Bengaluru Tech Summit 2021 concludes on a high note

Karnataka government's annual flagship Bengaluru Tech Summit concluded on Friday (November 19).

The three-day programme saw the participation of 26,863 delegates and GIA (Global Innovation Alliance) Summit saw the participation of 48 Countries, plus 27 EU countries and 54 CWECC. A total of 1253 Delegates attended, and three minister-level delegations.

Top keynote presentations, conferences, awards, quiz competitions at the BTS 2021 registered 49,935 attendees.

The 24th edition of the BTS also saw 340 expo participants and the GIA Expo booths consisted of delegates from Australia, Pennsylvania, UK, USA, Toronto- Canada, and NRW-Germany.

In this year's edition, more than 210 start-ups from different fields of IT, Electronics, IoT, Healthcare, Medtech, Agritech, Fintech, Edutech, Mobility Sectors, and more showcased their products.

“Karnataka continues to lead the technology transformation globally. The theme of this year’s Summit, ‘Driving The Next’, has furthered the success of our event from the previous editions. Accelerating the growth of technology and global businesses, despite the challenges of the pandemic, BTS 2021 successfully kindled the spirit of innovation and the need for disruptive tech solutions. The event fostered international engagements and discussions across domains including FinTech, EdTech, Semiconductors, and Biotechnology, among others, in the country. This year, it was a great privilege to have the presence of Vice President of India, Venkaiah Naidu inaugurating the Summit. The Vice President’s presence and inspiring words encouraged us to deliver nothing but the best during the past three days. Further, we were honoured by the virtual presence of Scott Morrison- Prime Minister of Australia and Naftali Bennett, Hon’ble Prime Minister of Israel,” said Dr. C.N. Ashwath Narayan, minister for Electronics, IT, BT and Science & Technology, Higher Education, Skill Development, Entrepreneurship & Livelihood, Govt. of Karnataka.

BTS also for the first time hosted US Tech Conclave. It included sessions on India's Digital Journey from Outsourcing Hub to Innovation Central, and R&D development in Life Science and Biotechnology.

“I'm excited to be part of the Bengaluru Tech Summit, a powerful platform to discuss ideas, perspectives, and innovations in technology that India brings to the world. The next decade of economic growth will be defined by the speed of digital transformation. Technologies like cloud, data, and AI are driving growth and opportunity for everyone, improving the lives of people everywhere. The Karnataka government has been at the forefront of driving this change and we are proud to partner on several fronts to create a strong tech ecosystem in the state,” said Anant Maheshwari, President, Microsoft India.

Karnataka government honoured start-up founders during the Bengaluru Impact Awards ceremony. Credit: Special Arrangement

Karnataka government also felicitated Indian company founders, which recently emerged unicorns in the 2020-21 time period. The list included Apna (Nirmit Parikh), Big Basket (Hari Menon), Black Buck (Chanakya Hridaya, Rajesh Yabaji, and Ramasubramaniam B), Coinswitch (Ashish Singhal, Govind Soni, and Vimal Sagar Tiwari), Digit Insurance (Kamesh Goyal), Verse Innovation (Virendra Gupta), CRED (Kunal Shah), CureFit (Mukesh Bansal), Daily Hunt (Virendra Gupta and Umang Bedi), Groww (Lalit Keshre, Harsh Jain, Neeraj Singh, and Ishan Bansal), Meesho (Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwal), ShareChat (Ankush Sachdeva, Bhanu Singh, and Farid Ahsan), MPL: Mobile Premier League (Sai Srinivas Kiran G, Shubh Malhotra and Shubham Malhotra), Zeta (Bhavin Turakhia and Ramki Gaddipati), Phonepe (Burzin Engineer, Rahul Chari and Sameer Nigam), Razorpay (Harshil Mathur and Shashank Kumar), Udaan(Sujeet Kumar), Unacademy (Gaurav Munjal, Hemesh Singh, Roman Saini and Sachin Gupta), Zetwork (Amrit Acharya, Srinath Ramakkrushnan, Vishal Chaudhary, and Rahul Sharma), Vendantu (Anand Prakash, Pulkit Jain, Saurabh Saxena and Vamsi Krishna), Licious (Abhay Hanjura and Vivek Gupta), Teklon (Jay vijayan and Guru Sankararaman), Postman (Abhinav Asthana, Abhijit Kane and Ankit Sobti), Glance InMobi (Naveen Tewari) and Zerodha (Nithin Kamath, Nikhil Kamath, and Kailash Nadh).

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