Delegation

Connect Collaborate & Co create

Australia and India share a strong and growing Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, emphasized by deep cooperation across defense, critical and emerging technologies, renewable energy, education, and trade and investment. The relationship is characterized by sustained leadership engagement, including annual Prime Ministerial Summits, regular ministerial dialogues and close coordination through multilateral platforms such as the Quad, G20, and East Asia Summit. This strategic background provides an opportunity to advance industry-led, implementation- oriented engagement that complements government-to-government initiatives. The delegation is envisaged as a platform to deliver tangible, implementable outcomes—including MoUs, joint research roadmaps, pilot projects, and industry-academia collaboration models—directly supporting Australia–India strategic, economic, and innovation objectives.

The objective of this initiative is to catalyze joint research, strategic investments, and talent partnerships that strengthen
bilateral leadership in critical and emerging sectors.

Prof V. Ramgopal Rao

Group Vice-Chancellor Birla Institute of Technology & Science

Mr Amit Gossain

Managing Director KONE Elevator India & South Asia

Objectives

India–Australia commitments to deepen collaboration across science and technology, maritime cooperation, trade and investment, defense
engagement, and education

Advance India–Australia collaboration across science, technology, trade, defense, and education.
Translate the Strategic Partnership into actionable industry–academia initiatives.
Deepen cooperation and strengthen trade and investment in key sectors.
Promote education, research, and talent mobility partnerships.
Support emerging technology collaboration.
Benchmark best practices in industry–academia engagement.
Enable joint research, co-development, and technology transfer.