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Bengaluru Tech Summit 2020 inaugurated

11:42 AM Nov 19, 2020 | Team Udayavani |

Bengaluru: Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa lit the lamp and inaugurated Karnataka’s flagship annual technology event – Bengaluru Tech Summit 2020 (BTS2020) – on Thursday while Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurate it via video-conferencing.

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The event will be held from November 19 to 21. It is being organised by the government of Karnataka along with Karnataka Innovation and Technology Society, the state government’s Vision Group on information technology, biotechnology and startup, and Software Technology Parks of India.

Over 25 nations are participating in the 23rd edition of the event along with thought leaders, industry captains, technocrats, researchers, innovators, investors, policy- makers and educators from India and different parts of the world.

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 every day.

This year, the theme of the summit is ‘Next is Now’.

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The summit would deliberate on key challenges emerging in the post-pandemic world with a focus on the impact of prominent technologies and innovations on the domains of information technology and electronics and biotechnology.

Some of the key focus areas of the summit are aerospace and defence technologies, healthcare, future of work, startup for public good, electronics and semi-conductor, reimagining digital health and COVID-19 Pandemic Preparedness’.

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