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There is immense imaginable for India and Sri Lanka to enactment unneurotic successful higher education, research, accomplishment development, and technology-driven innovation, which would payment our youth, said Ganesanathan Geathiswaran, Deputy High Commissioner, Sri Lanka Deputy High Commission, connected Thursday successful Chennai astatine the 3rd variation of the Tamil Nadu Higher Education Summit 2026.
The day-long acme themed ‘Empowering the Future Workforce: AI, AVGC & Industry 4.0 successful Academia’ discussed the planetary interaction of artificial intelligence, necessity of industry-academia collaborations, emerging technological disruptions, and the evolving start-up ecosystem. It was organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Tamil Nadu State Council.
Speaking astatine the summit, Ashok G. Verghese, co-chairman, FICCI TN State Council and pro-chancellor, Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, said: “The aboriginal of higher acquisition cannot beryllium shaped by aged models successful a rapidly evolving world. Now, we indispensable determination faster and enactment together, the aboriginal of the workforce demands much than degrees. It requires integer skills, creativity, occupation solving, and communications.”
The FICCI Industry Collaboration Award-Excellence successful Global Aviation Training Standards was presented to Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science and Orient Flights Private Limited. The FICCI Industry Collaboration Award-Emerging Technologies and Innovation was fixed to the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, and the FICCI Industry Collaboration Award-Excellence successful Quantum Computing and Advance Technologies was presented to IIT-M and IBM.
G.S.K. Velu, chairman, FICCI Tamil Nadu State council, and CMD, Trivitron Healthcare and Neuberg Diagnostics Group, said: “Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu person galore things successful common, but we request much collaboration successful the tract of education.”
