Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set address the global audience for the first time in the post post-COVID-19 lockdown world. The Prime Minister will deliver the inaugural address at the India Global Week 2020 on Thursday afternoon, during a virtual conference being organised in the UK. Notably, the conference will also feature a "never-seen-before" performance on the Aatma Nirbhar Bharat campaign.

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PM Modi will be addressing the event at 1:30 PM today. The event will see participation from global thought leaders and captains of industry, who will discuss aspects relating to opportunities in India as well as the global economic revival post-COVID.

The event is themed as 'Be The Revival: India and a Better New World' and will have 5,000 global participants from 30 nations and it will be addressed by 250 global speakers in 75 sessions.

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The event will be attended by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Commerce and Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor G C Murmu, Isha Foundation founder Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, and spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the PMO statement said.

The UK's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, Home Secretary Priti Patel, and US Ambassador to India Ken Juster are some of the other participants in the event, it said.

The performance on 'Aatma Nirbhar Bharat' will be delivered by Madhu Nataraj while a special 100th birth anniversary concert will held as a tribute to sitar maestro Ravi Shankar by three of his most eminent students.

The organisers expect senior business and strategic expert speakers to attract a 5,000 strong audience worldwide over the course of the summit. The event is being organised online in the wake of coronavirus crisis.