Plenary
Day 1 / Tuesday, 02 June 2026
Plenary 1: Multi Domain Operations for Synchronizing Land, Air, Sea and Space
Lt Gen Vineet Gaur, PVSM, AVSM
Director General, Capability Development
Indian Army
India
Maj Gen Amit Talwar, SM, VSM
ACIDS (PP&FS)
HQ IDS, Indian Army
India
Brig Arun KD, YSM
Brig. Military Survey
Indian Army
India
Prateep Basu
Chief Executive Officer
SatSure
India
Networking Tea/ Coffee Break
Plenary 2: Sensors, Networks and Data Fusion using Geospatial Technology for Command, Control and Decision Making by the Armed Forces
Lt Gen Harsh Chhibber, AVSM, VSM, PhD
Director General Information System
Indian Army
India
Bhagwandas Sahajwani
Director- Sales
Octave
India
Brig AS Bains
MI Directorate
Indian Army
India
Dr Narayan Panigrahi
Scientist - H
Centre for Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (CAIR), DRDO
India
Plenary 3: Drones & Autonomous Systems for Networked Operations
Lt Gen RK Sahni, AVSM, VSM, PhD
Director General
Electronics and Mechanical Engineering, Indian Army
India
Brig Gen (Dr) Mahendra K Sekaran Nair
Senior Director
Contemporary Security, Malaysian Institute of Defence & Security
Malaysia
Sajid Mukhtar
Chairman
Roter Group Of Companies
India
Brig Rajneesh Suyal
Army Air Defence Directorate
Indian Army
India
Networking Lunch (Including visit to the exhibition)
Plenary 4: Geospatial Platforms as the Backbone of Network Centric Warfare
Lt Gen Dushyant Singh, PVSM, AVSM
Director General
CLAWS
India
Maj Gen Rajesh Bhatt, SM
Director General
Combat Engineers, Indian Army
India
Prof VS Subrahmanian
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science
Northwestern University
USA
Dr VSS Kiran
Chief Executive Officer
Garudalytics
India
Vincent Kessler
Chief Executive Officer
Synspective SG
Singapore
Lt Col Vikas Agnihotri, VSM, PhD
Director General Information System
Indian Army
India
Plenary 5: Geospatial and Space Empowered Intelligence for Maritime Security
Cmde Jai Bedi
Executive Director
National Maritime Foundation
India
Maj Gen Kamal Sri Shantha Habaraduwa Hewage
Sri Lanka Armed Forces
Sri Lanka
Cmde Atul Deswal, NM
Deputy Director General, Navy Cyber Group & Chief Information Security Officer
Indian Navy
India
Dr Chime Youdon
Head of the Resilience, Sustainability, and Ocean Resources (RSOR) Cluster
National Maritime Foundation
India
Col Rakesh Verma
Business Development Manager
Vantor
India
Plenary 6: Sovereign Space Infrastructure for Defence and Security
AVM Manu Midha, AVSM, VM
Director General
Defence Space Agency
India
Jeroen Zanen
Chief Executive Officer & Director
AI-InfraSolutions
The Netherlands
Lyn Chassagne
Chief Marketing & Product Officer
BlackSky
USA
Col. Rajneesh Ralli (Retd.)
Vice President - Growth Operations
Dhruva Space
India
Track 1
Day 2 / Wednesday, 03 June 2026
Geopolitical Implications of Geo Intelligence
Lt Gen Girish Kumar, SM
Vice Chairman DRIISHYA
Govt of Haryana
India
Prof VS Subrahmanian
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science
Northwestern University
USA
Maj Gen CS Pannu (Retd)
EX AAD
Indian Army
India
Col Payuha Naparat
Deputy Director
Mapping Division, Royal Thai Survey Department (RTSD)
Thailand
Lt Col Amandeep Singh
Indian Army
India
Space for ISR
Archita Shaktawat
Director- Consulting
Geospatial World
India
Sarunisha R
Product Lead
Suhora
India
Vasudeva Rao Vemana
Senior Sales Engineer, APAC
Planet
India
Assured & Resilient PNT
Ananyaa Narain
VP- Consulting
Geospatial World
India
Networking Coffee/ Tea Break followed by Lunch (Including visit to exhibition)
Data- Centric Intelligence & Decision Superiority
Maj Gen Shivendra Kumar
Additional Director General, Electronics and Mechanical Engineering
Indian Army
India
Abhishek Kotangale
Vice President, Sales (India)
Aetosky
India
Shashank Mathur
General Manager, Presales
Octave
India
Network Centric Operations Interoperability
Lt Gen Rakesh Kapoor, PVSM, AVSM, VSM
Former DCOAS (IS&T)
Indian Army
India
Vinaybabu Adimulam
Vice President- Business Development Solutions
Octave
India
Col Amit Mehna, VSM
Indian Army
India
Lt Col AR Packianathan
Director General Information System
Indian Army
India
Track 2
Day 2 / Wednesday, 03 June 2026
Satellite-Based Cyber Resilient Communications
Dr Rajkumar Upadhyay
Chief Executive Officer
CDOT
India
Cdr Mukesh Saini
Technology Advisor
Dussat Global Technologies
India
Col Anupam Tiwari, PhD
515 Army Base Workshop
Indian Army
India
Col Nirav Singh Dabhi
Directorate of Systems (Space) Corps of Signals
Indian Army
India
Col Niladri Roy
Military College of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering (MCEME),
India
Data Sovereignty & Strategic Autonomy
Vipin Tyagi
Former Chairman of the Board
CDOT
India
Brig B Sareen Chander
Comdt, Centre for Automated Military Survey (CAMS)
Indian Army
India
Ranjan Singh
Divisional Manager, Defence Presales
Esri India
India
Amit Tikoo
Assistant VP Business Development
NEOGEO INFO Tech
India
Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR)
Prof Santosh Kumar
Chief Executive Officer
International Institute of Security & Safety Management
India
Mohsen Shahedi
Deputy Inspector General
National Disaster Response Force
India
Col Kapil Gaur, SM
Veteran
Indian Army
India
Saranya M
Group Manager - Presales
Esri India
India
Networking Coffee/ Tea Break followed by Lunch (Including visit to exhibition)
Countering GNSS Spoofing & Jamming Threats including Operations in GPS - Denied Environments
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Cmde Sujeet Samaddar, NM, (Retd)
Founder & Secretary
Society for Aerospace, Maritime & Defense Studies (SAMDeS)
India
Col Gulshan Mehta
Col EME
Indian Army
India
Pradeep Pandurangi
Deputy General Manager, Product Management
Idea Forge
India
Integrated Geo Intelligence for Internal Security
Lt Gen Sanjay Verma, PVSM, AVSM, VSM*
Distinguished Fellow
Council for Strategic and Defense Research
India
Col Chetan Dewan
Head, Defence Communication and Radar Technologies
Zen Technologies
India