Overview
- The three-day conference will be hosted at the Manekshaw Centre with the National Maritime Foundation as knowledge partner, bringing together naval leaders, policymakers and experts.
- This year’s theme, “Promoting Holistic Maritime Security and Growth: Regional Capacity-Building and Capability-Enhancement,” signals a concerted push to convert talk into coordinated action.
- The agenda pairs material capacity-building with organizational capability-enhancement, addressing undersea cable protection, port resilience, climate security, blue economy integration, maritime domain awareness and disaster risk reduction.
- IPRD 2025 builds on the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative launched in 2019 and aligns with the Navy’s MAHASAGAR vision spanning from eastern Africa to the Americas and south to Antarctica.
- Organizers frame the dialogue as part of the region’s executive cooperation layer linked to IONS and WPNS, with India’s renewed chairmanship of IONS expected to help drive practical collaboration.