As Prime Minister Narendra Modi set out to win over America again, three themes animated his journey:
- entrepreneurship and innovation
Landing in New York on September 23 evening, PM Modi had an interaction with potential investors, a discussion with media and communication majors and a dinner with CEOs of 40-plus companies focusing on infrastructure and manufacturing in aid of his 'Make in India' initiative the next day.
PM Modi then headed to the Silicon Valley on Saturday, September 26, after addressing the UN global summit on Friday.
His first stop in California was at Tesla's Fremont plant on Saturday. Here more than the zero emissions cars that it makes, Modi was interested in its "Powerwall," a home battery charged by solar panels, for India's clean energy initiative.
With this he becomes the first Indian leader to visit California in more than three decades.He had meetings with Apple CEO Tim Cook, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and electric carmaker Tesla's iconic CEO Elon Musk, among others.Here are his tweets relevant to the same:
With many an Indian at the forefront of innovation in the Silicon Valley, Modi looked at how to maximize the opportunities at a digital economy dinner that evening attended by several Indian-American tech leaders, along with Cisco chairman John Chambers and Qualcomm chairman Paul Jacobs, among others.
Discussed "how communities can work together to address social and economic challenges" at Town-hall Q&A session at Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters:
Mark Zuckerberg also added this exclusive feature to facebook to support Digital India:
PM Modi also met
Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai and Shantanu Narayen, the India-born CEOs of Microsoft, Google, and Adobe respectively.
Here are the snippets from PM Modi's Interactions in the Silicon Valley:
