Forbes India - Tech Conversations
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Nimeet Dhokai has a plan for a clean home and green Earth
In this episode, Nimeet Dhokai, co-founder of Happi Planet Eco Products, talks about how he and his friend Mayank Gupta started their venture, determined to convert consumers to sustainable home care products. The two-year-old Mumbai startup is backed by investors including 100X.VC and Fireside Ventures. Dhokai also talks about how he and Gupta found a successful combination of effective products and meeting consumers' perception of cleanliness, while sticking to their goal of producing genuinely sustainable cleaners
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AMD's AI push and what you should know about India
In this episode, Jaya Jagadish, Country Head and Senior Vice President at AMD India, talks about why the company is very optimistic about the prospects of India's fledgling semiconductor ecosystem over the next decade. Jaya also talks about how, over the last 20 years, AMD India has become the company's biggest global R&D location at a time when the multinational chip maker is ramping up its efforts to produce processors specifically suited for artificial intelligence applications
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Do you know why AMD has its biggest R&D Centre in India
In this episode, Jaya Jagadish, country head and senior vice president at AMD India, talks about why the company is very optimistic about the prospects of India's fledgling semiconductor ecosystem over the next decade. In this conversation, Jaya also talks about how, over the last 20 years, AMD India has become the company's biggest global R&D location at a time when the multinational chip maker is ramping up its efforts to produce processors focused on artificial intelligence
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A Japanese torpedo, an Indian cyclotron and Jahnavi Phalkey's journey in science history
In this episode, Jahnavi Phalkey, founding director of the Science Gallery Bengaluru, talks about how she got to be a historian of science and technology. Phalkey, who recently won the Infosys Prize for 2023 in the humanities category, also talks about the interplay of various factors that have influenced scientific research in India, and her aspiration that the Science Gallery should become a welcoming space for young people to explore whatever fascinates them, be it math, gaming, or theatre, free of expectations
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Jahnavi Phalkey, Infosys Prize winner, on her journey as a science historian
In this episode, Jahnavi Phalkey, founding director of the Science Gallery Bengaluru, talks about how she got to be a historian of science and technology. She also talks about the interplay of various factors that have influenced scientific research in India, and her aspiration that the Science Gallery should become a welcoming space for young people to explore whatever fascinates them, be it math, gaming, or theatre, free of expectations
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EcoPreneurs: Annu Talreja on how Accacia is helping the real estate sector step up decarbonisation
In this episode, Annu Talreja, founder and CEO of Accacia, talks about how her company is helping the real estate sector accelerate their efforts to decarbonise their operations. Annu, an architect and urban planner by training, is building a software as a service platform at Accacia, her second venture, backed by marquee investors including Accel, B Capital, Blume Ventures and Rainmatter
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Rafee Tarafdar at Infosys on how AI is changing the company from within
Mohammed Rafee Tarafdar, Chief Technology Officer at Infosys, talks about how Infosys is now pushing to become an "AI first" company, after transforming itself into a "cloud-first" tech services provider over the last five years or so. He explains how AI is changing the organisation from within, even as it helps customers implement and benefit from AI applications
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Rafee Tarafdar at Infosys on how AI is changing the company from within
In this episode, Mohammed Rafee Tarafdar, chief technology officer at Infosys, talks about what generative AI might mean for the future of the IT services industry. Rafee, who's also an executive vice president and the head of the company's strategic technology group, explains how becoming an "AI first" company, back-to-back with adapting to the "cloud-first" transformation in the industry, is changing Infosys from within, even as it helps customers implement and benefit from generative AI applications
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When Nandan Nilekani and Uber's Dara Khosrowshahi exchanged notes in India's tech capital
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi and Nandan Nilekani, former chairman of UIDAI and non-executive chairman of Infosys, discussed tech products, services and solutions that work at the scale of a large nation. Nilekani offered pointers on how private companies could build massive services — Uber being a strong example — taking advantage of India's digital public infrastructure. Khosrowshahi spoke about the seven-year journey from his taking the top spot to bringing the ride-hailing service provider to profitability
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Sidhant Rastogi at Zinnov on the next phase of growth of engineering R&D outsourcing
In this episode, Sidhant Rastogi, managing partner at Zinnov, a technology and management consultancy in Bengaluru, talks about why engineering R&D services is a promising area of outsourcing at the cusp of its next big phase of growth. As the world makes the energy transition from fossil fuel to renewables, the scope of the work that the Indian providers can offer is set to approach close to tier-1 supplier levels, going beyond software, catalysed by the convergence of multiple technologies, he says
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Jyoti Gera at GE HealthCare on how healthcare could be the next 'digital-first' success story in India
Jyoti Gera, global general manager at GE HealthCare for general imaging and primary care ultrasound, talks about the future of precision medicine, including in markets such as India where access and affordability are crucial factors. Gera also talks about her own career, starting out as an engineer and rising to running a multi-billion-dollar engineering-intensive business, and why someone starting out today should equally care about the long run