The third edition of Indian Ocean Conference was held in Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam.
The third edition of the Conference was organized by India Foundation in association with
Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam,
S Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS),
Sri Lanka and Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies.
Its theme was “Building Regional Architectures”.
It is an annual conference which has been initiated by Delhi based think tank India Foundation along with its partners from Singapore, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
So far, two successful editions of the conference were hosted in 2016 and 2017 in Singapore and Sri Lanka respectively.