Google CEO Sundar Pichai to visit Delhi

After the India visit of Travis Kalanick, founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of US-based taxi aggregator Uber, Google CEO Sundar Pichai (pictured) would be in New Delhi for an event on small and medium businesses — one of the new focus areas of the global technology major. According to sources, Pichai could possibly meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant as well.

After the India visit of Travis Kalanick, founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of US-based taxi aggregator Uber, Google CEO Sundar Pichai would be in New Delhi for an event on small and medium businesses (SMB) – one of the new focus areas of the global technology major.

According to sources, Pichai could possibly meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant as well. Law and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad is likely to meet Pichai at the event where he has been invited to speak.

Sources say Pichai is already in India. He would end his trip with an event in Delhi and then go to Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur – his alma mater where he would be felicitated and then have a fireside chat at the venue. This is Pichai’s third official visit to India since he took over as Google CEO.

Pichai has a BTech degree from IIT Kharagpur. “Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and distinguished alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, has expressed his desire to visit the campus in the first week of January 2017,” its director P P Chakrabarti said, according to a few news reports. Pichai graduated in 1993 with a BTech in metallurgical and materials engineering.