- Friday, May 17, 2024
By: Shubham Ghosh
THE United Arab Emirates (UAE) edition of the two-day India Global Forum (IGF) kicked off in Dubai on Monday (13) where a bevy of top policy-makers and business leaders assembled to discuss tech innovation, expansion of regional partnerships, growth frontiers and global climate concerns.
India’s minister of commerce and industry Piyush Goyal and minister of state for skill development and entrepreneurship and electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar were among the participants on the inaugural day of the event which was jointly hosted by India Inc. Group, the consulate general of India in Dubai and the Embassy of India, New Delhi.
Other key speakers at the IGF included the UAE’s minister of state for artificial intelligence Omar bin Sultan al Olama and minister of state for foreign trade Thani bin Ahmed al Zeyoudi; chief executive officer (CEO) of the Indian government’s public think-tank NITI Aayog Amitabh Kant and the CEO of InvestIndia Deepak Bagla.
“The three Ts of trade, technology and tourism are the three areas we want our embassies all over the world to promote and these are the areas we need to give priority to,” Indian foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said on the occasion.
He said the United States, Israel, the UAE and India are a new quartet of economic constructs.
“We are taking forward what the best our four countries have to offer. It will be quite a unique partnership,” he said.
Sunjay Sudhir, India’s newly appointed ambassador to the UAE, said his team is excited about the round table on unicorns.
“All through the very difficult times of Covid-19, one category of people who have really sailed us through are the entrepreneurs,” Sudhir said.
According to the official website, the IGF is the agenda-setting platform for international business and global leaders.
It presents a selection of platforms that international corporations and policymakers can leverage to interact with stakeholders in their sectors and geographies of strategic importance.
(With PTI inputs)
