India's AI ambitions hinge on workforce re-skilling, IBM India head says

India’s AI ambitions hinge on turning 200 million workers into 350 million

IBM India’s Sandip Patel says the country can become the world’s AI skill capital by 2030. The arithmetic of getting there is harder than the headline number suggests. ndia has roughly six hundred million workers, and on a recent Bengaluru morning, the head of IBM’s India business put a number on how many of them […] This story continues at The Next Web

India's AI ambitions hinge on workforce re-skilling, IBM India head says

BENGALURU, May 25 : India will need a coordinated push across government, companies and academia on skilling and policy if it wants to become an AI powerhouse, an IBM executive said, as the technology threatens the country's position as a global services hub.IBM India head Sandip Patel told Reuters on Monday