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Satya Nadella of Microsoft and Sundar Pichai of Google later led a panel at the dinner, along with Adobe Systems Inc CEO Shantanu Narayen, to discuss the economy and Modi’s “Digital India” initiative, which aims to connect thousands more Indian villages to the internet and create more tech jobs.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Indian-born CEOs Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai of Microsoft Corp and Google Inc, respectively, before a dinner with 350 business leaders on Saturday evening (Sunday morning, India time).

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Silicon Valley CEOs. (Twitter)

Modi also met CEOs of Adobe, Cisco and Qualcomm among other technology leaders in a group.

Nadella and Pichai later led a panel at the dinner, along with Adobe Systems Inc CEO Shantanu Narayen, to discuss the economy and Modi’s “Digital India” initiative, which aims to connect thousands more Indian villages to the internet and create more tech jobs.