| Time / Code | Event | Speaker / Resource Person | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Registrations & Breakfast | J N TATA - Lobby & Dining Hall | |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Welcome | J N TATA Auditorium | |
| 09:20 - 10:20 | Plenary Talk - R. Uma Shaanker Who Is the Plant? Rethinking Plant Ecology in a Microbial World |
J N TATA Auditorium | |
| 10:20 - 11:00 | Session on POSH | J N TATA Auditorium | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Tea Break | J N TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 11:20 - 13:00 | Student Talks: Session 1 | J N TATA Auditorium | |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Elephants Beyond Protected Areas: Disentangling Core and Flexible Drivers of Habitat Selection in the Human-Dominated Landscape of Golaghat Northeast India | Amlanaditya Goswami | |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Stripes and Strife: Patterns and Drivers of Tiger Conflict in Vidarbha Landscape Maharashtra India | Advaita Ravindran | |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Beyond tree planting: A Decision framework for restoring Myristica swamps using ecohydrological thresholds and socio-ecological insights | Priya Ranganathan | |
| 12:20 - 12:40 | Comparative Evaluation of QSM Algorithms for Aboveground Biomass Estimation in Tropical Forests Using Terrestrial LiDAR | Marc Aurel Kamdem Simo | |
| 12:40 - 13:00 | Socio-Ecological and Economic Valuation of the Greater Hesaraghatta Grassland Ecosystem: Integrating Traditional Stewardship with Conservation Reserve Management | Ashwin A | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Break | J N TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Short Workshops | Resource Person | Venue |
| S1 | Research with fishers and other ecological knowledge holders | Andrea Phillott, Chetan Rao | Biochemistry Lecture Hall |
| S2 | Nature Guide's Toolkit: Observation, Interpretation & Storytelling | Aksheeta Mahapatra, Rahuldev Rajguru, Guru Prasad KR | CES Seminar Hall |
| S3 | Crafting Conservation Careers: The good, the bad, the ugly | Pankaj Koparde, Anushka Rege | J N Tata Seminar Hall C |
| S4 | Tree Identification and Phenology: Basic Workshop | Sayee Girdhari, Rishika K | J N Tata Seminar Hall B |
| S5 | Study design in ecology and conservation | Kavita Isvaran | CES Conference Room |
| S6 | Beyond Words: Using Dance, Movement, and Expression for Science Communication | Priya Ranganathan | J N Tata Auditorium |
| S7 | Making field-data collection easier: An Intro to Epicollect and ODK | Sanath R M, Abhirami C | CES Lotka Voltera |
| S8 | Tangled Data, Tangible Tales: Ecological Data Art | Sambita Modak, Chandrima Home | CES Class Room |
| S9 | Games for Nature & Conservation | Peeyush Sekhsaria, Priti Bangal, Taniya Buragohain, Dikshya Bharadwaj | J N Tata Seminar Hall A |
| S10 | Using behavioural science and design thinking for conservation action | Arjun Kamdar, Tejaswini Nagesh | CES Reading Room |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Tea Break | J N TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 16:50 - 18:00 | Student Posters - Session 1 | J N TATA - Lobby | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Popular Plenary - N. S. K. Harsh Welcome to the Beautiful and Mysterious World of Fungi aka Mushrooms |
J N TATA Auditorium | |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Ice breaker Dinner | J N TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 20:00 - 21:00 | Nocturnal Nature Walks: Frogs, bats, lorises, insects and more. | IISc Campus |
| Time / Code | Event | Speaker / Resource Person | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07:00 - 08:00 | Nature Walks: Trees, mushrooms, birds and more | IISc Campus | |
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Registrations & Breakfast | J N TATA - Lobby & Dining Hall | |
| 09:00 - 11:30 | Long Workshops | Resource Person | Venue |
| L1 | Studying animal behaviour and its role in conservation | Devica Ranade, Ishika Ramakrishna, Samira Agnihotri | J N Tata Seminar Hall A |
| L2 | Plant Identification: Advanced Workshop | Sayee Girdhari, Arun Kumar N, Bibidishananda Basu, Gauravya Mohan, Rishika K | J N Tata Auditorium |
| L3 | Understanding the nuances of Fellowships and Grants writing in Ecology and Conservation | Sabuj Bhattacharyya, Monica Kaushik, Chandrima Home | J N Tata Seminar Hall C |
| L4 | Qualitative Research in Conservation: Power, Positionality and Practice | Budhaditya Das, Venkat Ramanujam | J N Tata Seminar Hall B |
