IAMAI creates AR/VR Committee for Developing Startup Ecosystem and Skill Development

The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) has formed a new industry expert committee, under its Emerging Technology Council, focused on Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR).

The AR/VR Committee is the latest step in its efforts to evangelise AR/VR technology to drive economic growth, job creation, and skill development in the country. The committee would also closely work to develop potential sectors like Healthcare, Tourism, Auto, Agriculture, Education and Skill Development. The mandate of the Group is to identify opportunities and challenges to help India’s AR/VR ecosystem, in partnership with government, industry and startups.

The committee is chaired by Namrita Mahindro, senior GM, Digital Transformation Mahindra Group and co-chaired by Satyajeet Singh, head –Strategic Product Partnership, India & South Asia, Facebook.  

Other prominent members of the committee include Vaibhav Kumar Yadav, Product head- JioCinema and GM-Reliance JIO, Ajit Kumar, partner, Deloitte Digital, Mahesh Prabhu, VP-Global Head of Innovation, ITC Infotech, Vivek M. Jain, founder, FlippAR, Kshitij Marwah, founder, Tesseract, Ninad Chhaya, co-founder and COO, GoPhygital, Utsav Mathur, founder, GMETRI, amongst others.

On the agenda of this committee will be:
a) nurturing India’s AR/VR technology and talent ecosystem, in particular by driving Skill development,

b) engaging with business, industry and government to evangelize acceptance of the technology, and

c) Help drive training workshops, to familarise potential users with technology and build use cases, in key sectors.