Kamal Ghorui
The hiring push comes amid a surge in investments by global companies looking to strengthen their AI presence in the country. (AI image)
India’s first AI Summit is turning into a talent scouting ground for Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Group and Gautam Adani-led Adani Group. The country’s two biggest business houses are actively looking for young engineers who can drive the next wave of artificial intelligence tools. The aim is to identify and recruit promising young engineers as competition to develop artificial intelligence tools and applications accelerates. The hiring push comes amid a surge in investments by global companies looking to strengthen their AI presence in the country.
The week-long India AI Impact Summit has drawn some of the most prominent figures in global technology, including Sundar Pichai of Alphabet Inc. and Sam Altman from OpenAI Inc., who are scheduled to address attendees. France President Emmanuel Macron is set to deliver the keynote speech.For PM Narendra Modi, the gathering serves as a global platform to highlight India’s large pool of tech-savvy professionals and software expertise as a driving force in shaping the future of artificial intelligence. India has already attracted investments amounting to $50 billion in the AI sector.
Reliance, Adani Group On a Talent Hunt At India AI Summit
According to a Bloomberg report, senior representatives from Reliance Industries Ltd. and the Adani Group are actively scouting candidates at the event, where aspiring professionals are presenting their résumés and GitHub portfolios to highlight their technical projects and expertise.“It is a great place to find talent,” Priyanshi Bavishi, a marketing executive at AdaniConnex Pvt. Ltd. was quoted as saying. “Industry is still niche, so the qualified people have great prospects.”With specialised AI skills still limited relative to the large number of technology graduates in India, the summit has become an important opportunity for job seekers to submit resumes and build connections, allowing companies to retain candidate profiles for future hiring needs. Demand at the event has been particularly strong for AI engineers, data scientists and cloud developers, the Bloomberg report said.“We are a service-oriented nation. But we are looking for ideapreneurs,” said Siddharth Sood, a consulting partner at Delhi-based Ernst & Young LLP. “We are hiring a few dozen right now. AI for Cyber, and Cyber for AI — this is the area I’m hiring for.”Executives at Dell Technologies and Salesforce are also looking to recruit talent that may not be reachable through standard online hiring channels, where many applications are filtered out by automated screening systems.Students have been arriving in large numbers since early morning and recruitment remains a priority, said Viral Tank, a senior manager with Analytics at Deloitte Haskins & Sells LLP. “It works both ways. I am looking for people. They are looking for jobs.” On Monday, Anthropic PBC announced a collaboration with Infosys Ltd. to build advanced artificial intelligence solutions tailored for specific industries. A day later, the Adani Group said it intends to invest $100 billion by 2035 to expand data centre infrastructure. Meanwhile, Google has committed $15 billion toward developing what it described as its first AI hub in India.Technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Tuesday that Nvidia is working with several AI infrastructure and software firms on potential investments, though he did not disclose the names of the companies involved.
