XThe National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) is an Indian non-governmental trade association and advocacy group, focused mainly on the technology industry of India. Established in 1988, NASSCOM is a non-profit organisation. NASSCOM is the apex body for the US$ 227 billion Indian technology industry.
Events
In 2013, NASSCOM initiated a program promoting 10,000 startups in India by 2023. NASSCOM sponsors events targeting startups in India. Events include:
- NASSCOM Product Conclave
- NASSCOM Emerge 50
- Global In-house Centers Summit
- Big Data Analytics Summit
- Diversity & Inclusion Summit
- HR Summit
- Nasscom Leadership Forum
- NASSCOM Engineering Summit
- Annual Information Security Summit
- NASSCOM Innotrek
NASSCOM hosted the Nasscom International SME Conclave 2019 in January 2019 and ‘FISITA 2018 World Automotive Congress’ in October 2018.
Membership
Members of NASSCOM provide software development, software services, IT-enabled/BPO services. NASSCOM’s role has primarily been to insure availability of best possible service quality, and enforcement of intellectual property rights, in the Indian software and BPO industry. As of June 2007, more than 1,110 information technology companies in India were members of NASSCOM, which included domestic software/ITES companies, along with multinationals operating within India.
Employees and members of executive council of NASSCOM include:
- B V R Mohan Reddy – Chairman of NASSCOM, 2015–2016
- C. P. Gurnani – Chairman of NASSCOM, 2016–2017
- Raman Roy – Chairman of NASSCOM, 2017–2018
- Rishad Premji – Chairman of NASSCOM, 2018–2019
- Keshav R. Murugesh – Chairman of NASSCOM, 2019–2020
- UB Pravin Rao – Chairman of NASSCOM, 2020–2021
- Rekha M Menon – Chairperson of NASSCOM, 2021–2022
- R Chandrasekhar – President of NASSCOM for 2013 – 2018
- Debjani Ghosh – President of NASSCOM, 2018–present
Partnership
The Telangana AI Mission (T-AIM) partnered with Nasscom to impart Investor Connect programme to 30 start-ups in India as a part of its revv up initiative. Nasscom also partners with Karnataka State Higher Education Council.