INCLUSIVE & EQUITABLE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE,ROBOTICS, DEEP-TECH - UMAKANT SONI - CEO: ARTPARK

#artificialintelligence #nextbillionusers #ai #piventures #artpark #billionusers Umakant Soni is the co-founder of AI foundry, focused on “building leapfrog AI ventures for next 6bn users”. Before this, Umakant co-founded pi Ventures -India’s only Artificial Intelligence-focused $32 m early-stage venture fund.  Currently CEO at ARTPARK-AI & Robotics Technology Park A one-of-its-kind, not-for-profit (section-8) foundation promoted by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru with support from AI Foundry in a public-private collaborative model, to promote technology innovations in AI & Robotics. With seed funding of INR 230 Cr ($32mn) from the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India, under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS) & from the Govt. of Karnataka, the ecosystem is designed to bring about a collaborative consortium of partners from industry, academia, and government bodies.  He spent the early part of his career growing 3 Intra company ventures as part of Wipro’s Innovation arm (India’s leading IT services company) and creating strategies for investment and growth in advanced technologies(focusing on web services and SOA). He has 2 patents published in the area of autonomic process systems. He is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and enjoys painting abstracts in his spare time. ARTPARK is launching a $100 million venture fund for India exclusively for startups in Artificial Intelligence, Deep-Tech and Robotics space. https://in.linkedin.com/in/soniumakantwww.artpark.in  https://twitter.com/umakantsoni6  https://www.aifoundry.ai Kindly Subscribe to CHANGE- I M POSSIBLE youtube channel www.youtube.com/ctipodcast