{"id":994506,"date":"2026-02-25T09:42:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994506"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:52:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:22:38","slug":"nirmala-sitharaman-ibm-ceo-arvind-krishna-discuss-ai-skilling-and-tech-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/25\/nirmala-sitharaman-ibm-ceo-arvind-krishna-discuss-ai-skilling-and-tech-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Nirmala Sitharaman, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna discuss AI skilling and tech growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday met with IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna to discuss the company&#8217;s growing footprint in India and its contributions to the country&#8217;s technology landscape. <\/p>\n<p>The meeting, which also included Sandip Patel, Managing Director for IBM India &amp; South Asia region, focused on advancing AI skilling initiatives and equipping Indian talent with future-ready capabilities. <\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, the office of the Union Minister highlighted the interaction, stating, &#8220;Dr Arvind Krishna (@ArvindKrishna), Chairman &amp; CEO, @IBM &amp; Shri Sandip Patel (@SandipPatel_In), Managing Director, IBM India (@ibm_in), call on Smt @nsitharaman.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday met with IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna to discuss the company&#8217;s growing footprint in India and its contributions to the country&#8217;s technology landscape. The meeting, which also included Sandip Patel, Managing Director for IBM India &amp; South Asia region, focused on advancing AI skilling initiatives and equipping Indian talent with future-ready capabilities. In a post on X, the office of the Union Minister highlighted the interaction, stating, &#8220;Dr Arvind Krishna (@ArvindKrishna), Chairman &amp; CEO, @IBM &amp; Shri Sandip Patel (@SandipPatel_In), Managing Director, IBM India (@ibm_in), call on Smt @nsitharaman.&#8221;<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994506","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=994506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}