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| Dr. Sandeep Marwah at Indo UK Future Tech Festival |
New Delhi: UK
and India have been rated as the top five investors in each other's economies
since 2010. By the end of Q2 2018, the total trade in goods and services
between India and UK grew by 20% to 19.6 billion pound.
“The India-UK FutureTech Festival was a major initiative designed to promote this productive partnership by strengthening the tech alliance between the two countries. The India-UK Tech Partnership was instituted back in April 2018 by India's PM Narendra Modi and UK's PM Theresa May,” said Sir Dominic Asquith KCMG, British High Commissioner to India at the opening ceremony.
“The India-UK FutureTech Festival was a major initiative designed to promote this productive partnership by strengthening the tech alliance between the two countries. The India-UK Tech Partnership was instituted back in April 2018 by India's PM Narendra Modi and UK's PM Theresa May,” said Sir Dominic Asquith KCMG, British High Commissioner to India at the opening ceremony.
The
festival took place in New Delhi on 11 and 12 December and commenced with
keynote addresses by Sir Dominic Asquith KCMG, British High Commissioner;
Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, Niti Aayog; Elizabeth Denham, UK
Information Commissioner; K Ananth Krishnan, Chief Technology Officer, TCS; and
other honorary dignitaries. Their addresses celebrated and promoted further
development of the mutually-beneficial technology-focussed relationship between
the UK and India.
“It was
worth visiting the festival which was a wonderful platform for networking and understanding
the new discoveries in different fields,” said Sandeep Marwah Ambassador (Champion)
of Wales to India.
Graced by
thought leaders, industry experts, entrepreneurs and scientists from various
industries, the festival paved the way for further bilateral collaboration
between both nations by exploring and exploiting emerging technologies.
