On Day 1 of the IFQM Symposium 2026 in New Delhi, leaders across government, industry and academia stressed that quality, innovation and scale must underpin India’s drive to Viksit Bharat. Speakers included Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, N. Chandrasekaran and SN Subrahmanyan. IFQM signed an MoU with Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and honoured Venu Srinivasan.