key points discussed at 6 sessions included, amongst others: Need to upgrade from conversational AI to actionable AI; need to have synthetic data, miniaturization; healthcare datasets, data protection & privacy, use of AI for community health; quick adoption of AI, AI divide, scaling the AI solution, and security concerns
FinTech BizNews Service
Mumbai, July 03, 2024: After the opening ceremony of Global INDIAai Summit 2024 today at New Delhi, six sessions on AI were held today. Brief details of the sessions are as follows:
Side Session 1: IndiaAI: Large Language Models
The session began with a keynote by Mr. Srinivas Narayanan, Vice President, Open AI. The session included distinguished panelists, namely Ms. Shalini Kapoor, CTO, AWS, Dr. Kalika Bali, Pr. Researcher, Microsoft, Dr. Mohit Sewak, AI Researcher, NVIDIA, Dr. Pratyush Kumar, Co-founder, Sarvam AI, Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan, IIT Bombay and Mr. Amitabh Nag, CEO, Bhashini (Moderator). The discussion covered the complexity and requirement of trillion tokens to deliver high quality LLM to suit Indian requirement and the suggestions included to have multi-models, need to upgrade from conversational AI to actionable AI, need to have synthetic data, miniaturization, and deep understanding that revolution is unfolding, and adoption is the only way forward.
Side Session 2: GPAI Convening on Global Health and AI
The session began with a keynote by Dr. Kartik Adapa, Regional Advisor, Digital Health, WHO. The session included distinguished panelists, namely Mr. Sameer Kanwar, Director, PATH (Moderator), Ms. Megha Chawdhry, Advisor, BrainSight AI, Mr. Ankit Modi, Founding member, Qure.ai, Dr. Sanjay Sarin, VP, FIND, Mr. Mihir Kulkarni, Scientist, Wadhwani AI, Dr. Mona Duggal, Assist. Prof., PGIMER, Dr. Anurag Agrawal, Ashoka University, Sh. Madhukar Kumar Bhagat, JS, MoHFW, Dr. Basant Garg, ACEO, NHA, Ms. Jo Aggarwal, CEO, Wysa and Ms. Geethanjali Radhakrishnan, CEO & MD, Adiuvo Diagnostics. The key points discussed were regulatory and policy issues, healthcare datasets, data protection & privacy, use of AI for community health & mental health and societal issues in the global south. India’s DPI in healthcare and use of AI therein were also discussed.
Side Session 3: IndiaAI: Real World AI Solutions
The keynote was delivered jointly by Mr. Jayesh Ranjan, Special Chief Secretary, Government of Telangana and Sh. Sanket S Bhondve, Joint Secretary, MeitY. The session included distinguished panelists, namely Surabhi Agarwal, Editor, Technology, Economic Times (Moderator), Dr. Alpan Raval, Chief ML Scientist, Wadhwani AI, Mr. Vishal Sunil, CTO, Rocket, Amrita Mahale, Head of Product, ARMMAN, Ms. Priya Nagpurkar, Vice President, Hybrid Cloud and AI Platform, IBM Research, Mr. Manu Chopra, CEO, Karya, Ms. Srujana Merugu, Principal Scientist, Amazon, Aditi Namdeo, Director - Strategic Initiatives, J-PAL and Dr. Vivek Raghavan, Co-Founder, Sarvam AI. The session covered quick adoption of AI, AI divide, scaling the AI solution, and security concerns.
Side Session 4: India’s Infrastructure Readiness for AI
The keynote was given by Mr. Thomas Zacharia, SVP, AMD. The session included distinguished panelists, namely Mr. Vishal Dhupar, MD, NVIDIA, Col. A.K Nath (Retd.), ED, C-DAC, Ms. Rohini Srivathsa, CTO, Microsoft, Mr. Sambit Sahu, SVP, Krutrim-Ola, Mr. Anil Nanduri, VP, Intel, Mr. Ranganath Sadasiv, CTO, HPE, Mr. Gaurav Aggarwal, VP-AI, Reliance Jio, Mr. Sunil Gupta, MD & CEO-Yotta Data Services, Mr. Tanuj Bhojwani, Head, People+AI, Mr. Hirdey Vikram, SVP, Netweb Technologies and Mr. Amlan Mohanty, Research Fellow, Carnegie India (Moderator). The sessions covered sovereignty, compliance, digital autonomy, more computational resources, cost-effective GPU services, investment, PARAM series supercomputers, skilled resources, and access to computing,
Side Session 5: IndiaAI: Ensuring Safety, Trust, and Governance in the AI Age
The keynote was given by Shri. S. Krishnan, Secretary, MeitY. The session included distinguished panelists, namely Dr. Balaraman Ravindran, Professor, IIT Madras, Mr. Arjun Goswami, Director, Public Policy, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, Shri. Mahaveer Singhvi, JS, MEA, Mr. Jibu Elias, Country Lead for India, Mozilla (Moderator), Mr Tim Curtis, Director, UNESCO, Mr Sharad Sharma, Co-founder, iSPIRT, Shri Deepak Goel, GC-CLD, MeitY, and Dr. Urvashi Aneja, Director, Digital Futures Lab. The sessions covered sovereignty, compliance, digital autonomy, more computational resources, cost-effective GPU services, investment, PARAM series supercomputers, skilled resources, and access to computing, The session covered the legal and security issues, global response to responsible use of AI, open-source technologies, publically available datasets, etc.
Side Session 6: Collaborative AI on Global Partnership (CAIGP)
The keynote was given by Mr Rohit Rathish, JS (DPA – III), MEA. The session included distinguished panelists, namely Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi, DG, RIS(Moderator), Shri Sushil Pal, JS-ICD, MeitY, Mr. Vishal Dhupar, MD, NVIDIA, Ms. Annabel Lee, Director, AWS, Mr. Jerry Sheehan, Director, OECD, Dr. Kalika Bali, Pr. Researcher, Microsoft, Rudra Chaudhuri, Director, Carnegie India, Ms. Debjani Ghosh, President, NASSCOM, Ms. Jaya Jagdish, Country Head, AMD India, Anirudh Suri, Managing Partner, India Internet Fund, Mr. Mathieu Marcotte, Director, CEIMIA, and Dr. Subi Chaturvedi, Global SVP, Inmobi. The sessions covered sovereignty, compliance, digital autonomy, more computational resources, cost-effective GPU services, investment, PARAM series supercomputers, skilled resources, and access to computing, The session covered the disparities between the Global North and South, global governance mechanisms, democratizing AI through DPI, AI standards, among others.
Background
The Government of India is hosting the 'Global IndiaAI Summit' on July 3-4, 2024, in New Delhi. The summit focuses on advancing AI development in areas like Compute Capacity, Foundational Models, Datasets, Application Development, Future Skills, Startup Financing, and Safe AI, which are the seven key pillars of IndiaAi Mission. IndiaAi Mission has been approved by the Union Cabinet in March 2024 with the outlay of USD 1.25 Billion.
GPAI is a multi-stakeholder initiative with 29 member countries, which aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice on AI by supporting cutting-edge research and applied activities on AI-related priorities. India is the lead chair of GPAI in 2024. As GPAI's Lead Chair, India is convening global AI experts to discuss key issues and promote trustworthy AI.
Virtual participation is made available at https://www.youtube.com/@DigitalIndiaofficial/streams
