April 19, 2026
9:30 am

Registration

19 April
Time:  9:30 am - 10:00 am
Location: 
10:00 am

Inaugural Session

Dr. Tripta Thakur
19 April
Time:  10:00 am - 10:45 am
Location: 

1. Welcome Address: Mr. Om Routray, Founder, Vrihi Foundation (5 minutes)

2. Address by Special Guest: Dr Tripta Thakur, Vice Chancellor, Veer Madho Singh Bhandari Uttarakhand Technical University (7 minutes)

3. Address by Special Guest: Mr. Amal Sinha, Director and Group CEO of BSES Delhi (17 minutes)

4. Keynote Address : Mr. Tim Curtis, Director and UNESCO Representative for the UNESCO Regional Office in New (15 minutes)

5. Vote of Thanks: Mr. Sankalp Vishnu, Founder, Vrihi Foundation (5 minutes)

11:00 am

Street Food Vending in Urban Spaces– Existence or Exclusion

Tanushree Bhowmik
19 April
Time:  11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location: 
Speaker:  Tanushree Bhowmik

1. Sangeeta Singh, Head – Street Food Program, National Association for Street Vendors in India

2. Rashim Bedi, Self Employed Women’s Association, India

3. Julie Torres Moskovitz, Board Member, New York Street Vendor Project

4. Samara Khan, Researcher, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand

Moderated by Om Routray, Founder - Director, Vrihi Foundation

12:00 pm

ICA Spotlights

Abhishek
Dr. Rashi Gupta
Dr. Tripta Thakur
19 April
Time:  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location: 

ICA Film Screening on Small Dairy Owners of Delhi (15 minutes)
A short film made by ICA and Delhi Food Walks, with support from BSES

• Introduction by Anubhav Sapra, Founder, Delhi Food Walks.

Enabling Energy Security and Sovereignty for the Indian Food Industry
A tech-led panel on exploring LPG alternatives for the food industry.

Chaired by Dr Tripta Thakur, Vice Chancellor, Veer Madho Singh Bhandari Uttarakhand Technical University

1. S N Srinivas, CEO, Atal Incubation Centre, CV Raman Global University, Bhubaneswar

2. Abhishek Ranjan, CEO, BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd.

3. Rashi Gupta, Founder, Vision Mechatronics Pvt Ltd.

Moderated by Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya, Founder, Ekgaon Technologies

1:00 pm

Lunch

TBD
19 April
Time:  1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: 
Speaker:  TBD
2:00 pm

Street Food as a Lens to Cultural Connectivity

Avantika Bhuyan
19 April
Time:  2:00 pm - 2:45 pm
Location: 

1. Chu Hao Pei, Visual Artist and Researcher, Singapore

2. Priyadarshini Chatterjee, Author and Independent Journalist

3. Raman Yadav, Street Food Vendor

Moderated by Avantika Bhuyan, National Features Editor, Mint Lounge

2:45 pm

ICA FOOD WRITING PRIZE 2026: Identity, Assimilation and Survival: Street food as a Lens to Migration

19 April
Time:  2:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Location: 

Poster presentations by Five Finalists

• Moderated by Charmaine O’Brien, Author and Team Member, ICA

Presentations by Top Three Finalists

• Moderated by Tanushree Bhowmik, Co-Founder - Vrihi Foundation and Head - Indian Culinary Agenda

4:15 pm

Announcement of ICA Food Writing Prize 2026

TBD
19 April
Time:  4:15 pm - 4:30 pm
Location: 
Speaker:  TBD
4:30 pm

Looking Ahead and Vote of Thanks

Tanushree Bhowmik
19 April
Time:  4:30 pm - 4:35 pm
Speaker:  Tanushree Bhowmik

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