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The technology industry in India is in a truly exciting phase right now, unlike any other country at any other point in time. For more than two decades, India’s technology services industry was at the forefront of driving the technology-enabled transformation of businesses across the world. According to the market research report, India digital transformation market is expected to reach $710.0 billion by 2024.


Understanding the importance of Emerging Technologies in next phase of Digital Transformation of the country, FICCI has taken a new initiative and formed a new committee as “Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation”.


The technology industry in India is in a truly exciting phase right now, unlike any other country at any other point in time. For more than two decades, India’s technology services industry was at the forefront of driving the technology-enabled transformation of businesses across the world. But now with great initiatives like Digital India combined with Emerging Technologies, India is not only transforming digitally but leading the global digital space as well. According to the market research report, India digital transformation market is expected to reach $710.0 billion by 2024, registering a CAGR of 74.7%, during the forecast period. The growth in the market can be attributed to increasing adoption of emerging technologies and surging on Industry 4.0 in the country.

Indian businesses as well as the government has been witnessing multiple use cases of AI in recent years, with digital assistants, cab aggregators, targeted advertisements, biometric recognition and online recommendation engines being the most common applications. Organizations have started realizing the efficiencies and growth opportunities of digital transformation solutions. Similarly, government bodies are increasingly employing AI-powered applications such as image and speech recognition, and robotics to bolster defines equipment and techniques. Hence, with increasing use of AI by government bodies, the market for AI is expected to be fastest growing solution type in the forecast period.

FICCI's Engagement

Understanding the importance of Emerging Technologies in next phase of Digital Transformation of the country, FICCI has taken a new initiative and formed a new committee as “Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation”. The committee have top leaders as members and the group will primarily focus on strategizing the Digital Emerging Technologies Adoption, for Digital India 2.0 keeping the crucial factors in mind like: Implementation Challenges, Risk Assessment & Way Forward, Skilling Gap, Awareness Shortfall, Bridging Collaboration, and Policy framework. The committee engages its members and all stakeholder for the overall growth of ICT Adoption across sectors, and the major role played by Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Timeline

2023
Jun
Event

FICCI Multistakeholder Roundtable on Economic Benefits of Artificial Intelligence

Press Release

Generative AI Poised to Unlock $621 Billion in Productive Capacity for India: says FICCI - Access Partnership Report

Study

The Economic Impact of Generative AI

Event

AI India Conclave 2023 - Curtain Raiser Programme "Unleashing Creativity and Innovation: Exploring the Power of Generative AI"

2022
Feb
Press Release

To foster robust AI ecosystem in India, Govt's role is to enable data Governance mechanism via open data portals, with adequate safeguards for privacy to enable innovation by researchers, entrepreneurs to build upon & create products for better services: Abhishek Singh, MeitY

Event

FICCI A(I)ndia Conclave 2022

Events

Jul, 2023

AI India Conclave

Jul 14, 2023, FICCI, New Delhi

Jun, 2023

FICCI Multistakeholder Roundtable on Economic Benefits of Artificial Intelligence

Jun 27, 2023, FICCI, New Delhi, 11.00 AM to 1.00 PM

AI India Conclave 2023 - Curtain Raiser Programme "Unleashing Creativity and Innovation: Exploring the Power of Generative AI"

Jun 07, 2023, FICCI, New Delhi

Feb, 2022

FICCI A(I)ndia Conclave 2022

Feb 25, 2022, Virtual Platform

Chair

Mr Mohit Kapoor

Executive Vice President and Group Chief Technology Officer
Mahindra Group

Co-Chair

Ms. Daisy Chittilapilly

President
Cisco India and SAARC

Co-Chair

Mr. Kanishka Agiwal

Head - Service Lines, Public Sector, India/South Asia
Amazon Web Services
Outlook |

Govt to host AI Summit 'RAISE' in April

The government will host RAISE 2020 - an event focussed on artificial intelligence - on April 11-12 in the city.

RAISE (Responsible AI for Social Empowerment) 2020 will be organised by the government in partnership with industry and academia.

The summit will be a global meeting of minds to exchange ideas and charter a course to use AI for social empowerment, inclusion and transformation in key areas like healthcare, agriculture, education and smart mobility, among other sectors, an official statement said.

Ahead of the summit, Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) organised an industry consultation with industry representatives, chaired by IT Secretary Ajay Prakash Sawhney.

MeitY Additional Secretary Gopalakrishnan S, Abhishek Singh (President and CEO of National e-Governance Division) and other government officials were part of the consultation.

Industry associations like FICCI, CII, ASSOCHAM and NASSCOM, companies including Intel, AWS, KPMG, IBM, Oracle as well as AI startups participated in the consultation.

"We are extremely delighted to announce the first of its kind two-day summit- ‘Responsible AI for Social Empowerment 2020’. In our opinion, a data-rich environment like India has the potential to be the world''s leading AI laboratory which can eventually transform lives globally," Sawhney said.

AI technology is a powerful tool that can be used to create a positive impact in the Indian context, further becoming the AI destination for the world, he added.

"RAISE 2020 will facilitate an exchange of ideas to further create a mass awareness about the need to ethically develop and practice AI in the digital era," Abhishek Singh said.

Generative AI Poised to Unlock $621 Billion in Productive Capacity for India: says FICCI - Access Partnership Report

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To foster robust AI ecosystem in India, Govt's role is to enable data Governance mechanism via open data portals, with adequate safeguards for privacy to enable innovation by researchers, entrepreneurs to build upon & create products for better services: Abhishek Singh, MeitY

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