International Startup Foundation(ISF) announced the 1st ISF Global AI Summit and the 1st International Junicorns Startup Festival in Dallas, USA from 28th to 30th May 2025 at a curtain raiser event at International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-H), Hyderabad. Sri Nalamada Uttam Kumar Reddy, Hon’able Minister for Irrigation, Food and Civil Supplies, Government of Telangana along with Dr. J A Chowdary, Founder and Chairman of ISF in the presence of Dr Siva Mahesh Tangutooru, Co-Founder and Managing Trustee of ISF, Co-Founders of ISF are M Satyendra Kumar, Seshadri Vangala, Bipin Chandra Pendyala and Dr Bhanu Prakash Varlathe, panellists for the roundtables, and delegates launched the website and announced the ISF Global AI Summit 2025 and the 1st International Junicorns Startup Festival at Dallas.Minister of Irrigation, Food and Civil Supplies, Sri Nalamada Uttam Kumar Reddy highlighted the critical and disruptive role of AI in every sphere of life and business and the resolve of the Government of Telangana to make Hyderabad a Global Hub for AI. Speaking at the ISF Global AI Summit Curtain Raiser, Honourable Minister of Irrigation, Food and Civil Supplies, Sri Nalamada Uttam Kumar Reddy, said “TheAdvent of GenAI is transforming the world at an unprecedented pace. Rate of transformation is phenomenally more rapid that what the human race has seen in the past with steam engines, oil, personal computing, the internet, social media, etc. While there is euphoria on one hand about the exponential possibilities and revenue multiplier, there is also the downside of job losses as we understand today and the potential misuse and social disruption. Yet, technology and economics will move forward and change the world as we know today. Industries across the canvas will benefit immensely: smart mobility, healthcare, drug discovery, compute, cloud storage, retail, agriculture, manufacturing, defence and aerospace, mining, exploration & drilling, and so on. Hence it is imperative that societies and governments across the world adopt the role of enablers of the economic momentum and on the other hand work to build robust frameworks to harness the power of AI for the improvement of humanity while limiting the challenges of deepfake, fraud, hallucinations, bias, and so on.
Government of Telangana is ahead of the curve initiating the AI City, setting up the SKILLS University to nurture and develop skilled manpower and other such initiatives. As we understand, Compute power and AI Ethics will be the major challenges going forward and need to be addressed collaboratively by Government, Industry, Academia and think tanks.” He complimented the role of International Startup Foundation in mentoring and providing the relevant ecosystem to foster early-stage startups with their disruptive and innovative ideas.
According to Dr. J.A. Chowdary, Founder and Chairman of ISF, “We are excited to announce the 1st International Junicorns Festival 2025, a platform for young innovators in the age group of 8 to 18 years at ISF Global AI Summit, at Dallas, USA from 28th to 30th of May. We will be conducting a hackathon for the Junicorns based on themes selected by our elite panel of mentors from different domains, to find disruptive solutions to real life problems. We will be selecting the most promising Junicorns and sponsoring them to the Festival, giving them an opportunity to network with the best minds in the AI space at Dallas. The Global AI Summit 2025 will provide a valuable platform for start-ups to network with a pool of global CXO’s, Investors, start-ups, innovators in AI domain and academia to showcase the innovative solutions to the real-life problems and to seek mentorship from leaders in the AI domain. The objective of ISF Global AI Summit 2025 is to explore the disruptive role of AI in driving inclusive growth and to foster collaboration among academia, industry, and policymakers to leverage the transformative role of AI in addressing global challenges—from healthcare and education to climate change and economic empowerment. The interested start-ups and innovators can register on our website www.isfnetwork.org to participate in the ISF Global AI Summit 2025.”
