The fourth edition of the annual international geopolitical conference, Bay of Bengal Conversation, will be held in Dhaka in November 22-24.
The Centre for Governance Studies, a local think tank, organises the conference in cooperation with governments, international organisations, diplomatic missions and corporate houses.
In a press release issued on Friday, the think tank said that the theme of the 2025 conference would be 鈥楻ivals, Ruptures, and Realignments鈥� highlighting rapidly shifting global landscape, rising regional assertiveness and growing uncertainties around security, economy and climate in the Bay of Bengal region and beyond.
The five key agendas of the conference are shifting alliances and the new geometry of power, crisis multiplied: war, fragility and the end of global stability, AI, disinformation and the weaponisation of knowledge, economic realignments in an era of sanctions, debt, de-risking, climate, borders and security in a warming bay.
Following the success of the previous editions, the 2025 conference will bring together 200 speakers and 800 participants from over 80 countries, including heads of state, ministers, diplomats, lawmakers, military officials, business leaders, academics, journalists and civil society representatives.
As the world experiences geopolitical fragmentation and the erosion of traditional alliances, the Bay of Bengal Conversation aims to provide a South-driven platform for dialogue, insight and collaboration.
In a fractured and polarised global environment, the 2025 conference will serve as a critical venue to understand the recalibration of global power dynamics, explore the impacts of technological disruption and address the intersections of climate and conflict, and connectivity in the Indo-Pacific and beyond.