On October 29-30, 2022, Rajiv Bhatia, Distinguished Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies Programme at Gateway House participated in a Conclave on the theme, Act East to Indo-Pacific: Role of North-east Indian States in “Connecting the connectivities” organized by Asian Confluence, Shillong in collaboration with the Ministry of External Affairs and Manipur University. Rajiv Bhatia was a panelist in two sessions- discussion on the theme of the conference and Human Capital Development in the Northeast Region respectively . He also summarized the outcome of discussions at the end of the conclave.