Reviving skills. Rebuilding India
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Events

The conversations India
needs to have, out loud

MakeMyIndia Foundation brings the people who shape India's economy, education and culture into the same room as the people whose hands hold its skills.

What to Expect

Industrialists, educators and public voices on one stage

MakeMyIndia Foundation will conduct a continuing series of events featuring leading industrialists, prominent educators and major public personalities, speaking on the questions that will decide what India looks like in 2047: how we educate, how we value skill, how traditional crafts find modern markets, and how a developed economy can still be a deeply rooted one. Each event pairs voices from the top of Indian industry and academia with the voices too rarely heard on such stages: master artisans, skilled workers and the young people deciding whether to carry a tradition forward.

These gatherings are working sessions as much as they are talks. Every event is designed to end with something concrete: a Skill Center partnership, an industry sourcing commitment, a policy recommendation, a scholarship. We believe a conversation about India's future should always leave the room having changed it a little.

Register your interest
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Formats

Rooms of every size, purpose in every one

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Leadership dialogues

Industrialists and educators of national standing in conversation on skills, education reform and the economy of 2047.

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Craft demonstrations

Master artisans performing their craft live, because watching mastery at work argues for its value better than any speech.

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Partnership roundtables

Closed-door working sessions where companies, institutions and government bodies commit to Skill Centers and market linkages.

"Put a master weaver and an industrialist at the same table, and both leave knowing something the country needs them to know."
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Be in the room

Event announcements go out first to our community. Tell us who you are (attendee, speaker, sponsor or host institution) and we will keep you informed as the series takes shape.