---

The 2021 edition of the “Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue” (IPRD ), which is an annually recurring, apex-level international conference of the Indian Navy on maritime strategy, would be held online over a three-day period, namely, 27, 28, and 29 October 2021. The National Maritime Foundation (NMF) is extremely proud to be the Indian Navy’s Knowledge Partner and the chief organiser of this mega-event.

What each edition of the IPRD aims to do, is to review the prevailing geopolitics within the Indo-Pacific region and identify both opportunities and challenges arising from these geopolitical moves and countermoves of regional and extra-regional powers. As such, not only is each annual IPRD central to India’s own policy-formulation, it is also of lasting centrality to all other countries within the region, and, as such, its relevance can hardly be overstated.

Apart from a short opening and closing session, the IPRD 2021 will comprise eight professional sessions that will concentrate upon the following themes:

Theme 1: Evolving Maritime-Strategies within the Indo-Pacific: Convergences, Divergences, Expectations and Apprehensions.

Theme 2: Adaptive Strategies to Address the Impact of Climate Change upon Maritime Security.

Theme 3: Port-led Regional Maritime Connectivity and Development Strategies.

Theme 4: Cooperative Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) Strategies within the Indo-Pacific.

Theme 5: Impact of the Increasing Recourse to Lawfare upon a Rules-based Indo-Pacific Maritime Order.

Theme 6: Strategies to Promote Regional Public-Private Maritime Partnerships.

Theme 7: Strategies to Address the Manned-Unmanned Conundrum at Sea

Theme 8: Energy-Insecurity and Mitigating Strategies.