Amgen to open tech innovation hub in Hyderabad

Hyderabad: Amgen will soon open a new technology and innovation site in Hyderabad.

The site, known as Amgen India, will accelerate digital capabilities across the global organisation to advance Amgen’s pipeline of medicines. Amgen will be in HITEC City with six floors accommodating up to 3,000 people, operational from Q4 2024.

“At a time when a quickly ageing global population needs more innovation, the convergence of biotechnology and technology is enabling Amgen to work with greater speed, confidence and efficiency — an incredibly exciting milestone for which we have been preparing for over a decade,” said David M Reese, MD and executive vice president and chief technology officer at Amgen.

Focus on AI and life sciences

The site in Hyderabad will offer roles that strengthen key areas of Amgen’s business, including AI, data science, life sciences and other additional global capabilities over time.

To lead Amgen’s expanded presence in India, Som Chattopadhyay has been appointed national executive for India.

Amgen's plan to establish a centre in Hyderabad is among the key international partnerships that the team from Telangana has secured on their ongoing tour. After successfully completing his visit to New York, Washington DC and other cities during his ongoing US tour to seek investments, chief minister A Revanth Reddy and his team are set to begin their California pitch.

Revanth Reddy and Industries minister Duddilla Sridhar Babu met Dr David Reese and Som Chattopadhyay at Amgen’s R&D site in San Francisco. “It is a matter of pride for us to have one of the world’s largest biotech firms choose Hyderabad for its first development facilities in Telangana,” said Revanth Reddy.

Amgen has nearly 27,000 employees and has a presence in approximately 100 countries and regions worldwide, including India.

The Future State, says CM

Addressing the CEOs of tech unicorns at an AI business roundtable hosted by the Indian Consulate General in California, the chief minister said Telangana would be ‘The Future State’, given its current set of game-changing projects like the AI city, Net Zero Future City, and the massive reimagining of Hyderabad.

“In America, every state has a motto. I have been so far to New York, New Jersey, Washington DC, Texas and now we are here in California. New York State motto - Out of Many, One. Texas is known as Lone Star State. California has a motto, Eureka.

“In India, we don’t have a motto for a state. But I will now like to give my state - Telangana - a motto. My state, Telangana, can be called - The Future State,” an official release on Friday quoted him as saying in his address to the gathering. “I invite you to Telangana. I invite you to the future. Together, let us make the future,” he said.

International relations

Separately, addressing a gathering of IT Serve Alliance in Dallas, the largest association of IT Services organisations based in the USA, chief minister Reddy and minister Babu made a strong pitch to the members to actively consider investments in Hyderabad and Telangana, and partner in any of the plethora of projects and engagements being created for the diaspora.

The alliance, reportedly dubbed often as the “voice of all prestigious IT companies functioning with similar interests across the United States”, welcomed the chief minister for their annual flagship event in Vegas later this year, a platform on which several world leaders, including former US presidents Bill Clinton and George W Bush, former secretary Hillary Clinton and, icons like Steve Forbes have held the stage, an official release said.

The CM said, “We have built Hyderabad, Secunderabad and Cyberabad over the years. Now, let us all join in making a world-class fourth city, the Future City. When you invest in Hyderabad now, you are clearly investing in the future.”

Minister Babu explained how the Future City, extension of the Metro rail network, and the River Musi rejuvenation project were all parts of a larger strategy to reimagine Hyderabad in the coming decade.

“It will be a hub for future tech like AI, and with Net Zero impact design, it will be an urban construct of truly global standards and processes,” he said.

Later in the day, CM and the Industries minister visited Apple Park, the corporate headquarters of Apple Inc., in Cupertino, California and had discussions on pitching investments in Telangana.