Technology incubator Thub came alive on Monday with two well known figures in the IT space visiting the campus as well as a State government team headed by IT Minister K.T.Rama Rao investigating paths of cooperation with their businesses.

Mr. Rao and the IT Secretary Jayesh Ranjan said apart from playing a large part in digitising classrooms, the authorities needed to work with the company on cloud enablement of lots of SMEs to construct a sustainable business environment. Saying that Mr. Nadella was “tremendously impressed with T Hub”, Mr. Raosaid the authorities, for encouraging startups, was enthusiastic on such spaces being set up by businesses and accelerators such as Microsoft.

“To cater to the demand of startups, I think we want a lot many private players coming in. The authorities can play the part of a facilitator, offer incentives, sops,” which, the Minister, included would be declared in the coming startup policy of the authorities.

On the conversation with Mr. Sikka, he said the Infosys head offered an invitation for the inauguration of the company’s campus in Pochram, Hyderabad.

It’d be among the greatest of the firm with a total of 25,000 seats. At first, the business suggested to start the facility with 12,000 seats.