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Best of 2021 Ep 1: Heike Riel and Gargi Dasgupta at IBM demystify the promise of quantum computing
In recent years, interest and investments in quantum computing have picked up considerably with technology companies, as well as national governments, committing billions of dollars to develop commercial quantum computers. In this conversation from June 2021, Heike Riel, IBM Fellow, Head of Science and Technology and Lead, Quantum, IBM Research Europe, and Gargi Dasgupta, Director of IBM Research India and CTO of IBM India and South Asia, discuss the promise of this emerging technology
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Krishnan Ramanujam at TCS on the IT services giant's ongoing effort to build cloud ecosystems for customers—Part 2
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 concluding part of a two-part conversation, Krishnan talks about TCS's strategy to build cloud ecosystems for customers—as the cloud model starts delivering much more than cost benefits—and the investments the company will need to make for it
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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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A peek into our first 'Roaring 50s' special
Forbes India's Naini Thaker—the author of the cover story this fortnight—and Rajiv Singh—anchor of the 'Roaring 50s' special—unpack the latest edition on stands which analyses, recognises, and celebrates founders who started up in their late 40s or 50s, and how a clutch of former professionals, like Nykaa's Falguni Nayar and Digit Insurance's Kamesh Goyal, have found success after taking the plunge and shining, instead of settling, in their twilight years