Satya Nadella Impressed with work done in the field of education in India - Microsoft chief Satya Nadella has arrived in Mumbai today and met industry leaders like Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra, Axis Bank head Shikha Sharma and Tata Starbucks CEO Avani Davda.
The India-born CEO also gave a keynote address at 'Microsoft's Future Unleashed' event that saw a blend of 3,000 industry leaders, enterprise heads, developers and entrepreneurs.
At the beginning of the event, Chairman of Microsoft India, Bhaskar Pramanik unveiled the first edition of Future Unleashed.
Next was Anand Mahendra, Chairman at Mahindra & Mahindra whose keynote was titled "Small is the New Big." Anand Mahindra said Gandhi and Satya Nadella have a similar silhouette. He also added, "Mahatma Gandhi is the Messiah of the digital world."
Mukund Rajan of Tata Sons was the next on stage. He talked about building sustainable organisations and said, "The Tata approach is not a short term approach. We don't think about the next quarter, but the next quarter of century."
Then Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis along with Microsoft chief Bhaskar Pramanik took to the stage. Fadnavis said, "Maharashtra has always been a preferred destination for businesses. But getting 76 permissions takes around 1 to 3 years."
And finally, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella came on stage and started with 'mobile first, cloud first'. He said, "While a computer on every desk was our goal when Bill and Paul started Microsoft, I guess the vision was to empower individuals and organisations."
Talking about India, Microsoft CEO also said that he is motivated by the work done in the field of education in the country. He also pointed out that a lot of exciting work is happening in the startup and e-commerce space in India.
In the end Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad talked about Digital India and thanked Bill Gates for his humanitarian work in India.
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