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INDUS-X Summit 2024: US-India defence meet to be held at Stanford College in September

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The third version of the India-US Protection Acceleration Ecosystem (INDUS-X) Summit can be held on the Stanford College in California early subsequent month, throughout which high protection leaderships from the 2 nations would brainstorm on enhancing cross-border protection innovation ecosystems.

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are among the many key leaders to handle the summit to be hosted by US India Strategic and Partnership Discussion board (USISPF) together with Stanford College’s Gordian Knot Centre for Nationwide Safety Innovation and the Hoover Establishment on September 9 and September 10.

The INDUS-X summit will deliver collectively high policymakers from Washington and New Delhi to strengthen superior know-how partnerships in protection innovation, a media launch mentioned. The Summit will hyperlink Indian and American leaders in protection innovation from startups, enterprise capital, academia, accelerators, and trade, with alternatives for co-production and investments in each nations, it mentioned.

The third INDUS X Summit is themed round “harnessing funding alternatives to boost cross-border defence innovation ecosystems” and can highlight the position of personal capital/investments within the defence innovation sector.

INDUS-X was launched in June 2023 to increase the strategic know-how partnership and defence industrial cooperation between Indian and the US governments, companies, accelerators/incubators, traders, and academia.

Improvements for Protection Excellence (iDEX) and the Protection Innovation Unit (DIU) and the Workplace of the Secretary of Protection (OSD) lead INDUS-X for the Indian Ministry of Protection and the US Division of Protection (DoD), respectively.

Launched forward of the historic state go to of prime minister Narendra Modi to the US, the primary version was held in Washington DC on June 21 final 12 months. The occasion noticed a first-of-its-kind joint showcasing of modern applied sciences by Indian and US start-ups. As many as 15 Indian start-ups and 10 US start-ups from a number of domains of maritime, AI, autonomous methods, and house, showcased their applied sciences to the stakeholders.

The exhibition was visited by senior US officers, together with Congressman Ro Khanna, who serves on the Home Armed Companies Committee as rating member of the Subcommittee on Cyber, Modern Applied sciences and Info Techniques (CITI) and as co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Individuals, and by Radha Iyengar Plumb, Deputy Beneath Secretary of Defence for Acquisition and Sustainment, US DoD.

In accordance with USISPF, the state-of-the-art INDUS-X Tech Expo will showcase cutting-edge applied sciences and improvements from defence and aerospace startups and firms, in an occasion, that can draw enterprise capital companies, lecturers, accelerators, and tech professionals from the Bay Space.

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