Raisina: Dialogues From Facebook
16 January, 2018
In Conversation: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel with Samir Saran, Vice-President, Observer Research Foundation
In Conversation: Sujoy Bose, Chief Executive Officer, National Investment and Infrastructure Fund with Kabir Taneja, Associate Fellow, Observer Research Foundation
17 January, 2018
In Conversation: Katie Harbath, Director, Global Policy Programs, Facebook with Samir Saran, Vice-President, Observer Research Foundation
In Conversation: General Bipin Rawat, Chief of Army Staff, India with Indrani Bagchi, Diplomatic Editor, Times of India
In Conversation: Sushma Swaraj, External Affairs Minister, India with Ankhi Das, Director of Public Policy (India, South & Central Asia), Facebook
ISIS: The End of an Ideology?
Fauzia Abdi Ali, President of WIIS Kenya and Chair, Sisters without Borders General Chris Deverell, Joint Forces Commander, United Kingdom Brian Fishman, Counterterrorism Public Policy Manager, Facebook Kanchan Gupta, Commissioning Editor & Commentator, ABP News (moderator)
Mobilising Communities
Smriti Irani, Minister for Information and Broadcasting, India Karen Attiah, Global Opinions Editor, Washington Post Yalda Hakim, Host, BBC World News Ankhi Das, Director of Public Policy (India, South & Central Asia), Facebook (moderator)
In Conversation: Suresh Prabhu, Minister for Commerce & Industry, India with Shivnath Thukral, Public Policy Director (India and South Asia), Facebook
In Conversation: Nadia Schadlow, Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Strategy, U.S. National Security Council, with C. Rajamohan, Director, Carnegie India
Gender & Tech: Empowerment & Misogyny
Danielle Kayembe, Founder, GreyFire Impact Pascale Fung, Professor, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Bedavyasa Mohanty, Associate Fellow, Observer Research Foundation (moderator)
On Afghanistan
Jeffrey Smith, Research Fellow, Heritage Foundation, United States Sushant Sareen, Senior Fellow, Observer Research Foundation Maya Mirchandani, Senior Fellow, Observer Research Foundation (moderator)
18 January, 2018
Nuclear Irrationality: Pakistan, North Korea & Beyond
Wendy Ruth Sherman, Senior Counselor, Albright Stonebridge Group Shen Dingli, Professor, Fudan University Rakesh Sood, Senior Fellow, Observer Research Foundation (moderator)
In Conversation: Hamid Karzai, Former President, Afghanistan with Yalda Hakim, Host, BBC World News
Digital Money: New Pathways for Growth
Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog Tidhar Wald, Head of Government Relations & Public Policy, Better Than Cash Alliance Joseph Lubin, Co-Founder, Ethereum and Founder, ConsenSys Shivnath Thukral, Public Policy Director (India and South Asia), Facebook (moderator)
In Conversation: Abul Hassan Mahmood, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bangladesh with Shivnath Thukral, Public Policy Director (India and South Asia), Facebook
In Conversation: Admiral Harry Harris, Jr., Commander, U.S. Pacific Command with Samir Saran, Vice-President, Observer Research Foundation
Rethinking the Commonwealth, post Brexit
Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs, India Michael Fullilove, Executive Director, Lowy Institute Geoffrey van Orden, Member of the European Parliament for the East of England Dhruva Jaishankar, Fellow, Brookings India (moderator)
Right to Offend
Priyank Mathur, Founder, Mythos Labs, USA Radhika Vaz, Writer & Comedian Vani Tripathi, Board member, CBFC Maya Mirchandani, Journalist & Senior Fellow, Observer Research Foundation