Pune Design Festival 2025

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Schedule

Day 1
28 Feb. 2025

09:00

09:15 - 9:45

9:45 - 10:45

10:45 - 11:30

08:00

Registration

Welcome Address

Suresh Venkat

Musical Performance

Bhargav Mistry

Optimistic Futurism

Dick Powell

Bold New Electric Vision

Ajay Saran Sharma

12:00 - 12:15

Break

12:15 - 1:00

Panel Discussion – Design Research: From Insights to Impact
Manoj Kothari
Uday Dandawate
Navdeep Kaur
Shipra Bhutada

1:00-2:00

LUNCH

14:00 - 16:00

14:00 - 16:00

14:00 - 16:00

14:00 - 16:00

14:00 - 16:00

14:00 - 16:00

Shaping a World with Purpose and Impact

Concurrent Sessions: Forum: Ballroom 1 & 2

Alok Gadkar
Ashwin Chikerur
Parag Natekar
Nikhil More

Film Screening

Concurrent Sessions: Forum: Room Anigre

Coming up

Cognitive AI & Emotional Intelligence in Experience Design

Concurrent Sessions: Workshop 1 – Ballroom 3

In this two-hour immersive workshop, forward-thinking designers will dive deep into advanced frameworks for creating more intuitive, human-centric experiences. Through hands-on activities and interactive discussions, participants will learn to refine and orchestrate design solutions and harness the power of autonomous intelligence. Walk away with actionable insights and the inspiration to reimagine how AI agents can shape the future of human-machine collaboration.

Omkar Pandharkame

Workshop – AI

Workshop 

Room – Wenge

Coming up
Workshop – Finance

Workshop 

Room – Mahagony 

Coming up
Colour Workshop

Workshop

Room – Oak

Navdeep Kaur

16:25 - 17:00

17:00 - 17:40

17:15 - 18:00

18:15 onward

15:30 - 15:45

BREAK
Beyond the Cringe: The Power of Deeply Personal Ideas
Binaifer Dulani
Beyond the Cringe: The Power of Deeply Personal Ideas
Binaifer Dulani
Animating my world with stories that matter
Vaibhav Kumaresh

18:00 - 18:15

BREAK

Networking

Curated Networking session
Suresh Venkat

19:00

Music event  by Ujwal Gajbhar and the band

Followed by Dinner

Day 2
01 Mar 2025

10:00 - 10:20

.

10:20 - 10:30

10:30 - 10:45

10:45 - 11:15

11:15 - 11:45

9:00

Registration

Jugnu

Opening Act – Day 2
A witty, raw, and poetic exploration of the storyteller’s struggle—navigating industry absurdities, creative chaos, and the never-ending search for meaning

Amitosh Nagpal

Book Launches
Uday Dandawate
Janak Mistry

Designing a design school – A Global Vision

Siddharth Shahani
Honorary Fellow Session
Nina Sabnani
Design Tribute – Calligrapher – RK Joshi
Kirti Trivedi

11:45 - 12:00

Break

12:00- 12:45

12:45- 13:30

Protopolis Model
MP Ranjan Session
Jacob Matthew
Riverside Chat: The Intersection of Public Policy, Business, and Design
Saranya Gopinath
MP Ranjan Session

13:30 - 14:30

LUNCH

14:30-16:30

14:30-16:30

14:30-16:30

14:30-16:30

14:30-16:30

14:30-16:30

Forum – Design Business Model

Forum 

Room – Anigre

Vishwas Mahajan
Sustainable Futures – the Power of Mindful Impact

Forum 

Room – Wenge

Gurudas Nulkar
Pravin Bhagwat

Education Session

Forum –

Room – Ballroom 1 & 2

Arvind Lodaya
Ankur Walunjkar

Nandita Abraham

Anando Dutta

Bhaskar Bhat

Kirti Trivedi
UX Forum

Forum 

Room – Ballroom 3

Aniruddh Joshi
Gaurav Mathur
Crafting Stories from Everyday Moments Through Stop Motion

Workshop 
Room – Oak

Vaibhav Kumaresh

A hands on pixillation/ stop motion animation workshop where participants get to shoot and animate everyday objects to life.

Workshop – Theatre & Storytelling

Workshop
Room – Mahagony

Amitosh Nagpal

16:30 - 16:45

BREAK

16:45 - 17:30

17:30 - 18:15

18:15 - 19:00

19:00 - 20:00

Mind the Style
Pankaj Garg
Lightness of Being
Sumant Jaikrishnan
Closing Keynote
Varun Grover

Join us in celebrating Varun Grover – a creator who blends storytelling, humor, and design to challenge societal norms. From Masaan to Aisi Taisi Democracy, his work mixes personal and universal stories with sharp satire. Whether through his award-winning lyrics or his debut film All India Rank, Grover proves how storytelling can entertain, critique, and drive change. Don’t miss this celebration of his transformative creative journey!

A hands on pixillation/ stop motion animation workshop where participants get to shoot and animate everyday objects to life.

BOP Awards
Pushkar Ingle

20:00

Networking Dinner

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