India has been actively pursuing diplomatic and developmental efforts with Small Island Developing States group, which has 52 members, including St. Lucia. “And in the same spirit I would like to mention that this 70 year old institution of United Nations and UN Security Council also must reform for the sake of credibility and relevance”, Modi said.

He will visit Tesla Motors.

– Over a dinner Thursday of sea bass, chicken, savory cakes and rice pudding, 47 Fortune 500 CEOs heard Modi’s pitch about ridding graft and complexity from India’s government being his No. 1 priority.

Sandwiched between his two community events would his visits to the campuses of iconic Tesla, Facebook and Google. The contrast between Modi’s reception in the corridors of power in the USA and Chinese President Xi Jinping, who happens to be simultaneously in town, encapsulates how valuable India has become in American eyes.

“Silicon Valley illustrates the stark difference between what Indians can accomplish outside India versus inside”, enterprise messaging app startup Teamchat CEO Beerud Sheth told Quartz. Apple’s Tim Cook and Google’s Sundar Pichai were the headline names, while Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen and Pichai would lead a panel discussion.

The ever growing rate of mobile and internet users in India is one of the potential reasons why Entertainment giants are aiming to penetrate Indian markets at this point of time. “We can literally and figuratively roll out the red carpet for very important people in the world”. “We want to have the same model in India”, Amardeep Purewal, from the Sikhs For Justice, said. Both Facebook and Google declined to comment ahead of Modi’s visit. Here the Prime Minister will have a look at some of the inventions that Google is making in the field of healthcare, in the area of smart grid.

Modi is pushing his Digital India initiative.

The same day, Modi will attend “India-US Start-up Konnect“, an event hosted by the Nasscom, TiE Silicon Valley and IIM Ahmedabad’s CIIE India. He said India could streamline regulations to better foster entrepreneurship domestically. There were also banners saying “USA loves India”.

“I hope PM Modi picks up deeper reasons why the Silicon Valley is the Silicon Valley and what role regulation plays in creating a genuine culture of innovation and risk-taking”, said Kiran. He will also meet Salman Khan, the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a free online education platform that produces thousands of video lessons on diverse subjects for students.

Representing voices of a select group of companies mostly from the pharma and manufacturing sector, the Alliance for Fair Trade in a letter to Obama urged him to discuss necessary policy changes to improve the business environment for American companies in India.

It would be after a gap of nearly 33 years that an Indian PM would be visiting the west coast – the home of start-ups, innovation and technology.