The seventh edition of the International Process Safety Conference (INPSC) convenes at a pivotal moment—when India’s energy and process industries are not just responding to transformation, but are poised to lead it.

As our sectors embrace decarbonization, digitization, and decentralization, one imperative stands immutable: Process safety is national capacity. It is not merely a compliance function—it is the bedrock of public trust, industrial competitiveness, and strategic continuity. From the refinery to the boardroom, from regulatory corridors to plant operators, the question before us is not whether we can prevent the next incident—but whether we are building systems that make them unthinkable.

Yet, legacy systems alone cannot bear the weight of future risk. Emerging hazards—hydrogen handling, cyber-physical threats, extreme weather-induced vulnerabilities—demand an evolved mindset. One that is anticipatory, adaptive, and AI-augmented. Verdantix and global safety benchmarks point to a common pattern: despite technology availability, organizations lag in digital integration, cultural alignment, and human capital readiness. This must change.

This edition of INPSC is anchored around a bold new theme—Process Safety 5.0: Intelligence. Integrity. Impact. It marks a call to action: to elevate safety from a siloed support function to a strategic value driver. It demands leadership at the highest level, investment in real-time visibility, cross-sectoral collaboration, and a firm commitment to embed safety into the core of ESG, innovation, and national industrial resilience.

INPSC 2026 brings together the torchbearers of this transformation. With India as the world’s fastestgrowing energy market, this platform assumes global relevance. Here, industry majors, regulators, innovators, and advisors will converge to define the next blueprint—across AI-powered risk intelligence, barrier health, leadership accountability, and resilience in design.

For the Indian energy and process industries, this is more than a conference. It is an opportunity to shape a new industrial ethos—where safety is not the absence of incidents, but the presence of foresight.

We invite you to not just attend, but to lead—because in Process Safety 5.0, leadership is the strongest safeguard we can build.