Betting big on Bengaluru
The HinduMy introduction to Bengaluru happened in 1983. In the pub capital of India On July 1, 1993, eleven eminent CEOs of the Indian IT Industry converged together at Pub World on Residency Road and started the Beer Drinkers Association of IT to build camaraderie amongst the CEOs of the industry. We launched a series of Internet-based companies, from Planetasia.com, which became India’s first professional Internet services provider, to ITspace.com, which was India’s first tech portal, Media2India.net which addressed the need for managing online advertising, and Indya.com, a consumer portal that created several historic landmarks. While we were busy with one technology initiative after another, my wife Kalpana began playing a central role in a first-of-its-kind experiment in urban governance through a Private Public Partnership called the Bangalore Agenda Task Force. We are now bursting at the seams with cutting-edge start-ups that are building tomorrow’s decision sciences, providing technology to EV manufacturers across the world, and creating Artificial Intelligence that is finding its way into the top financial, security, energy, healthcare, defence, and consumer services across the globe.
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