Forbes India - Tech Conversations

Dec 04 2024 289 ep. 37 mins 4
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Welcome to Forbes India’s Tech Conversations, where we bring you insights from tech entrepreneurs, CxOs and investors. Capturing stories from across India’s tech startup and enterprise technology ecosystems, catch a new episode every Tuesday and Thursday on forbesindia.com or on your favourite podcast app. Hosted by Harichandan Arakali, Editor – Tech & Innovation

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Climate resilient water conservation: Lessons for India from a project in Bengaluru

Dec 04 2024 71 mins  
In this episode, recorded on November 19, Avinash Krishnamurthy, co-founder of Biome Environmental Trust, a sustainable development think tank and consultancy, and Vikas Brahmavar and Gowthaman Desingh, co-founders of Boson Whitewater, a water treatment venture backed by investors including Rainmatter, talk about a landmark collaboration to return potable-quality treated wastewater

Microsoft’s Christopher Young on how the company’s AI platform strategy is evolving

Dec 01 2024 38 mins  
In this episode, recorded on November 21, Christopher Young, EVP of business development, strategy, and ventures at Microsoft, talks about how AI is evolving from generating responses to actually fulfilling various tasks on behalf of human users. Young gives us a quick overview of how Microsoft aims to become a platform, underpinning AI innovation and adoption in markets around the

Leena Walavalkar on TCS Pace Ports and the future of the company’s innovation efforts

Nov 17 2024 45 mins  
In this episode, Leena Walavalkar, Global Head of TCS PACE, talks about the IT giant’s innovation network comprising centres around the world, called Pace Ports, where teams of multidisciplinary experts from TCS brainstorm and collaborate with customers on cutting edge solutions. In this conversation, Leena gives us a peek into how TCS is using its experience in a variety of area

AI for India: How S Vishnu bootstrapped Jarvis to $1 mln from the outskirts of Coimbatore

Oct 29 2024 40 mins  
In this episode, Vishnu S talks about how his fascination for opensource software set him on a journey of entrepreneurship, and how he started Jarvis Labs – a data centre orchestration startup for India’s AI needs that’s ready to go global. Jarvis, based on the outskirts of Coimbatore, not only offers affordable GPU options, but also a software layer that allows customers to

NP Sridhar at Titan Engineering and Automation on opportunities ahead

Oct 28 2024 60 mins  
In this episode, NP Sridhar, CEO and MD of Titan Engineering and Automation Ltd. (TEAL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Titan and its only B2B unit, talks about global opportunities in automation and manufacturing services. The automation business offers turnkey assembly automation across India and overseas. The manufacturing services operation caters to aerospace, defence and will s

Peak XV's Shailendra Singh, Rajan Anandan open up on their dreams for Surge

Oct 21 2024 39 mins  
In this episode, Shailendra Singh and Rajan Anandan, managing directors at Peak XV Partners, talk about their venture capital firm’s Surge programme for early-stage startup founders, which today revealed its 10th cohort. In this interview with Forbes India, the two VC investors talk about why Surge was started, its design around the objective of improving the chances of success o

AI for India: Tanvi Lall on Open Cloud Compute and the case for micro data centres

Oct 02 2024 37 mins  
In this episode, Tanvi Lall, director of strategy at People+ai, talks about the potential that micro data centres hold in supporting the development of AI in India. People+ai is a non-profit organization working to identify and support population-scale use cases of AI that are relevant to India. Lall is the head of a project called Open Cloud Compute, within People+ai, to support t

Sarvam’s story: Chasing the dream of AI that will benefit a billion Indians

Sep 29 2024 58 mins  
In this episode, recorded on Sep. 5, Vivek Raghavan talks about the vision he and Pratyush Kumar have for Sarvam AI, their Bengaluru startup. Both are among the leaders of India’s digital public infrastructure community and the plan for Sarvam is also to find “use cases” that will touch the masses, helping them to complete everyday tasks easily. Sarvam’s technologies, inclu

Rajesh Ganesan at Zoho’s ManageEngine on plan for small AI models for IT management

Sep 24 2024 43 mins  
In this episode, Rajesh Ganesan, president of ManageEngine at Zoho Corp, India’s biggest software company, talks about how generative AI is beginning to influence IT management. It’s an area where ManageEngine offers a suite of some 65 products to enterprise customers. Ganesan also talks about building small AI models focused on specific needs such as observability of data, for

LTTS CEO Amit Chadha on plan for multiple billion-dollar units in the coming years

Sep 10 2024 54 mins  
In this episode, Amit Chadha, CEO and MD at Larsen & Toubro Technology Services (LTTS), gives us a quick update on the company’s progress after a recent reorganization along three large opportunities, each of which could become a billion-dollar operation. Chadha, who’s based in the US, also talks about the sentiment among his biggest customers on technology spending, the im