Day 1 — Sep 24Tutorials · SIGMA Hall
Day 2 — Sep 25Main Conference · Grand Ballroom
Sep 25 — EveningBTC/CXO Meet
Keynote
Tutorial
Plenary
Panel / TLF
Break
[R] Research Paper
[P] Presentation
SIGMA Hall — Sep 24, 2026
09:30 – 10:00
Inauguration
Inauguration and Opening Remarks
Address by General Co-Chairs · Address by TPC Co-Chairs
10:00 – 11:00
Tutorial I
Unlocking Quantum Computing with Qniverse
Santosh J.
Scientist 'E', C-DAC Bangalore
11:00 – 11:15
Tea Break
11:15 – 12:00
Tutorial I (contd.)
Unlocking Quantum Computing with Qniverse
Santosh J.
Scientist 'E', C-DAC Bangalore
12:00 – 13:00
Keynote
From Bigger Models to Better Systems: Co-designing Sustainable AI
Dr. Ranveer Chandra
Vice President, Frontier Tuning, Microsoft
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch Break
Tutorial II — Embodied AI and Robotics
14:00 – 15:30
Embodied AI and Robotics
Tutorial III — IoT & Embedded Security
14:00 – 15:30
Building Trusted Connected Devices
15:30 – 16:00
Tea Break
Tutorial II (contd.) — Embodied AI and Robotics
16:00 – 17:30
Embodied AI and Robotics (continued)
Tutorial III (contd.) — IoT & Embedded Security
16:00 – 17:30
Building Trusted Connected Devices (continued)
Grand Ballroom — Sep 25, 2026
09:30 – 10:00
Inauguration
Inauguration and Opening Remarks
Address by General Co-Chairs · Address by TPC Co-Chairs
10:00 – 10:30
Keynote
It's Time to Virtualize Foundation Models with a Self-Evolving Agentic OS Layer
Dr. Suparna Bhattacharya
IEEE & HPE Labs Fellow
10:30 – 11:00
Plenary 1
Micro-Optimizations for Macro-Impact
Dr. Gaurav Aggarwal
Chief AI Scientist, Reliance Intelligence
11:00 – 11:30
Tea Break
11:30 – 12:00
Plenary 2
From Mission-Critical to AI-Ready: Co-Designing Performance, Resilience, and Efficiency in Enterprise Infrastructure
Dr. Rahul Rao
Distinguished Engineer, ISDL, IBM
12:00 – 13:00
TLF / Panel
Thought Leadership Forum: Co-design or Constraint: Engineering AI within Energy and Economic Limits
Ramesh Laveti, Scientist-F (AI), C-DAC Bangalore
Hardik Parekh, Senior Director, Platform Engineering, AI Transformation, Samsung Semiconductor India Research
Prabhulla Chandran, Technology Director, ADA (Retd.)
Rajkumar Kannan, Principal Engineer, Google
Hardik Parekh, Senior Director, Platform Engineering, AI Transformation, Samsung Semiconductor India Research
Prabhulla Chandran, Technology Director, ADA (Retd.)
Rajkumar Kannan, Principal Engineer, Google
Moderator: Yatheendranath TJ
CEO, DhiiHii Labs Private Limited
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch Break
Track 1.1 — GBR-1
14:00 – 15:30
296
[P]
Machine Reasoning for Multi-Agentic Workflow Orchestration
171
[P]
Intel Retail: Real-Time Store Intelligence with Hybrid AI at the Edge
309
[R]
Occlusion-Invariant Facial Emotion Recognition via Deep Spiking Neural Networks
292
[R]
Energy Aware Hardware–Software Co-Design Framework for Sustainable Edge Intelligence
297
[R]
Power-Efficient LEO Satellite AIS Demodulator
Track 1.2 — GBR-2
14:00 – 15:30
311
[R]
Third-Party Transactor Integration for Industry-First LPDDR6 x6 Memory Controller Emulation
193
[R]
BHARAT-TPM: Design and ASIC Implementation of an SPI Based AXI Enabled SM3 Accelerator
187
[R]
Sustainable and Explainable ML for Industrial Fault Diagnosis through Temporal Feature Optimization
298
[R]
Hybrid 1D-CNN and DQN-Assisted Fault Classification for Four-Terminal VSC-MTDC Grids
350
[P]
EVSE Regulatory Framework
15:30 – 15:45
Tea Break
Track 2.1 — GBR-1
15:45 – 17:30
175
[R]
Bridging VLSI Design Complexity and Engineer Productivity: A Novel AI-Driven Multimodal RAG Architecture
180
[P]
Mixed Workload FW Handling to Improve IO Performance in SSD
177
[R]
Beyond Isolated Validation: Interaction-Driven Cross-Feature Scenario Design for SSD System-Level Validation
295
[R]
Sentinel: A Coverage-Driven Framework for Multi-Language Security Verification
294
[R]
A Unified Framework for Scaling Functional Tests in Modern SoC
189
[R]
Cumulative Error Reduction through BER Equilibrium in a Storage Drive
Track 2.2 — GBR-2
15:45 – 17:30
346
[P]
From Keyword to Live Page in Minutes
343
[P]
Before Quantum Breaks Trust: An Executive Guide to Quantum-Safe Pharmaceutical Supply Chains
169
[P]
Resilient and Trusted Edge AIoT Systems
320
[R]
CPH+: A Cross-Protocol Security State Hybridization Architecture for Mitigating Deauthentication Triggered Attack Chains
322
[R]
Cross-Layer IoT Security: Bounding Fail-Safe Triggers Under Channel Exhaustion
BTC / CXO Meet — Sep 25, Evening
18:00 – 18:05
Opening
Opening Remarks
IEEE Bangalore Section
18:05 – 18:45
Plenary 4
Beyond Scale: The Critical Role of Data Curation in Multimodal AI
Dr. Tarun Kalluri
Senior AI Research Scientist, Meta Superintelligence Labs
18:45 – 19:00
Launch
Launch of Karnataka Industry Circuit
An initiative of the IEEE Bangalore Section
19:00 – 20:00
CXO Forum
CXO Forum: Engineering the M.A.N.A.V. Framework: Technical Architectures for Guardrails, Explainability, and Data Sovereignty
Dr. Ramakrishnan Raman, Senior Chief Engineer & Fellow, Eaton
Kripa Venkatachalam, Vice President, Cadence
Dr. Geetha Manjunath, FNAE & CEO/Founder, NIRAMAI Health Analytix
Dr. Balaji Rajendran, Associate Director, C-DAC Bangalore
Kripa Venkatachalam, Vice President, Cadence
Dr. Geetha Manjunath, FNAE & CEO/Founder, NIRAMAI Health Analytix
Dr. Balaji Rajendran, Associate Director, C-DAC Bangalore
Moderator: Ayan Datta
Senior Technologist, Scandisk
20:00 – 20:15
Closing
IEEE Bangalore Section Address
Reflections, Priorities & the Road Ahead
BTC Conference Closure
20:15 – 21:30
Dinner
Networking Dinner