Some other committee members included former Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers; Nancy Pelosi, Katherine Clark and Ed Witfield from United States Congress; and former Lithuanian president Vytautas Landsbergis.

[10] Following the 2016 edition, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull invited Art of Living Foundation to Australia for the next World Culture Festival.

WFC 2023 featured 17,000 performers[13] from more than 100 countries and interviews with notable leading figures from various fields including former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who said he was introduced to Ravi Shankar through Vijay Nambiar, who worked as his former chief of staff.

Rabbi Sharon Cohen President of the Hebrew College spoke to the attendees at the event coinciding with the second day of the Jewish festival of Sukkot.

[19][20][21] Other notable figures who attended the 2023 edition include: Vivek Murthy, Muriel Bowser, President of Mauritius Prithvirajsing Roopun, S. Jaishankar, Ryzsard Czarnecki, Ramnath Kovind, and Tim Draper.

[28] The last day of the event was attended by many BJP leaders including Arun Jaitley, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Venkaiah Naidu, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

[34] The foundation was involved in a legal battle with the National Green Tribunal (NGT), which allowed the festival to be held after paying a security deposit of ₹5 crore (US$580,000) in order to compensate for any possible damage.