This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 1st Analytics Global Conference, AGC 2023, held in Kolkata, India, in April 2023. The AGC conference sought to facilitate industry-academia interfacing in the domain of machine learning and artificial intelligence. The 11 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The papers are organized in the two topical sections: Applications of Analytics in Business and Machine Learning & Deep Learning and Text Analytics.