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Best of 2021 Ep. 8: Sanat Rao at Infosys on how digital tech is overhauling banking
As the world prepares for the cloud, technology has become central and strategic to banking—not just an enabler. New financial products, like buy now pay later, as well as new fintech partnerships via open APIs, are becoming all the rage. Traditional banks find themselves seeking a fine balance between not losing out on the opportunity and running up a roster of defaulting consumers. In this conversation from November 2021, Sanat Rao, CEO of Infosys Finacle, unpacks some of these emerging trends
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Best of 2021 Ep. 7: Magnus Ewerbring at Ericsson on the potential for 5G to usher in a new wave of innovation
Ericsson is one of the world's biggest telecom equipment makers, supplying gear to more than half of the world's telecom operators rolling out 5G networks. The Swedish company has had a presence in India since 1904. Today, it has more employees in India than at home—spanning operations and R&D. In this conversation, from October 2021, Magnus Ewerbring, Ericsson's CTO for Asia Pacific, speaks about the innovation that could come out as the world moves to an estimated 3.5 billion 5G connections by 2026
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Best of 2021 Ep. 6: Rajesh Gopinathan on valuing outcomes more and effecting change from within at TCS
Tata Consultancy Services' software engineering prowess is well known. CEO Rajesh Gopinathan, however, is on a mission to get the rank and file of the half-a-million-strong organisation to see themselves from a different perspective. In this conversation, from September 2021, Rajesh, one of the youngest CEOs in the Tata Group, did some impressive plain speaking about what needed to change within TCS and the efforts that were on to orchestrate that change
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Best of 2021 Ep. 5: Shekhar Kirani at Accel on the power of entrepreneurship and what makes for great founders and VCs
Shekhar Kirani couldn't have imagined that a little Chennai outfit called Freshdesk (now Freshworks), started by a couple of nondescript engineers, would go on to deliver Accel's first US IPO from its Indian portfolio—and an Indian-founder-led software products company at that. In this conversation, from September 2021, Kirani talks about standing on the floor of the Nasdaq stock exchange, thinking about the power of entrepreneurship, and what makes for great founders and VC investors
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Best of 2021 Ep. 4: Girish Mathrubootham on his billion-dollar revenue dream for Freshworks
In September 2021, Girish Mathrubootham and co-founder Shan Krishnasamy made corporate and tech history in India with their company Freshworks becoming the first SaaS venture started by Indian entrepreneurs to list on the Nasdaq. In this conversation, from February, Girish talks about marrying the art of Indian entrepreneurship with the science of building billion-dollar businesses in Silicon Valley
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Best of 2021 Ep. 3: Mike Cannon-Brookes on the workplace after the pandemic and growth at Atlassian India
Atlassian's team collaboration software is used by customers around the world. And a little over three years ago, the Nasdaq-listed Australian tech company set up its third global R&D centre — in Bangalore. In this conversation, from August 2021, Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-founder and co-CEO, talks about how Atlassian has grown through the pandemic and plans ahead for the India centre, which has emerged as the fastest-growing talent location for the company
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Tycoons of Tomorrow 2021: The making of the list
Placing bets on the outperformers of today—first-gen, second-gen entrepreneurs, sportspersons, and actors—who will go on to be the Tycoons of Tomorrow. Forbes India's Naini Thaker takes you behind the scenes of how the editorial team huddled over a period of two months to create this definitive list
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Best of 2021 Ep. 2: Manish Gupta on how Indegene disrupted the way drug companies communicated with the market
Indegene, when it started more than 20 years ago, was ahead of its times in trying to bring technology to 'medico marketing.' Manish Gupta—a former Infosys executive—and his co-founders persevered and built a profitable multinational business offering AI and NLP platforms to the world's biggest drugmakers. Covid-19 took the demand for the Bengaluru company's technology to a whole new level. In this conversation, from July 2021, Manish recalls the journey and talks about what lies ahead
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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