Want Global Business Summit to be the Davos of the East: Vineet Jain, Managing Director Times Group

The Global Business Summit (GBS) should evolve into a signature event along the lines of the World Economic Forum, said Vineet Jain, managing director of the Times Group. “Our ambition is for GBS to establish itself as the Davos of the East,” he said in his welcome address. “Unlike Davos, we don’t have snow here in Delhi. But the sun is shining on the world’s fastest growing large economy even as dark clouds gather elsewhere.”

The event has attained the stature of a key meeting ground.

“In only its fifth year, GBS has become synonymous with a summit where the influential talk about the consequential. Right from its inception, GBS has attracted people who wield real power and has generated ideas that matter,” he said. “This has become a meeting ground for policymakers, global and Indian business tycoons, disruptive tech entrepreneurs, and topnotch academics and thinkers. GBS summits have generated headlines that have influenced bottom lines.” GBS boasts of a roster of people who set the country’s agenda. “We are fortunate to have been able to attract a star-studded cast to GBS, led by PM Narendra Modi, who has so far graced this stage multiple times,” he said. “Like other years, you will hear key ministers who determine policies that shape India’s economy.”