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| Day 1: Monday, September 22nd 2025 | ||
| Time | Event | |
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Registrations & Breakfast | |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Welcome & Introductions | |
| 09:20 - 10:20 | Technical Plenary 1 - Sindhu Radhakrishna | |
| 10:20 - 12:20 | Student Talks: Session 1 | |
| 12:20 - 13:00 | Session on POSH | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Short Workshops | Resource Person |
| S1 | Theatre for environmental justice: an introduction | Yams Srikanth, Stella James |
| S2 | Smart Moves: Mapping Evolutionary Flexibility in Animals (Using phylogenetic tools to trace adaptability for conservation insight) | Deyatima Ghosh, Dr. Maitreya Sil |
| S3 | Inking Nature: A Nature Journaling Workshop | Sambita Modak, Sikha Hariharan |
| S4 | Tree Identification and Phenology: Basic Workshop | Sayee Girdhari |
| S5 | ‘Okay, but what’s the story?’ - A guide to reading and synthesizing research papers | Anish Paul, Pritha Dey, Malavika Kamath |
| S6 | Language and Ecology - Communicating Nature through Local Languages | P. Jeganathan, Pooja Pawar |
| S7 | Conservation Careers: Careers in Ecology, Environmental Science, and Sustainability Studies | Pankaj Koparde, Prasad Kulkarni |
| S8 | How to utilize iNaturalist data for Conservation and Research Projects | Paul Antony Mangaly |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Tea Break | |
| 16:50 - 18:00 | Student Posters - Session 1 | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Popular Open Plenary 1 - Geetha Ramaswami | |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Loris Walk/ Nocturnal Species Walk | |
| Day 2: Tuesday, September 23rd 2025 | ||
| Time | Event | |
| 07:00 - 08:00 | Bird Walk/ Tree Walk | |
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Registrations & Breakfast | |
| 09:00 - 11:30 | Long Workshops | Resource Person |
| L1 | Animal behaviour and its role in conservation | Devica Ranade, Nishant Srinivasaiah, Samira Agnihotri, Ishika Ramakrishna |
| L2 | How R you doing? Using the R platform for managing and analyzing ecological datasets | Raman Kumar |
| L3 | Plant Identification: Advanced Workshop | Bibidishananda Basu, Arun Kumar N, Gauravya Mohan, Sayee Girdhari |
| L4 | Fellowship and grant writing in Ecological Sciences | Sabuj Bhattacharyya, Chandrima Home |
| L5 | Qualitative Research in Conservation: Power, Positionality and Practice | Budhaditya Das, Venkat Ramanujam |
| L6 | Foundations of Conservation and Nature Education: frameworks, design, practice and ethics | Priyanka Prakash, Vena Kapoor, Rachita Sinha |
| L7 | Map with Biswa: An introduction to GIS & Mapping using QGIS | Biswa Bhusana Mahapatra |
| L8 | Thorny Subjects: Conducting Interviews On Conservation-Induced Conflict | Madhuri Ramesh, Sagarika Phalke |
| L9 | Crafting Narratives for a Fragile World | Megha Moorthy, Radhika Raj |
| L10 | Liberating GIS for environmental monitoring | Paul Pop |
| L11 | Analysing count data – fitting and interpreting Generalised Linear Models (GLMs) | Kavita Isvaran |
| L12 | Games for Conservation | Peeyush Sekhsaria, Priti Bangal, Karthik Natarajan, Prasad Sandbhor |
| L13 | Biacoustics in Conservation | Viral Joshi, Taksh Sangwan, Rohit Chakravarty, Isha Bopardikar, Divya Panicker, Seema Lokhandwala |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Tea Break | |
| 11:50 - 13:00 | Long Workshops | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Long Workshops | |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Tea Break | |
| 16:50 - 18:00 | Who's Who in Conservation - Session 1 | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Careers in Conservation - Panel Discussion | |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Film Screening | |
| Day 3: Wednesday, September 24th 2025 | ||
| Time | Event | |
| 07:00 - 08:00 | Bird Walk/ Tree Walk | |
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Registrations & Breakfast | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Technical Plenary 2 - Sammy Wambua | |
| 10:00 - 12:00 | Student Talks - Session 2 | |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Group Photo | |
| 12:15 - 13:00 | Who's Who in Conservation - Session 2 | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Short Workshops | Resource Person |
| S1 | Study design in ecology and conservation | Kavita Isvaran |
| S2 | Data detox in R - Clean, wrangle, and transform your ecological data | Swapna Nelaballi |
| S3 | Reading trees: Ways to connect with nature | Narayan Sharma, Sudeshna Gupta |
| S4 | Baby steps of communicating conservation research through print and social media | Jithin V, Rishika Pardikar |
| S5 | Using Open Data for Better Environmental Protection | Aishani Goswami, Rhea Lopez, Siddharth Agarwal |
| S6 | Tangled Data, Tangible Tales: Ecological Data to Storytelling | Sambita Modak, Chandrima Home |
| S7 | Telling Wild Stories: A Visual Toolkit for Conservationists | Sohail Madan, Abhishek Paliwal |
| S8 | The Empire Floats Back: River Systems and Their Stakeholders | Sneha Shahi |
| S9 | Sensors in the Field: Low-Cost Ecological Monitoring with Arduino | Rakesh Khanna A |
| S10 | Bat Acoustic Data Recording, Processing and Analyses: New Approaches and Automation | Kadambari Deshpande, Vedant Barje |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Tea Break | |
| 16:50 - 18:00 | Student Posters: Session 2 | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Popular Open Plenary 2 - Bhargavi Rao | |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Loris Walk/ Nocturnal Species Walk | |
| Day 4: Thursday, September 25th 2025 | ||
| Time | Event | |
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Registrations & Breakfast | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Technical Plenary 3 - Ajit Menon | |
| 10:00 - 12:00 | Student Talks - Session 3 | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Birds of A Feather: Themed Networking Session | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Short Workshops | Resource Person |
| S1 | Living Landscapes: Connecting Communities with Conservation | Dr. Archana Bhatt, Dr Vipindas |
| S2 | Research with fishers and other ecological knowledge holders | Andrea Phillott, Chetan Rao |
| S3 | Sound and its Sensory Experiences in Shaping human-animal Relationships and Interactions | Dr. Samira Agnihotri, Seema Lokhandwala |
| S4 | Habitat microclimate: importance and collection methods | Dr Aavika Dhanda, Rohan Baishya |
| S5 | Telling Stories That Matter: Can Storytelling Be a Scientific Tool for Conservation Impact? | Shruti Ghosh, Jeremiah Kennedy |
| S6 | Finding, telling and sharing stories of conservation and natural history using archives | Anjali Ramachandran, Nisha Bhakat |
| S7 | Using eBird Data for Ecology and Conservation | Faizee Ali Khan, Ashwin Vishwanathan, Tarun Menon |
| S8 | WIldlife content creation and engaging people through social media | Kayden Anthony, Sandra Pereira |
| S9 | Let’s talk SDMs: The why and how of designing your own distribution modelling study | Imran Samad, Divyashree Rana |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Tea Break | |
| 16:50 - 18:00 | Popular Open Plenary 3 - Raza Kazmi | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Closing Ceremony | |