Sr govt officials to hold talks with industry leaders

Senior state government officials will hold talks with industry leaders and top executives of some of the world's leading companies as they gather here for #FUTURE, Kerala's first-ever Global Digital Summit here tomorrow.

The summit will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.

Special interest groups for various sectors, comprising top officials from the departments concerned have been constituted to lead these official meetings to discuss business, investment opportunities and a range of other subjects while the two-day summit itself will be a collective brainstorming exercise with the aim of creating a roadmap for Kerala's digital future, according to a release here.

Meetings have been scheduled with Nandan Nilekani, Non-Executive Chairman, Infosys, Christoph Mueller, Chief Digital and Innovation Officer, Emirates Group, Roland Schuetz, Group CIO, Lufthansa Group, Alok Ohrie, President and MD, India Commercial, Dell EMC; and Byju Raveendran, founder and CEO, Byju's, it said.

The government will also hold talks with Natesh Manikoth, Chief Data Officer, Federal Aviation Administration, US, Thomas Zacharia, Director, Oak- Ridge National Laboratory, T K Kurien, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer, Premji Invest and Dinu John Parel, Global CIO, Dover Corporation, the release said.

They are among nearly 30 global experts who will share their knowledge and experiences during discussions scheduled over two days,covering sectors from travel and transportation; big data and health and sustainability to education and skills; technology and banking, finance and retail.

"We do not intend #FUTURE to be simply about IT as a business or service; we want this to be more of a window into the digital world of tomorrow where technology touches the lives of people in ways that may be inconceivable now."