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(800×600px)-148.jpg?impolicy=website&width=360&height=270 "Sriram Rajamani at Microsoft Research on AI and deep tech in India")
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(800×600px)-147.jpg?impolicy=website&width=360&height=270 "Freshworks CEO Dennis Woodside on the chess game to a billion dollars and beyond")
Freshworks CEO Dennis Woodside on the chess game to a billion dollars and beyond
In this episode, Woodside touches upon topics including the timing of his taking over the top job from Freshworks founder Girish Mathrubootham, who plans to focus on the company's products strategy, how Freshworks might get to its first target of a billion dollars in revenue by 2026, and how Dennis views India — not only from the point of view of technical talent, but also as a market as Freshworks evolves into a larger enterprise software company
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Deep Tech India: Behind the scenes at Agnikul with Srinath Ravichandran and Vishesh Rajaram
Agnikul Cosmos made a bit of Indian spacefaring history with the successful test of their Agnibaan SOrTeD (sub orbital technology demonstrator) rocket, which lifted off and flew as intended, on May 30. In this episode, recorded on June 6, Co-Founder and CEO Srinath Ravichandran and early investor Vishesh Rajaram, founding managing partner of Speciale Invest, offer a glimpse behind the scenes and into what was going on in their minds
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How GE HealthCare plans to build AI from India for the world
In this episode, Taha Kass-Hout, CTO at GE HealthCare, talks about his first-ever visit to India. Taha, a medical doctor-turned-technologist, was previously a VP at Amazon Web Services, where he was a Distinguished Engineer for machine learning. He is an example of the type of experts who are shaping GE HealthCare's AI and digital solutions strategy for the future. In this conversation, Taha spoke about how the company's R&D team in Bengaluru, its biggest outside the US, will play a bigger role in building these next-generation products
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Dennis Gada at Infosys on how AI is changing core banking
In this episode, Dennis Gada, Executive Vice President and Global Head of Banking and Financial Services at Infosys, talks about how banks are looking to tap digitalisation and what they are looking for from their IT vendors. Gada, who is also a member on the board of EdgeVerve Systems, Infosys's products and platforms business, also talks about how core banking software is evolving in the age of AI
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What Oorja's software mock-ups can do for EVs and beyond
In this episode, Vineet Dravid, Co-Founder and CEO of Oorja Energy, talks about his ambition of building a world-class deep tech company from Bengaluru, in the field of computer-aided engineering. Vineet gives us an update on the physics and machine learning based simulation and analytics product Oorja has developed. While the product is relevant to many industries, an immediate application is in the electric vehicles sector and the startup has already won customers including large OEMs in the US and Europe
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How Oorja can mock-up your next EV battery in the cloud
In this episode, Vineet Dravid, Co-Founder and CEO of Oorja Energy, talks about his ambition of building a world-class deep tech company from Bengaluru, in the field of computer-aided engineering. Vineet gives us an update on the physics and machine learning based simulation and analytics product Oorja has developed. An immediate application is in the electric vehicles sector and the startup has already won customers including large OEMs in the US and Europe
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How Prosus built a 1000-strong AI network around the globe
In this episode, Euro Beinat, global head, AI and data science at Prosus, and his colleague Paul Van Der Boor, senior director, data science, explain how they went about building a 1000-person AI ecosystem across the global technology investor's companies, around the globe. They also talk about Prosus's internal AI efforts and what they learnt, for example, when an AI assistant they'd developed and introduced in team environments resulted in user behaviour that surprised them
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How Prosus built a 1000-strong AI network around the globe
In this episode, Euro Beinat, global head, AI and data science at Prosus, and his colleague Paul Van Der Boor, senior director, data science, explain how they went about building a 1000-person AI ecosystem across the global technology investor's companies, around the globe. They also talk about Prosus's internal AI efforts and what they learnt, for example, when an AI assistant they'd developed and introduced in team environments resulted in user behaviour that surprised them
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The Big Picture: Why GE HealthCare is betting big on make in India
In this episode, Peter J Arduini, president and CEO of GE HealthCare Technologies, talks about his plan to expand R&D and manufacturing in India. GE HealthCare has committed to investing a billion dollars in expanding these capabilities via its local joint venture Wipro GE HealthCare — a partnership that's endured over more than three decades. Arduini also talks about how India is uniquely positioned to take ownership of more GE HealthCare product development because of its software prowess and growing applied AI capabilities
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Why GE HealthCare is all in on make in India for the world
In this episode, Peter J Arduini, president and CEO of GE HealthCare Technologies, talks about his plan to expand R&D and manufacturing in India. GE HealthCare has committed to investing a billion dollars in expanding these capabilities via its local joint venture Wipro GE HealthCare — a partnership that's endured over more than three decades. Arduini also talks about how India is uniquely positioned to take ownership of more GE HealthCare product development because of its software prowess and growing applied AI capabilities
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EcoPreneurs: Nimeet Dhokai's 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 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