The BLAIM 2025 International Conference offers a dynamic and interdisciplinary platform that convenes leading scholars, practitioners, researchers, and changemakers from around the world. The conference is designed to critically examine the intersections between mindfulness, behavioural science, legal innovation, and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI). In an era defined by complexity, disruption, and global challenges, BLAIM 2025 seeks to foster dialogue, insight, and collaboration that bridges the gap between individual awareness and systemic transformation.

At its core, BLAIM 2025 explores how inward transformation through mindfulness can influence outward systems—legal, behavioural, technological, and societal. Participants will investigate innovative frameworks and applied practices that promote social justice, human wellbeing, ethical governance, and inclusive development. The conference aims to generate actionable knowledge, inspire novel research, and advance practical solutions that reshape institutions and communities for a more resilient and compassionate future.

Aim of the conference

The aim of BLAIM 2025 is to foster a global, interdisciplinary dialogue that integrates mindfulness, behavioural science, legal innovation, and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) to address complex societal challenges. The conference seeks to bridge the gap between individual awareness and collective, systemic transformation by:

  • • Encouraging research and practice that links personal development with institutional change.
  • • Exploring human-centred and ethically grounded solutions for public policy, legal systems, and governance.
  • • Advancing collaborative, evidence-based approaches to innovation that promote wellbeing, equity, and resilience in society.

BLAIM 2025 aspires to serve as a catalyst for scholarly exchange, practical innovation, and meaningful impact across diverse domains and disciplines.

Conference background

In an increasingly interconnected and uncertain world, society faces challenges that extend beyond the capacity of traditional disciplines or institutions alone. Issues such as mental health crises, inequitable access to justice, declining institutional trust, and the ethical dilemmas of AI demand integrated approaches that span personal, legal, technological, and behavioural dimensions. BLAIM 2025 - the International Conference on Mindfulness, Behavioural Science & Legal Innovation - emerged in response to this need for systemic integration. Building on global momentum around mindfulness and mental wellbeing, the rising influence of behavioural economics in policymaking, and the urgent need for innovation in legal and governance systems, the conference provides a unique platform to:

  • • Examine how internal transformation (through mindfulness and contemplative practices) can influence external systems and decision-making processes.
  • • Promote human-centric legal and technological innovations aligned with societal values and behavioural insights.
  • • Encourage interdisciplinary collaborations that can rethink the foundations of leadership, education, justice, and public service.

BLAIM 2025 brings together a diverse community of researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and changemakers who believe that creating a more just, mindful, and sustainable future requires both individual consciousness and institutional courage.

Programme and organizing committee

Committee Members Name
Chief Patrons Dr. Devanshu Patel, President, Parul University
Dr. Geetika Madan Patel, Vice President, Parul University
Dr. Parul Patel, Vice President, Parul University
Dr. Komal Patel, Vice President, Parul University
Patrons Prof. Amit Ganatra, Provost, Parul University
Prof. Manish Pandya, Registrar, Parul University
Prof. Anand Joshi, Director & Convenor, Research & Development Cell, Parul University
Convenor Prof. Richa Mishra, Director, SCOPE Cell, Parul University
Co-Convenors Prof. (Dr.) Vipul Vekariya - Dean & Principal – Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Parul University
Prof. Debarati Halder, Parul Institute of Law & SCOPE, Parul University
Prof. Bijal Zaveri, Dean, Faculty of Management Studies, Parul University
Prof. Rajendra Parikh, Dean, Parul Institute of Law, Parul University
Dr. Digvijay Pandya, Dean, Parul Institute of Liberal Arts, Parul University
Prof. Trilok Akhani, Dean, Parul Institute of Applied Sciences, Parul University
Dr. Hemantkumar Patadia, Principal, Parul Institute of Paramedical and Health Sciences, Parul University
Prof. M. N. Parmar, Dean, Parul Institute Social Work, Parul University
Prof. Bhaskar Mitra, Dean, Parul Institute of Design, Parul University
Organizing Committee Dr. Vishal Sorathiya, Parul Institute of Engineering and Technology & SCOPE, Parul University
Dr. Tejal Barkhade, Parul Institute of Applied Sciences & SCOPE, Parul University
Dr. Anand Somvanshi, Parul Institute of Applied Sciences & SCOPE, Parul University
Mr. Krishn Verma, Paul Institute of Design & SCOPE, Parul University
Dr. Amit Chauhan, Parul Institute of Applied Sciences, Parul University
Dr. Sayyid Shakir, Parul Institute of Liberal Arts & SCOPE, Parul University
Dr. Sapna Chauhan, Faculty of Management Studies, Parul University
Ms. Nimisha Pancholi, Ekagrata, Parul University
Mr. Ravishankar Ramanathan, Ekagrata, Parul University
Dr. Manoj Vimal, Parul Institute of Liberal Arts, Parul University
Dr. Ruchi Tiwari, Parul Institute of Law, Parul University
Dr. Dipal Patel, INSIGHT, Parul University
Dr. Ketan Desai, Parul Institute of Law, Parul University
Dr. Subair Kalathil, Parul Institute of Law, Parul University
Dr. Mukul Jain, Parul Institute of Applied Sciences & RDC, Parul University
Dr. Sheetal Thomas, Faculty of Management Studies, Parul University
Dr. Insha Mohammed, Faculty of Management Studies, Parul University