CII's Innovation Summit, Innoverge 2024, will have AI as the Overarching Theme

Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has announced the 20th edition of its flagship India Innovation Summit- ‘Innoverge 2024' with the theme, "India@100: Building for a Resilient, Sustainable, and Inclusive India”. The summit will explore building an innovation ecosystem crucial for a developed India, by 2047.

Innoverge 2024 will aim to bring significant change by improving business practices, developing new strategies, and using advanced technologies like Web 3.0 and quantum information systems. The event will focus on key sectors such as healthcare, energy, data science, clean technology, space, manufacturing, and more.

AI Persists

The Summit has been led and mentored since inception by Kris Gopalakrishnan, mentor CII India Innoverge 2024, past president CII, chairman, Axilor Ventures & co-founder Infosys Ltd. 

“AI and ML, is an overarching theme across all industries, and, you know, everything, including media, entertainment, and our day-to-day life, AI and ML is going to play an important role. We all need to leverage this technology for our personal use as well as professional use,” said Gopalakrishnan, at the CII Innoverge 2024 Press Meet. 

Gopalakrishnan told AIM - “There are a large number of initiatives happening in AI, both in startups, as well as in larger enterprises, and academic institutions.” 

He also spoke about BharatGPT and AI4 Bharat, highlighting their efforts to develop language models tailored to Indian languages, which are crucial for understanding Indian languages, natural language processing, and voice input and output systems. He also discussed using voice as a means of communication with machines.

The 2024 edition of Innoverge aims to support economic growth while maintaining a focus on social equity, environmental sustainability, and national resilience. The three-day summit will gather key elements of an innovation ecosystem, including universities, large corporations, startups, policymakers, and collaborative groups. 

The summit will highlight the important role of institutions and accelerators from emerging regions in promoting inclusive and scalable innovation.

With the Government of Karnataka as the Partner State for 2024, the summit will be addressed by key stakeholders from the Department of Electronics, Information Technology, Biotechnology and Science & Technology, as well as from the Large & Medium Scale Industries & Infrastructure Development, Government of Karnataka.

Innoverge 2024 will be chaired by Kamal Bali, immediate past chairman, CII SR & president & MD Volvo Group India and other leaders from the space. The summit is scheduled from 4th-6th September at Hotel Shangri-La in Bengaluru.