Important Summits & Conferences in 2016-17
Summits & Conferences are among the most commonly asked questions in various Bank & Government exams. Therefore, knowledge of the names of various important summits & conferences and places they were recently held at is very important for the general awareness preparation of bank & government exams.
The following article contains names of recently held summits and their locations.
Summits/conferences are meetings held by the Government/state heads to discuss issues of national and international interest. The meetings usually have tight security and considerable media exposure.
IMPORTANT SUMMITS:
| Summit Name | Year | Location |
| BRICS Summit | 8th Summit: Oct 2016 | Benaulim, Goa, India |
| 9th Summit: Sep 2017 | Xiamen, China | |
| G-20 Summit | 11th Summit: Sep 2016 | Hangzhou, China |
| 12th Summit: July 2017 | Germany | |
| G-8 Summit | 42nd Summit: May 2016 | Shima, Japan |
| 43rd Summit: May 2017 | Taormina, Italy | |
| SAARC Summit | 19th Summit: Nov 2016 | Islamabad, Pakistan |
| ASEAN Summit | 28th & 29th Summit: Sep 2016 | Vientiane, Laos |
| 30th Summit: April 2017 | Manila Philippines | |
| 31st Summit: Nov 2017 | Pampanga, Philippines | |
| East Asia Summit | 11th Summit: Sep 2016 | Vientiane, Laos |
| 12th Summit: Nov 2017 | Philippines | |
| IBSA Summit | 2017 | Delhi, India |
| APEC Summit | 28th Summit: Nov 2016 | Peru, Lima |
| 29th Summit: Nov 2017 | Vietnam, Danang | |
| BIMSTEC Summit | 4th Summit: Feb 2017 | Nepal, Kathmandu |
| Nuclear Security Summit | 4th Summit: April 2016 | Washington D. C, USA |
| OPEC International Seminar | 171st Meeting: Nov 2016 | Vienna, Austria |
| 172nd Meeting: May 2017 | Vienna, Austria | |
| 173rd Meeting: Nov 2017 | Vienna, Austria | |
| NATO | July 2016 | Poland, Warsaw |
| May 2017 | Belgium, Brussels | |
| Asian Development Banking | 49th Meeting: May 2016 | Frankfurt, Germany |
| 50th Meeting: May 2017 | Yokohama, Japan | |
| Earth Hour | March 2016 | Across 172 countries and 7,000 cities and towns |
| March 2017 | ||
| NAM Summit | 17th Summit: Sep 2016 | Porlamar, Venezuela |
| Global Insurance Summit | 9th Summit: Sep 2016 | Mumbai, India |
| UN Climate Change Summit | 18th Meeting Nov 2016 | Marrakech, Morocco |
| 19th Meeting: Nov 2017 | Bonn, Germany | |
| CII Partnership Summit | 22nd Summit: Jan 2016 | Andhra Pradesh, India |
| 23rd Summit: Jan 2017 | Andhra Pradesh, India | |
| India Investment Summit | 6th Summit: Feb 2016 | New Delhi, India |
| 7th Summit: Jan 2017 | Mumbai, India | |
| Maritime India Summit | April 2016 | Mumbai |
| Feb 2017 | Mumbai | |
| World Government Summit | 4th Summit: Feb 2016 | Dubai |
| 5th Summit: Feb 2017 | Dubai | |
| 43rd SKOCH Summit | 43rd Summit: March 2016 | New Delhi, India |
| 44th Summit: June 2016 | Mumbai, India | |
| 45th Summit: Sep 2016 | Hyderabad, India | |
| 46th Summit: Dec 2016 | New Delhi, India | |
| 47th Summit: Mar 2017 | New Delhi, India | |
| National Family Planning Summit | April 2016 | New Delhi, India |
| July 2017 | London, England | |
| World Humanitarian Summit | May 2016 | Istanbul, Turkey |
IMPORTANT CONFERENCES:
| Conference name | Year | Location |
| Sustainable Agriculture Conference | Jan 2016 | Gangtok |
| National Conference on e-governance | Jan 2016 | Nagpur, Maharashtra |
| India Africa Hydrocarbons conference | Jan 2016 | New Delhi, India |
| QCG on Afghan Peace and Reconciliation | Jan 2016 | Islamabad |
| Counter-Terrorism Conference | Feb 2016 | Jaipur |
| Asian Ministerial conference on Tiger conference | April 2016 | New Delhi |
| High Energy Materials Conference | Nov 2017 | Hyderabad |
| Raisana Dialogue | Jan 2017 | New Delhi |
| National Conference of Women Legislators | March 2016 | New Delhi |
| Advancing Asia: Investing for the future | March 2016 | New Delhi |
| World Sufi Forum | March 2016 | New Delhi |
| Make in India conference | Dec 2016 | Bhubaneswar, Odisha |
| Habitat III | Oct 2016 | Quito, Ecuador |
