Chair of Business Information Technology at Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech, USA

Nayana Sahasrabuddhe

Ex-Deputy General Manager at the Bank Of Maharashtra; Vice President of Bharatiya Stree Shakti, India

Soundariya Preetha Mohan Kumar

Deputy Chief of Bureau at The Hindu BusinessLine, Coimbatore, India

Dr. Dhiraj Pradhananga

Associate Professor of Hydrometeorology at Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Dr. Carol Gregorio

Principal Investigator | Senior Associate Dean for Basic Science | Director and Founder, Center for Cardiac Muscle Biology | Vice Chair of Medicine for Strategic Innovation | Professor of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, USA

Dr. Liesl Folks

 Vice President for Semiconductor Strategy; Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, USA

Dr. Sherri Bucher

Chair, Department of Community and Global Health, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health- Indiana University, USA

Dr. Tarek Rashed

Director of the GIS Program at the Center of Environment and Society, Washington College, USA

Dr. Daphna Joel

Prof. at School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Dr. Upneet Kaur Mangat

Former Chairperson, Centre for Human Rights and Duties, Punjab University, Chandigarh, India

Dr. Vipul Arora

Associate Prof., Dept. of Electrical Engineering,  PK Kelkar Research Fellow, IIT Kanpur, India 

Rachael Akohonae

Global Head of Employee Relations, BlackRock, USA

Ivana Bartoletti

 Vice President, Global Chief Privacy and AI Governance Officer at Wipro

Alison Richards

Senior Director of Software Products Team, UXL Foundation Lead at Intel Corporation, USA

Tulsee Doshi

Google Director & Head of Product – Responsible AI & ML Fairness, USA

Dr. Manisha Gupta

Staff Research Scientist, Google, USA

Mihna Zahir

Vice President of Women in Tech, Maldives

Bindia George

General Manager and Account Delivery Head, Wipro, India

Priti Patkar

Co-Founder & Director Prerana , India

Dr. Anweshaa Ghosh

Research Fellow and Program Lead, Institute of Social Studies Trust, India

Dr. Eliza Kosoy

PhD working in AI & Child development, founder of E-LIZA Dolls, USA

Priya Patel

 Chief of Staff, Design and Innovation at Office of the U.S. Surgeon General, USA

Geetha Kannan

Founder and CEO, Wequity, India

Navneet Kaur

Founder & CEO – FemTech India, Author & Podcaster, Women’s Health Advocate

Dr. Emma Pickering

Head of Tech and Economic Abuse, Churchill Fellow 2023, Refuge, UK

Sumedha Limaye

Vice President, Semi Conductor Vertical Quest Global, India.

Dr. Justin Paul

School of Business Management and Provost of Management Education, SVKM’s Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, India

Dr. Praveen Pankajakshan

Ex-Chief Scientist Cropin AI lab, India

Dr. Gauri Karve

Scientific Director, imec, Belgium

Dr. Veena Nair

Senior Scientist at University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Dr. Nova Ahmed

 Professor at North South University, Bangladesh

 Dr. Greta Perletti

 Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Trento

 Dr. Methil Devika

 Mohiniyattam Performer and CM’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Kerala State Higher Education Council, India

Dr. Swati Mujumdar

Pro Chancellor at Symbiosis Skills & Professional University, India

Dr. Divya Sharma

 Global Education Monitoring Report
UNESCO HQ, Paris, France

Jian Xi Teng

 Programme Specialist for Education, UNESCO Regional Office for South Asia, India

 Beena Sarkar

 Head, Customer Success at Fractal, India

Aditi Namdeo

 Director Strategic Initiatives Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), India,

Performers

Dr. Padmaja Venkatesh Suresh 

Amrita University Speakers

Provost – Strategic Initiatives, International, Research & Innovation, AI + X | Dean, School for Sustainable Futures | Dean, International Programs | UNESCO Chair on Experiential Learning for Sustainable Innovation & Development | Director, Amrita Center for Wireless Networks & Application

Dean of PG Programs, School of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering | Director, Cyber Security, Amritapuri | Director, TBI, Amritapuri

Dean, School of Business, Coimbatore

 Dr. Urmila Anandh

Senior Consultant, Head & Adjunct Professor of Nephrology, Faridabad

Professor & Research Head, School for Sustainable Futures, Amritapuri

Chairperson, Department of English, School of Engineering, Amaravati

Assistant Professor, Ammachi Labs, Amritapuri

Dr. Shyam Diwakar

Director, Mind-Brain Center, Amritapuri

Vice Principal, Chairperson, Department of Social Work, Coimbatore | Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, Coimbatore, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kerala, India

Assistant Professor,Social Data Science, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, india

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Cognitive Sciences and Psychology, School of Social and Behavioural Sciences Amritapuri

Head, Dept. of Cognitive Sciences and Psychology, School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Amritapuri

Program Head, School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Faridabad

Dr. Nimita Pandey

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Social Data Science and Policy, School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Faridabad

Dr. Victoria Ustenko

Associate Professor, Economic Development, Amritapuri

Associate Professor, Department for Sustainable Futures, School for Sustainable Futures, Amritapuri.

Manager of International Collaborations, and Proposal Coordinator for the UNESCO Chair for Gender Equality at Amrita University, India.

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