US Consul General Chennai Visits Technopark

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:
Taking a ringside view of Keralam’s vibrant IT ecosystem and Technopark’s world class infrastructure, a delegation from U.S. Consulate Chennai, led by U.S. Consul General Chennai Mariana L. Neisuler, visited Technopark.

Seeram Sambasiva Rao, Special Secretary, Department of Electronics & IT, Government of Keralam, held a meeting with Neisuler in the presence of Sandeep Kumar, CEO, Technopark and Anoop Ambika, CEO, Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM), on the occasion.

Noting that it was her first visit to Keralam, Neisuler appreciated the state’s focus on logistics, maritime, energy, and IT. She encouraged the stakeholders in these sectors to crystallize their ideas to attract US companies to Keralam.

Highlighting Keralam’s reputation as a progressive state in the country, Seeram Sambasiva Rao sought the support of US firms for promoting the state as a knowledge industry hub and establishing Centres of Excellence in universities by creating collaboration between higher education institutions in US and Keralam.

“We also have a great startup ecosystem in the state with the presence of around 10,000 startups. As part of scaling up startups, we are looking for setting up startup accelerators in the state for which US accelerators can open their centres in Keralam. It will contribute in a big way to set as a model for the country,” he said.

Karthik Selvaraj, Political and Economic Specialist, U.S. Consulate Chennai; and Geetha Gopalakrishnan, Political and Economic Specialist, U.S. Consulate Chennai, also accompanied the Consul General.

The US Consulate delegation also visited Fablab at the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IIITM-K) and deep-tech robotics company Genrobotics situated at Phase I of Technopark.

Also present at the meeting included Vasanth Varada – Dy VP (Marketing & Customer Relationship), Technopark; Sreekumar V, Centre Head, Tata Elxsi; Rony Sebastian, CEO & Founder, Softnotions Technologies; Vinodh Nair – Site Lead – Equifax PEC Trivandrum; Rajesh Babu, CEO, Mirox Cyber Security; Geethu Sivakumar, CEO, Paceexcel; Jayan Nair, Centre Head, Tata Consultancy Services – Thiruvananthapuram; Vishnu V Nair, Head of External Affairs, IBS Software; Eapen Toni John, CEO, GTech; Varun G, Project Director, KSUM; George Jacob, Sr. Manager, Marketing, Technopark; Lead IT Strategists Dr. Anoopa Narayanan, Sreenath Njaneswar and Prakash Jacob Mathew.