Abdull atif Al Mulla, Chairman of SmartCity Malta and CEO of SmartCity Dubai had extensive discussions with the leadership of NASSCOM during the NILF 2015 Leadership Forum entitled 'The World in 2020: Building the Digital Future' at Mumbai, India. NASSCOM was represented by Mr. R Chandrasekaran, Chairman and Mr. R. Chandrasekhar, President of NASSCOM while Mr. Al Mulla was accompanied by Dr. Baju George, Managing Director and Anirudhac Damkey Chief Investment and Financial Officer of SmartCity.

Following the signing of the MOU betweenSmartCity and NASSCOM in Malta in July 2014, Mr Al Mulla and Mr Chandrasekaran agreed to enhance the level of  cooperation between the two organisations so that companies operating in SmartCity Malta, Kochi and Dubai and NASSCOM members will mutually benefit. It was also agreed to form a UAE Chapter for NASSCOM, which will be initially based at Dubai. Both sides decided to form a working group to finalize next steps.

During the NASSCOM conference, one of the sessions was dedicated to SmartCityentitled "100 SmartCities; How to lead the way?"The session discussed the various steps required to recreate and redesign new cities to enable a better quality of life as well as a better and more efficient use of resources.The SmartCity project was showcased as an ideal model by SmartCity Kochi, CEO, Mr. Gigo Joseph.

Panel discussion was moderated by Mr. GovindEthiraj of PING Network which had Mr. R. Chandrasekharan, Chairman NASSCOM, Ms. KarunaGopalan, Founder Foundation for Futuristic Cities and Dr. Sumit D Chowdhury, President of Reliance Jio as members.