One Globe Conference

Background

One Globe Conference provides an ideal annual platform for companies, universities, organizations, governments and civil society to build their brand, thought leadership. The annual event also provides an excellent opportunity to network with key decision makers and thought leaders. One Globe’s curated digital content of videos, email, photographs, and editorial coverage of the conference through the year helps to engage a diverse global audience. Organizations like Cisco, Adobe, Yes Bank, NYU Wagner, Wagner, and WISE.

One Globe’s knowledge partners have included - Knowledge@Wharton , PwC, Brookings Institution, US India Business Council, UK India Business Council, TiE, Swedish Chamber, MAIT, The Chamber of Commerce and Industry France India (CCIFI). Media Partners have included – BrainGain Magazine, The International New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Sunday Guardian, The Telegraph and Asia Briefing.

One Globe 2015

In its fourth edition, the "One Globe: Uniting Knowledge Communities conference" was held in March 2015 at The Imperial, New Delhi, inaugurated by Hon'ble Shree Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (independent charge) for Power, Coal and New and Renewable energy, Govt. of India.

The topics of discussions were mobility, connectivity and ubiquity – described by Harjiv Singh as "shaping the 21st century landscape" by being the key drivers of economic development. They are also widely seen as key enablers of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Government of India's initiatives such as Smart Cities, Digital India and Make in India.

Through a mixture of keynote speeches, panel discussions and interactive sessions, a number of ideas were mooted by educators, policy makers, C-suite executives, and Government officials. From deliberating the importance of making India a global knowledge destination, to including citizen participation in policy making, allowing better IT integration & even deliberating the urgent need to addressing current skill deficit in India, One Globe 2015 made a breakthrough by bringing the key stakeholders to deliberate the real enablers of socio-economic development in India and the South Asian region.

Cisco, U.S.-India Business Council, Brookings India, The College Board, Knowledge@Wharton, The Telegraph, MAIT, Asia Briefings, BrainGainMag & Gutenberg Communications were some of the key partners that were instrumental in driving the event’s success in producing the two-day showcase event. Building on its reputation from previous years, One Globe 2015 saw some renowned speakers such as Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (I/C) for Power, Coal and New and Renewable Energy, Government of India, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Minister of State for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (I/C) and Parliamentary Affairs, Government of India, Anurag Thakur, Member of Parliament & National President, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), Amitabh Kant, Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP) &, Chairman, Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC), Dr. Subir Gokarn, Director, Research, Brookings India, Onno Rühl, India Country Director, World Bank, Stéphanie Durand, Manager, International Growth, Coursera, Mittu Chandilya, CEO, AirAsia India, Debasish Mitter, Country Director, India, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Varun Sood, CIO & Head - Strategic Initiatives, Fortis Healthcare Limited, Lalit Gupta, Vice President, Oracle Corporation, Public Sector & Education ISG, APAC & Japan, Dinesh Malkani, President, Cisco India and SAARC, Ankhi Das, Public Policy Director, Facebook, India, South & Central Asia, Anant Nath, Editor - The Caravan, & Alumni of IIM Lucknow and Columbia University, Rajiv Bajaj, Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Bajaj Capital Limited, Falguni Nayar, Founder & CEO, Nykaa.com, Dr. Manish Gupta, Vice President at Xerox Corporation, Director of Xerox Research Centre in India, Manoj Ladwa, Chief Executive - MLS Chase & Founder, India Inc., Aashish Kalra, Chairman, Cambridge Technology Enterprises, Dr. Vinnie Jauhari, Director, Education Advocacy Microsoft, Meenakshi Lekhi, Member of Parliament, BJP National Spokesperson, Advocate & Social Activist, Dr. Bibek Debroy, Economist & Full-time Member, NITI Aayog, Amarinder Singh, Founder & CEO, Clove Dental, Ashok Trivedi, Co-Chairman, IGATE Corporation, Dhruv Agarwala, Co-founder, PropTiger, Gordon Fairclough, South Asia Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal, Sajjad Ashraf, Adjunct Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy & Former High Commissioner of Pakistan to Singapore, Sunil Kant Munjal, Joint Managing Director, Hero MotoCorp among others. In the lunch keynote, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, minister of state for skill development and entrepreneurship (independent charge), and parliamentary affairs, Govt. of India discussed skill development in India with a balance of critique and optimism. At one point he stated “We have an unorganized workforce, but it is nothing to be disappointed about. We have started now what we should have 60 years ago. The government has planned it out. We are talking about many out-of-the-box ideas to create a skilling ecosystem in the country, for which we need support from all of you”.

One Globe 2014

The third edition of the “One Globe: Uniting Knowledge Communities” Conference was organized in February, 2013, at The Imperial Hotel, New Delhi, India, & inaugurated by Salman Khurshid, Honorable Union Minister of External Affairs, Government of India.

The conference continued to build on its theme of discussing and (in the process) discovering, the real enablers’ that would drive economic growth in India and the South Asian region.

Through series of keynote addresses, expert panels and interactive sessions held over the two day event, the conference served as a platform wherein dignitaries enthusiastically participated in identifying the significant challenges for India, and South Asia, on the journey towards becoming a 21st-century knowledge hub –such as, highest rates of adult illiteracy, lack of quality education, shortage of teachers, low internet penetration, a low gross enrollment ratio across the education spectrum, and most importantly, limited exchanges within the South Asian region.

