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| Day 1: Monday, September 22nd 2026 | |||
| Time | Event | Venue | |
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Registrations & Breakfast | JN TATA - Lobby & Dining Hall | |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Welcome & Introductions | JN TATA Auditorium | |
| 09:20 - 10:20 |
Technical Plenary 1 - Sindhu Radhakrishna “Animal Agency, Human Compassion and Wildlife Conservation" |
JN TATA Auditorium | |
| 10:20 - 12:20 | Student Talks: Session 1 | JN TATA Auditorium | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Network analysis reveals wind energy impact on waterbird movements in Mannar; a critical site of the Central Asian Flyway | Gayomini Panagoda | |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Hidden Hierarchies: Exploring Gender Power and Inequality in Human-Wildlife Interactions through Feminist Political Ecology in Assam Northeast India | Himangshu Kalita | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Break | ||
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Wildlife vs Checkboxes—Why qualitative enquiry matters in human-wildlife studies | Juno Negi | |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Bear- Human Relationship in and around Hampi a Relational Perspective | Mohammed Hisham | |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Microplastic ingestion and associated histopathology in Pelagic Seabirds of Sri Lanka | Sandani Iresha | |
| 12:20 - 13:00 | Session on POSH | JN TATA Auditorium | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | JN TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Short Workshops | Resource Person | Venue |
| S1 | Theatre for environmental justice: an introduction | Yams Srikanth, Stella James | Seminar Hall C |
| S2 | Smart Moves: Mapping Evolutionary Flexibility in Animals (Using phylogenetic tools to trace adaptability for conservation insight) | Deyatima Ghosh, Dr. Maitreya Sil | CES Conference Hall |
| S3 | Inking Nature: A Nature Journaling Workshop | Sambita Modak, Sikha Hariharan | Seminar Hall B |
| S4 | Tree Identification and Phenology: Basic Workshop | Sayee Girdhari | Seminar Hall A |
| S5 | ‘Okay, but what’s the story?’ - A guide to reading and synthesizing research papers | Anish Paul, Pritha Dey, Malavika Kamath | CES Reading Room |
| S6 | Language and Ecology - Communicating Nature through Local Languages | P. Jeganathan, Pooja Pawar | Main Audi |
| S7 | Conservation Careers: Careers in Ecology, Environmental Science, and Sustainability Studies | Pankaj Koparde, Prasad Kulkarni | CES Seminar Hall |
| S8 | How to utilize iNaturalist data for Conservation and Research Projects | Paul Antony Mangaly, Aditya Bari | CES Classroom |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Tea Break | JN TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 16:50 - 18:00 | Student Posters - Session 1 | JN TATA - Lobby | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 |
Popular Open Plenary 1 - Geetha Ramaswami “Seeing the Season's Signs: how citizen science is helping document changes in biodiversity” |
JN TATA Auditorium | |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Loris Walk/ Nocturnal Species Walk | IISc Campus | |
| Day 2: Tuesday, September 23rd 2026 | |||
| Time | Event | Venue | |
| 07:00 - 08:00 | Bird Walk/ Tree Walk | IISc Campus | |
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Registrations & Breakfast | JN TATA - Lobby & Dining Hall | |
| 09:00 - 11:30 | Long Workshops | Resource Person | Venue |
| L1 | Animal behaviour and its role in conservation | Devica Ranade, Nishant Srinivasaiah, Samira Agnihotri, Ishika Ramakrishna | Seminar Hall A |
| L2 | How R you doing? Using the R platform for managing and analyzing ecological datasets | Raman Kumar, Mukesh Kandpal | Physics Dept - LH-01 |
| L3 | Plant Identification: Advanced Workshop | Bibidishananda Basu, Arun Kumar N, Gauravya Mohan, Sayee Girdhari | Physics Dept - LH-05 |
| L4 | Fellowship and grant writing in Ecological Sciences | Sabuj Bhattacharyya, Chandrima Home | Bio Chemistry Hall |
