AMID the unprecedented turn of events triggered by the pandemic, the IIT-Bombay will hold its annual technology festival - Techfest - on the virtual sphere. The premiere institute at Powai has drawn an impressive line-up of speakers this time.

Techfest will see dignitaries like Abhinav Bindra, India’s first individual Olympic Gold medallist, and Dr R A Mashelkar, the former director general of CSIR. The lecture series includes two Nobel laureates along with Jürgen Schmidhuber, who is considered the father of modern artificial intelligence.