Global Nagpur Summit aims to establish city as world’s AI hub

Nagpur: The 8th annual Global Nagpur Summit (GNS) was hosted on Sunday at Chitnavis Centre by Nagpur First Foundation (NFF), as a part of the City Growth Conference initiative of GNS 2021. Four distinct conclaves namely artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) track, social track, petrochemical complex track and integrated steel plant track consisted of international keynote speeches, panel discussions, workshops and GNS start-up showcase.
DelaPlex vice-president Amit Yadav hosted the AI/ML Track. Among the keynote speakers were entrepreneur, researcher, and founding director of UCI Institute for Future Health, USA Ramesh Jain, HCL Technologies centre head and director Sailesh Awale, CEO and founder of Click2Cloud Inc Prashant Mishra and Torona Inc founder Sandesh Gawande.
In his welcome speech, Ahmed, who was AI/ML Track chair, said, “From culture to consumer products, today everything is influenced by AI related technologies. GNS aims to explore the opportunities that will enable us to establish Nagpur as a global hub for AI, ML, and data science for its scale innovation and commercialization.”
Panel discussions for AI/ML track were held on the topics ‘AI, ML and data science: Driving digital transformation across the globe’ and ‘Start-up opportunities in India’.
As part of petrochemical complex track, a panel discussion on the petrochemical scene in Vidarbha was held. Speakers Pradeep Maheshwari, Vinayak Marathe and JF Salve discussed how RPC is suitable for Vidarbha region as there is large consumption of all types of petroleum products including petrochemicals.
“There needs to be a madness that we sustain in ourselves for this madness is the driving factor for all things important,” said Avinash Saoji, founder of Prayas Sevankur. Saoji presided over the social track programme. The event discussed social work done by panellists in various fields like education, entrepreneurship, rural modernization, networking among others. The track director was NFF director Tanveer Mirza.
During the tntegrated steel plant track, Calderys CMD Ish Mohan Garg spoke about the steel industry playing a crucial role in the growth of any country’s economy.
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