Chair of Events

Moderator for the session on “Regulatory Frameworks: Navigating Food Industry Compliance”, organised by MoFPI/NIFTEM-K as a part of ongoing AAHAR event in New Delhi on March 4, 2025.
Chaired the session on 'Water-Energy-Food Nexus Solutions for Urban Sustainability' and contributed as a panel member in the concluding session of the prestigious International Workshop on Food-Water-Energy Nexus and Sustainability, El-Ain El-Sokhna, Egypt on February 20-21, 2025. The event was jointly organized by the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT), National Committee for Environmental Issues, Cairo, Egypt and Centre for Science and Technology of the Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries (NAM S&T Centre), New Delhi, India, fostering global collaboration towards sustainable resource management.
Moderator for the key session on Sustainable Packaging Technologies in Food Processing at World Food India 2024 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi on September 2024 focusing on eco-friendly innovations to drive sustainability in the food industry World food India 2024.
Part of Panel Discussions and Technical Session held as part of National Thematic Conclave on Specialty Chemicals and Sustainable Packaging at CSIR-NIIST on July 19, 2024.
Part of panel discussion on ‘Technology for food safety’ at the India Food Conclave 2024 held at Bengaluru on June 21, 2024.
Chair of the Biomedical Waste Management conclave and stakeholders meet held at CSIR-NIIST on March 26, 2024.
Moderator for the MILLET CONCLAVE THEME, Millet-based products innovation, machineries, mobilizing start-up ventures and export promotion of value-added millet products during the ONE WEEK ONE LAB PROGRAMME, Millet food festival, organized by CSIR-NIIST on March 17, 2023.
Chair of the panel discussion of ‘Technology and R&D requirements of startups’ during the ONE WEEK ONE LAB PROGRAMME, Millet food festival, organized by CSIR-NIIST on March 13, 2023.
Chair of the panel discussion on ‘Deep tech to commercialism’ organized by Kerala startup mission held at Hotel Leela Kovalam, Trivandrum on December 16, 2022.
Co-chair for the session ‘Animal Production System’ in the Technical Session 2: Energy Audit and Innovation in Important Food and Animal Production Systems in the XV Agricultural Science Congress 2021 (November 13-16, 2021) organized by Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh on November 15, 2021.
Moderator of the session “Minimization of food loss” at the Webinar on “Localisation of Sustainable Development Goals – Role of Panchayats in Bringing Zero Hunger” organized by Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India on 23rd August 2021.
Moderator of the session “Agri-Food tech as a solution to feeding 10 billion people” at 3-days panel discussion event on “For Food's Sake X India” organized by Singapore Business Federation on 28th April 2021.
Chair of the session on “Challenges in branding and marketing of processed and packaged foods” at the webinar on “FPOs – Preparing FPCs for scaled up business and collective marketing” organized by Department of Agricultural Marketing and Agribusiness, Government of Tamil Nadu on 5th Januvary 2021.
Chair of the session on “Ready to Eat Sector - Prospects for startups & entrepreneurship” at 6th INDIA FARM2FORK international conference organized by PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, New Delhi on 5th November 2020.
Chair of the technical session on “Processing and waste valorization including textiles” at the international conference on banana 2020 at hotel Breeze Residency, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu organized by ICAR-NRCB held on 23rd February, 2020
Chair of the oral sessions of the 10th Asia Pacific Drying Conference 2019 organized by NIT, Rourkela, held on 16th December 2019
Chair of the technical session on "Recent advances in food processing technologies" at the conference on emerging technologies in food processing sector at Chennai trade Centre, Chennai on 23rd August 2019.
Chair of the technical session on "Food engineering and thermal process innovation" at the 19th IUFoST World Congress of Food Science and Technology at the CIDCO Convention & Exhibition Centre, Navi Mumbai on 26th October 2018.
Chair of the technical session on "Enhancing combat potential through food technology" at Seminar on Empowering Field Army Through Food Technology at ASC Centre and college, Bengaluru on 12th September 2018.
Chairman of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Food Processing Technology (iCRAFPT'18) organized by Indian Institute of food Processing Technology, Thanjavur during 17th to 19th August 2018.
Co-Chair of the technical session on "Food processing as a vehicle for demand creation - Current technologies in place and gaps" during International Trade Fair 2018 - Organics and Millets at Bangalore, India during 19th - 21st January 2018.
Chair of the technical session on "Applications of nanotechnology in food processing", at national seminar on nanotechnology for evergreen revolution at TNAU, Coimbatore on 5th October 2017.
Chair of the technical session on "Recent advances in food processing industry",at Foodpro 2017 - 12th edition organized by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) at Chennai Trade Centre on 7th September 2017.
Facilitator of brainstorming session with industry captains on "Future focus of research and development in the food processing sector", organized by IICPT at IICPT, Thanjavur on 10th February 2017.
Facilitator of brainstorming session on "Growth of agro processing (food) sector in the north east region - fining a doable answer", organized by regional Centre -IICPT at NEDFi conference hall, NEDFi House, Dispur, Guwahati on 7th December 2016.
Chair of the technical session of "Nanostructured Materials" during 2nd International Conference on Nanostructured Materials and Nanocomposites (ICNM 2014), organized by Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam, Kerala during 18th - 19th December 2014.
Co-Chair of the technical session of Indian Convention of Food Scientists &Technologists (ICFoST-XXIV) organized by college of food technology, Parbani, during 18th - 19th December 2015.
Co-Chair of the technical session of National Student Conference on Food Technology, organized by IICPT, Thanjavur during 7th - 8th February 2014.
Co-Chair of the technical session of student innovations during Indian Convention of Food Scientists &Technologists (ICFoST XXII) organized by CFTRI, Mysore during 6th - 7th December 2012.
Co-Chair of the technical session of National conference on career and research trends in food processing organized by IICPT, Thanjavur, India during 24th - 25th June 2011.
Co-Chair of the technical session of "Process modeling and instrumentation" during 6th International Food Convention (IFCON 08).