5th & 6th October 2026

Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

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Agenda

Day 01

Oct 05, Monday

08:30 - 09:30

Registration

09:30 - 10:00

Welcome & Opening Ceremony

10:00 - 11:00

Keynote 1: From Sensors to Practice: The Many Complexities of Translating AI into Care

Ipsit Vahia, MD

11:00 - 11:30

Tea Break & Exhibition Visit

11:30 - 12:30

Panel Discussion 1: Drawing the Boundary: What Role Should AI Play in Mental Health?

Moderator: Rahul Singh; Panelist: Dr Naren Rao, Dr Jithendra Vepa, Dr Sankalp Gulati, Dr Prabha Chandra

12:30 - 13:00

Expert Talk 1: Can AI Reach the Mothers we Cannot – Scaling Maternal Mental Health in India

Dr. Prabha Chandra

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch & Exhibition Visit

14:00 - 14:15

Industry Spotlight 1: Neysa - Building Health AI in India

Sujit Janardanan

14:15 - 14:45

Expert Talk 2 : What 33 years of work at The Banyan tells us about the needs of people with psychosocial disabilities

Dr. Lakshmi Narasimhan

14:45 - 15:45

Tea Break & Exhibition Visit

15:45 - 16:00

Industry Spotlight 2: Implementing Recovery from Brain and Spinal Injuries Using Robotic Technologies

Vaidy Narayanan

16:00 - 17:00

Keynote 2 The Signal Between Us: Speech, Language, and Interaction in Mental Health

Prof. Chi-Chun Lee

17:00 - 18:00

TANUH Mental Health Highlights

Dr. Chitralekha Bhat

Day 02

Oct 06, Tuesday

09:30 - 10:00

Registration

10:00 - 11:00

Keynote 3: The Body as an AI-Driven Channel for Mental Health Sensing and Intervention

Prof. Tanzeem Choudhary

11:00 - 11:15

Tea Break + Exhibition Visit

11:15- 11:45

Expert talk 3: Therapy for India: What We Learned Serving Millennials and Gen Z Online

Dr Ritika Sinha

11:45 - 12:45

Panel Discussion 2: The Academic Pressure Cooker: AI and India’s Student Mental Health Crisis

Moderator: Dr Arjun MC; Panelist: Dr Venkat Padmanabhan, Dr Paulomi Sudhir, Bindu Ananth, Tarun Gupta

12:45 - 14:00

Lunch + Exhibition Visit

14:00 - 15:00

Keynote 4: Generative AI in Psychiatry: From Chatbots to Clinical Orchestration

Prof. Venkat Bhat

15:00 - 15:30

Tea Break + Exhibition Visit

15:30 - 16:30

Panel Discussion 3: Bridging the Access Gap: AI as the First Line of Care in “Bharat”

Moderator: Prof. Prabhdeep Kaur; Panelist: Dr Bhaskar Rajkumar, Dr Ravindra Agarwal, Dr Sri Garimella, Dr Sridhar Vaitheeswaran

16:30 - 17:00

Summit Closing

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5th & 6th October 2026

Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

© 2026 MINDTECH, TANUH. All rights reserved.

Image

5th & 6th October 2026

Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

© 2026 MINDTECH, TANUH. All rights reserved.

Image

5th & 6th October 2026

Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

© 2026 MINDTECH, TANUH. All rights reserved.