SARC Davos Dialogue 2026 opened with global leaders debating capital allocation, resilience, and strategic autonomy at WEF.
Davos Press Release
As geopolitical fragmentation, climate risk, and volatile capital flows unsettle long-held economic certainties, SARC opened the “SARC Davos Dialogue 2026 - Ideas to Impact” at the World Economic Forum, led by Sunil Kumar Gupta, Chairman and Global Leader, with two high-level, closed-door roundtables that placed capital allocation and strategic autonomy at the centre of global debate.
Running from 19 to 23 January 2026, the Dialogue began on Day One with focused discussions bringing together global investors, policymakers, industry leaders, and domain experts to examine how nations and enterprises must recalibrate strategy in an era increasingly defined by resilience rather than predictability.
Roundtable 1: Capital in a Fractured World
1400 hrs - 1515 hrs
The first roundtable, moderated by Lino Gandola, Founding Partner, Riceberg Ventures, examined how long-term capital is being redeployed as traditional assumptions around global stability and efficiency come under strain. Discussions highlighted a shift from asset-class-centric allocation toward jurisdiction-led strategies, with investors increasingly prioritising policy credibility, regulatory clarity, institutional resilience, and predictability of execution amid rising geopolitical fragmentation.
Participants noted that regulatory divergence, compliance risk, and geopolitical tensions are now central to investment decision-making across sectors, including venture capital, life sciences, AI, space tech, and deep technology. The session concluded that in an era of sustained geopolitical stress, capital must be anchored in resilience and system-level credibility, with India emerging as a key reference point for system-led investability in a fragmented global economy-a perspective underscored by Sunil Kumar Gupta, Chairman and Global Leader.
Other participants featured Rajendra S. Bagade (Senior Partner - SARC), Probir Roy (Global Lead | Fintech, Gaming & Frontier Technologies - SARC), Ashutosh Verma (Leader - Tech and AI), Ankit Anand ( Founding Partner - Riceberg Ventures), Balbir Singh (Senior Advocate| Supreme Court of India), Alicia Castillo Holley (GP - Founder Wealthing VC Fund), Raphael Roettgen (Founder @ E2MC (Earth-to-Mars-Capital), Yuri G. Rabinovich (Founder and Managing Partner, VNTR), and Medha Jaishankar (President of Omnivations & Filmmaker).
By convening global stakeholders at Davos, SARC demonstrated how thoughtful dialogue can translate complex challenges into actionable frameworks, reaffirming India’s role as a hub for sustainable growth and forward-looking enterprise.
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