| L5 | Qualitative Research in Conservation: Power, Positionality and Practice | Budhaditya Das, Venkat Ramanujam | Seminar Hall B |
| L6 | Foundations of Conservation and Nature Education: frameworks, design, practice and ethics | Priyanka Prakash, Vena Kapoor, Rachita Sinha | CES Classroom |
| L7 | Map with Biswa: An introduction to GIS & Mapping using QGIS | Biswa Bhusana Mahapatra | CES Reading Room |
| L8 | Thorny Subjects: Conducting Interviews On Conservation-Induced Conflict | Madhuri Ramesh, Sagarika Phalke | CES Conference Hall |
| L9 | Crafting Narratives for a Fragile World | Megha Moorthy, Radhika Raj | CES Seminar Hall |
| L10 | Liberating GIS for environmental monitoring | Paul Pop | KI Vasu Hall |
| L11 | Analysing count data – fitting and interpreting Generalised Linear Models (GLMs) | Kavita Isvaran | CES Lotka Voltera |
| L12 | Games for Conservation | Peeyush Sekhsaria, Priti Bangal, Karthik Natarajan, Prasad Sandbhor | Seminar Hall C |
| L13 | Biacoustics in Conservation | Viral Joshi, Taksh Sangwan, Rohit Chakravarty, Isha Bopardikar, Divya Panicker, Seema Lokhandwala | Main Auditorium |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Tea Break | ||
| 11:50 - 13:00 | Long Workshops | ||
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | JN TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Long Workshops | ||
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Tea Break | ||
| 16:50 - 18:00 | Who's Who in Conservation - Session 1 | JN TATA - Lobby | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Careers in Conservation - Panel Discussion | JN TATA Auditorium | |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Film Screening: My Otter Diary by Sugandhi Gadadhar and team | JN TATA Auditorium | |
| Day 3: Wednesday, September 24th 2026 | |||
| Time | Event | Venue | |
| 07:00 - 08:00 | Bird Walk/ Tree Walk | IISc Campus | |
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Registrations & Breakfast | JN TATA - Lobby & Dining Hall | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Technical Plenary 2 - Sammy Wambua “Navigating Conservation Genomics in East Africa: A Personal Journey, Practical Lessons, and a Vision for Equitable Science” |
JN TATA Auditorium | |
| 10:00 - 12:00 | Student Talks - Session 2 | ||
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Rethinking River Dependence: Water-Society Interactions Along the Tamiraparani in Tirunelveli District Tamil Nadu | Sneha Shahi | JN TATA Auditorium |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Wave Action Mediates Coral Reef Community Structure and Divergent Post-Bleaching Recovery Trajectories in the Andaman Islands | Chaitanya Arjunwadkar | JN TATA Auditorium |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Community Perspectives on the Return of Elephants to the Bandhavgarh Landscape | Siddharth Dixit | JN TATA Auditorium |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Break | ||
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Ooty this summer? Using Citizen Science to Track Avian Elevational Migration in the Nilgiris. | Faizee Ali Khan | JN TATA Auditorium |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Coffee removal benefits native plant recruitment in abandoned coffee agroforests of Western Ghats | Abhirami C | JN TATA Auditorium |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Group Photo | JN TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 12:15 - 13:00 | Who's Who in Conservation - Session 2 | JN TATA - Lobby | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | JN TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Short Workshops | Resource Person | Venue |
| S1 | Study design in ecology and conservation | Kavita Isvaran | Seminar Hall A |
| S2 | Data detox in R - Clean, wrangle, and transform your ecological data | Swapna Nelaballi | CES Classroom |
| S3 | Reading trees: Ways to connect with nature | Narayan Sharma, Sudeshna Gupta | Seminar Hall B |
| S4 | Baby steps of communicating conservation research through print and social media | Jithin V, Rishika Pardikar | Main Audi |
