Stage is set for the 8th Global Entrepreneurship Summit-2017 in Hyderabad from Tuesday with the focus on the prosperity of all through empowerment of women.
The event, jointly hosted by the Indian and the US Governments will be inaugurated by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre and Ivanka Trump, the daughter and advisor US President Donald Trump will lead the American contingent.
Amitabh Kant, CEO of Niti Ayog and Kenneth Jester, the US ambassador to India said that the majority of 1,500 delegates at the three day event will be women.
“More than ten countries including Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Israel will be represented by all female delegations”, they said at the media briefing.
A number of leading women including Cherie Blair, wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Indian ace tennis player Sania Mirza, Google’s Vice President of Next Billion User Dian louis Patricia, Roya Mahboob of Afghan Citadel Software company will speak at the plenaries, break out sessions, master classes and workshops.
While the inaugural session on Tuesday afternoon will be addressed by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Ivanka Trump and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, Ivanka will also feature in another important session on Wednesday morning on “We can Do it: Innovation in workforce deployment and skills Training”. Cherie Blair, founder of Cherie Blair foundation for Women, Chandrana Kochhar, MD and CEO of ICICI Bank, Karen Quintos chief Customer officer, Dell EMC will be among the other speakers.
The venue and the roads leading it to were under complete security blanket as the Hyderabad city police has deployed more than 10,000 personnel to ensure the safety of the VVIPs and the delegates. The inner circle security at the HICC and the hotels where Ivank Trump and other members of her delegation will visit has also been taken over by the US Secret Service agents.
According to the schedule released by the officials the special aircraft carrying Ivanka Trump and her entourage will arrive at the Shamshabad International Airport at 3 am on Tuesday. Ivanka will head to her hotel (either Westin or Trident in the Hitech City). She will remain in the hotel till the afternoon and reach the HICC for the inauguration of GES at 3 pam. She will return to her hotel at 5 pm and leave for the Falaknuma Palace at 8 pm to attend dinner hosted by Prime Minister Modi.
Next day she will attend the GES events in the morning and was expected to leave for the US at 5 pm.
Prime Minister Modi will land at the Begumpet airport at around 1 pm on Tuesday and will fly by helicopter to Miyapur and from there to HICC. He will leave the city at around 10 pm after attending the dinner at Falaknuma palace.