Overview
- The two‑day 30th CII Partnership Summit will run November 14–15 at the Andhra University Engineering College grounds in Visakhapatnam.
- Vice‑President C. P. Radhakrishnan will inaugurate the event, Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal will open the state pavilion, and Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu is leading the outreach.
- A pre‑summit India–Europe roundtable on November 13 will precede the sessions, with the chief minister meeting delegations from Taiwan, Italy, Sweden and the Netherlands alongside corporate representatives.
- An official release projects nearly ₹10 lakh crore in prospective MoUs across green energy, IT, electronics, automobiles, defence, space and tourism.
- Planned highlights include inaugurating the WEF Centre for Frontier Technologies, laying foundations for a Google project and a Lulu Mall, signing a Singapore–Vijayawada flight MoU, and sessions on AI and public finance.