{"id":304735,"date":"2018-10-27T07:04:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T07:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304735"},"modified":"2018-10-27T07:04:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T07:04:25","slug":"india-to-host-24th-edition-of-technology-summit-with-italy-in-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-to-host-24th-edition-of-technology-summit-with-italy-in-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"India to host 24th edition of Technology Summit with Italy in Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>India will host the 24th\u00a0edition of Technology Summit with Italy as the partner country. The two-day summit will be inaugurated on 29th\u00a0October,\u00a02018 by the Union Minister for Science & Technology, Earth Sciences, Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Dr. Harsh Vardhan\u00a0and Prof. Michele Geraci, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Economic Development, Italy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Valedictory session of the summit will be addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his counterpart from Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the first time that Italy has been selected as partner country for this prestigious event. Italian Prime Minister will be leading a 200-strong delegation for the Summit comprising business leaders, scientists, heads of research and scientific\u00a0organisations\u00a0and technocrats.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Summit is envisaged to serve as a wide-ranging knowledge-business partnership platform. Companies, institutions\u00a0and\u00a0government agencies from India and Partner Country (Italy) will endeavor to forge technology transfers \/ joint ventures \/ R&D partnerships with an aim to increase bilateral trade & investments. The Summit will also facilitate a comprehensive convergence of key elements of\u00a0knowledge\u00a0economy (science, technology & innovation; research & development; and higher education) of India and Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aerospace, Cleantech, Cultural Heritage, Education,\u00a0Heathcare, ICT\u00a0and\u00a0Renewables are the seven focus sectors\u00a0for this year\u2019s summit.<\/span><\/p>\n

There will be 11 Conference sessions, 10 Tech Talks, 500+ B2B meetings, 10 Business Presentations, Digital exposition during the Summit. Key scientists, academics and Industry leaders from both countries will be addressing the Tech Summit.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is envisaged that the Technology Summit will help in strengthening, expanding and deepening\u00a0India-Italy\u00a0relationship in multiple ways. It will also strengthen the collaborations between industries and universities of both countries and would lead to scaling-up of the existing bilateral industrial R&D programs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Genesis\u00a0of this Tech Summit lies in the first CII Technology Summit\u00a0organised\u00a023 years back in 1995 with an aim to facilitate global technology collaborations. After a few successful yearly summits, CII became\u00a0partner\u00a0with the Department of Science & Technology in\u00a0organising\u00a0these Summits\u00a0since 2004.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yearly Technology Summit benefitted Indian industry and academic & research institutions immensely in forging collaborations with global partners, including\u00a0policy making\u00a0which triggered\u00a0private\u00a0sector\u2019s investment in R&D and technology significantly.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the past 18 years, several countries have become partner countries in Technology Summit. These include Israel, Germany, France, Taiwan, Thailand, Russia, Canada, ASEAN block, Belarus, Finland, Spain, South Korea\u00a0and\u00a0USA. In 2016, the Technology Summit had\u00a0UK\u00a0as the partner country and prime ministers of India and UK had addressed the summit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

India will host the 24th\u00a0edition of Technology Summit with Italy as the partner country. The two-day summit will be inaugurated on 29th\u00a0October,\u00a02018 by the Union Minister for Science & Technology, Earth Sciences, Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Dr. Harsh Vardhan\u00a0and Prof. Michele Geraci, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Economic Development, Italy.\u00a0 Valedictory session of the summit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":304736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[429,574,2334,9042],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304738,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304735\/revisions\/304738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}