Google CEO Sundar Pichai will meet President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his first visit to India since he took the top job in August. There will be no new launches this time, but Pichai will meet Google employees. The India-born CEO, who will visit India on Dec 16 and 17, is scheduled to address the media on Dec 16. He will meet Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad later.
On Dec 17, Pichai will meet Modi after which he will attend a chat session with students of Shri Ram College of Commerce. In the evening, he will attend a banquet hosted by President Mukherjee. Modi, during his US visit in September, met Pichai at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, Santa Clara.
About Pichai:-
- Pichai was born in Chennai in 1972.
- He went to IIT-Kharagpur for his B. Tech before going to Stanford University to pursue his M.S, and The Wharton School for his MBA.
During his last visit to India in September 2014, Pichai launched Android One.
Google had announced that it will collaborate with the Indian Railways to provide wi-fi services at 500 stations by next year. He had also announced that Google will enable users to type in 11 Indian languages, including Modi’s mother tongue Gujarati on the Android platform.
