Hyderabad: Jayesh Ranjan, Principal Secretary, Govt of Telangana, inaugurated a two day Aliens Fest, a Technology and Startup Conference for Engineering and Management Students on Saturday at BITS Pilani, Shamirpet here.
The inaugural function was graced by D. Manoj Raj, Founder of Aliens Fest; Prof Sunder, Director of BITS Pilani, Prof. Aruna Malapati; Prashanth Sina of TBI- Technology Business Incubator, BITS, Pilani.
Delivering Keynote address, Jayesh Rajan said, TS Govt started focusing on Start-ups and developing its ecosystem much before Union Government announced “Start-up India and Stand-Up India”. Globally USA and Europe, start-up are driving the economy today. India is also fast catching up with this trend, he added. India is the 3rd most preferred destination for start-ups after USA and UK, he informed
Start-ups from Telangana states have been working deep into many emerging technologies. Many start-ups here starting very early, in some cases while studying in colleges, Jayesh told the packed audience. Hyderabad is home to India’s biggest technology incubator, T-Hub. It is also home to nearly 40 incubators and Co-Working Spaces. Many prominent institutions in the city have their own incubation centres. Some of them Have sector specific incubation centre, he informed
Telangana Government encourages start-ups by using their products as services, provided they are associated with some incubation centres. Thus, first customer being the Government, Startups go a long way in their journey.
Joy Mustafi, Principal Researcher, spoke on Cognetive Computing. IA-Artificial Intelligence must be designed to address humanity, he told.
Technology is giving you a window to the world. Computerization to e-Governance to Governance, the technology changed the way we govern informed Rajendra Nimje, Director General, Centre For Good Governance, Govt of Telangana. IT Industry employee base till now in the state is 3.9 million jobs. Six lakh jobs are added in the last three years, Rajendra Nimje informed. IT will create 2.5 to 3 million new jobs by 2025, he stated. In 2016-2017 alone IT Industry added 70,000 jobs in told the audience.
Prashant Sinha of TBI, BITS Pilani and Manoj Raj D, Founder of Aliens Fest, were among the speakers. The two day Fest is organised by City based Engineers Hub, a platform that enables young engineers connect with technology experts.(NSS)