| S5 | Using Open Data for Better Environmental Protection | Aishani Goswami, Rhea Lopez, Siddharth Agarwal | CES Lotka Voltera |
| S6 | Tangled Data, Tangible Tales: Ecological Data to Storytelling | Sambita Modak, Chandrima Home | CES Seminar Hall |
| S7 | Telling Wild Stories: A Visual Toolkit for Conservationists | Sohail Madan, Abhishek Paliwal | KI Vasu Hall |
| S8 | The Empire Floats Back: River Systems and Their Stakeholders | Sneha Shahi | Seminar Hall C |
| S9 | Sensors in the Field: Low-Cost Ecological Monitoring with Arduino | Rakesh Khanna A | CES Reading Room |
| S10 | Bat Acoustic Data Recording, Processing and Analyses: New Approaches and Automation | Kadambari Deshpande, Vedant Barje | CES Conference Hall |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Tea Break | JN TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 16:50 - 18:00 | Student Posters: Session 2 | JN TATA - Lobby | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 |
Popular Open Plenary 2 - Bhargavi Rao “Climate Justice: Grounding Climate Action in Equity, Rights, and Resistance” |
JN TATA Auditorium | |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Loris Walk/ Nocturnal Species Walk | IISc Campus | |
| Day 4: Thursday, September 25th 2026 | |||
| Time | Event | Venue | |
| 07:00 - 08:00 | Bird Walk/ Tree Walk | IISc Campus | |
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Registrations & Breakfast | JN TATA - Lobby & Dining Hall | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Technical Plenary 3 - Ajit Menon “Life Below Water: Communities, Conservation and the Political Ecology of the Coast” |
JN TATA Auditorium | |
| 10:00 - 12:00 | Student Talks - Session 3 | JN TATA Auditorium | |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | The vulnerability of endemic vertebrates in Sri Lanka to climate change | Iresha Wijerathne | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Small Rays Big Threats: Quantifying Microplastics in Scaly Whipray (Brevitrygon walga) | Aaheli Bera | |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Between Tradition and Transition: The Narikuravar’s Hunting Practices | Praisy Swetha S | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Break | ||
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Seabird Diversity and Bycatch in Fisheries at the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Sri Lanka | Dinal Meecle | |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Overcoming Linnean and Wallacean shortfalls in Melon barbs (Teleosti: Cyprinidae: Haludaria) endemic to the Western Ghats of India | Shubhika Pandey | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Birds of A Feather: Themed Networking Session | JN TATA Premises | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | JN TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Short Workshops | Resource Person | Venue |
| S1 | Living Landscapes: Connecting Communities with Conservation | Dr. Archana Bhatt, Dr Vipindas | Seminar Hall A |
| S2 | Research with fishers and other ecological knowledge holders | Andrea Phillott, Chetan Rao | CES Classroom |
| S3 | Sound and its Sensory Experiences in Shaping human-animal Relationships and Interactions | Dr. Samira Agnihotri, Seema Lokhandwala | Main Audi |
| S4 | Habitat microclimate: importance and collection methods | Dr Aavika Dhanda, Rohan Baishya | CES Reading Room |
| S5 | Telling Stories That Matter: Can Storytelling Be a Scientific Tool for Conservation Impact? | Shruti Ghosh, Jeremiah Kennedy | CES Conference Hall |
| S6 | Finding, telling and sharing stories of conservation and natural history using archives | Anjali Ramachandran, Nisha Bhakat | Seminar Hall B |
| S7 | Using eBird Data for Ecology and Conservation | Faizee Ali Khan, Ashwin Vishwanathan, Tarun Menon | CES Lotka Voltera |
| S8 | WIldlife content creation and engaging people through social media | Kayden Anthony, Sandra Pereira | Seminar Hall C |
