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General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Dec 20, 2019
Race to Space: Race to Edge
Space Race 2.0. Is characterised by Individuals and enterprises flush with funds which are betting on a future in which space is more accessible, enjoyable and exploitable, and trips to distant…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Dec 18, 2019
Resolving Conflicts in Cyberspace
How can conflicts within cybersecurity be mediated and resolved? Latha Reddy, Former Deputy NSA GOI & Co-Chair of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, Aaron Shull, CEO, CIGI…
Elections - Op-Eds - Dec 17, 2019
A Full English Breakfast For Boris
Boris Johnson concluded his early morning victory speech like only a journalist gifted with the pen of humour can. “Ladies and gentlemen, so let’s get Brexit done. But first, let’s get breakfast done…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Dec 17, 2019
East Asia: Spectre of a Nuclear Conflagration
Indications are that Kim Jong Un is on the verge of breaking off all negotiations on denuclearisation and is likely to stage a significant event to mark this break just before the new year. Does this…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Dec 17, 2019
India's role in shaping the New World Order
In the vortex of disruptions in Geopolitics have institutions like the UN, WTO and ICJ been undermined because of unilateralism, protectionism and isolationism? Jayant Sinha, MP and Chairperson of…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Dec 16, 2019
Future of Conflict
Global trends indicate increasing instability and growing opportunity for confrontation and conflict. With the world in the midst of flux and technology being the prime driver for national power, it…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Dec 16, 2019
Embracing Digital Innovations
Admiral Timothy Fraser, CB, Vice Chief of Defence Staff, UK and Subhash Chandra, IAS, Secretary Defence Production GOI provided the respective perspectives of the UK and the Indian government on how…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Dec 16, 2019
Mizoram Brus: The Reluctant Returnees
The Brus or the Reang is a community indigenous to North East India, living mostly in Tripura, Mizoram and Assam. Despite two decades of living in exile, the Brus of Mizoram are still reluctant to…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Dec 13, 2019
The Future of Security- Building a 5G Ecosystem
A panel distinguished subject matter experts to include Aruna Sundararajan, IAS, former Telecom Secretary, GOI, Shinya Kukita, Chief Architect, Global Business Unit, NEC, Rajan Mathews, Director…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Dec 13, 2019
Navigating Geopolitical Uncertainties
Shyam Saran, Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India, gave his expert insights on how India can navigate geopolitical uncertainty of the 21st Century during the Synergia Conclave-2019.
Elections - Analyses & Assessments - Dec 12, 2019
Electoral Bonds: In Search of Transparency
Free and fair elections are quintessential for an effective democracy. Does the Indian electoral bonds scheme supplement or undermine the fundamental tenant of ensuring transparency in the electoral…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Dec 12, 2019
U.S. – China Technology War
Dr Paulraj, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University, Winner of the Marconi Prize & IEEE Alexander Bell Medal, speaking during the Synergia Conclave 2019 provided a larger perspective on the…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Dec 12, 2019
US Perception of the 5G Revolution
Admiral Dennis C Blair, Former Director of National Intelligence, US, addressed the Synergia Conclave-2019 through video on guidelines for building and deployment of the revolutionary 5G technology.
World - Analyses & Assessments - Dec 11, 2019
Global Protests-A society at war with itself?
The society at present is full of paradoxes- on the one hand, we are on the threshold of the next phase of the digital revolution and the other hand there is anger, distrust and disillusion with the…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Dec 11, 2019
Future of Manufacturing- Digital Manufacturing
Udayant Malhoutra, CEO/Managing Director of Dynamatic Technologies Ltd, a high tech manufacturing company spoke on Future of Manufacturing during Synergia Conclave 2019.
Elections - Op-Eds - Dec 9, 2019
The Maharashtra Muddle
The recent political shenanigans in Maharashtra can potentially be an inflection point in the increasingly unipolar politics of India. Since the 2014 general elections, the ruling Bharatiya Janata…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 29, 2019
Future of Security- Ecosystems
Rutger Van Zuidam, Founder and CEO, Odyssey took the Synergia Conclave 2019 on a journey along the ‘curve’, beyond any one’s imagination. Blockchain technology is itself unmindful of the concept of…
General Interest - Op-Eds - Nov 29, 2019
Crypto Currencies Versus Sovereign Currencies
In 1993, I was posted on deputation to the UN mission in Cambodia, which was called the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia or UNTAC. At that time, Cambodia was a devastated country, recovering…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 29, 2019
Mastering Agility in Geopolitical Uncertainty
Geopolitical uncertainty is on the rise, fuelled by volatile oil and gas prices, shifting Middle East alliances, Brexit shock to the EU, the insular policies of Trump administration and the…
Indian Politics - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 26, 2019
National Register of Citizens of India
The announcement of a nation-wide NRC by the Home Minister has been received with mixed emotions. Is the Nation prepared for this mammoth exercise?