Indian Ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu meets tech sector CEOs in Silicon Valley
Narendra Modi, India's Ambassador to the US, Taranjit Singh Sandhu has met leaders from the area of critical and emerging technologies in Silicon Valley as part of iCET initiative. The Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies or iCET has emerged as a key pillar of the India-US relationship following the maiden state visit of Prime Minister Modi to the US from June 21 to 23. The initiative was launched early this year by the two national security advisors — Jake Sullivan from the US and Ajit Doval from India — but it has been propelled to a new height by Prime Minister Modi and President Joe Biden.
On the last day of his visit, the two leaders met top chief executives from the iCET sectors at the White House, a meeting which was called the tech handshake. Taking this initiative forward, Sandhu travelled to California to meet a host of tech leaders in domains ranging from robotics to artificial intelligence to space. «Be it America and India, or Artificial Intelligence: the future is #AI!» Sandhu tweeted after his exciting conversation with Greg Brockman, president and co-founder of OpenAI about the impact of ChatGPT, India's digital revolution, and deepening India-US tech cooperation.
«Geospatial data generated incl in collaboration with ISRO helping map land use, monitor agriculture, & manage disasters. From earth to the stars, boundless horizons for India-US partnership!» Sandhu said. Sandhu also met Cassie, Mini Cheetah and Digit — the three robots at the University of California, Berkeley in the lab of Indian American scientist Prof Koushil Sreenath.
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