page_title: Techkriti
section_title: Workshops and talks
hierarchical_section_title: Techkriti / Workshops and talks
caption_attribution_description: English: Techkriti celebrating it's 23rd edition witnessing prominent personalities.
context_page_description: Techkriti is an annual four-day inter-collegiate technical and entrepreneurship festival at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur which is held each March. The 26th Techkriti will be held from 19 to 22 March 2020. The festival began in 1995 to develop student technological innovation. The word Techkriti is derived from tech and the Sanskrit kriti.
context_section_description: Students and academia at the festival can attend talks by professionals in various fields from India and abroad. Speakers at Techkriti have included aerospace scientist and former Indian president A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman and Rakesh Sharma, the only Indian to date to travel in space. Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai was the guest of honour at the 2016 festival, which was scheduled to end with a musical evening.
caption: The 2017 Techkriti
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