Speaking at the inauguration function of 'Mangalore – the Emerging ITE Destination', which is an initiative of the Department of Information Technology, Bio-Technology, Science and Technology to promote IT and Electronics in Tier II and Tier III cities in the State of Karnataka.
Making an earnest request to investors to start operations in Mangalore, Mr Patil said that Dakshina Kannada is a well developed place known for its hotel industry the world over. It is also known as the cradle of Banking.
“All nationalized banks have started operations from here even as it boasts of a robust education sector. More than 50 companies are running their businesses here and employ 18,000 professionals. This speaks about the educated and talented youth force which is available here and these factors make Mangalore the next big ITE destination.”
Delivering the keynote address, Kris Gopalakrishnan, Chairman, Vision Group of IT, Government of Karnataka, Co-founder and Executive Vice Chairman, Infosys, and President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), informed that Infosys would be completing 18 years of its operations in Mangalore.
Citing the reasons why Mangalore was chosen to be Infosys' second centre even before starting operations at Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune and Mysore, Gopalkrishnan said that Mangalore has a high quality of life and a culture of education and business adding that the DNA of Mangalore is its culture of entrepreneurship and business. Today, Infosys has over 4000 professionals working at the Mangalore centre. Urging educational institutions to promote entrepreneurship among students, Mr Gopalkrishna said that educational institutions must promote at least eight percent of its students to become job creators instead of being job seekers. While addressing the gathering he highlighted that by 2020, Indian Electronics market is going to touch 400 Billion USD. This would further create pressure on Current Account Deficit. At the same time it is an opportunity for the domestic electronics manufacturing sector.
Addressing the conference Sanjeev Keskar Chairman of Indian Electronics and semiconductor Association (IESA) and MD, Sales for India and SEA at PMC-Sierra urged the audience to explore opportunities in Industrial Electronics and many other streams under ESDM. IESA is going to publish a report next month highlighting opportunities in 20 electronic product segments.
Biren Ghose, Country Head of Technicolor India and President of Association of Bangalore Animation Industry highlighted that Mangalore has a natural advantage in this sector as this industry depends on pool of creative people, artists and technocrats and Mangalore has all this in abundance.
The inauguration function of this event witnessed a galaxy of ministers attending it. B Ramanath Rai, Minister of State for Forests, Ecology and Environment and District in-charge Minister of Dakshina Kannada, in his address said that Dakshina Kannada holds potential for entrepreneurial opportunities and we need to be participating in the growth of IT in this competitive age.
K Abhay Chandra Jain, Minister of State for Youth services, Fisheries and Animal Husbandry, U T Khader, Minister of for Health and Family Welfare among others were present.
The conference was well attended by over 200 delegates from Mangalore and over 24 experts from across India participated in the panel discussions which included Mohammed Ameen, President of the Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Gopikrishnan Konnanath, Head – Development Centre, Mangalore at Infosys, Naren Konduvattat, Founder and Managing Director at i-Point, Vishal Hegde, Trustee of Nitte Education Trust, Fr Denzil Lobo, Rector, St Aloysius College Institutions, Greg Childs, Co-creator and Editorial Director, The Children's media Conference and Former Director of BBC, Vidyaranya Kollipal, HR Site Lead at Mphasis, Arul Moorthy, Founder CEO at Digitalmagic, Nagaraj Kulkarni, Director, Information Excellence at Compegence, Srinidhi Rao, Associate Vice President – Engineering at Robosoft Technologies were present.
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