From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network
Bengaluru, Oct 7: Jeremy Pilmore-Bedford, British Deputy High Commissioner (Bengaluru) met Dr C N Ashwatha Narayana, Minister for Higher Education and IT/BT and S&T at Vikasa Soudha on Thursday, and discussed collaborative engagements in cyber security, telecom, research and development, electric vehicle policy, Vaccine research and development among other things.
This was scheduled as a farewell meeting as Jeremy Pilmore is leaving for the UK back.
During the meeting, Jeremy expressed thanks to Dr Narayana for the cooperation extended towards various collaborative engagements. Both had played a major role in identifying four areas of collaboration- Fintech, Artificial Intelligence, Waste Management, and Traffic Congestion- in October 2019.
They also launched the ‘Go Global’ Program two years back to support early-stage tech startups and initiated discussions to set up regulatory sandboxes in collaboration.
During Jeremy’s tenure, the companies from Britain participated in the technical flagship event ‘Bengaluru Tech Summit- BTS’ in large numbers. Ms Katy Budge, Minister Counsellor, British High Commission, New Delhi was along with him.