| Day 1: October 9, 2026 | Henry Ford Hall, Martin Luther Block | |
| 9:30AM - 9:50AM | Registration and Tea (Foyer, Ground Floor, Martin Luther Block) |
| 9:50AM - 10:00AM | Seating & Settling (Henry Ford Hall, Martin Luther Block) |
| 10:00AM - 10:45AM | Inaugural Ceremony Welcome Address by Dr. Sagar Juneja - Associate Director (Research), Chitkara University and Convener, WECON 2026 Keynote Address by Dr. Akhilesh Mishra, Scientist F, Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi Special Address by Dr. Madhu Chitkara - President and Co-Founder, Chitkara University Felicitation Ceremony for Invited Guests and Speakers |
| 10:45AM - 11:45AM | Expert Talks • Next-Generation Wireless Networks and AI: Towards AI-Native and Autonomous 6G Communications by Dr. Diptendu Sinha Roy - Professor and Dean (Research), CSE, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Meghalaya, India • Title TBD by Arvind Prithvinath Singh - CTO, BPTP Ltd., Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| 11:45AM - 12:00Noon | Tea (Foyer, Ground Floor, Martin Luther Block) |
| 12:00Noon - 1:30PM | Expert Talks • Agentic AI: From Intelligent Models to Autonomous Actions by Dr. Neeraj Kumar - Professor & Head, CSE, Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab, India • Deep Learning for Earth System Science: Applications in the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Beyond by Dr. Bipin Kumar - Scientist 'F', Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India • Speaker Details Awaited |
| 1:30PM - 2:15PM | Lunch Break |
| 2:15PM - 3:15PM | Expert Talks • AI-Native Engineer: Industry Expectations in the Modern Age by Sandeep Tripathi - Co-founder and CEO, Gyro AI Labs, India • Navigating Scholarly Publishing in the Age of AI: Integrity, Transparency and Trust by Sonal Choudhary - Publisher, Mathematics, Physical and Applied Sciences, Springer Nature, India |
| 3:15PM onwards | Vote of Thanks by Dr. Amit Mittal - Pro Vice Chancellor, Research Programs, Chitkara University and General Chair, WECON 2026 |
| End of Day 1 | |
| Day 2: October 10, 2026 | Einstein Hall, Galileo Block | |
| 9:30AM - 9:50AM | Registration and Tea (Foyer, Ground Floor, Galileo Block) |
| 9:50AM - 10:00AM | Seating & Settling (Einstein Hall, Galileo Block) |
| 10:00AM - 10:15AM | Welcome & Reflections from Day 1 |
| 10:15AM - 11:30AM | Expert Talks • Introduction to Advanced Packaging and Heterogeneous Integration by Dr. Rohit Sharma - Professor, CSE, IIT Ropar, Punjab, India • Geometric and Control Perspectives on Reliable AI by Dr. Wei Luo - Associate Professor, IT, Deakin University, Australia |
| 11:30AM - 11:45AM | Tea (Foyer, Ground Floor, Galileo Block) |
| 11:45AM - 1:00PM | Expert Talks • How Do Universities Prepare Graduates Who Can Build, Evaluate and Govern AI Systems Responsibly, Not Just Use Them? by Dr. Wendy Yanez Pazmino - Assistant Professor, CS, University of Birmingham, UK • Bridging the Language Divide: NLP and LLMs for Low-Resource Languages by Dr. Rishemjit Kaur - Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh, India |
| 1:00PM - 1:45PM | Lunch Break |
| 1:45PM - 2:45PM | Expert Talks • AI for Actionable Intelligence: Customer Suggestion Mining and Law Enforcement Investigation Support by Dr. Pratik Narang - Associate Professor, BITS Pilani, Rajasthan, India • SILICO-AI: An AI-Based Portable Computer-Aided Diagnostic System for Silicosis Disease by Dr. Sandeep Mandia - Assistant Professor, Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab, India |
| 2:45PM onwards | Valedictory Address by Dr. Amit Mittal - Pro Vice Chancellor, Research Programs, Chitkara University and General Chair, WECON 2026 |
| 3:15 PM Onwards | Tea and Departure |