Forbes India - Tech Conversations
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Krishnan Ramanujam at TCS on the IT services giant's ongoing effort to build cloud ecosystems for customers—Part 1
Our guest today, is Krishnan Ramanujam, president and head of business and technology services at Tata Consultancy Services—India's biggest IT services company. In this two-part conversation, Krishnan talks about TCS's strategy to build cloud ecosystems for customers—in partnership with the 'hyper scalers' including AWS, Microsoft and Google—as the cloud model starts delivering much more than cost benefits
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Abhinav Shashank, co-founder and CEO of Innovaccer, on plans for anchoring a proactive digital health ecosystem
Our guest today is Abhinav Shashank, co-founder and CEO at Innovaccer. It is a Silicon Valley and Noida-based cloud software company in the health care vertical. In today's conversation, Abhinav talks about Innovaccer's latest funding round that saw the seven-year-old venture's value nearly triple to $3.2 billion—from nine months ago—and the ambition to become a comprehensive platform for a proactive digital health services ecosystem
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Sakshi Chopra, managing director at Sequoia India, on the VC firm's Spark programme for women founders
Our guest today is Sakshi Chopra, a managing director at Sequoia India, focused on growth investments at the VC firm. In today's conversation, Sakshi unpacks the firm's Spark programme, specifically aimed at helping women founders in India and South-East Asia. The programme has selected its first cohort of 15 women founders for a $100,000 no-strings-attached grant, each, and a year-long mentorship and networking exercise
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These founders at Aerostrovilos are building a next-gen, flexi-fuel micro gas turbine from scratch to power heavy-duty trucks
Our guests today are Rohit Grover, Pradeep T, and their professor at IIT-Madras Satya Chakravarthy. They are co-founders of Aerostrovilos Energy. The name is made of two Greek words, one for air and the other that comes close to describing a turbine. The four-year-old venture has raised half a million dollars in funding and the founders hope to have their first commercial product ready in 2023
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Awais Ahmed, co-founder and CEO of Pixxel, on getting ready to launch Anand, the space startup's first satellite
Our guest today is Awais Ahmed, co-founder and CEO of Pixxel, a space startup looking to launch a constellation of satellites. Awais and co-founder Kshitij Khandelwal are building micro-satellites at their company, to be placed in low-earth orbits. One day they hope to get into deep-space exploration as well. To begin with, their first satellite, named Anand, could be launched as early as next month
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Nitin Mittal at Zee Entertainment Enterprises on preparing to mine 30 years of rich data for 'hyper-personalisation'
Our guest today is Nitin Mittal, president for technology and data at Zee Entertainment Enterprises. The rise of the OTT segment of entertainment in India is prompting every major business in the industry to accelerate its digitalisation plan and find ways of engaging its consumer base more effectively. In today's conversation, Nitin discusses Zee's plans for a comprehensive digital platform to personalise entertainment and shopping — all rolled into one experience
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Omer Basith, co-founder and CEO at Virtual Forest, on replacing imports in India's nascent electronics manufacturing segment
Our guest today is Omer Basith, co-founder and CEO of Virtual Forest. It is an electronics design and manufacturing services provider to home appliances OEMs. In today's conversation, Omer talks about how he and his co-founders have innovated their business model with a platform approach to serve large customers for their two-year-old venture. In the process, they are helping to replace imports of electronic motor controls with made-in-India products.
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Capco's Leonard Langsdorf, CTO of digital innovation labs, on the rise of 'no code' and the 'citizen developer'
Our guest today is Leonard Langsdorf, CTO of Digital Innovation Labs at Capco, a Wipro company. Low-code and no-code software development has been around for several years. So has the idea of the 'citizen developer', a term which the business technology consultancy Gartner is said to have coined. After the Covid-19 pandemic, however, they have become truly relevant. In today's conversation, Langsdorf talks about why the time has come for both low-code and no-code applications, and the rise of the citizen developer
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HackerEarth's CTO Vishwastam Shukla on why it's a candidate's market out there
Our guest today is Vishwastam Shukla, chief technology officer at HackerEarth, a Bangalore and Silicon Valley company that offers a tech platform for developers and companies to find each other. In today's conversation, Vishy discusses HackerEarth's 'state of developer recruitment 2021' report — how it's a candidate's market out there right now; what might happen to diversity in the short term; and what companies are doing with tech to hire techies
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Vikas Gopal at TCS on the imperatives facing global CFOs and how tech is changing the world of consulting
Our guest today is Vikas Gopal, global managing partner, finance and shared services consulting lead at Tata Consultancy Services. TCS, one of the world's biggest IT services companies, found that many finance leaders in companies around the world relied more on instinct than on data, in a survey of 750 such senior executives. In today's conversation, Vikas discusses some of these findings and the imperatives facing global CFOs
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Parag Agrawal's accession as full-time CEO may be a move to future-proof Twitter: Forrester's Mike Proulx
Our guest today is Mike Proulx, VP and Research Director at Forrester, which advises enterprises around the world on their business technology strategies. Mike offers his analysis of Jack Dorsey's somewhat abrupt departure from Twitter, and the choice of Parag Agrawal, the company's CTO, as the new CEO. Crypto, metaverse, and bringing GenZ to the platform are going to be some of the challenges Parag will have to solve. Parag represents Twitter's switch to a full-time dedicated CEO, at a time when the company faces both product and policy challenges, accord