A Connected Future for Technology and Humanity
Dec 19, 2025
By Paul J. Foster, KStJH, Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, World Technology Group
~ Celebrate Human Ingenuity ~
At the World Technology Group, our mission is built on a simple but powerful belief: human ingenuity is the world’s most renewable resource. Technologies evolve, industries transform, and global systems shift, but the imagination, resilience, and creativity of people remain the driving force behind progress.
This year, across a remarkable journey of cities, cultures, and conversations, that belief was illuminated at every step.
Our work took us from Vatican City to Mumbai and New Delhi, from New York to Athens, and from Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Manama, Doha, and Istanbul to London, Baku, Rome, and Vancouver. Additionally, we traveled across the Americas and Oceania to Los Angeles, Melbourne, and São Paulo. In each of these places, we met leaders, thinkers, innovators, educators, students, and creators whose ideas and ambition reminded us that, wherever we go in the world, the brightest constant in our rapidly changing landscape is the human one, and it is clear that human progress accelerates when human connection strengthens.
WT Summit 2025 India: When Ingenuity Filled the Room
Among our global engagements, World Technology Summit India 2025 (WTS25) stood out as a defining moment.
In Pune and Mumbai, we witnessed the spark of a generation ready to lead. Students asked bold questions; researchers challenged the limits of science; educators offered frameworks for the future; and industry and government leaders aligned around a shared vision of innovation with purpose.
WTS25 showed us that ingenuity is not found in devices or systems—it lives in people. And when we create the conditions for it to thrive, it becomes unstoppable.
This summit was not just an event.
It was a reminder of our responsibility: to continue building environments where human creativity can flourish.
Looking Toward WTS26 and the Global Stage of WTG26
This momentum carries us directly into the two major milestones ahead: WTS26 and our flagship global platform, World Technology Games 2026 (WTG26).
WTS26 will expand the conversations ignited in India—bringing together global communities united by science, technology, innovation, education, and culture. But it is WTG26 that will fully bring our motto to life.
WTG26 is not a celebration of machines.
It is a celebration of the people behind them.
It will honor the coders, creators, designers, engineers, scientists, artists, athletes, and dreamers whose work pushes humanity forward. It will spotlight not the tools themselves, but the imagination and determination required to build them.
At WTG26, Celebrate Human Ingenuity becomes more than a mantra.
It becomes a movement.
A reminder that the future does not belong to technology alone—it belongs to the people who shape it with insight, ethics, creativity, and courage.
A World in Transition Needs Human Leadership
Across every city we visited—from São Paulo to Istanbul, Melbourne to Manama— the message was clear: the world is not only calling for innovation; it is calling for leadership, empathy, connection, and human purpose.
We stand at a moment where global challenges are shared, and global solutions must be collaborative. The role of the World Technology Group is to convene, inspire, and enable frameworks that turn ingenuity into impact—for communities, industries, and nations.
A Call to the Global Community
As we enter 2026, we do so with clarity, resolve, and optimism.
WTG26 will be our collective moment to show the world what is possible when we invest in people—when we shine a light not on the tools of innovation, but on the humans who bring them to life.
In 2026, we celebrate the ingenuity of the human spirit—and that will define the future.
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About World Technology Group
World Technology Group (WT) is an international organization whose mission is to celebrate human ingenuity and ensure that technology, science, and innovation serve humanity. WT convenes leaders, experts, and communities worldwide to explore solutions for humanity’s greatest challenges and to advance human progress. Guided by an accomplished Leadership Team and a Global Advisory Group of leading experts, WT provides strategic direction for its flagship initiatives, including the World Technology Games and the World Technology Summit—platforms that showcase talent, inspire collaborations, and shape the future of technology, science, and innovation.
