puducherry the speakers at the cxo conclave under the theme reimagining redefining reclaiming growth in puducherry organized by the southern india chamber of commerce and industries sicci and chithirai business associates jointly with puducherry government outlined the opportunities and strategies in investing in different sectors including electronics aerospace and defence and electric vehicles in the union territory of puducherrythe chamber sicci is looking forward to working with puducherry in bringing more business delegations to the territory there is ample scope for drawing investments in electronics aerospace and defence and electric vehicles and startups said sicci president ar rm arun while welcoming the gathering of the conclaveconsul general of france in puducherry lise talbot barre said there is a great scope for france and puducherry to work together after france took over the leadership of the european unionczech embassy new delhi charge daffairs roman masarik listed out the collaborations in arts and architecture right from the design of auroville by architect and furniture maker george nakashima to the present industrial partnership between puducherry and rest of the worldfuture focus managing director and sicci technology committee chair m v subramanian while pointing out that the industry was moving from a centralized world to decentralized autonomous offices called for community exchange programmes to bring about transformation in the societylatent view analytics former chief executive officer and sicci startups committee chair gopi koteeswaran said over 12 of the startups were focused on deep technology and emerging as an area of interest cultural stigma and risk averse nature were being slowly overcome and the next set of unicorns would emerge from tier 23 cities he saidtac economics managing director vivien massot said the war in ukraine persistent health uncertainties were causing stagflation and a policy conundrum however the strong forex reserves managable external debt robust fdi inflows and business confidence have created a good platform for growth for india he saidglobal logistics director naveen prakash outlined some of the advantages of the puducherry port and stressed the need to be explore the merits to its full potentialearlier while addressing the gathering lieutenant govenor additional charge tamilisai soundararajan and speaker of the legislative assembly of the union territory of puducherry pointed out that the union territory has emerged strongly from covid19 pandemic and has witnessed growth in all sectors particularly in tourism tamilisai appealed to the investors to explore the possibilities of investing in business education spirituality and tourism