India’s strides in tech, innovation ushering in era of tech-led growth, says PM Modi after meeting Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella
Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said it was inspiring to see India’s focus on digital transformation-led sustainable and inclusive economic growth.
PM Modi said India’s strides in technology and innovation are ushering in an era of tech-led growth, following his meeting with Nadella.
“Glad to have met you Satya Nadella. India’s strides in technology and innovation are ushering in an era of tech-led growth. Our youth is filled with ideas which have the potential to transform the planet,” the prime minister said in a tweet.
Nadella, who is on a four-day visit to India, met PM Modi and pledged the company’s support in helping the country realise the Digital India vision.
Nadella met External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on January 4 and discussed several issues including governance and security in the digital domain. Nadella’s visit to India includes a trip to Mumbai, Bengaluru, and New Delhi.
On his first day in India on Tuesday, Nadella addressed Microsoft Future Ready Leadership Summit in Mumbai today.
At the Summit, he noted cloud-based services, which are energy efficient in nature, are a “game changer” and adoption of such technologies is going to rise going ahead.
Cloud-based services will be foundational to scaling India’s digital journey and Microsoft is innovating across the board to support the country’s ecosystem of developers, startups, and companies across the industry.
Microsoft has operated in India for more than 32 years now.
While interacting with top business leaders at the Microsoft Future Ready Leadership Summit, Nadella reinforced the digital imperative for every organization and how the Microsoft Cloud can foster innovation, create broad economic progress, and accelerate the growth of businesses in India.
Nadella also highlighted how organizations big and small, across India are transforming with the power of Microsoft’s tech stack and solutions.
Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella on January 4 highlighted the importance of driving inclusivity and empowerment through technology and economic growth and asserted that the company is “very committed to India”.
He was speaking at Microsoft’s Tech for Good and Education showcase, an event that highlighted the impact created by technology in the areas of philanthropic work and education.
Nadella did a walk-through, interacting with teachers, students and professionals who are making a difference in the society, by leveraging various Microsoft programs, initiatives and tools.
Microsoft’s top boss further said the Wednesday’s event underlined that technology and economic growth are not an end, rather a “means to an end that we all aspire for.”
He urged the participants to think of growth in terms of social inclusivity.
He advocated the cause of “technology making a difference in community”, and exhorted the participants to keep pushing the company to do more in helping achieve that mission. Microsoft, he said “is very very committed to India”, and went on to add that the company is investing in the country.
“When we think about Make in India, we are investing, it is the largest place where we have our own human capital, we have our data centres, all of these Artificial Intelligence capabilities that are being used in all application, are all in some sense Made in India,” Nadella said.
Societal outcomes are never about one institution or one organisation alone, but a collective effort, he said emphasising that he would in fact “shy away from anyone who claims they can do it all”.
“It is not just that we are making in India but everybody else is making in India, and that is what is going to help us reach all corners of the country,” he said.
Nadella shared his vision on the role technology can play in achieving the mission of empowering every person and every organisation to achieve more.
“Ultimately it is about being able to have all people participate, and leverage each other’s skills, technologies and effort so we can transform our community and society,” he said pledging his commitment towards inclusivity and empowerment of people.
Nadella, who is on a four-day visit to India had addressed Microsoft Future Ready Leadership Summit in Mumbai on Tuesday. He is also scheduled to visit Bengaluru and Hyderabad this week, and will be meeting customers, startups, developers, educators and students, and key Government representatives during his India visit. The Microsoft honcho is also scheduled to meet IT Minister later in the day.
Nadella, in his address on Tuesday, had said digitisation initiatives in India and the work with digital public goods have been extraordinary, as he highlighted cloud and artificial intelligence among imperatives driving technology-based economic growth in India.
During a keynote address at the Microsoft Future Ready Leadership Summit in Mumbai, Nadella had shared his vision for a tech-enabled India, and highlighted how the cloud will be foundational to scaling India’s digital journey and how Microsoft is innovating across the tech stack to support the country’s ecosystem of developers, startups and companies across every industry.
Hyderabad-born Nadella had also lauded the way in which India is building public digital infrastructure for public good.
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