The 25th edition of India's flagship technology event and Asia's largest tech summit, Bengaluru Tech Summit 2022 was held from 16-18 November in Bengaluru, Karnataka. The event saw an overall participation of 32 countries, 405 speakers, 9356 delegates, 585 exhibitors, 25,738 registered business visitors, over 50,000 footfalls at the Expo, and the signing of 12 MoUs. Parallel sessions on ITE, DeepTech and Biotech were going on during the conference. ABLE as the Knowledge partner for the event had curated all the Biotech sessions. The programme gathered worldwide Industry Leaders, Top Research Think Tanks, Academics, Policymakers and explored new frontiers in biotech research and business. Some of the key focus topics included Historical perspectives on mRNA, Ignite Foundation of Life Sciences, Investing in NextGen MedTech, Vaccine Equity, Cellular Immunotherapies, Moving from Primary to Secondary Agriculture, Industrial Biotechnology, Agri Biotechnology. The sessions at Biotech Hall were:

Genomics revolution 2.0 and its implications

Dr Joydeep Goswami, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Strategic Planning, Illumina Inc. was the keynote speaker for the session. The session was moderated by Dr. Vijay Chandru, Co-Founder & Director, Strand Life Sciences. The speakers were Dr Ramprasad V L, Chief Executive Officer, MedGenome Labs Ltd; Dr. Ramesh Hariharan, CEO & Co-Founder, Strand Life Sciences and Dr. Bratati Kahali, Associate Professor Centre for Brain Research, IISc. You can watch the recording for the session here.

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Smart Supply Chains in Biopharma

The session was moderated by Lalith Kishore, COO, C-CAMP InDx. The Speakers were Mrinalini Lakshminarayanan, Global Executive Director - Digital Operations Innovation, Ingram Micro; Sameer Amte, Managing Director,Life-Science and Retail Industry Lead India, Accenture and Ravi Kalla, IT Head, Anthem Biosciences. You can watch the recording for the session here.

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Gene Editing and Agriculture

The Lead talk for the session was Dr. Brad Ringeisen, Ph.D., Executive Director Innovative Genomics Institute, UC Berkeley. The Speakers were Dr KK Narayanan, Director & CEO, Agrigenome Labs and Prof CS Prakash, Dean, Tuskegee University. You can watch the recording for the session here.

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One Health and Pandemic Prevention

The Lead talk for the session was Sindura Ganapathi, Visiting PSA Fellow, Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India. The session was moderated by Raghu Dharmaraju, President, ARTPark and the Speakers were Dr. Farah Ishtiaq, Principal Scientist, Tata Institute for Genetics and Society; Dr H Paramesh MD, Visiting Professor Divecha Center for Climate Change IISc; Founder Chairman, Lakeside Education Trust; Dr. Varsha Shridhar, Director and Co-founder, Molecular Solutions Care Health LLP and Dr. Thrilok Chandra, Special Commissioner, BBMP. Here is the recording for the session.

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The Future of Genomic Medicine

The session was moderated by Dr. Vishal Rao, U S, Director - Head Neck Surgical Oncology & Robotic Surgery, Dean - Centre of Academics & Research, HCG Cancer Centre. The Speakers were Dr. Roger Hajjar, MD - Head of Research & Development, Ring Therapeutics; Dr. Arun Shastry, Chief Scientific Officer, Hanugen Therapeutics Private Limited and Prof. Siddharth Jhunjhunwala, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science. Here is the recording for the session.

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Bio Industrial to boost BioEconomy - Synthetic Biology

Dr. Anand Ranganathan, Professor, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology was the keynote speaker for the session. The session was moderated by Dr Ezhil Subbian, CoFounder & CEO, String Bio Pvt Ltd. The speakers were Dr. Anindya Bandyopadhyay, Vice President R&D, Reliance Industries Ltd; Dr H. S Subramanya, Director, Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology and Eswar Iyer, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Aikium. You can watch the session recording here.

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Bio Industrial to boost BioEconomy - Bioenergy & Renewable Biochemicals

The Keynote speaker for the session was Shrikumar Suryanarayan, Chairman & Managing Director, Sea6 Energy Pvt. Ltd. The session was moderated by Krishna Mohan Puvvada, Regional President Business Director, Novozymes South Asia Pvt. Ltd. The speakers were Dr. Pramod Kumbhar, President & CTO, Praj Industries; Dr. Santanu Dasgupta, Senior Vice-President, Head of Algae to oil and Synthetic Biology R&D, Reliance Industries Limited and Dr. VV Hemanth Giri Rao, Senior Manager - R&D, Sea6 Energy Pvt. Ltd.. The recording for the session is here.

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Bio Industrial to boost BioEconomy - Smart Protein

The session was moderated by G. S. Krishnan, President, ABLE. The speakers were Dr. Bharathi Salimath, Director, Sanorva Biotech Pvt Ltd; Subramani Ramachandrappa, Founder & Managing Director, Laurus Bio Pvt Ltd; Varun Deshpande, Managing Director, The Good food Institute India; Dr Manish Diwan, Head - Strategy Partnership & Entrepreneurship Development, BIRAC and Dr. Bharathi Salimath, Director, Sanorva Biotech Pvt Ltd. The recording for the session is here.

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Biotech Future: Cell & Gene Therapy

The Lead talk for the session was done by B N Manohar, MD & CEO, Stempeutics Research Private Limited. The session was moderated by Dr. Narendra Chirmule, CEO, Director, CoFounder- Symphony Tech Biologics, Adjunct Professor (faculty)- University of Pennsylvania. The Speakers were Dr Arun Anand, Chief Operating Officer and Board Director, Immuneel Therapeutics Private Limited; Prof Rahul Purwar, Associate Professor & Founder, ImmunoACT and Mohankumar K. Murugesan PhD, Scientist -E, Centre for Stem Cell Research (a Unit of inStem, Bengaluru), Christian Medical College Campus. Here is the recording for the session.

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Big data in Drug Discovery

The session was moderated by Mahesh Bhalgat, Chief Operating Officer, Syngene International Limited. The Speakers were Dr. Nandu Gattu, Vice President, Eagle Genomics Ltd; Panna Sharma, CEO & President, Lantern Pharma and Dr. Kishan Gurram, Founder, Managing Director Sravathi AI Technology Pvt Ltd. Here is the recording for the session.

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How to reach the $100 billion Biological Manufacturing opportunity for India

The session was moderated by N Suresh, Chief Operating Officer, ABLE. The Speakers were Vikas Katial, Head Manufacturing operations Biologics, Syngene International Limited; Dr. Jaby Jacob, Sr. President, Bharath Serums and Vaccines Ltd.’; Srinivasan Raman, Senior Vice President & Global Head of Manufacturing Sciences & Technology (MSAT), Biocon Biologicals Limited and Dr. S D Ravetkar, Director, Serum Institute of India. Here is the recording for the session.

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Bio investing: Public-Private Partnerships

The Lead talk for the session was Dr. Radha Rangarajan, Director, CDRI. The session was moderated by Dr. P. M. Murali, Chairman & Managing Director, Jananom Pvt. Ltd. The Speakers were Clarence Andre John Anthony, Partner, Trilegal and Sanjeev Yamsani, Partner, VenturEast. Here is the recording for the session.

The event saw an overall participation of 32 countries, 405 speakers, 9356 delegates, 585 exhibitors, 25,738 registered business visitors, over 50,000 footfalls at the Expo, and the signing of 12 MoUs