TENTATIVE AGENDA - DAY 1
6th March 2026
08:30 – 09:30
Registration
Opening Plenary
Multi-Purpose Hall
09:30 – 10:30
Sh. Raj Bhushan Chaudhary
Hon’ble Minister of state
Ministry of Jal Shakti, Govt. of India
Sh. Yugal Kishore Joshi
Programme Director
Drinking Water & Sanitation, IT & Telecom,
Tourism & Culture, Water & Land Resources
Lead-Communication and NER-NITI Aayog
Mr. Loic Fauchon
President
World Water Council
Ms. Ulrike Kelm
Deputy Executive Director
International Water Resources Association
Dr. Arvind Kumar
President
India Water Foundation
10:30 – 11:00
TEA
ESG-Aligned Finance & Governance to Combat Greenwashing
11:00 – 12:00
Plenary-I
Dr. Satya Tripathi (Chair)
Secretary General
Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet
Dr. Nagesh Kumar
Director
Institute for Studies in Industrial Development
Ms. Bharti Birla
Enterprise Development Specialist
International Labour Organisation (ILO)
Mr. Saumitra Srivastava
Member
Board of Directors-Indian Oil
Mr. Pankaj Sharma
Senior Consultant-India Water Foundation
Director-Green Wattage
Dr. Priyadarshi Dash
Associate Professor
RIS
Session – 1
12:00 – 12:45
Mr. Ranjeet Pande
Chairman
ESG & Sustainability Board-ICSI
Ms. Surabhi Gupta
Chief General Manager
SEBI
Mr. Sanmit Ahuja
Director
Climate and Energy Transition finance Initiative (CETFI)
Ms. Sarika Gosain
Partner & Leader- ESG & Sustainability
Pierag Consulting
Mr. Rajan Ratna
Chief Advisor-India Water Foundation
Former Deputy Head-SSWA Office UN ESCAP
Dr. Nagesh Kumar (Moderator)
Director
Institute for Studies in Industrial Development
CEOs Leadership Dialogue
12:45 – 13:45
Ms. Deepali Khanna
Vice President-Asia Regional Office
The Rockefeller Foundation
Mr. Amit Kumar
Chairman
A I Engineering Services Ltd.
Ms. Anjali Makhija
CEO & Trustee
S M Sehgal Foundation
Mr. S. A. Verma
Executive Director/Environment
DMRC
Anand Shekhar
CEO
Water Aid India
Mr. Rajan Ratna (Moderator)
Chief Advisor-India Water Foundation
Former Deputy Head-SSWA Office UN ESCAP
13:45 – 14:45
LUNCH
Navigating Interdependencies of the Water-Energy-Health-Environment Nexus
14:45 – 15:45
Plenary-II
Mr. James Dalton
Director-Global Water & Wetlands Team
IUCN
Mr. Ravi Singh
Secretary General & CEO
WWF India
Mr. Casper Mayland
Counsellor, Environment / Political and Economic Section
Royal Danish Embassy, New Delhi
Ms. Ulriske Kelm
Deputy Executive Director
International Water Resources Association
Dr Aakash Shrivastava
Additional Director
Centre for Environmental & Occupational Health,
Climate Change & Health
National Centre for Disease Control
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
Government of India
Dr. Paras Pujari
Chief Scientist and Head-Water Resources Group
CSIR-NEERI
Session – 2
15:45 – 16:30
Dr Ritesh Kumar
Director
Wetlands International South Asia
Dr. Alok K Sikka
Country Representative- India & Bangladesh
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Mr Anshul Jain
Senior Expert – Water and SWM
European Business and Technology Centre (EBTC)
Dr. Sutirtha Sahariah
Senior Vice President
Head of Communications
Sulabh International
Dr. Hitesh Vaidya (Moderator)
Chief Technical Advisor
India Water Foundation
16:30 – 17:00
TEA
Global Leaders Dialogue
17:00 – 18:00
Dr. Satya Tripathi (Moderator)
Secretary General
Global Alliance for Sustainable Planet
H H Shri Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudeva
Spiritual Head
Isha Foundation
Mr. Raj Kumar Beniwal IAS
Managing Director
Gujarat Narmada Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd.
Secretary Urban Housing
Dr Eric Tardieu
Director General-International Office of Water
Secretary General- International Network of Basin Organisations
Vice President- World Water Council
Mr. Alex Simalabwi
Executive Secretary & CEO
Global Water Partnership
Ms. Ulrike Kelm
Deputy Executive Director
International Water Resources Association
Mr. Ash Pachauri
Co-Founder & Director
POP Movement
Inauguration Ceremony
followed by
Awards & Reception Dinner (Rose Garden)
18:30 Onwards
Sh. Om Birla
Hon’ble Speaker
Lok Sabha
Dr Arvind Kumar
President
India Water Foundation
Col. Akhilesh Kumar Pandey
Chief Post Master General
Delhi Circle
India Post, Government of India
TENTATIVE AGENDA - DAY 2
7th March 2026
Cross-Sectoral Water Transversality for Accelerating Net Zero
09:30 – 10:30
Plenary-III
Mr. Pradeep S Mehta (Chair)
Secretary General
CUTS International
Mr. Abhishek Gupta
Head-International Appliances, Rooftop Solar & PE & A
Energy Efficiency Services Ltd.
