Schedule

Day-wise Programme Highlights

2 December 2025

Opening Speech

Professor Balaji Parthasarathy, IIIT Bangalore 

3 December 2025 

Inaugural Session

Inaugural Speech: Hon'ble Member, NITI Aayog  

Keynote Address: Professor Reetika Khera, IIT Delhi

Plenary Session-1: Emerging Gig Economies and Labour Questions

Professor Balwant Singh Mehta, IHD, New Delhi

Dr. Dhanya M B, VVGNLI, Noida

Dr. Gayatri Nair, IIIT Delhi

Plenary Session-2: Policy and Institutional Challenges

Dr. Manjunath G., Addl. Labour Commissioner, Govt. of Karnataka

Dr. Anamitra Roy Chowdhury, JNU New Delhi

4 December 2025

Plenary Session-3: Digital Interface between Economy and Society: Computational and Modelling Challenges

Ms. Anita Gurumurthy, IT for Change, Bangalore 

Dr. Anupam Guha, IIT Bombay

Special Talk: Role of Collective Organisations

Mr. Shaik Salauddin, TGPWU & IFAT, Hyderabad

Special Lecture: Methodological Questions in Research on Gig Work 

Professor Jonathan S. Anjaria, Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA

Valedictory Address

Professor S. Chandrasekhar, IGIDR, Mumbai 

There will be eight (8) Thematic Sessions on 3rd December and 4th December 2025. 

A detailed schedule will be announced soon.