After a gap of three decades, an Indian Prime Minister is visiting Silicon Valley. It is hard to overlook India’s contribution to the success of Silicon Valley companies. Indians are a fast-growing part of Silicon Valley’s engineering and business circles. Two of the giants here, Google and Microsoft, have Indians as the executives.

The agenda is set, meetings are scheduled with the who’s who of the global tech world. Indian IT industry is keenly looking up to the PM’s visit. No world leader has managed to pack that kind of Silicon Valley firepower in such a short time — just a weekend.

PM Modi’s Packed Schedule with top CEOs of US companies:

Tesla’s rockstar CEO Elon Musk receives Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday and before he meets with Obama in New York on Monday, Modi will be discussing his digital agenda with some of the technology’s biggest stars.

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella makes a presentation for the PM along with three others, including Paul Jacobs of Qualcomm and Google’s Sundar Pichai on Saturday evening.

His itinerary also includes Sunday’s town hall alongside Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a test drive with Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk in one of the company’s trend-setting electric cars and stop at Google’s Mountain View, California, headquarters.

Why Prime Minister Modi Is Visiting Silicon Valley?

The prime minister announced that his visit to Silicon Valley will focus on “startups, innovation & technology and how to further support them in India.”

Modi sees technology as vital to bringing more economic growth to India and this trip will give Modi an opportunity use the world’s high-tech capital as a pulpit to promote his plan to transform India into a hub of innovation. He wants to transform India using technology and innovation in a way no other Indian leader has before.