{"id":59086,"date":"2026-08-15T13:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T07:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedeccanmessenger.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/15\/iit-alumni-council-invites-young-thought-leaders-to-present-at-the-world-wisdom-connect-new-delhi-on-23-august-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T13:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T07:58:19","slug":"iit-alumni-council-invites-young-thought-leaders-to-present-at-the-world-wisdom-connect-new-delhi-on-23-august-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedeccanmessenger.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/15\/iit-alumni-council-invites-young-thought-leaders-to-present-at-the-world-wisdom-connect-new-delhi-on-23-august-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"IIT Alumni Council invites Young Thought Leaders to present at the World Wisdom Connect, New Delhi on 23 August 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New Delhi [India], August 15:<\/strong> The IIT Alumni Council will host the World Wisdom Connect (wwCONNECT) in New Delhi on 23 August 2026. For this event, the Council\u00a0will\u00a0select and invite India\u2019s top young thought leaders to present their recommended\u00a0pathways\u00a0for Viksit Bharat 2047.<\/p>\n

Interested speakers\u00a0may submit\u00a0a\u00a01,000-word synopsis along with\u00a0a\u00a0recommendation\u00a0from\u00a0any member of the IIT Alumni Council. There is no minimum age\u00a0requirement,\u00a0and\u00a0presentations may be delivered in\u00a0Hindi or English. Students above the age of 18 are encouraged to apply.<\/p>\n

Entries should be sent to\u00a0applications@iitac.org<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0with a copy to\u00a0delhi@wwconnect.org<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0on or before Tuesday, August 18th<\/sup>, 2026. Selected candidates will be intimated on August 19th<\/sup>, 2026, along with their time for recording in Central Delhi.<\/p>\n

The presentations would be video-recorded in New Delhi between the 20th<\/sup>\u00a0and 22nd<\/sup>\u00a0of August, with the top eleven young thought leaders presenting live on the wwCONNECT stage. The event provides a unique opportunity to interact with a select group of IIT Alumni change leaders at one of the most prestigious closed-door IIT alumni events.<\/p>\n

wwCONNECT is being convened under the World Wisdom Forum Initiative of the IIT Alumni Council. It will bring together leaders from government, industry, capital, research, academia, and civil society to explore ideas and initiatives with the potential to accelerate Viksit Bharat. The Council\u2019s mission and initiatives are guided by MegaSpheres, a civilisational orientation paradigm. It examines development through the lens of consequence, interconnectedness, and quality of life, and provides the basis for inviting nations to review and recalibrate their development plans. Such recalibration looks beyond a world that is largely organised around Survival of the Fittest, the Quest for Control and the Monetisation of Power. That thinking is reflected in the themes brought to wwCONNECT: recognising each individual as unique; moving beyond broadcast models of education and component-level healthcare; and seeking alternatives to exploitative luxury and environmentally damaging manufacturing.<\/p>\n

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Each wwCONNECT begins with a lead presentation on its theme, followed by short presentations, moderated dialogues and focused exchanges. Participants will present ideas, research and initiatives, identify potential collaborators and examine how promising work can move from discussion towards implementation. wwCONNECT draws together the people and institutions concerned, brings causes and proposals before those able to act, and engages with government, industry and capital where required.<\/p>\n

Where an idea or initiative merits further action, the IIT Alumni Council will help bring the relevant people and institutions together and facilitate the conversations needed to take it forward. The first wwCONNECT will invite IIT Alumni Council change leaders to participate in a closed-door interactive session with the 11 chosen young thought leaders for a breakfast-to-midnight event on the 23rd<\/sup>\u00a0of August.\u00a0<\/p>\n

NITI Aayog CEO Anurag Jain will open the inaugural session with the lead presentation, \u201cViksit Bharat \u2013 Context, Vision & Pathways\u201d.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The young thought leaders will present the approaches and pathways they are working with\u2014across education, healthcare, climate change, rural development, goodness, legal reform, capital markets, venture capital, public policy and transformational technologies.<\/p>\n

The Council\u2019s Global City Chapters and affiliated entities\u2014such as the Lutyens Club of policymakers, the Bombay Club of corporate leaders and the Bodhi Club of wisdom seekers\u2014will\u00a0carry these\u00a0conversations\u00a0forward\u00a0and\u00a0advance\u00a0the work that emerges from them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIndia\u2019s next stage of development will draw on many fields, institutions and forms of capability at<\/em> once. The IIT Alumni Council sits across an unusually wide range of them. wwCONNECT is an attempt to put that breadth to useful purpose, around questions that no single sector or institution can address on its own,\u201d said\u00a0<\/em>Ravi Sharma, President & Chief Volunteer, IIT Alumni Council.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cwwCONNECT will bring people and institutions from different fields into conversation and prepare the way for the World Wisdom Forum. The aspiration is to bring people from many countries and many fields to New Delhi for a civilisational inquiry into the questions of our time, and what may be carried forward together. We see in it the beginning of a civilisational renaissance,\u201d added\u00a0<\/em>Satish Mehta, Convenor of the IIT Alumni Social Fund.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The event is being lead-sponsored by four venture studio accelerators supported by the IIT Alumni Social Fund:\u00a0FT Morris Ltd, Jodhpur; Gold Berries Technology Pvt Ltd, Mumbai; Ionique Research Ltd, Delhi;\u00a0and Development Catalyst, Travancore.<\/p>\n

About the IIT Alumni Council<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Founded in 2019, the IIT Alumni Council is the largest global body of alumni across all twenty-three IITs, with over 50,000 members in 100 city chapters worldwide and over 3,000 patron members. The members are united by a common purpose to use technology for accelerating socio-economic progress in India and mitigating climate change globally. The Council is dedicated to initiatives serving national progress and long-term public purpose. It is not a campus alumni association or an umbrella body of alumni\u00a0associations. It is an independent and autonomous non-profit, organised by the Indian hometowns of its worldwide members. The Council hosts City Chapters in over one hundred locations globally, including several small-town and remote rural locations in India.<\/p>\n

The Council brings considerable experience of organising at scale. During the pandemic, its COVID Task Force organised testing and prevention work across cities and institutions. Its members\u2019 efforts since have included energy & transport transition, preventive health & longevity, indigenous smartphone & AI standards, public digital infrastructure leveraging and rapid diffusion of transformational technologies. Behind these efforts stand IIT Alumni Council members \u2013 a voluntary force widely considered the most powerful innovation army on the planet, with Brand IIT, one of the world\u2019s leading technology brands, as their insignia.<\/p>\n

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