Welcoming Prime Minister Modi to the World Leaders Forum, Gajwani drew an analogy with Homer's Odyssey, saying the ancient tale of a protagonist navigating one crisis after another was "something of a parable for our times today." "When we look around the world, at least if we believe the headlines, we're lurching from one crisis to the next," Gajwani said, pointing to two ongoing wars, an energy crisis, disruption of shipping routes, trade battles, nuclear threats and an AI surge sucking in unprecedented amounts of capital.