Dr. Sanjay Vashistha
Director
Climate Action Network South Asia
Dr. Debajit Palit
Centre Head- Centre for Climate Change & Energy Transition
Chintan Research Foundation
Ms. Nidhi Pundir
Vice President-Global CSR
Director- HCL Foundation
10:30 – 11:00
TEA
Session – 3
11:00 – 11:45
Prof. Medha Bisht
Associate Professor
South Asian University
Prof. Kshemendra K Upadhyay
Professor & Chairperson
Centre for Sustainability & CSR
BIMTEC
Ms. Kalyani Raj
Patron
All India Women’s Conference
Ms. Neha Gupta
Founder
IFBEC
Mr. Pradeep S Mehta (Moderator)
Secretary General
CUTS International
Greening Industry, Fuelling Growth via ESG Partnerships for Sustainability
11:45 – 12:45
Plenary-IV
Mr. Sampath Kumar (Chair)
CEO
Meghalaya Basin Development Authority
Government of Meghalaya
Dr. Nagesh Kumar
Director
Institute for Studies in Industrial Development
Mr. Ratnesh Jha
Executive Director
UN Global Compact India
Prof. Rabi Mohtar
Governor- World Water Council
Director, Water Security,
Texas Water Resources Institute
Texas A&M University
Mr. Levente Kardos
Economic and Commercial Counsellor
Embassy of Hungary, New Delhi
Session – 4
12:45 – 13:30
Ms Veena Sinha
Divisional Railway Manager
Izzat Nagar Division
North Eastern Railways, Ministry of Railways
Government of India
Mr. Pankaj Sharma
Senior Consultant
India Water Foundation
Dr. Swati Verma
Assistant professor
ISID
Dr. Nagesh Kumar (Moderator)
Director
Institute for Industrial Development (ISID)
13:30 – 14:30
LUNCH
Global Cooperation for Planetary Health Diplomacy
14:30 – 15:30
Plenary-V
Mr. Amit Ghosh (Chair)
Additional Chief Secretary
Government of Uttar Pradesh
Dr. Virinder Sharma
Member Technical
Commission for Air Quality Management
Government of India
Ms Sonja Koeppel
Secretary, Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary
Watercourses and International Lakes
Environment Division
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Mr. Alain Meyssonnier
President-Mediterranean Water Institute
Governor- World Water Council
Ms. Ulrike Kelm
Deputy Executive Director
International Water Resources Association
Mr. Roy Chiti
Regional Coordinator & Representative
Pacific Island states, India, Srilanka & Maldives
UN Habitat
Session – 5
15:30 – 16:15
Mr. Vinod Mishra
Country Director
UNOPS
Dr. Manoj Nesari
Advisor
Ministry of Ayush, Government of India
Ms. Sara Casillas Ramirez
Forestry Officer
FAO
Ms Ambika Vishwanath
Co-Founder
Kubernein Initiative
Ms. Nidhi Nagabathla
Professor
UN University, Belgium
Ms. Varinder Gambhir (Moderator)
Country Director
BBC Media Action
Leadership Dialogue II
16:15 – 17:00
Sh. Anil Gupta
General Secretary
Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh (RSS) Delhi
Sh. Rakesh Jain
Akhil Bhartiya Paryavaran Sah Sanyojak
Paryavaran Sanrakshan Gatividhi
Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS)
His Holiness Acharya Shri Lokesh Muni
Founder
Ahimsa Vishwa Bharti
Sh. Sharwan Goel
Vice President
Sewa Bharti (Al India)
Founder- Ganga Sewa Sansthan
Valedictory
17:00 – 18:00
Sh. Anil Gupta
General Secretary
Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh (RSS) Delhi
His Holiness Acharya Shri Lokesh Muni
Founder
Ahimsa Vishwa Bharti
Ms. Mikiko Tanaka
Director & Head
SSWA Office- UN ESCAP
Dr. Arvind Kumar
President
India Water Foundation
18:00 Onwards
Hi-Tea
TENTATIVE AGENDA - SIDE EVENT
DAY 1 – 6th March 2026
Seminar Hall, First floor, Kamla devi block, India International Centre
11:00 – 12:00
SM Sehgal Foundation
Integrated Pathways: Operationalizing
the Water–Energy–Health–Environment
Nexus for Resilient Futures
12:00 – 13:30
India Water Foundation
Streams of Change: Collaborative
Action Against Ecosystem
Contamination
13:45 – 14:45
LUNCH
15:00 – 16:00
BBC Media Action
From Water Bankruptcy to Water
Resilience
16:00 – 17:30
IUCN
Towards Resilient Urban Futures:
Opportunities for Freshwater
Conservation in India through
Nature/Ecosystem-based Solutions
18:00 Onwards
Inauguration followed by Awards and Cocktail Dinner
DAY 2 – 7th March 2026
Seminar Hall, First floor, Kamla devi block, India International Centre
12:00 – 13:00
ICID
Technological Innovations for Nexus
Optimization
13:00 – 14:00
LUNCH
14:00 – 15:00
Wetlands International-
South Asia
Wetlands as Nexus Infrastructure:
Integrating Water, Energy, Health, and Environment for Resilient Futures
15:00 – 17:00
India Water Foundation
and India Water
Partnership
Water Transversality in Action-For
Energy, Environment and Health Nexus