College Board, Adobe, BFU Blossoms, International New York Times, BrainGainmag.com, U.S. India Business Council, Knowledge@Wharton, Media Value Works, WISE, The Indus Entrepreneurs, Gutenberg Communications, PHD Chamber, & The Sunday Guardian were some of the key partners that were instrumental in driving the event’s success. Key speakers included Salman Khurshid, Minister of External Affairs, Government of India, Smt. Preneet Kaur, Minister of State for External Affairs, Government of India, Manish Tewari, Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, Onno Ruhl, India Country Director, World Bank, Anurag Thakur, National President, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), Umang Bedi, Managing Director - South Asia, Adobe Systems, Dr. Subir Gokarn, Director, Research, Brookings India, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution USA, Som Mittal, Former President, NASSCOM, Mr. Kotaro Tamura, Adjunct Professor, Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore and Chairman, Strategic Initiative of Japan, Suneet Singh Tuli, Founder and CEO, DataWind Ltd, Varun Sood, CIO, Fortis Healthcare Limited, Sukumar Ranganathan, Editor, Mint, among others. In his keynote address, Hon’ble Minister Manish Tewari, Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, Government of India discussed the role of internet and digitization of knowledge repositories as key contributors in uniting knowledge communities across the world. Tewari said “The internet was the most audacious experiment in anarchy and has succeeded. In the past two decades there has been a fundamental transformation in the information architecture of the world –the emergence of the Internet has broken the geographic and physical barriers to the way knowledge is disseminated.”

One Globe 2013

The second annual “One Globe: Uniting Knowledge Communities” (#OG 13) Conference was organized in February, 2013, at The Imperial Hotel, New Delhi, India. It was inaugurated by Dr. Pallam Raju, Honorable Union Minister of Human Resources Development, Government of India. The conference served as an engaging forum with leaders from government, academia, business, non-profit and multilateral institutions debating and discussing the elements of creating a 21st-century knowledge based economy.

Topics explored the linkages across the knowledge spectrum, from K-12 to higher education, to innovation to technology. Weaving a holistic thread across discussions, from the four pillars of learning to the creation of world class universities, from India's demographic dividend, to the use of technologies, like tablets and mobile video in delivering education, from rapid urbanization and designing sustainable innovative cities, building capacity in skills development by looking at community colleges and encouraging entrepreneurship, to the imperative of educating women.

The International Herald Tribune, BrainGainmag.com, U.S. India Business Council, Knowledge@Wharton, The Indus Entrepreneurs, WISE, Gutenberg Communications, PHD Chamber, & The Sunday Guardian were some of the key partners that were instrumental in driving the event’s success.

Key speakers included, Dr. Karan Singh, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha); President of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), and India’s Ambassador to UNESCO, Hon’ble Minister Preneet Kaur, Minister of State for External Affairs, Government of India, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of India, Mr. Stavros N. Yiannouka, CEO, World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), R.K. Pachauri, Director General of The Energy and Resources Institute(TERI), Madhav Chavan, CEO, Pratham & WISE Prize for Education Laureate and many more.

In a special keynote, Hon’ble Minister Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Government of India, expressed the need to focus on socio-economic development along with technology driven education initiatives. Tharoor said “If I had to pick the one thing that we must do above all else, I now offer a two-word mantra: educate girls” –answering the perennial question: What is the single-most important thing that can be done to improve the world?

One Globe 2012

The first conference featured moderated open discussions with leading scholars and expert panelists, and provided participants with an in-depth view of how innovative solutions can help solve real world challenges in education. In two days of sessions and round-table discussions, the conference focused on exploring the multiple opportunities in India and South Asia’s education sector.

Some of the corporate sponsors included YES Bank, the Institute of International Education (IIE), USA Community College Consortium and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).

The International Herald Tribune, BrainGainmag.com, U.S. India Business Council, Knowledge@Wharton, The Indus Entrepreneurs, UK India Business Council, Gutenberg Communications, Ecole Hoteliere Lausanne, Habiart Foundation, Global Partnerships Forum and Centre of Community Initiative were some of the key partners that were instrumental in driving the event’s success in producing the two-day showcase event.

Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for HRD & Communications and Information Technology, Government of India, announcing the need of an open platform, where students will be able to access courses from other universities, interact with international faculty members, and, in the process, generate knowledge, said, “We have to move forward as One Globe, reuniting knowledge communities”. Sibal also urged for the private sector to increase their participation to give a boost to the Gross Enrolment Ratio to 42 million by 2020.

Some of the key speakers and dignitaries included Sam Pitroda, Advisor to the Prime Minister, Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations, Ron Somers, President, U.S.-India, Business Council, Lord Loomba CBE, Founder Chairman, The Loomba Foundation, Shantanu Prakash, Chairman and Managing Director, Educomp Solutions Limited, Jacques Steinberg, Senior Editor, The Choice and The Learning Network, The New York Times, Dr. Mukesh Aghi, Chairman & CEO, Steria India, and many more.

Website content

One Globe also publishes content such as videos and articles on its website and social media channels.