Jharsuguda: Vedanta Aluminium in collaboration with V-Spark, India’s largest manufacturing deep tech incubator, recently hosted MetALverse, an immersive tech showcase in Jharsuguda, Odisha.
The company also announced partnerships with several cutting-edge technology providers, including market leaders such as OpenAI, Microsoft and SAP. Together, they will deploy innovative, multi-pronged solutions to cumulatively unlock up to Rs 2,100 crore in value through the enhanced adoption of AI, digitalisation and automation technologies across Vedanta Aluminium’s operations.
Vedanta Aluminium’s MetALverse event was envisioned as a strategic platform to accelerate the deployment of breakthrough technologies across large-scale industrial operations, by bringing together global technology leaders, emerging startups, and top business experts. The partnerships will focus on evaluating, piloting and scaling next-generation solutions across Vedanta Aluminium’s operations.
The event reflects a shared vision between Vedanta and V-Spark to bridge the gap between groundbreaking deep tech innovation and real-world deployment, by identifying high-impact technologies, validating them in live operating environments and accelerating their adoption. Vedanta has already established a fully integrated value chain that ranges from mining to alumina refining to aluminium production.
Priya Agarwal Hebbar, Non-Executive Director, Vedanta Limited and Chairperson, Hindustan Zinc, said, “India’s manufacturing sector is entering a defining decade. The future will belong to companies that combine scale with intelligence, sustainability and the courage to rethink what is possible. At Vedanta Aluminium, we see AI as a catalyst for that transformation, with human intelligence providing the judgement and direction behind it. We are bringing together the best minds across industry and technology because we don’t want to simply make today’s plants better. We want to build the metal of the future, using the technologies of the future.”
Akarsh Hebbar, Non-Executive Vice Chairman, Vedanta Aluminium and Chairman, V-Spark DeepTech Ventures, said, “The greatest opportunity in industrial innovation lies in deploying new technologies at scale to create measurable business value. Vedanta Aluminium, as one of the top producers of the metal of the future globally, provides the expansive operating footprint, technical depth and determination to industrialise breakthrough solutions, while V-Spark is the engine that identifies, validates and accelerates these technologies from concept to enterprise-wide deployment. We aim to partner with several industrial solutions to scale and transform creative innovation into tangible productivity gains, stronger sustainability, enhanced reliability and significant value creation.”
Pinak Dattaray, Founder & CEO, Ripik.AI, said, “AI is creating new opportunities for industrial organisations to transform how knowledge is accessed, decisions are made and operations are managed. At Ripik.AI, we are focused on making advanced AI capabilities accessible through tools that help people and organisations solve complex problems and work more effectively. We are excited to collaborate with Vedanta Aluminium as it explores new applications of AI across its business. The company demonstrates how leading manufacturers can combine deep operational expertise with cutting-edge AI to unlock innovation, improve performance and create meaningful value at scale.”