• Infrastructure execution bottlenecks: Industry leaders stressed the need for early-stage design planning, a tenfold expansion in large-scale EPC contractors, and integrating digital tools and security protocols at day zero rather than as an afterthought.
• Industrial footprint expansion: Rising land prices in primary metros are driving logistics and warehousing development into Tier 2 and Tier 3 markets through asset-light, plug-and-play models anchored by early tenant commitments.
• Steel capacity scaling: John Cockerill highlighted that India's steel production needs to expand from 160 million tonnes to 300 million tonnes by 2030 and 500 million tonnes by 2050, prompting the consolidation of its global metals business under its Indian entity.
• Mumbai economic blueprint: MMRDA has established an economic master plan through 2047 comprising 31 key projects, leveraging a 70% private and 30% public investment split and deploying AI-driven monitoring to manage a ₹3 lakh crore project pipeline.