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IDFC FIRST Bank and NASSCOM COE partner to grow startup innovation ecosystem
IDFC FIRST Bank and NASSCOM Centre of Excellence (COE) have partnered to grow the innovation ecosystem through an exclusive range of banking solutions. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between IDFC FIRST Bank and NASSCOM COE appointing the bank as a Preferred Banking Partner for startups, at an event in Bangalore attended by startup founders.
We are one of the few airlines in the world to have 100% cloud-based IT infrastructure: Vinod Bhat, CIO, Vistara
What are some key technology initiatives that enable seamless and hassle-free experiences for Vistara customers? How have your cloud-based IT Operation Management systems been of critical importance during the pandemic times? At Vistara, we have been constantly investing in new age digital technologies for better customer experience.
Digital self-service has been a focus point for our bank: Sony A, GM & CIO, South Indian Bank
What are some of the innovative technology initiatives that are ensuring seamless experience for your customers? The customer journey is key to all our activities, and the bank has placed an increased focus on enhancing UI/UX across all our major digital channels. The recently implemented UI/UX overhaul on our mobile banking and internet banking platforms elicited great feedback from stakeholders and customers alike.
Our digital-first strategy is driving growth and innovation: Jyothirtlatha B, CTO, Godrej Capital
Please share with us the key highlights of Godrej Capital’s digital transformation journey in recent years. Before the pandemic, the digital transformation of the retail financial services industry was already underway. The onset of Covid-19 only accelerated this. On the other hand, Godrej Capital, born during the pandemic, did not face legacy systems’ challenges.
IMPunjab is a catalyst to propel startup growth in the state: Somveer Anand, CEO & Mission Director
What is the vision and mission strategy of IMPunjab? Innovation Mission Punjab is a catalyst to propel startup growth in Punjab. While the state already has a burgeoning startup ecosystem with some of the finest educational and research institutions and a highly bankable pool of talents, we aim to utilise them to create the best startup ecosystem in the country. We wish to enable homegrown startups to scale globally.
How BITS Pilani WILP is breaking new grounds in online higher education
At BITS Pilani Work Integrated Learning Programmes (WILP), which innovative tech implementations have helped in streamlining operations, particularly during the pandemic times? Due to our prior investments and constant focus on technology-based education management systems, BITS Pilani WILP operations have remained highly resilient and stable through the years (in general) and significantly immune to any potential operational disruptions that could have been caused by the pandemic as well.
How Simpl is leveraging AI & ML to enhance fraud detection
What are the key features of your robust anti-fraud infrastructure? Anti-fraud infrastructure is not a model or just one monolith system. It comprises multiple layers, from simple heuristics filters blocking / flagging transactions to ML models, deep learning models, and graph network models that identify anomalies in transactions and user behavior. We have a robust team of engineers and analysts dedicated to anti-fraud infrastructure.
How innovative tech is redefining learning experience at SP Jain School of Global Management
As a leading education institution, how are your tech implementations creating an interactive and effective learning environment for students? ELO—our online learning platform—is what we believe to be the future of education. What differentiates ELO from Zoom, MS Teams, and other online videoconferencing platforms is its emphasis on engagement.
Trust plays a crucial role in the easy adoption of digital payments: Rajesh Mani, SVP, Head of India Tech Hub, Mastercard Original
What have been the key achievements of Mastercard Technology Hub since it was established in India? The India Tech Hub has supported the Mastercard Group in bringing the digital payment solutions and technologies to life. Today, the India Tech Hub is Mastercard’s largest technology hub outside the US.
Mphasis accelerates world-leading quantum computing ecosystem in partnership with Univ of Calgary & Govt of Alberta
Mphasis, an IT solutions provider specializing in cloud and cognitive services, today joined the Government of Alberta and the University of Calgary to announce the launch of the world-leading Quantum City – Canada. Quantum city will further establish Alberta as a leading technology hub and will accelerate the development of the quantum ecosystem in Calgary.
How innovations in data science lead the way for Uber's business growth
How is Uber using data analytics to deliver excellence in customer service? The usage of data analytics to augment our customer experience is of paramount importance at Uber, and happens along the life cycle of every rider. It ranges from how to provide a frictionless, quick ride to the user, to improving the entire ride duration from the pickup experience, to the wait time, all the way to the completion of rides.