| L5 | Introduction to GIS & Mapping using QGIS | Biswa Bhusana Mahapatra | CES Class Room |
| L6 | Thorny subjects: Conducting interviews on conservation-induced conflict | Madhuri Ramesh, Sagarika Phalke | CES Reading Room |
| L7 | Crafting Narratives for a Fragile World | Megha Moorthy, Radhika Raj | CES Conference Room |
| L8 | Analysing count data – fitting and interpreting Generalised Linear Models (GLMs) | Kavita Isvaran | CES Lotka Voltera |
| L9 | Building Low-Cost Ecological Monitoring Tools: From Sensors to Field Deployment | Rakesh Khanna A | CES Seminar Hall |
| L10 | You have data. What now? Statistical thinking, R programming and making meaning from data in conservation science | Akshay Surendra, Samarth Jain, Akhila CK | Lecture Hall 2, Physics Department |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Tea Break | J N TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 11:50 - 13:00 | Long Workshops | ||
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Break | J N TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Long Workshops | ||
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Tea Break | J N TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 16:50 - 18:00 | Who's Who in Conservation - Session 1 | J N TATA - Lobby | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Careers in Conservation - Panel Discussion | J N Tata Auditorium | |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Nocturnal Nature Walks: Frogs, bats, lorises, insects and more. | IISc Campus |
| Time / Code | Event | Speaker / Resource Person | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07:00 - 08:00 | Nature Walks: Trees, mushrooms, birds and more | IISc Campus | |
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Registrations & Breakfast | J N TATA - Lobby & Dining Hall | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Plenary Talk - Daniel Fernando From Data to Decisions: Science, Trade, and the Politics of Saving Sharks and Rays |
J N TATA Auditorium | |
| 10:00 - 12:00 | Student Talks - Session 2 | J N TATA Auditorium | |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Recultivation and destruction of surrounding remnants slows biodiversity recovery in post-agricultural savannas in the tropics. | Siddhant Mhetre | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Human–Wildlife Coexistence and Gendered Conservation Practices in the East Kolkata Wetlands | Sayani Barman | |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Hidden Endemism in Sri Lanka’s Central Highlands: Conservation Implications from a Phylogenetic Study of Rhene Thorell 1869 | Thakshila Herath | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Tea Break | J N TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Habitat and High Mortality Rates of Dugong Beyond Fisheries Management Areas (FMAs) in Northwest Sri Lanka | Imani Lakshani | |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Human-Snake Conflict in Agricultural Landscapes of Hunsur Karnataka: Patterns Perceptions and Mitigation Strategies | Poorvi | |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Group Photo | J N TATA Entrance | |
| 12:15 - 13:00 | Who's Who in Conservation - Session 2 | J N TATA - Lobby | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Break | J N TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Short Workshops | Resource Person | Venue |
| S1 | The Right Plot says a Lot: How to Visualise Results Effectively | Arpit Omprakash, Gokul Valiya Parambil | CES Class Room |
| S2 | Mycelial Entanglements: Through Waste, Words and Woods | Biplab Mahato, Milla den Hollander, Siddharth Fitwe, Nitha Fathima Nazir | CES Seminar Hall |
| S3 | Using eBird Data for Ecology and Conservation | Faizee Ali Khan, Alen Alex, Zeba Madani | CES Reading room |
| S4 | Making friends with R: a beginner's workshop for ecologists and conservationists | Deyatima Ghosh, Sruthi Unnikrishnan | CES Conference Room |
| S5 | The Knowledge of Nature, and the Nature of Knowledge - Rethinking Knowledge Systems in Conservation Science | Harshad Sambamurthy | Biochemistry Lecture Hall |
| S6 | Make your own Protected Area Update | Pankaj Sekhsaria, Reshma Jathar | J N Tata Seminar Hall B |
| S7 | No Boat, No Problem: a practical approach to designing marine field research under constraints | Bharat Ahuja, Titus Immanuel | J N Tata Auditorium |
