JGU to Host Prestigious STAR Scholars Network Global Conference 2026

SONIPAT: Nov. 20, 2025 : Following a competitive bidding process, O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) has been selected to host the 2026 STAR Scholars Network Global Conference from 10-14 December 2026. This was announced during the 2025 STAR Global Conference hosted last month by Istanbul Aydin University in Türkiye. O.P. Jindal Global University will convene the conference for the second time in India, where global scholars will gather to explore how humanity can thrive amid rapid advances in AI and the growing urgency of sustainability.

The conference will be organised on the theme “Flourishing in the Age of AI and Sustainability.” The upcoming 2026 conference is expected to draw leading academics, policymakers, researchers and practitioners from across continents, offering a crucial platform to explore how higher education can navigate and shape a world defined by accelerating technological change and urgent sustainability challenges. With AI transforming labour, governance, culture and communication, and sustainability becoming a defining moral and developmental imperative, the conference aims to investigate what “human flourishing” looks like in a rapidly shifting global landscape.

Prof. (Dr.) C. Raj Kumar, the Founding Vice Chancellor of O.P. Jindal Global University said, “The STAR Global Conference is hosted by a different country every year. The annual conference brings together scholars from around the world to foster cross-border collaborations for scholarly and cultural exchange. It is considered as one of the most influential global forums on higher education, internationalisation and knowledge collaboration with over 20,000+ members from 2353 colleges and universities across 115 countries around the world. Earlier, JGU hosted the 2021 STAR Global conference virtually from India because of the COVID-19 pandemic.”