{"id":1010719,"date":"2026-05-29T09:12:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010719"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:12:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:42:04","slug":"iairo-ropes-in-vishal-mehta-to-sharpen-ai-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/29\/iairo-ropes-in-vishal-mehta-to-sharpen-ai-push\/","title":{"rendered":"IAIRO ropes in Vishal Mehta to sharpen AI push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian AI Research Organisation (IAIRO), an institution positioned at the centre of India\u2019s sovereign artificial intelligence ambitions, has appointed veteran technologist Vishal Mehta, Chairman and Managing Director of AvenuesAI Limited, as Technical Advisor, in a move aimed at strengthening the country\u2019s push to build globally competitive AI capabilities. <\/p>\n<p>Announcing the appointment on LinkedIn, IAIRO said Mehta brings \u201cdecades of experience in building and scaling technology and digital infrastructure businesses in India,\u201d adding that his expertise across entrepreneurship, technology platforms and AI-led innovation would contribute significantly to the organisation\u2019s research and ecosystem initiatives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian AI Research Organisation (IAIRO), an institution positioned at the centre of India\u2019s sovereign artificial intelligence ambitions, has appointed veteran technologist Vishal Mehta, Chairman and Managing Director of AvenuesAI Limited, as Technical Advisor, in a move aimed at strengthening the country\u2019s push to build globally competitive AI capabilities. Announcing the appointment on LinkedIn, IAIRO said Mehta brings \u201cdecades of experience in building and scaling technology and digital infrastructure businesses in India,\u201d adding that his expertise across entrepreneurship, technology platforms and AI-led innovation would contribute significantly to the organisation\u2019s research and ecosystem initiatives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010734,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010719\/revisions\/1010734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}