The city’s beauty made a mesmerising impact on representatives of various IT companies specialising in financial technology and blockchain here Monday.
“It was my first visit and I am very impressed with the city’s clean look,” remarked managing director (India and South Asia) of Thomson Reuters Pradeep Lankapalli.
About 500 delegates representing 25 countries, who attended the two-day conference, went on clicking selfies and group photos in a five star hotel, venue of the conference with the Ramakrishna Beach, the popular spot for visitors as well as locals on their smartphones.
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“The city’s beauty and the greenery all around has wowed all of us,” said Nitin Bansal, associate vice president (Market Development) of Quatrro Global Services Pvt. Ltd.
Speaking on the occasion, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu described how Visakhapatnam within three years of facing severe damage due to Hudhud Cyclone had completely recovered and received the ranking as India’s third cleanest city in India.
IT Minister Nara Lokesh said the city’s was need of big convention centres and some of the delegates wanted to know whether the city had convention centres to host mega conferences.
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“The city has excellent landscape and the government wants to develop tourism as well as the required ecosystem to convert it into a prominent IT hub in a few years,” he said.