New Delhi, Oct 3 (UNI) RAISE-2020 Summit, first of its kind, global meeting of minds on Artificial Intelligence to drive India’s vision and roadmap for social transformation, inclusion and empowerment through responsible AI will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday.

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and NITI Aayog are organizing the Global Virtual Summit on Artificial Intelligence, RAISE 2020- ‘Responsible AI for Social Empowerment 2020,’ from October 5-9.

The summit will see the participation of many world renowned experts on the third day, October 7 include Professor Daniela Rus, Director of Computer Science and AI lab at MIT, USA, Dr Milind Tambe, Director, AI for Social Good at Google Research India, Mr Sandip Patel, MD, IBM India and South Asia, Dr Jonathan Stuart Russel, Computer Scientist, UC Berkeley, and Ms Arunima Sarkar, Lead, AI, World Economic Forum.



So far, more than 35,034 stakeholders from academia, research industry and government representatives from 123 countries have registered to participate in RAISE 2020.

From agriculture to fin-tech and healthcare to infrastructure, India is at the cusp of rapid development in artificial intelligence.

India can become the AI laboratory of the world and contribute to inclusive development and growth through empowerment. The Summit will serve as a platform for discussion and consensus building to help create a data-rich environment, which will help to eventually transform lives globally.