Day 2
HIGHLIGHTS
Climate concerns and what’s next in digital
On the concluding day of the sixth edition of the ET GBS Global Summit 2020 at the Taj Palace Hotel here today, the focus was on climate change, global economic slowdown, India’s goal of becoming a $5 trillion economy, and the world’s digital future, among other issues.
Piyush Goyal, Minister of Railways and Commerce, India at the 6th ET- Global Business Summit
Day Two saw a premier gathering of policy and business leaders speaking on diverse themes such as leadership in the 2020s, the global economic slowdown, future of mobility, trends disrupting business globally, good governance, women in leadership, and the future in digital. They included Dandapani, Hindu priest and entrepreneur; Gen V.P. Malik, former Chief of Army Staff; Sri Shivananda, CTO, PayPal; Jeffrey Christopher Smith, Co-Founder and CEO, Smule; Richard Pierson, Co-Founder& CEO, Headspace, Dr. Rajiv Kumar, Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog; Allen Lau, Co-founder & CEO, Wattpad; Hon’ble Minister of Civil Aviation, Housing and Urban Affairs, Hardeep Singh Puri; Hon’ble Minister of Women and Child Development and Textiles, Smiti Zubin Irani; Sachin Bansal, Co-founder, Flipkart; Geeta Phogat,Woman wrestler,Fashion Designers Masaba Gupta and Manish Malhotra among others.
Dr. Deepa Malik at the 6th ET- Global Business Summit
Like all editions of The Global Business Summit, the sixth edition also has several global speakers. In the session titled “Trust in the Age of Disruption, Tony Hall, BBC Director General, Tony Hill said: “A democracy that can’t rely on access to truth is a democracy undermined. And a society in which two sides of a debate have no need to engage with one another on the basis of a genuine appreciation of what is happening is a society profoundly weakened”.
Rajnath Singh, Defence Minister, India at the 6th ET- Global Business Summit
