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Karnataka is entering a caller signifier of concern translation wherever artificial intelligence, precocious manufacturing, and trusted integer ecosystems volition redefine its planetary competitiveness, said M.B Patil, Minister for Large & Medium Industries & Infrastructure Development.
“With implicit 800 R&D centres, implicit 18,000 start-ups, and astir 35% of India’s Global Capability Centres, Karnataka is uniquely positioned to pb this transition,” the Minister told the CII Karnataka State Annual Meeting 2025-26 successful Bengaluru connected March 10.
“Our absorption present is not lone connected easiness of doing business, but connected the velocity of doing concern supported by argumentation stability, digitalised compliance, and a beardown innovation ecosystem that empowers manufacture to standard responsibly and sustainably,” the Minister added.
Kris Gopalakrishnan, erstwhile president of CII and co-founder of Infosys, said, “Artificial Intelligence is simply a transformative exertion that volition fundamentally redefine what was imaginable for economies, industries, and societies. The choices we marque contiguous arsenic companies, arsenic institutions, and arsenic a nation, volition signifier India’s economical trajectory for decades to come. While AI offers bonzer opportunities to grow productivity and democratise expertise, it is arsenic important that we put successful home capabilities, liable governance, and large-scale reskilling to guarantee that the benefits of this gyration are broad-based and inclusive.”
Thomas John Muthoot, Chairperson, CII Southern Region and Chairman & Managing Director of Muthoot Fincorp, said, “Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the mode industries operate, but its occurrence volition beryllium not lone connected technological capableness but besides connected trust, governance, and liable implementation.
“As businesses integrate AI into their operations, it is indispensable that organisations absorption connected inclusive adoption, continuous skilling, and transparent frameworks that equilibrium innovation with ethical responsibility.”
Rabindra Srikantan, Chairperson of CII Karnataka State Council 2025–26 and Managing Director of ASM Technologies, said, “Today, manufacture is experiencing a profound displacement successful however humans, machines, and intelligent systems enactment unneurotic crossed manufacturing and concern worth chains. As AI moves beyond assisting quality judgement to enabling autonomous decisions, spot becomes the captious nexus betwixt precocious exertion and quality confidence.
“This spot indispensable beryllium built done beardown ethical frameworks, transparent governance, and accountability — ensuring that AI not lone drives ratio and innovation, but besides supports liable and sustainable concern transformation.”
Guruprasad Mudlapur, Vice-Chairperson of CII Karnataka State Council 2025–26 and President of Bosch Group successful India & Managing Director of Bosch Limited, said, “Industrial AI has evolved from experimentation to a halfway operator of productivity, quality, and resilience successful manufacturing. Karnataka, with its engineering talent, innovation ecosystem, and industry-academia ties, is poised to lead, but occurrence demands associated enactment crossed the ecosystem: SMEs, MSMEs, and MNCs collaborating connected scaling AI for predictive maintenance, automation, and data-driven production.
“Equally captious are trusted integer ecosystems rooted successful information security, transparency, and liable AI to substance this shared transformation.”
