- Context
- Youth IGF India's 9th Annual Forum needed institutional partners, sponsors and speakers to fund and legitimise a national programme aimed at bringing young people into internet governance.
- My role
- Organising Committee member, Partnerships & Sponsorship Lead, and moderator/lead of the closing panel. Ran the full partnerships outreach sprint and led panel design, speaker coordination and moderation.
- Partners engaged
- Secured MediaNama as Digital Media Partner and AnitaB.org India as Women in Tech Partner, alongside outreach to Youth Ki Awaaz, ASCI, Sarvam AI, Wadhwani AI, Takshashila Institution, Ikigai Law and The Quantum Hub.
- What we built
- The closing panel, "Growing Up Secure: Cybersecurity in the Age of AI," moderated by me, with Saikat Datta (DeepStrat), Anupam Guha (ADCPS/Trust Lab, IIT Bombay), Shreya Krishnan (AnitaB.org India) and Gowree Gokhale (independent counsel).
- Outcome
- The 9th Annual Forum was held on 4 September 2026 at IIT Bombay, co-hosted with ADCPS. Panel outputs feed into the Youth IGF India 2026 Outcome Document submitted to the UN IGF.
Partnerships and sponsorship
Building the institutional partner base for India's national youth internet governance forum.