Reliance Jio to host India Digital Open Summit 2018

Mukesh Ambani owned Reliance Jio will host India Digital Open Summit 2018 on January 19 in partnership with the Linux Foundation and supported by Cisco Systems with focus on opportunities and building digital ecosystem.

"The January 19th, 2018 event marks the inaugural India Digital Open Summit, a meeting of the top technologists, academia, startups, and industry leaders focused on how open source networking systems and platforms would transform and foster innovation and leadership across the entire digital ecosystem," Jio said in a statement.

The summit will feature discussions on various elements of the Open Source framework for policy, technology, and security that accelerate the expansion of the Digital India initiative across domains.

Jio further said that Open source is being embraced by leading organizations globally, not only due to its cost advantage but to leverage the development advantages open source communities offer.

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"Open source fuels enterprising organizations, because unlike proprietary systems, it enables greater innovation and differentiation, helping companies customise and manage platforms with more flexibility, with the ability to rapidly develop and bring new services to the market with scalability and security," the statement added.

Over 400 attendees are expected at the India Digital Open Summit 2018 at the one-day event to be held at the Reliance Corporate Park campus in Navi Mumbai.

More than a dozen global C-Level Executives will discuss a range of topics, including application to the blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), cloud-scale networking, open compute, AR/VR, real-time analytics and other topics on the open source-spurred digital transformation.