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Rising Bharat 2026 is a global forum that reflects the confidence and capability driving India’s rise. Built around the theme Strength Within, the summit brings together leaders, policymakers, and industry voices to shape a future powered by India’s own resolve and ambition. This is where national purpose meets global ambition, transforming resilience into a roadmap for excellence on the world stage. Be part of the movement shaping a stronger, self-reliant Bharat.
THE PROGRAM
This session explores how gold continues to shape resilient portfolios, global investment strategy, and wealth preservation in an increasingly uncertain economic landscape.
CEO, World Gold Council
This session explores the mindset of champions, uncovering how resilience, discipline, and the will to push beyond limits shape sporting excellence and inspire a nation to aim higher.
Olympic Bronze Medalist & Former World No. 1 Badminton Player
2-Time Olympic Medallist & Padma Bhushan Awardee
This session decodes why strong institutions, disciplined capital, and long-term conviction remain the true anchors of wealth creation across changing market cycles.
Veteran Investor & Member, BSE
Founder & MD, MK Ventures
MD & Head, Norwest India
This session will examine how Aatma Nirbharta has evolved from a domestic resilience strategy into a platform for global leadership driving exports, strengthening supply chains, attracting investment, and positioning India as a decisive force in international trade.
Union Minister for Commerce and Industry
This session examines how expanding digital and physical connectivity is empowering citizens, unlocking regional potential, and accelerating India’s journey toward inclusive national growth.
Union Minister for Communications and Development of North Eastern Region
This session examines how India’s manufacturing, technology, and digital innovation ecosystems are powering globally competitive products and positioning the nation as a driving force in the world economy.
Union Minister for Railways, Information & Broadcasting and Electronics & IT
This session celebrates youthful curiosity and innovation, showcasing how young minds can connect ideas, inspire change, and leave a lasting impact on India’s digital future.
8yrs old - Youngest Speaker at AI Impact Summit
This session captures how a new generation of artists is redefining Bharat’s cultural soundscape, blending global influences with local identity to create music that resonates across borders and audiences.
Rapper and Songwriter
Rapper, Producer, Songwriter & Hip-Hop Artist
This showcase spotlights the rapid evolution of financial innovation, highlighting how technology, new-age platforms, and bold ideas are reshaping the future of finance in real time.
MD & CEO, JFS
This insightful session outlines how visionary leadership, innovation, and scale-driven strategies are shaping enterprises capable of building solutions for billions in a rapidly transforming India.
MD & CEO, JFS
MD & CEO, Mercedes-Benz India
Chairman & CEO, EY India
This session explores the evolving role of Gen Z in nation-building, examining how youth aspirations, values, and participation are shaping the social and developmental narrative of a new India.
Akhil Bharatiya Prachar Pramukh, RSS
This session explores how India’s legacy enterprises are transforming into global leaders, driving energy, infrastructure, and industrial innovation while shaping the country’s strategic role in the world.
Director, ESSAR Group
This session showcases how India is emerging as the global hub for GCCs, driven by talent depth, innovation ecosystems, and enterprise transformation attracting companies from across the world.
MD & CEO, WeWork India
Partner & GCC Industry Leader, Deloitte South Asia
EVP & Global GCC Practice Head, HCL Tech
Co-Founder & CEO, Embark GCC
This session explores how India and Europe are strengthening a strategic partnership built on trust, sustainability, innovation, and shared global priorities in an increasingly interconnected world.
Ambassador of Norway to India
Ambassador of Sweden to India
Ambassador of Germany to India
This session explores how bold individual voices are shaping cultural and political conversations, celebrating Vocal for Local and Ghar Ghar Swadeshi while reflecting on identity, nationalism, and the power of unapologetic storytelling in a changing India.
Actor, Filmmaker, Writer & MP
This session celebrates longevity in cinema, reflecting on reinvention, relevance, and the relentless passion that has sustained his enduring presence across generations of Indian entertainment.
Actor
This session explores how meaningful storytelling and conscious choices are redefining success in cinema, as purpose-driven narratives shape the new blockbuster era.
Actor
This session showcases the growing strategic convergence between India and ASEAN, highlighting how diplomacy, trade, and regional cooperation are creating new opportunities in an evolving Indo-Pacific landscape. This session showcases the growing strategic convergence between India and ASEAN, highlighting how diplomacy, trade, and regional cooperation are creating new opportunities in an evolving Indo-Pacific landscape.
Former Foreign Minister, Singapore
This landmark keynote by the Prime Minister will capture the spirit of a confident, self-assured Bharat; a nation drawing from its inner strength, collective resolve, and civilisational depth to shape a self-reliant future and claim its rightful place on the global stage.
