NDTV’s flagship event – kicks-off today October 17
NDTV’s flagship event – kicks-off today October
17
The much-awaited NDTV’S Flagship
kicked-off on October
17 in New Delhi
Reportedly, the Summit will feature a host of leaders, including PM Modi Minister Narendra Sri Lankan PM Harini Amarasuriya, former UK PM Rishi Sunak, former Australian PM Tony Abbott, and former G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant.
Several other leaders, and cultural icons, business leaders, innovators and voices of imagination, including Grammy winner Ricky Kej, actors Samantha Ruth Prabhu, and BCCI Chief Selector Ajit Agarkar, will converge for a dialogue that will be rooted in thoughtful exploration of what it means to navigate complexity with clarity and conscience.
As the world moves amid contradiction and creativity, between exhaustion and emergence, this summit seeks to help find paths for truth, hope, transformation and reconciliation.
The NDTV World Summit 2025 – a two-day event – is where inherited realities will meet unwritten futures – a space to challenge what is, disrupt what no longer serves, and design the world as it ought to be.
Philip Green, Australian High Commissioner Attending NDTV World Summit 2025 Today
Philip Green, Australian High Commissioner to India, will be a part of the NDTV World Summit 2025 today. Green will be joined by Lindy Cameron, British High Commissioner to India, and Dr Philipp Ackermann, German Ambassador to India, for a discussion on crafting the next world order. Philip Green is a senior Australian diplomat with extensive experience across four continents. He has served as ambassador or high commissioner to Germany, Singapore, South Africa, and Kenya. He was appointed High Commissioner to India in June 2023.
Also attending the first day of the summit is
Dr Merritt Moore, who spoke on how artificial intelligence (AI) and human intelligence can co-create the future, and why emotional creativity might just be humanity’s next big advantage. Dr Moore is a scientist who splits her time amid physics labs and ballet studios. Dr Moore is acknowledged for her groundbreaking work in quantum computing and robotics. But she has also danced with some of the world’s top ballet companies, proving that science and art can’t just co-exist but even thrive together.
Among Today’s Speakers
Nitin Mittal, Deloitte Principal, Global AI Leader, and author of the WSJ bestseller All-in on AI, is among the leaders attending the NDTV World Summit 2025 today. He advises organisations on applying artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies to improve business strategy and competitiveness. He also leads Deloitte’s internal AI transformation efforts, aiming to make the company a global AI-driven professional services firm while creating new market opportunities in the AI space.
BCCI chief selector will take the stage on Day 1 of the NDTV World Summit 2025 to discuss the current transition in Indian cricket. As the chairman of the Indian men’s cricket team selection committee, Agarkar will lead the session “The Uncertainty of Choice, The Inevitability of Change” to explore Indian cricket’s current contours, with Shubman Gill taking over the ODI captaincy mantle from Rohit Sharma. In a video message, Sunak also mentioned he wants to meet his “good friend” PM Modi, who is one of the key faces of the event.
“Hi India, this is Rishi Sunak. I am thrilled to be at NDTV’s World Summit at the Bharat Mandapam in Delhi. I’m looking forward to discussing the future of global growth with India’s rising stars,” Sunak said.
“And of course, looking forward to seeing my good friend, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji, and meeting the young leaders who are shaping the future. I’ll see you there,” the Indian-origin former prime minister of Britain said.
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya earlier said she was “excited” to participate in the NDTV World Summit 2025.
Amarasuriya, who arrived in India and landed in Delhi on Thursday, told NDTV: “I am very excited, and I am looking forward to it very much and to meeting Prime Minister Modi as well.”
In a video message last week, Amarasuriya shared similar joy and expectations from the visit. “I am looking forward to participating in the NDTV World Summit, where I will have the opportunity to engage with global leaders and thinkers. I hope to share Sri Lanka’s perspectives on international cooperation and economic resilience, and contribute to meaningful conversations on the pressing challenges of our region and the world,” she said.
Global Leaders converge in Delhi for NDTV World Summit 2025
NDTV proudly presents its flagship event, NDTV World Summit 2025 – Edge Of The Unknown: Risk, Resolve, Renewal – where Prime Minister Narendra Modi will speak on “Unstoppable Bharat: The Force of Now” today, 17 October
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya, former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, British High Commissioner to India Lindy Cameron, BCCI Chief Selector Ajit Agarkar and actors Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Ishaan Khatter will also be among the guests who will speak amidst the two-day event at the Bharat Mandapam in Delhi.
News Edit KV Raman
