IIITH’s annual conference on Tech and Society on Feb 23

Hyderabad: International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH) will be hosting an annual conference on technology and society on February 23. The event is being organised to promote greater understanding and utilisation of the latest emerging technologies like AI, ML and related topics as well as foster widespread adoption and innovation globally, with emphasis on […]

Hyderabad: International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH) will be hosting an annual conference on technology and society on February 23.

The event is being organised to promote greater understanding and utilisation of the latest emerging technologies like AI, ML and related topics as well as foster widespread adoption and innovation globally, with emphasis on the bottom of the pyramid.

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The annual conference brings together social scientists, NGOs, technologists, research groups, innovators, policymakers, impact funders and CSR organisations to deliberate on how emerging technologies can assist and enable rural education and healthcare.

It includes plenary panel discussions themed on AI and society, with a special focus on how AI can enable social outcomes. Another session on healthcare at the BoP, specifically how healthcare can be taken effectively to rural doorsteps.

Another aspect of the conference includes closed-door roundtable discussions among social tech leaders, change makers and industry experts where they will deliberate on how CSR can fund social change, and collaborate to amplify tech-led impact.

Plenary speakers include professor Raj Reddy, chairman, Governing Council IIITH; professor PJ Narayanan, Director IIITH; Vivek Raghavan, EkStep; Dr Srinath Reddy, PHFI and most likely Ganesh Natarajan (5F world), Ramji Raghavan (Agastya Foundation), Amirullah Khan (CDPP), and Manoj Gopalakrishnan (Care India). For more details, visit the website https://rcts.iiit.ac.in/.

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