Bengaluru, January 7:
As IT & ITeS matures as a sector in Karnataka, the state government is planning to change its perception and looks at embracing disruptive technologies to reposition itself.
Speaking at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas’ session on ‘Fuelling growth through disruptive innovations: Start-up ecosystem in Karnataka’, Priyank Kharge, Minister for Information Technology, Biotechnology and Tourism said “People, corporates and government have always associated ‘BengaluruITE.biz’ with IT & ITeS. Now we needed to change that perception because IT & ITES have matured as a sector in Karnataka and we need to do something disruptive to reposition ourselves.”
“In order to redefine BengaluruITE.biz, theme ‘Define the Next’ was chosen after great deliberation as the focus of the state going forward to be creative and disruptive and emerging technologies like Internet of things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Aerospace, DefTronics, Cyber Security, Big Data Analytics, machine learning among various other verticals are being explored. We have taken a call to ensure we emerge as the innovation leaders right from agriculture to aerospace,” he added.
As these disruptive innovations are happening very rapidly in India and today we are considered as one of the best ecosystems in the world for innovations that has the potential to catapult the economy, he further added.
Karnataka is home to over 4,900 start-ups as per global start-ups eco-system ranking report of 2015. “Under our…