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Nasscom, the apex assemblage of Indian IT, connected Thursday (November 20, 2025) announced the motorboat of its U.K. Forum, a strategical manufacture level aimed astatine deepening bilateral exertion and commercialized concern betwixt India and the United Kingdom.
The forum is expected to physique a multistakeholder strategical concern crossed some governments, the exertion industry, enterprises, associations, academia, deliberation tanks, analysts, and the Indian diaspora.
According to a Nasscom communique, the forum volition play a catalytic relation successful advancing AI collaboration betwixt the 2 nations, successful enactment with the Technology Security Initiative (TSI), particularly successful the nationalist sector, wherever India’s acquisition successful AI adoption and integer nationalist infrastructure tin assistance the U.K. present national services astatine scale.
The forum would besides absorption connected enabling AI readiness, workforce upskilling, and SME integer transformation, portion promoting liable AI practices and shared innovation models that payment some societies, it said.
Rajesh Nambiar, president, Nasscom, said: “The India-U.K. concern stands astatine the cusp of a caller decennary of innovation, inclusion, and impact. The adjacent decennary indispensable beryllium astir co-innovation, wherever India and the U.K. jointly plan and deploy solutions successful AI, integer nationalist infrastructure, and emerging technologies.”
Peter Kyle, Secretary of State for Business and Trade and President of the Board of Trade successful the U.K. Government said, “With the U.K.-India FTA present signed, the motorboat of the Nasscom U.K. Forum volition fortify our trading concern successful the high-growth exertion assemblage and volition unlock monolithic opportunities for businesses successful some the UK and India.”
The motorboat ceremony, held astatine the Indian High Commission successful London successful the beingness of Kanishka Narayan, Minister for AI and Online Safety, Government of the U.K., received beardown enactment from some the U.K. and Indian governments, claimed the manufacture body. Senior exertion leaders from HCL Technologies, Hexaware, Infosys, LTIMindtree, Mastek, Tech Mahindra, TCS and Wipro were besides portion of it.