Hon’ble Prime Minister of India
This session explores how seekers from around the world found purpose, belonging, and transformation in Bharat- through its culture, spirituality, storytelling, and soul.
French Journalist, Historian, & Author
Global Spiritual Leader, Speaker & Author
Co-Founder and CEO, IndoGenius
Actor
This session examines how ideology and identity shape contemporary governance, and what their collision means for India’s political future.
MP & National Spokesperson, BJP
National Spokesperson, Congress
This session explores the rise of India’s DJ culture, tracing its journey from passion to global platforms and celebrating the fearless energy driving a confident, creative, rising Bharat.
Youngest Club DJ In The World
DJ/Producer, IDA World Champion
DJ, VJ, Festival Director, Anchor, Co-founder - Submerge
Music Enthusiast
This session decodes India’s growth blueprint from policy ambition and reform momentum to the structural challenges that will shape the country’s next decade.
Member PM EAC
Former CEO, NITI Aayog
Founder, Dhan Chakra Financial Education
This session examines how India’s top academic leaders are redesigning higher education, aligning policy, innovation, and global partnerships to build a future-ready knowledge economy.
Dean - School of Engg. & Science & Director-in-Charge, IIT-M, Zanzibar
Campus Director – International Branch Campus (India), University of Wollongong, Australia
Dean, Queen’s University Belfast-GIFT City Campus
From trade wars to trade wins, this session examines how geopolitical shifts and supply chain rewiring are opening new strategic growth opportunities for India and other emerging powers.
Former US Secretary of Commerce; Member, Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center Advisory Council
This session explores how contemporary narratives balance storytelling and political subtext, shaping the way audiences interpret meaning.
Author & Screenwriter
Film Critic & Writer
Actor
This session explores how a 3x Grammy-winning Indian composer is using music as a global platform to drive environmental action, cultural diplomacy, and meaningful change.
3x Grammy Award Winner; Padma Shree Awardee; UN "Goodwill Ambassador"; Music Composer & Environmentalist
This session explores how medical innovation, global healthcare partnerships, and public awareness are transforming obesity care and unlocking India’s vast healthcare market opportunity.
President & GM, Eli Lilly India
A conversation on how India’s creator economy, podcasts, and digital storytelling are reshaping influence, trust, and audience engagement in the new media age.
Founder & Host, The Prakhar Gupta Xperience (PGX); Author; Youtuber; Podcaster
Former RJ, Digital Content Creator, Influencer
Entrepreneur; Angel Investor; Finance Influencer
Founder, GingerMonkey; Co-founder, Hood
This session explores how sacred sound, bhakti, and the phenomenon of bhajan clubbing cultivate inner resilience, grounding, and strength in a restless world.
UK Based Bhajan Clubbing Artist & Bhakti Yoga Teacher
This session explores how technology, data intelligence, and governance frameworks are converging to build a resilient, transparent, and scalable credit ecosystem for a rising Bharat.
Whole Time Member, SEBI
CEO, PhonePe Lending
Co-founder & CEO, Idfy
MD, Equifax India
A conversation on sporting journeys, challenges, and breakthrough moments that shaped some of India’s finest cricketing careers.
Cricketer
Former Cricketer
Cricketer
This session examines why global giants like Pernod Ricard are betting big on India, and what it reveals about the country’s rising influence in boardrooms worldwide.
CEO, Pernod Ricard India
This session looks at how Indian enterprises are creating seamless end-to-end ecosystems, from factory floor to final delivery, to meet domestic and global ambitions.
CEO, DTDC Express
Co-founder & CEO, PEP Brands (mCaffeine & Hyphen)
Co-founder & COO, Shiprocket
CEO & Founder, Citymall
This session examines how shifting power dynamics, emerging technologies, and evolving geopolitics are redefining defence strategy, diplomacy, and the future of modern warfare.
Swiss Based Military Historian & Author
This session explores rock balancing as both an art and a metaphor for resilience, focus, and inner strength in an unpredictable world.
Balance Artist
This session explores how India’s top chefs blend regional traditions with modern techniques to craft a cuisine that is rooted in heritage yet globally ambitious.
Chef & Culinary Entrepreneur
Indian Celebrity Chef, Head Chef, Nisaba & Author
Food Blogger
The conversation will focus on how air power, military preparedness, and strategic decision-making determine conflict outcomes and national resilience amid growing global instability.
Austrian Aerial Warfare Analyst & Historian
The session will showcase how voice AI, multilingual innovation, and secure conversational platforms are enabling scalable digital transformation across sectors.
Co-founder, SarvamAI
This session examines how India is building capital, capability, and advanced AI infrastructure to secure its digital future and drive the next phase of Bharat’s growth.
