It is thought that world-class tech leaders, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates and CEO Mark Zuckerberg of Mehta, will take part in the marriage celebration event for the son of Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani.
Business Insider reported on the twenty ninth (local time) that about 1,200 people, including technology, finance, and media officials, including Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, in addition to celebrities and sports stars, will take part in Anant Ambani's pre-wedding celebration event.
The invite list for the three-day event ahead of the July wedding includes Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Adobe CEO Shantinu Narayen, and Disney CEO Bob Iger. Nevertheless, details about participation weren’t known.
Also attending are Bollywood's top stars Shah Rukh Khan, Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump, and singer Rihanna.
Particularly, Zuckerberg moved to India immediately after visiting Korea and posted a selfie on Instagram wearing his costume for the event.
The rationale tech leaders are gathering like that is with the intention of constructing partnerships to enter the Indian market.
India's largest Reliance Group, led by Ambani, is expanding its business into the petroleum and chemical sectors, in addition to telecommunications, home appliances, and retail, based on the world's largest oil refinery complex. Recently, we’ve got built a big language model (LLM) and are also specializing in the AI field. Particularly, it became a hot topic last week when it decided to launch a big media group in collaboration with Disney and launch a large-scale streaming business in India.
Investment by Western firms can be continuing. Meta, Alphabet, Qualcomm, and Intel participated within the investment in Jio Platform, Reliance's telecommunications subsidiary. Microsoft founder Gates can be working on a joint project with the Reliance Foundation to support female entrepreneurs. Samsung also began a joint project with Jio Platform to expand its network across India in 2017.
Because of this, the marriage of her daughter Isha Ambani in 2018 became a hot topic with Beyoncé's celebratory performance in addition to the attendance of Hillary Clinton and then-Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong.
Business Insider said, “Participating on this celebration event is a chance to construct a robust partnership to advance into India, the world's largest market,” and added, “It emphasizes not only Ambani's global influence, but additionally the growing business importance of India.”
Reporter Lim Da-jun ydj@aitimes.com