Telangana State To Declare 2020 as 'Year of AI’

KT Rama Rao, Information Technology Industries and Commerce Minister, will officially declare 2020 as the Year of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Telangana on January 2. Ajay Prakash Sawhney, Secretary, MeitY and Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog have been invited for the launch event

On this day, he will also announce AI projects and launch the calendar of events. Several academics and industry leaders are collaborating to design the year of AI program and will officially sign MoUs with the government.

All key industry leaders and AI experts are coming together for the inaugural celebrations in Hyderabad. The State has already operationalized its Drone framework document and Blockchain framework document.

"With AI and Big Data Analytics anticipated to generate over 8 lakh jobs in India by 2021, Telangana will now launch its AI program in 2020 that will be implemented by NASSCOM and guided by the AI framework document," said Jayesh Ranjan, Principal Secretary, ITE&C Department, Government of Telangana.