Title: India–Australia Collaboration: Accelerating Innovation, Commercialization & Advanced Manufacturing
Venue: Spotlight Stage, Bangalore Tech Summit 2025
This session spotlighted the growing India–Australia collaboration model driven by government, academic, and industry partnerships. Discussions focused on strengthening global research linkages, enabling technology transfer, and accelerating commercialization pathways across deep tech, life sciences, healthcare, and advanced manufacturing.
Distinguished Panelists
- Dr. Cerasela Tanasescu, Director – Innovation & Entrepreneurship, La Trobe University
- Dr. Karthik Mahesh, Program Lead (Deep Tech), Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog
- Dr. Uma Nambiar, CEO, IISc Medical School Foundation
- Prof. D. Sundar, Director - Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology
- Mr. Praveen Kumar DST, Govt of India
- Ms. Sangeetha Krishnamoorthy, Senior Director - Trade & investment, Austrade
- Dr. Naveen Kulkarni, Director - Quantumzyme
- Moderator: Dr. Mohamed Adil A.A, Managing Director - BBC
