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Chennai and Tamil Nadu's tier-2 cities are home to hundreds of Global Capability Centres and a deep pool of tech talent. The opportunity now is to move from delivery to innovation: building AI, intellectual property and digital infrastructure that every other Growth Engine can use.
Tamil Nadu at a glance
350+Global Capability Centres
20%+of India's IT workforce
316 MWlive data-centre capacity, Chennai
Core value chain
From raw materials to global markets
- Talent & Education
- Research & Innovation
- Software / IP
- AI, SaaS & Platforms
- Digital Infrastructure (Data Centres, Cloud)
- Enterprise & GCC Adoption
- Global Delivery
- Scale & New Business Models
The five conversations
Five conversations, 45 minutes each
Indicative conversations, subject to change- 01From Delivery to InnovationDesigning Tamil Nadu's Next 500 GCCs
- 02AI as Tamil Nadu's Productivity EngineBringing AI to Factories, Farms and MSMEs
- 03Arivagam and Sovereign AI InfrastructureCompute, Data Centres and Green Power
- 04Deep-Tech and Cyber StartupsBuilding Tamil Nadu's IP Economy
- 05Tier-2 Tech CitiesCoimbatore, Madurai, Trichy, Hosur and the Mini TIDEL Network
Who is in the room
GCC heads, IT and SaaS leaders, AI and deep-tech founders, data-centre operators, investors, universities and government.
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