A Recap of Agami Summit, 2022

The Summit took place on 9th-11th December, 2022 in Panchgani, leaving us with a wholesome bag of memories to cherish for a lifetime. Here's what it looked like.

Jun 07, 2023

Agami Summit 2022 was a coming together of a community of over two hundred innovators and entrepreneurs in the justice field. The three-day residential Summit at MRA Centre, Asia Plateau, Panchgani, was a celebration of justice-makers and their work.

Touch, feel, shape

These are the words lying at the heart of the Summit experience. The Summit brings the community together in an experience designed to deepen relationships and have collaborations emerge. This is, for some, an opportunity to see themselves amongst the whole and, for some, to find new hope.

Aerial view of the venue showing an institute surrounded by trees on all sides — Drone view of the venue of Agami Summit 2022 ©Vayam Forum for Citizenship (Agami)

MRA Center, Asia Plateau, nestling between the western hills of the country, surrounded by greenery and crisp, clean air, became that space for Summit 2022. The beautiful natural corridors gently persuaded one to reconnect with nature and provided a space for quiet introspection as well as interaction with others.

“Allowing that time to engage with others, to make friends, to laugh about silly things, to bond over shared experiences - that’s where true collaboration comes about. It comes from more organic spaces and I think that’s what the Summit has created.”
- Antaraa Vasudev, Founder, Civis

The days were packed with conversations around the evolution of dispute resolution; creating an inclusive justice system for persons with disabilities; exploring pathways and limitations of collaborations within enterprises; envisioning how AI has stepped into the justice space; and more! The Summit also saw a showcase of innovative solutions by legal tech start-ups, pop-up charchas around sensing the prisons; discussions about reinventing law schools, legally empowering communities, enabling change within the system; and so much more.

A Glimpse of the Justicemaker Showcases at the Summit

Lalita Devi, talking at the Summit, about her journey, that not only did she become a senior video producer in Delhi, coming from a small village reporting background, but also hers is a story of breaking societal barriers and giving wings to her dreams

Kshitij Batra, talking at the Summit, about how there is a huge scope of public goods and public good provisions when it comes to digitisation, digital data and digital tools and being able to use them

Dr Mittali Sethi, talking at the Summit, recounting her experience of being warned of difficulties ahead by a call in middle of a meeting, ten days after she joined public office as an IAS Officer

Osama Manzar, talking at Summit, about how he realised it was time to use digital as a medium to let the world know to not consume others' information, instead produce our information

Pankaj Mishra talking about Shamnad Basheer, saying how the past couple of days felt like he was meeting characters from legends, fairytales and folklore at Summit, giving him a feeling that the stories are alive and that only one character is missing amongst them

Akkatai Teli, talking at the Summit, stressing on the importance of women, participating in governance and understanding laws; because unless they do, the government won't be working for them

Vivek Raghavan, talking at the Summit, asking the question that when new technology comes in, does it actually increase division in society and if we are evolving to become a society of digital haves and have nots

→ Watch the Justicemaker Showcases

Art at Summit

Justice is a feeling, and art is a powerful touchpoint of feelings, our feelings and feelings of others and in that sense art and justice are interlinked.
-Ritvik Lukose, Co-founder, Vahura

A person holding a sketchbook, drawing a man holding a tambura, an indigenous musical instrument — Artist capturing a moment of Summit 2022 ©Vayam Forum for Citizenship (Agami)

At Panchgani, the Summit experience was inter-weaved with artworks and with sounds from the heart of the country— kabir ke bhajans, folk songs and stories of how the artists came to know and love their indigenous instruments, taking us through a journey of feeling the voices from the ground and why everyone is doing what they are doing.

A man playing a khartal under trees, with a woman singing in the background — Talab Khan at Agami Summit 2022 ©Vayam Forum for Citizenship (Agami)

→ Watch all Performances

Don’t miss the after-film!

In case you missed it, here’s the after-movie of the Summit that packs within it a piece of the feeling that was the Summit and captures some of the sweeter memories!