| S9 | Let’s talk SDMs: The why and how of designing your own distribution modelling study | Imran Samad, Divyashree Rana | CES Seminar Hall |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Tea Break | JN TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 17:30 - 18:30 |
Popular Open Plenary 3 - Raza Kazmi “Tracks from the Past: Importance of Historical Research in Conservation and Wildlife Science” |
JN TATA Auditorium | |
| 18:30 - 19:30 | Closing Ceremony | JN TATA Auditorium | |
Places to eat in and around IISc
| S.No. | Name | Area | Google Map Location | Cuisine |
| 1 | Sarvam Canteen Complex (Closes at 3 AM) | IISc Campus | https://maps.app.goo.gl/ChykTrAafE5CArZm8 | Multicuisine, Juice Shop |
| 2 | Nesara Restaurant (Closes at 9 PM) | IISc Campus | https://maps.app.goo.gl/1U97pY3WZxQHKt5Q9 | Multicuisine |
| 3 | Kabini Canteen (Closes at 9 PM) | IISc Campus | https://maps.app.goo.gl/RTviVFGqDfzNr25n9 | South Indian |
| 4 | ECE Canteen (Closes at 8 PM) | IISc Campus | https://maps.app.goo.gl/7Ev3vtwT487QRP9Y6< | Cafe |
Places to eat around IISc:
| S.No. | Name | Area | Google Map Location | Cuisine |
| 1 | Truffles | 80 Feet Road, Near Ramaiah Hospital | https://maps.app.goo.gl/kGdRNhBYc7sx2HQL7 | Cafe |
| 2 | Glen's bakehouse | 80 Feet Road, Near Ramaiah Hospital | https://maps.app.goo.gl/o7cgGMCtHPwagJxH7 | Cafe |
| 3 | The Light House | 80 Feet Road, Near Ramaiah Hospital | https://maps.app.goo.gl/WQGyAjj2miqBCmsp6 | Mangalorean |
| 4 | Smocky Docky | 80 Feet Road, Near Ramaiah Hospital | https://maps.app.goo.gl/4qZ1VMiBQGXCvQ12A | Shawarma |
| 5 | The Pizza Bakery | 80 Feet Road, Near Ramaiah Hospital | https://maps.app.goo.gl/5rJRvwXN8G3iJY6F8 | Cafe |
| 6 | Shivsagar Express | 80 Feet Road, Near Ramaiah Hospital | https://maps.app.goo.gl/afzhjdzRBzeqsmMj6 | Vegetarian |
| 7 | Asha Food Camp | Malleshwaram | https://maps.app.goo.gl/qexnEF6u5gevfExy8 | North Indian - Vegetarian |
| 8 | Veena Stores | Malleshwaram | https://maps.app.goo.gl/eXrM5Qz6YcfAWeST6 | South Indian |
| 9 | Hermitage India | Malleshwaram | https://maps.app.goo.gl/qU8zLShmaLVbBkZNA | Vegetarian |
| 10 | Bharjari Bhojana, Malleshwaram | Malleshwaram | https://maps.app.goo.gl/4QCBXMD6VSpSpmoo8 | Karnataka cuisine (famous for banana leaf meal) |
| 11 | Bengaluru Cafe, Malleshwaram | Malleshwaram | https://maps.app.goo.gl/Da6mD4iE9ypRPneHA | South Indian |
| 12 | Malleshwara Dosa Corner | Malleshwaram | https://maps.app.goo.gl/yLHicxASH8mFbGD19 | Davangere masale dose |
| 13 | Paakashala, Malleshwaram | Malleshwaram | https://maps.app.goo.gl/jNPmpZXhrrmYTAMc7 | Vegetarian |
| 14 | Central Tiffin Room (CTR Malleshwaram) | Malleshwaram | https://maps.app.goo.gl/uP1Y7xVZsMVNdAYo9 | Famous for Dosa (South Indian) |
| 15 | Hallimane | Malleshwaram | https://maps.app.goo.gl/7Hq1ZGn3qRA8p3x47 | Karnataka cuisine |
| 16 | Chung Wah | Malleshwaram | https://maps.app.goo.gl/iTr2MR7d89hy4C9Q8 | Chinese |
| 17 | Thalassery Restaurant | Mathikere | https://maps.app.goo.gl/pt12rbL6zSen1w2W6 | Kerala |
| 18 | Calicut Restaurant | Mathikere | https://maps.app.goo.gl/9PjTU8gwjan6ZMQ89 | Kerala |
| 19 | Sultan Rolls and Sanwiches | Mathikere | https://maps.app.goo.gl/7qMSGFtaDkzNA6Tq5 | -- |
| 20 | Yellow Seaweed <3 | Mathikere | https://maps.app.goo.gl/NHgSdeRVeiVo3yVj8 | Asian |
| 21 | Hot Punjabi Pure Veg Restaurant | Mathikere | https://maps.app.goo.gl/7gYhDg855ga5Jgwr9 | North Indian Vegetarian |
| 22 | Chai Chowki | Mathikere | https://maps.app.goo.gl/hmeVPAZownPLEB5dA | Cafe |
| 23 | Auntie fungs | New BEL Road | https://maps.app.goo.gl/fmzfW1osUag5nq3C6 | Asian |
| 24 | Chapter 1 | New BEL Road | https://maps.app.goo.gl/7KSLDY4MVho2hsWK6 | -- |
| 25 | Nandhana palace | New BEL Road | https://maps.app.goo.gl/TBraM8SHpZfFnVLq7 | -- |
| 26 | Tarangini Restaurant | New BEL Road | https://maps.app.goo.gl/WT45tjvvSVY58dza6 | Andhra cuisine |
| 27 | Leon's Burger & Wings | New BEL Road | https://maps.app.goo.gl/JwMipTz17eyxWV4C7 | Cafe / Fast Food |
| 28 | Snow Lion Tibet Kitchen | New BEL Road | https://maps.app.goo.gl/aDcmuUMupboqiJ6G9 | Tibetan / Chinese |
Phone apps for ordering food online:
| S.No. | Name |
| 1 | Zomato |
| 2 | Swiggy |