PM to inaugurate Bengaluru Tech Summit on November 19

Prime Minister Narendra Modi would inaugurate the annual Karnataka flagship tech event – Bengaluru Tech Summit 2020 (BTS2020) – on Thursday by video conference. The event will take place from November 19 to 21.

It is organized by the Government of Karnataka with the Karnataka Innovation and Technology Society, the State Government’s Vision Group on Information Technology, Biotechnology and Startup, and Software Technology Parks of India. “We have made elaborate arrangements to make BTS a great success as the event sessions are 100% virtual,” said the chief deputy minister and minister of IT, BT and S&T CN Ashwath Narayan after visiting the BTS2020 facilitation center located here.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Swiss Vice President Guy Parmelin will be among those addressing the virtual event. Over 25 countries are participating in the 23rd edition of the event with thought leaders, captains of industry, technocrats, researchers, innovators, investors, policymakers and educators from India and different parts of the world, officials said.

“The event will have the participation of more than 200 Indian companies setting up their virtual exhibition, more than 4,000 delegates, 270 speakers, around 75 panel discussions and more than 50,000 participants each day,” said an official statement.

This year, the theme of the summit is Next is Now . The summit will deliberate on the main emerging challenges in the post-pandemic world with a focus on the impact of leading technologies and innovations in the fields of information technology and electronics and biotechnology. Some of the key areas of the summit are aerospace and defense technologies, healthcare, the future of work, startup for the public good, electronics and semiconductors, the reinvention of digital health and preparedness for the COVID-19 pandemic, officials said.