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WSA Global Congress - Hyderabad, India

January 28, 2025

Apr 6 - 9

Program flow

Day 1, Sunday, April 6

11:00-13:00 - Test your pitching
WSA Peer to Peer Pitch Rehearsal for Winning Teams
13:00-14:45 - WSA winning teams welcome
Information & Networking Session
Global Innovation Exchange
WSA National Experts Networking Exchange for WSA National Experts and WSA Youth Ambassadors
15:30-16:30 - Global Community Get2Gether
17:00-19:00 - WSA Board of Directors Meeting
19:00-21:00 - Why Hyderabad? Get to know the buzzing innovation ecosystem
Jayesh Ranjan, Special Chief Secretary, IT & EC, Government of Telangana State
Sujit Jagirdar, CEO, T-HUB
Osama Manzar, Founder & Director Digital Empowerment Foundation

Day 2, Monday, April 7

09:30-10:30 - WSA Global Congress Welcome & Inauguration
10:30-11:00 - Futurizing Democracy | Threats and Opportunities in the Digital Age
Keynote
11:00-11:45 - The Ethical Dilemma: Power and Agency in the Age of AI
Panel discussion
12:00-13:00 - Digital & Us - Impact Solutions for Local Challenges: Global Perspectives
Inspiration Shot Talks
13:00-14:00 - Lunch Break & Digital Sangam
14:00-16:00 - Connect 4 Impact
Winners Roundtables
Regulation 4 Innovation
Ministerial Roundtable
16:00-18:15 - Impact Solutions for Global Challenges
WSA Winners Pitches in the Categories
Business & Commerce | Learning & Education | Inclusion & Empowerment | Culture & Heritage

Day 3, Tuesday, April 8

09:30-10:00 - The Human Costs of Digital Divides
Keynote
10:00-11:15 - Equity by Design. Building Tech That Reflects Everyone
Inspiration Shot Talks
11:15-12:00 - Regulation 4 Innovation
Panel Discussion
12:00-14:00 - Digital Sangam & Networking Lunch
14:00-15:15 - Impact Entrepreneurship
Peer2Peer Exhchange
Global Digital Compact & WSIS Process
Ministerial Roundtable
Digital Democracy & Us
Fishbowl
16:00-18:15 - Impact Solutions for Global Challenges
WSA Winners Pitches in the Categories
Environment & Green Energy | Health & Well-Being | Smart Settlements & Urbanization Government & Citizen Engagement | Young Innovators

Day 4, Wednesday, April 9

10:00-20:00 - Digital Impact Academy
Parallel Workshops & Roundtables
13:00-16:00 - Telangana Site Visits
19:30-22:00 - Digital Impact Solutions for the UN SDGs
Award Ceremony & Gala

Support the WSA Youth Community

Empower Young Innovators. Shape the Future.

In times of crisis and misinformation, young changemakers need support more than ever. WSA equips them with the knowledge, networks, and opportunities to drive real impact.

At the WSA Global Congress 2025 in India, youth innovators will connect with global leaders to tackle today’s biggest challenges through digital solutions. But many can’t afford to attend.

Help us raise €15,000 to fund scholarships for 10 young innovators from crisis regions. Your support covers travel, stay, and participation—turning dreams into action.

Every contribution counts. Let’s make innovation accessible to all!

Supporting and Strategic Partners

The Global Congress is co-organized by WSA and the DEF.

World Summit Awards (WSA) is a global community initiative that champions innovation ecosystems in 182 UN member states. WSA operates an international jury and award system to identify and honour digital impact solutions tied to the UN SDGs. WSA is working with a network of global experts with a focus on digital ingenuity for people, planet and prosperity.It serves as a due diligence engine and trend tracking pipeline for ESG partnerships. WSA was initiated in 2003 in the framework of the UN World Summit on the Information Society and closely works with UN entities like UNESCO, ITU, UNIDO, and the Youth Office to achieve its objectives - which include narrowing digital divides and contributing to an inclusive knowledge society.

The Digital Empowerment Foundation started almost at the sametime as WSA, as a Delhi-based nonprofit organization. Since morethan 20 years DEF is working towards empowering people to gainaccess to better healthcare, education, skills and livelihoodopportunities through digital literacy and digital tools. Theorganization’s main focus is to make technology easily accessible tothe masses, to empower women, youth, persons with disabilitiesand the elderly through providing functional digital literacy, medialiteracy, and digital up-skilling across agriculture, micro and nano-business, health, education, livelihood, and entrepreneurial skills.

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