Kerala State IT mission organises AI conference
The Kerala State IT Mission (KSITM) in collaboration with the Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM) and the ICT Academy of Kerala on Thursday organised 'K-AI: The Guiding Hand of Smart Governance', a conference aimed at fostering structured dialogue between government departments and the start-up ecosystem to apply Artificial Intelligence (AI) in addressing governance challenges.
The forum brought together a diverse group of stakeholders, including senior government officials, start-up innovators, and domain experts, to discuss and develop AI-enabled solutions based on real-world departmental use cases. Chief Secretary A. Jayathilak inaugurated the event. Special Secretary, Electronics & IT Department, Seeram Sambasiva Rao, delivered the keynote address. Sandip Kumar, Director, Kerala State IT Mission, was present and Anoop Ambika, CEO, KSUM, were present.
A flagship initiative aimed at accelerating the adoption of AI solutions across government departments, Kerala AI (K-AI) envisions a collaborative ecosystem where emerging technologies meet public service delivery, enabling smarter, faster, and citizen-centric governance. Representatives of KSUM-backed start-ups made presentation on AI-based solutions that are helpful for various governing processes including data analysis and mapping systems.
Various departments and State establishments that participated in the workshop presented some of the problems peculiar to each of them to ascertain if AI-based solutions developed by the startup ecosystem in the state could be leveraged.
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