The conference is being organized by ICOMOS-India, ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on 20th Century Heritage (ISC20C), Chitkara School of Planning and Architecture (CSPA), Punjab, India, the National Institute for Advanced Studies in Architecture (NIASA), Pune, India, and, the World Heritage Institute for Training and Research for the Asia & the Pacific (WHITRAP), Shanghai, China.

This is the first international conference on the theme of "World Heritage & the 20th Century" to be organized in India. The objective is to promote an understanding of the significance twentieth-century heritage, and examine the scope and the challenges of managing it within the framework of the World Heritage regime as well as the ICOMOS ISC20C Madrid Document: “Approaches for the Conservation of Twentieth Century Architectural Heritage as Practical Guidance for Managing Change and Intervention”. Further details are given in Conference Announcement