Washington, Feb 6: India's future as a technology powerhouse and its plans to connect India's 600,000 villages to the Internet through the Digital India programme were the focus of a roundtable of top American and Indian companies. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Startup India initiative also came up at the roundtable with Indian Minister for Communications & IT Ravi Shankar Prasad hosted by the US-India Business Council at Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Friday.