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We are living through a threshold moment. The certainties that once governed our world are dissolving, making space for new possibilities, new paradigms, and new questions. It is in this dynamic, uncertain now that the NDTV World Summit 2025 sets its compass - toward what must be discovered, imagined, and defined collectively. For the greater good.
In a world shaped as much by complexity as by contradiction, this summit is an aggregation of conversations – a gathering of thought leaders who come to question the familiar, the uncertain, and to explore what must now be reimagined and newly understood.
We live in a world unmoored from familiar anchors. In every domain – political, economic, technological, ecological, spiritual – we are witnessing tectonic shifts. Established orders are giving way to emergent ideas. Indeed, this is the age of transformation – radical, recursive.
And yet, within this climate of uncertainty lies a quiet power: the possibility of reinvention.
Edge of the Unknown: Risk. Resolve. Renewal is an invitation to venture beyond boundaries and borders – to explore the unfamiliar in pursuit of a more conscious, collective future.
The 2025 edition of the NDTV World Summit will bring together an extraordinary gathering of minds – heads of state, cultural icons, business architects, innovators, and voices of moral imagination to engage in a new kind of dialogue. One rooted in courageous questioning, in thoughtful exploration of what it means to navigate complexity with clarity and conscience.
Across its sessions, the Summit will trace three arcs:
Risk, not as fear, but as a frontier. We will unpack the strategic, environmental, technological, and societal risks that will define the next decade. From generative AI to global realignments, from democratic backsliding to data sovereignty, from climate tipping points to psychological thresholds – the future will be viewed as a terrain to be understood and shaped, rather than perceived as a threat.
Resolve, not as a reaction, but as an intention. The Summit will spotlight those who are responding with clarity, courage, and conviction. Leaders who are redefining growth to mean inclusion. Innovators who are building with purpose. Citizens who are reimagining the purpose of being and becoming. Institutions that are recalibrating to the idea of good.
Renewal, not as restoration of what was, but as regeneration of what could be. From rewiring global systems to rekindling local communities, the Summit will examine how renewal must begin with narrative – and how stories shape systems. What do we choose to believe about the future? And how do those beliefs shape the futures we build?
As the world moves between contradiction and creativity, between exhaustion and emergence, this Summit will offer a multitude of directions for truth, hope, and transformation. For reconciliation. Across longitudes, in a brave new world.
And at the heart of this inquiry is India – a civilizational force experiencing the throes and triumphs of modernity in real time. A nation negotiating its contradictions with tenacity and courage. Its story of ambition and reinvention offers a template of possibilities to the world – one that reflects the paradoxes of the global moment and the insatiable appetite for transcending them.
The NDTV World Summit 2025 is where inherited realities meet unwritten futures – a space to challenge what is, disrupt what no longer serves, and design the world as it ought to be.
Because the edge of the unknown is not where things end.
It is where they begin.