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AI in Healthcare Summit
15 July 2026 | Kolkata
Session 1  Inaugural Session: AI in Healthcare – The Current Landscape
Time Category Topic Speaker
10:00 - 10:05 Welcome Address    Dr. Amit Ghose
Founder Director - IndiSetu
Consultant Urologist
Apollo Multispeciality Hospital, Kolkata
10:05 - 10:20 Thematic Address Divine Intelligence Fr. Felix Raj
Founder Vice-Chancellor
St. Xavier's University, Kolkata
Session 2  Data Management & AI Governance
Time Category Topic Options  
10:20 - 10:35 Keynote Building the Data Foundation for Healthcare AI Prof. Sanghamitra Bandhopadhyay
Professor and Former Director
The Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata
10:35 - 11:05 Panel Discussion From Data Foundations to Healthcare AI at Scale: Governance, Interoperability, and Trust

Moderators:
Dr. Mona Duggal
Director
ICMR-NIRDH

Panelists:
Mr. Rakesh Maheswari (Ex. MeitY)
Mr. Jiggs Barasara (Founder & CEO, Alpha MD)
Dr. Rajiv Sarkar, ICMR
Dr. Saurav Basu,ICMR
Dr. Sujoy Kumar Biswas (ISI)
Prof. Raghunath Chatterjee (ISI)
11:05 - 11:15 Open House    
11:15 - 11:30 Tea Break
Session 3  AI in Education & Workforce
Time Category Topic Options  
11:30 -11:45 Keynote Redesigning Medical Education for the Age of AI Dr. Deepika Mishra
Professor, Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology
CDER, AIIMS New Delhi
11:45 - 12:10 Panel Discussion Future-Ready Healthcare Careers: Building Skills for an AI-Powered World Moderator:
Dr. Deepika Mishra
Professor, Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology
CDER, AIIMS New Delhi

Panelists:
Fr. Felix Raj (VC, SXUK)
Dr. Ujjwal Maulik (JU)
Prof. Dr. Ajay Mallick (AIIMS, Kalyani)
Capt. Madhukari Ray (Apollo)
Dr Ayan Chatterjee (Founder, BioClarity AI & Inventideai)
12:10 - 12:15 Open House    
Session 4 AI as Force Multiplier
12:15 - 12:45 Sponsored Symposium 4 *7 mins    
12:45- 13:00 Keynote Scaling Healthcare Systems for the Future Dr. Madhu Sashidhar
President and CEO,
Apollo Hospitals Division
13:00 - 13:45 Lunch Break
13:45 - 14:00 Keynote Navigating AI Adoption in Clinical Practice Dr. Santanu Sen
Secretary
IMA West Bengal
14:00 - 15:00 Round Table Scaling Healthcare with AI: Access, Outcomes, and Population Impact Moderator:
Dr. Amit Ghose
Consultant Urologist
Apollo Multispeciality Hospital, Kolkata

Panelists:
Dr. Madhu Sashidhar (Apollo)
Dr. Suresh Ramasubban (Apollo)
Dr. Jairanjan Ram (Apollo)
Dr. Arun P (TMC, Kolkata)
Dr. Utso Guho Roy (iMerit)
Dr. Sudeshna Malakar (Apollo)
Dr. Sudip Das (CNMC)
Dr. Suman Kalyan Paine (PDx Nucleus)
15:00 - 15:15 Open House    
Session 5  AI in Health Insurance 
Time Category Topic Options  
15:15 - 15:30 Keynote Building Smarter, Faster and More Patient-Centric Healthcare Ecosystems Mr. Abhijit Majumder
Chief Executive Officer
Apollo Medical Centre
Kolkata
15:30 - 15:45 Fireside Chat  Challenges of AI driven Health Insurance  
Session 6 Ethical Compass
Time Category Topic Options  
15:45 - 16:00 Keynote "The interconnect between humane and technological aspects for AI-augmented healthcare: Synergy or Conflict?". Prof. Suman Chakraborty
Director
IIT Kharagpur
16:00 - 16:20 Fireside Chat  AI and Justice Host: Mr. Priyam Marik

Guest:
Dr. Arghya Sengupta
Founder and Research Director
Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy
16:20 - 16:50 Panel Operationalising Ethics in AI for Healthcare Moderator:
Dr. Rajeshwari Singh
Senior Consultant,
AI & Frontier Technologies
Department of Data, Digital Health, Analytics and AI Health Systems Division
World Health Organization

Panelists:
Dr. Krishna Ravi Srinivas (NALSAR)
Mr. Rakesh Maheswari (Ex. MeitY)
Dr. Prokar Dasgupta (Virtual)
Dr. Mona Duggal (ICMR)
Dr. Prabhukalyan Dash (ICMR)
16:50 - 17:00 Open House    
17:00 - 17:15 Tea Break
Session 7 Feeling the Future
Time Category Topic Options  
17:15 - 17:25 Keynote Human Intelligence in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Dr. Amit Ghose
Founder Director - IndiSetu
Consultant Urologist
Apollo Multispeciality Hospital, Kolkata
17:25 - 17:45 Leadership Dialogue Feeling the Future Host:
Dr. Amit Ghose

Special Guests:
Dr Sharadwat Mukherjee
Hon’ble Minister-in-Charge
Department of Health & Family Welfare
Government of West Bengal

Prokar Dasgupta OBE
Professor of Urology and Robotic Surgery
The London Clinic
Emeritus Professor of Surgery
King’s College London

Mr. Roopendra Narayan Roy
Founder and CEO at Sumantrana

Fr. Felix Raj
Founder Vice-Chancellor
St. Xavier's University, Kolkata
17:45 - 18:00 Address by Guest of Honor    
18:00 - 18:15 Address by Chief Guest    
18:15 - 18:30 Valedictory & Award Ceremony







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