Hyderabad: Telangana IT and Industries minister KT Rama Rao has been invited to speak at the 2023 Annual Summit of the Global Trade and Innovation Policy Alliance (GTIPA) to be held on September 14 in Berlin, Germany.
The invitation was extended by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a leading think tank for science and technology policy.
In the invitation, ITIF vice president Stephen Ezell requested the minister to address Telangana’s success in attracting foreign and domestic investment, especially in advanced-technology sectors, and the state’s deployment of digital technologies to address social and economic challenges.
The GTIPA is a global network of think tanks that share a common vision that trade, globalisation, and innovation can produce tremendous benefits for the world’s citizens. The annual summit is a forum for these think tanks to come together and discuss policy solutions to the challenges facing the global economy.
The summit will feature panels on a variety of topics, including regional innovation competitiveness, policies to accelerate life-sciences innovation, digital technologies facilitating decarbonisation, and achieving resiliency in the global trading system.