Explore how Green Capex can accelerate India’s Net Zero ambitions by financing low-carbon infrastructure and energy projects. The panel will highlight policies, investment frameworks and partnerships needed to scale sustainable growth across the oil, gas and energy value chain.

The Oil Industry Safety Directorate (OISD) under the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas is dedicated to advancing safety, health and environmental standards across India’s Oil & Gas sector. This session will showcase innovative safety practices and successful case studies that enhance process safety and operational integrity. It aims to promote cross-industry learning and highlight the use of advanced technologies such as AI, IoT and predictive analytics in strengthening safety management.

Discover how AI, data analytics and digital platforms are transforming project monitoring and decision-making in India’s energy sector. This session will spotlight tools like the Pariyojana portal and explore new pathways to strengthen efficiency, transparency and accountability.

Explore the evolving dynamics of global oil and petrochemical markets and their implications for India’s energy security, demand growth, and energy transition pathways. Set against changing global market conditions, supply–demand realignments, and policy developments, the session will examine oil demand outlooks, refining and midstream capacity expansion, and petrochemicals competitiveness in a transitioning energy landscape. Bringing together global market experts, policymakers, and industry leaders, discussions will assess market trends, capacity enhancement strategies, export opportunities, and the role of policy in strengthening domestic manufacturing and value chains. The session aims to align global market insights with India’s long-term energy planning, resilience objectives, and decarbonisation goals.

Explore Assam’s integrated energy vision and its strategic role as the energy gateway of Northeast India at India Energy Week 2026. With established strengths in oil and gas, refining and petrochemicals, an expanding gas transmission and distribution network, and emerging opportunities in green and non-conventional energy, the State is positioned to contribute meaningfully to India’s energy security and transition goals. The session will highlight investment-ready opportunities, policy frameworks, and infrastructure initiatives, while enabling focused engagement between the Government of Assam, industry leaders, and investors to support sustainable and long-term energy development.

Explore how India’s power sector is transitioning from a capacity-led challenge to one of system-wide coordination, driven by rising renewable integration, distributed energy resources, storage, electric mobility, and increasingly active consumers. Set against rapid digitalisation through smart metering and utility IT modernisation, the session will examine the need for interoperable digital public infrastructure to enable secure data exchange, trusted transactions, and scalable system integration. Bringing together policymakers, system operators, utilities, and technology experts, discussions will assess the public value proposition of the India Energy Stack, pathways to national scale, and institutional choices shaping its adoption. The session aims to support reliable operations, regulatory visibility, and innovation across the power ecosystem, with opportunities to extend across other energy vectors.

Gain insights into the evolving role of carbon markets as they transition into policy-anchored instruments supporting national climate commitments and industrial decarbonisation. Anchored in the Paris Agreement’s Article 6 framework and India’s Carbon Credit Trading Scheme, the session will examine how international and domestic carbon market architectures coexist and evolve. Discussions will focus on implications for Indian industry, policymakers, and investors, including market design considerations, environmental integrity, and participation pathways. The session aims to support alignment between global cooperation mechanisms and India’s decarbonisation objectives, while enabling credible and scalable engagement in regulated carbon markets.

Explore the role of indigenous technology development in strengthening the competitiveness and resilience of India’s energy sector. Set against the challenge of translating fundamental research into deployable solutions, the session will examine pathways to advance technologies from laboratory-scale development to commercial deployment. Bringing together academia, industry, and government, discussions will assess barriers across the technology readiness spectrum, highlight successful collaboration models, and identify enabling policy frameworks. The session aims to improve technology translation outcomes, strengthen industry–academia partnerships, and accelerate the adoption of homegrown energy technologies.

Discover how Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and Second-Generation (2G) biofuels are reshaping India’s energy landscape and accelerating decarbonisation in hard-to-abate sectors. This session will examine commercial pathways, policy support and technology innovations that position India to become a global hub for SAF production and deployment, while unlocking new value chains through 2G biofuels. Learn how advanced feedstocks, strategic partnerships and emerging biorefineries are driving cleaner aviation, rural development and progress towards India’s Net Zero goals.

This focus session will explore pathways to strengthen cross-border power connectivity between India and Southeast Asia, supporting long-term energy security and the regional clean energy transition. Anchored around India’s One Sun One World One Grid (OSOWOG) initiative and the ASEAN Power Grid, the session will examine strategic, geopolitical, regulatory and technical dimensions of regional interconnection. Featuring perspectives from CII, ERIA and regional stakeholders, discussions will assess preliminary technical and economic findings, integration of renewable energy, grid harmonisation challenges and financing models. The session aims to gather critical inputs to inform the next phase of research and design for India–ASEAN power connectivity.