Minister Nara Lokesh during his ongoing visit to the USA has been concentrating on seeking investment for AP and participated in the IT Serve Synergy Summit held in Las Vegas. He held a meeting with many industrialists in the premises of the summit.
He met with Amazon Web Services MD Rachel, former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi, Revacher CEO Ashwin Bharat and Salesforce AI CEO Clara Shea. On this occasion, he asked Amazon Web Services MD Rachel to set up an Amazon data center in Andhra Pradesh.
They want to contribute to easy civic services. He appealed to them to look into investment opportunities in the state. He said that AWS leadership will help Andhra Pradesh achieve its digital transformation goals in cloud infrastructure. AWS cloud services are likely to play a key role in the implementation of the plans being made by the AP government for smart governance.
He has requested former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Pepsico Indra Nooyi to help build the brand Andhra Pradesh. He sought ther support in the efforts being made by the state government to achieve sustainable economic growth.
Maintaining that the state government is moving forward to empower the youth by improving skills in education and technology, Lokesh urged her to formulate mentoring programmes for the youth to achieve these targets.
Claiming that Andhra Pradesh is moving swiftly in development by implementing investor-friendly policies under the able leadership of the visionary Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, he urged the IT companies to become partners in rebuilding the State in technology and manufacturing sectors.
Lokesh also met with Salesforce CEO Clara Shih and sought his cooperation to launch AI-skilling programmes in Andhra Pradesh. He said the state was focussing on smart governance and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven economy.
Lokesh urged Clara Shih to prepare the workforce to impart skill development in the youth for AI-based industries and become partners with educational institutions to impart hands-on training to the youth in Salesforce AI certification programmes. The minister also requested the CEO to become mentors in local start-ups and supply AI tools to them.
