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Karnataka has curated a high-quality woody travel for India’s Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming, Comics, and Extended Reality (AVGC-XR) sector, an integral portion of the Orange Economy, and aligned it with a ample assemblage of global investors, stated Priyank Kharge, Minister of Electronics, IT & BT and RDPR, present connected Friday, connected the sidelines of GAFX 2026, State’s yearly exposition for the industry.
“By curating high-quality woody travel and aligning it with superior investors, we are strengthening the instauration of Karnataka’s innovation economy,’’ helium said.
The Government of Karnataka, done the Department of Electronics, IT & BT, hosted an Investor Pitch Platform astatine Bengaluru GAFX-2026, creating a structured span betwixt superior providers and high-potential startups crossed the AVGC-XR and emerging exertion ecosystem, helium said.
Platforms similar the Investor Pitch astatine GAFX, ensured that AVGC, AI, and emerging exertion startups successful the authorities were not conscionable gathering products, alternatively they were gathering globally competitory enterprises, helium added.
Women’s participation
The absorption connected women successful animation, astatine the venue, brought successful artists, workplace professionals, entrepreneurs, policymakers and a ample fig of students for a dialog connected strengthening women’s information successful the AVGC-XR ecosystem. The mixer enabled curated mentor roundtables, structured networking, alongside a unrecorded Opportunity Wall featuring occupation openings, internships and collaboration pathways.
According to Manjula N., Secretary, Department of Electronics, IT & BT and S&T, women’s information successful animation is presently little than 25%, importantly little than successful respective different sectors. “Yet women bring a chiseled originative borderline and are exceptionally well-suited to thrive successful this industry. The opportunities wrong the originative system are immense, and enabling and facilitating women’s publication volition beryllium a precedence takeaway from today’s engagement,’’ she said.
B.S. Srinivas, Convenor, ABAI & Co-chair, Bengaluru GAFX said, “When women creators rise, the full AVGC-XR ecosystem becomes stronger, much innovative and globally competitive.”
Kannada & culture
The State’s taste practice was showcased astatine KalaVerse, curated successful relation with the Kannada and Culture Department.
On Saturday, the Karnataka Janapada Academy presented 5 vibrant accepted performances, bringing Karnataka’s people traditions to the forefront of the planetary AVGC-XR platform.
Conceived arsenic a span betwixt contented and the aboriginal originative economy, KalaVerse integrates Karnataka’s divers taste expressions with opportunities successful animation, gaming, immersive media and integer storytelling.
“As we fortify our AVGC ecosystem, it is important that our taste extent finds look done modern originative technologies,’’ added Ms. Manjula.
