India is set to host the AI Impact Summit 2025 in February, a first-of-its-kind global conference on the future of artificial intelligence, governance, and innovation. The Dutch Ambassador Marisa Gerards has expressed 'great confidence in India’s leadership', praising the country’s growing influence in emerging tech and digital governance.
00:00Here at the GTS Innovation Dialogue Summit hosted by Carnegie India, co-hosted by MEA
00:04and I have with me Marisa Jurats, Ambassador of Netherlands to India.
00:08Thank you so much for speaking with AsiaNet News.
00:10I heard you speaking inside and you talk about how you look forward to India hosting AI Impact Summit next year.
00:17What do you have to say about that?
00:19Yes, well, we're all very excited that India is going to organize the Impact Summit.
00:24We also commend India for choosing the word impact because that's what we need.
00:29We need to come together and to look for impact, talk about the opportunities, talk about the risks, come together, align our policies, talk about regulation,
00:40but also include industry, include the research institutes to take further steps.
00:47And we have great confidence in India doing a wonderful job because India proved already that they can actually use technology for the advancement,
00:56for the social advancement of your country.
00:59And also you have such shown the world great leadership in organizing all these summits for the G20 that we think we're in very safe hands.
01:09You also spoke about how you look forward to attending the summit along with a lot of CEOs from your country.
01:14Yes, yes.
01:15Our Prime Minister is coming.
01:16Prime Minister's hope will be coming.
01:18The CEO from Philips will be joining him.
01:20There will be other CEOs who will be in the delegation as well.
01:24And we also hope that some people from our technical universities can join us because that's what we should do.
01:30We should actually combine government with industry and the research institutes and then we can solve any problem.
01:37What collaboration can we see in that area, area of AI?
01:40Because there's so many sectors where we can make use of AI.
01:43Yeah, yeah, as you say, I mean, AI is like electricity, it's like the internet, it's actually a tool, it's a technology that we see in every single sector.
01:54So I think if you look at sectors like health, healthcare or agriculture, it can do so much good for humanity.
02:02And I think if we bring the experts together, I'm sure that it will come up with lots of very good and concrete plans.
02:11We, bilaterally, between India and the Netherlands, we have a new MOU on key enabling technologies, where we will work together on semiconductors, but also on AI.
02:23And it's our universities, our technical universities, together with six IITs, who also made a memorandum of cooperation that they call BrainBridge, where they will connect the smart students and professors to look for solutions.
02:39That's so much of collaboration that we'll see between both the countries.
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