Additional Secretary, MeitY
Co-Founder DeepTech, Bharat Foundation (AI4India.org)
Venture Capitalist & Founder, Margaris Ventures
Founder, CEO & Chairman, QpiAI
Co-founder & CEO, QNu Labs
This session explores how India’s space and deep-tech pioneers are pushing boundaries, building world-class aerospace capabilities that redefine ambition and autonomy for a rising nation.
Founder & CEO, Pixxel Space Technologies
CEO & Co-founder, Raphe mPhibr
Co-founder & CEO, ideaForge
Founder & CEO, Digantara
This session explores Apple’s China journey to draw strategic lessons for India, exploring how the country can navigate global supply chains and shape the next phase of technology and manufacturing leadership.
Technology & Business Author
This session explores how advanced manufacturing, defence production, and industrial innovation are driving Bharat toward rapid, globally recognized industrial leadership.
Chairman L&T, MBDA; Sr VP & Head, PES, L&T
CEO & MD, Dynamatic Technologies
Vice President, Strategy Development, Air Mobility and Maritime Missions, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
This session examines how the nation's strategic clarity and focus on building internal capability are strengthening India’s defence preparedness, while enabling the country to play a stabilising role regionally and globally.
Defence Secretary
The session will explore contemporary global security challenges, analysing how armed forces can adapt to hybrid warfare, cyber threats, strategic competition, and alliance-based defence in a rapidly changing world order.
GCB CBE DSO Gen, Former Chief of the Defence Staff, UK
This session explores how current leadership is shaping Delhi into an inclusive, globally connected, and future-ready city, highlighting the transformative impact of urban governance, diplomacy, and sustainable development.
Chief Minister, Delhi
An incisive conversation on how India is transforming its cultural legacy into a dynamic engine of tourism, livelihoods, and economic growth, with Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat.
Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
This session examines whether AI is truly a threat to human jobs or a catalyst for reinventing work, leadership, and value creation in the age of intelligent machines.
Founder & CEO, Vianai
This session explores the origins, significance, and contemporary relevance of Vande Mataram, examining how history, law, and politics continue to shape its place in India’s national consciousness.
Sr Advisor, Minister of Information & Broadcasting, GoI
Lawyer; Politician; Social Activist; National Media Panelist, BJP
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha; Chairman of the Ethics Committee, Rajya Sabha
This session explores why mental health must move from the margins to the mainstream, shaping the way India thinks, works, learns, and lives.
Former Chairperson, NMC & Former Director, NIMHANS
Chairperson Mental health program, Fortis Healthcare and Adayu Mindfulnes
Mental Health Influencer
This session explores who shapes the boundaries of belief in modern India, law, faith, politics, or the people, and what that power means for a constitutional democracy.
Scientist, Author & Political Commentator
SC Advocate
Commentator
Diplomat, Politician, & Author
This session convenes India’s leading doctors, scientists and industry voices to confront the escalating antimicrobial resistance crisis and chart a coordinated path from policy to bedside.
Chairman, Institute of Internal Medicine & Respiratory and Sleep Medicine & Director, Medanta Medical School
Scientist, Indian Council of Medical Research
Professor, Microbiology and Hospital Infection Control Division of Laboratory Medicine, AIIMS
Professor at Biotechnology Research and Innovation Council (BRIC) – Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI)
This session explores how India is steering through shifting global power dynamics, forging strategic alliances, and tackling geopolitical challenges in an increasingly multipolar world.
Former Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations at New York/ Former Ambassador of India to Bhutan
Former Ambassador of India to the United States
Chancellor, JNU & Former Foreign Secretary of India
This session delves into the power of the written word as both resistance and reckoning, reflecting on the courage to speak truth to power amid exile, extremism, and attempts at erasure.
Author & Physician
This session examines how constitutional law, individual freedoms, and judicial interpretation are defining the legal and democratic landscape of a new Bharat.
ASG
Lawyer SC
Lawyer, Supreme Court of India & Delhi High Court
Lawyer, Delhi High Court & Supreme Court of India
This session brings various political visions head-to-head on governance, accountability, and the key policy debates shaping India’s democratic future.
Social Activist
National Spokesperson, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
SP
A conversation on inclusion, representation and how various voices are reshaping political discourse, policy priorities, and democratic participation in a rapidly evolving India.
National Spokesperson, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Congress Leader
National Spokesperson Samajwadi Party
Founder, Milli Chronicles
THE KNOWLEDGE HUB
News18 Rising Bharat Summit 2024| Leading for Global Good | Day 1 - 19th March
Rising Bharat Live | Prime Minister Narendra Modi Live At News18 Rising Bharat Summit 2024
Witness the Dawn of a New Power With News18 Rising Bharat Summit 2024 | Rising Bharat Summit 2024
