The three-day International Conference on “Innovations and Challenges in Science and Technology” took place from May 24th to 26th, 2018. Key figures included Prof. I. S. Shivakumara and Dr. Chong Kwok Feng, with eleven distinguished speakers and six session chairpersons. Organized with Visvesvaraya Technological University and the Indian Society for Technical Education, the conference featured 153 abstracts and 104 participants.