New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met many business leaders and senior executives in San Francisco on Monday, starting her 11-day trip to the US and Peru. Bilateral areas of cooperation in sectors like technology, artificial intelligence, energy and digital infrastructure and enhancement in collaboration between India and the US.
Anjney Midha (Silicon Valley venture capital firm a16z General Partner) and Raghu Raghuram (VMware CEO) were the two big business icons present in San Francisco during the Indian minister’s meeting. She discussed the various facets of India’s efforts, the remarkable transformation in technology space, a16z and VMware “may like to explore collaboration across sectors” within the domain of AI, the Ministry of Finance said in a X post.
Sitharaman also met Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian along with his team to discuss the transformative evolution pf India’s digital infrastructure under #DigitalIndia initiative in recent years. She opened the doors for Google Cloud to explore local linkages in India for territorial collaboration.
Sitharaman also met DataRobot CEO Debanjan Saha to highlight the steps taken by the Indian government over the years to strengthen digital infrastructure, which includes the budget of INR 10,300 crore for IndiaAI Mission, making AI language technologies through BharatGen and Sarvam-1.
In another meeting with Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth, Sitharaman emphasised on the policy framework India put in place for AI with the encouragement for collaboration opportunities.
Later in the day, Sitharaman attended a luncheon roundtable hosted by the Consulate General of India in San Francisco. Various pension fund managers and institutional investors were there at the roundtable. Even Finance secretary Ajay Seth and India’s Ambassador to the US, Vinay Mohan Kwatra were also present.
Sitharaman also attended a luncheon roundtable hosted by the Consulate General of India in San Francisco with various pension fund managers and other institutional investors along with Finance Secretary Ajay Seth and India’s Ambassador to the US Vinay Mohan Kwatra.
(With agency inputs)
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s US trip began in San Francisco with meetings with prominent tech leaders from a16z, VMware, Google Cloud, and DataRobot. Discussions focused on strengthening India-US collaboration in AI, digital infrastructure, and investment enhancement. Business Business News – Personal Finance News, Share Market News, BSE/NSE News, Stock Exchange News Today
