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women there. The few of us who were present exchanged knowing glances. It was clear we had grown used to navigating spaces where we were outnumbered, underestimated, and often unheard. Today, that story is beginning to change. Across India and the world, women are no longer waiting for an invitation to the table. They are building their own, pulling up extra chairs, and creating space for others to join. They are not just participating in the tech revolution. They are leading it. Take Debjani Ghosh, the first woman to head NASSCOM, who is championing an inclusive future for India's $245 billion tech industry. Or Roshni Nadar Malhotra, Chairperson of HCLTech, the first woman to lead a listed IT company in India, who is steering the organization with a focus on long-term sustainability and social impact. Entrepreneurs like Suchi Mukherjee, founder of Limeroad, are designing innovative platforms that reflect the everyday needs of millions of Indian women.

Reserve Bank of India on Thursday announced the setting up of an eight member panel to develop the framework for responsible and ethical enablement of artificial intelligence. The committee called FREE-AI will be headed by Pushpak Bhattacharyya from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay.

Karnataka wants to create 4-5 more regions like Bengaluru, India's Silicon Valley, in the state, minister for electronics and information technology and biotechnology Priyank Kharge said. Speaking at an event organised by IT industry body Nasscom, Kharge said he wants to position Karnataka not just as an investment destination, but also a space for knowledge and skills. In a fireside chat with Nasscom president Debjani Ghosh at its Design and Engineering Summit 2024 on Wednesday, Kharge said this will bring in more innovation in the country and in the next 4-5 years, Karnataka will not just be innovating for India but for the world. In a recent post on microblogging portal X, Kharge said Karnataka is the fourth largest technology cluster in the world and the leader in the country in many verticals. The southern state has over one-third of India’s tech talent and close to 25,000 startups, 52 unicorns (startups with valuation of $1 billion or more) and 47 soon to be unicorns.

Gautam Adani's conglomerate signed four Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with the Telangana government for an investment of over Rs 12,400 crore at the World Economic Forum 2024, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Telangana's newly elected Chief Minister Revanth Reddy and Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani inked this deal in Davos during the ongoing World Economic Forum.

According to a new study published by the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), a non-profit organization in India with over 3,000 members, the country currently possesses 11% of the world's Web 3.0 talent. The figure makes India the world's third largest regarding its Web 3.0 workforce, employing nearly 75,000 blockchain professionals today. Furthermore, the industry group expects the talent pool to grow by over 120% within the next two years.