Concept note
Resilient Futures. Reinventing business and leadership.
A decade of compounding shocks has redefined what it means for organisations, and the leaders within them, to be prepared for what comes next.
The 2020s have compressed a generation's worth of transformation into a handful of years. Pandemic disruption gave way to inflation and geopolitical instability; digitalisation gave way to the generative AI revolution; climate ambition gave way to climate reality. In this environment, resilience is no longer a defensive posture — it is the organising principle of competitive advantage.
From adaptation to reinvention.
Resilient organisations do more than absorb shocks. They reinvent themselves in response to new operating realities: reconfiguring supply chains for geopolitical risk, redesigning talent systems for hybrid work and AI augmentation, embedding sustainability into how value is created and measured, and rebuilding customer trust in an economy defined by attention and identity.
Leadership in a turbulent decade.
Reinventing business demands a new leadership vocabulary — one grounded in adaptive capacity, ethical judgement, and long-term stewardship. The 14th International Youth Conference brings together researchers, industry practitioners, and the next generation of leaders to ask what this vocabulary looks like across functions, sectors, and geographies.
Six lenses.
Six curated tracks — leadership, digital and AI, sustainability, finance, marketing, and operations — anchor the conversation. Each invites empirical, conceptual, and case-based contributions from scholars and practitioners globally.
Join us in Jaipur, 12–13 February 2027, to shape what resilient futures look like.