| S8 | Messy field data to elegant graphs – basics of cleaning, summarising and plotting data using tidyverse in R | Arpitha Jayanth, Rama Narayanan | CES Lotka Voltera |
| S9 | Designing Ecological Restoration: From Principles to Practice | Abhishek Paliwal, Satish Kumar Sharma | J N Tata Seminar Hall A |
| S10 | Bat acoustic data recording, processing, and analyses: new approaches and automation | Kadambari Deshpande, Vedant Barje | J N Tata Seminar Hall C |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Tea Break | J N TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 16:50 - 18:00 | Student Posters: Session 2 | J N TATA - Lobby | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Popular Plenary - Divya Vasudev Elephants in our backyard: conservation dreams and lived realities |
J N TATA Auditorium | |
| 19:15 - 20:15 | Traditional Kathputli Show - Ram Lal Bhatt and Troupe - A traditional Kathputli (puppet) performance exploring themes of environment, conservation, and harmony. | J N Tata Auditorium |
| Time / Code | Event | Speaker / Resource Person | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Registrations & Breakfast | J N TATA - Lobby & Dining Hall | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Plenary Talk - Devapriya Chattopadhyay Sea of change: Marine biodiversity from deep past to uncertain future |
J N TATA Auditorium | |
| 10:00 - 12:00 | Student Talks - Session 3 | J N TATA Auditorium | |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Spatial and temporal partitioning between leopards and pilgrims in a shared landscape of Tirumala-Tirupati Devasthanam Area Andhra Pradesh. | Ankita Sharma | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | A Safe Haven at Night: Is Our Insect Conservation Model Going in Right Direction? | Tista Betal | |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Population Status and Spatial Distribution of Western Hoolock Gibbon (Hoolock hoolock) in Rajkandi Reserve Forest Northeast Bangladesh | Atikul Mithu | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Tea Break | J N TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Metabarcoding Insights into Coral Bacterial Community Structure Across Bleaching States and Restoration Strategies in Shimoni Kenya | Salome Chemutai | |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Understanding the impact of climate change on forest regeneration: how life-history traits mediate seedling response to drought stress | Gayathri M | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Birds of A Feather: Themed Networking Session | J N TATA Premises | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Break | J N TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Short Workshops | Resource Person | Venue |
| S1 | Exploring Restoration Through the Lens of TGBS (The Global Biodiversity Standard) | Isha Bhate, Milla den Hollander, Sanjana Radhakrishnan | Biochemistry Lecture Hall |
| S2 | Inking Nature: A Nature Journaling Workshop | Sambita Modak | J N Tata Seminar Hall C |
| S3 | Environmental Theatre - Art based outreach to Schools , Colleges and Genral Public | Vikram Sridhar | J N Tata - Dining Lobby |
| S4 | Necropsy as a tool for Conservation | Suranjana Ganguly, Manya Kotera | CES Conference Room |
| S5 | Archives of Wildlife Past: Using historical records for ecological research | Anjali Ramachandran, Nisha Bhakat | J N Tata Seminar Hall B |
| S6 | Language and Ecology - Communicating Nature Through Local Languages | P. Jeganathan, Pooja Pawar | J N Tata Seminar Hall A |
| S7 | Living Landmarks: How Communities Shape and Are Shaped by Water | Sneha Shahi, Vidhya Vigashini, Aayush Vasava | CES Reading Room |
| S8 | Who Speaks for Fungi?: Fungal Ethics and Traditional Ecological Knowledge | Prithvi, Malavika Bhatia | J N Tata Auditorium |
| S9 | Messy field data to elegant graphs – basics of cleaning, summarising and plotting data using tidyverse in R | Arpitha Jayanth, Rama Narayanan | CES Lotka Voltera |
| S10 | Combating Cyber-enabled Wildlife Crime through Citizen Science Initiatives and Open Source Intelligence | Monesh Singh Tomar, Shankar Prakash | CES Seminar Hall |
| S11 | Foundations of Conservation Education | Priyanka Prakash, Vena Kapoor | CES Class Room |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Tea Break | J N TATA - Dining Hall | |
| 16:50 - 18:00 | Popular Plenary - S. Gopikrishna Warrier Life is a story, why shouldn’t research be one too? |
J N Tata Auditorium | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Closing Ceremony | J N Tata Auditorium |