How Instamojo is providing a DIY SaaS platform for MSMEs
As a digital solutions provider, what are Instamojo’s unique offerings for the MSME sector? Our products and features are built to give every business the complete ecommerce experience. We are one of the first providers to build a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) SaaS platform for MSMEs in India. Instamojo helps simplify the process of taking an offline business to the digital format.
How high-end tech is enabling seamless functioning at LPU
What are the key technology implementations ensuring seamless functioning at LPU? LPU is committed to technological deployment on its campus for smooth functioning. Nearly 90 per cent of the tasks undertaken in the university incorporate one or the other tool of high-end technology of present times.
Key digital transformation trends & the evolving role of CIOs
Read Article Which are the key digital transformation trends you foresee for the year 2022? Sanjay Srivastava, Chief Digital Officer, Genpact 2021 has been a transformational year for mainstream corporations across the globe. Digital transformation is now an integral part of the corporate strategy, and the importance is only going to pick up pace in the new year.
Key digital transformation trends & the evolving role of CIOs
Which are the key digital transformation trends you foresee for the year 2022? Sanjay Srivastava, Chief Digital Officer, Genpact 2021 has been a transformational year for mainstream corporations across the globe. Digital transformation is now an integral part of the corporate strategy, and the importance is only going to pick up pace in the new year.
Why industry - academia collaboration is essential for creating an AI ecosystem
Read Article How is Ashoka University focused on creating an AI ecosystem ? What have been your key initiatives in this direction? Prof Subhashis Banerjee, Head of Department, Computer Science, Ashoka University Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the technological landscape all over the world. In India, it has a lot of potential.
Facilitating high quality learning experience for learners with disabilities, in pandemic times
Read Article How has the pandemic impacted learners with disabilities? How can tech solutions be effective in bridging this gap? Dr. Prem Das Maheshwari, Business Director, South Asia D2L The pandemic has impeded learning for everyone by disrupting the conventional modes of teaching and learning, which previously happened via in-person exchanges in classrooms using tools like blackboards, printed textbooks, and paper-based examinations.
Enabling tech-driven startups to solve problems faced by India’s poor
Read Article What is the mission strategy of The/Nudge Foundation’s initiative for incubating startups in the development sector? Sudha Srinivasan, CEO, The/Nudge Centre for Social Innovation We have an incubator in which there are multiple tech-driven startups working towards solving complex problems in the development sector. The/Nudge Incubator is a catalyst for the nonprofit sector, nudging capable and committed problem solvers to work on some of the toughest problems faced by India’s poor.
Our digital transformation initiatives have led to significant increase in active client base: NK Purohit, CDO, IIFL Securities
Read Article Which are the digital transformation initiatives at IIFL Securities that have been key to achieving excellence in customer service? The key digital transformation initiatives include: • Transformation of cumbersome physical tax filing to single click hassle-free tax filing using Quicko. • GoCharting and TradingView integration for better customer trading experience on charts with one click. • ETFy providing curated ETF baskets based on strong fundamentals.
Investor action picks up pace in deep tech innovation, in India
Read Article What are the current trends in the deep tech sector in India? Jatin Desai, Managing Partner, Inflexor Ventures In our view, deep tech is any frontier technology that may or may not have been commercially proven at scale yet, but has the potential to create vast impact on society. Deep tech sector in India has been maturing well over the past few years, with many new and upcoming technologies grabbing the attention of passionate founders.
IT salary expectations spike up to 80% of the last drawn
Read Article What has been the impact of Covid-19, on IT hirings, not only for the IT industry but IT positions across sectors? Vidya Sagar Gannamani, Chairman and Managing Director of Adecco India As the post-pandemic situation continues to change and evolve, most organisations are aggressively driving recovery and growth with digital transformation at the core and this bodes well for the IT sector.
How IIM Bangalore's startup hub, NSRCEL, imparts strategic mentorship to tech entrepreneurs
Read Article What is the vision and mission strategy of NSRCEL? Please share a few key milestones and achievements. Anand Sri Ganesh, Chief Operating Officer, NSRCEL At NSRCEL, we provide a safe environment for founding teams to validate and crystalise their venture ideas and reach a stage of sustenance and growth.
DIVOC is an easy to adopt digital public good that helps countries roll out national vaccination programs: Viraj Tyagi, CEO, eGov Foundation
Read Article Established in 2003 by Nandan Nilekani and Srikanth Nadhamuni, eGov Foundation is supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Nilekani Philanthropies, Omidyar Network India, and Tata Trusts. Over the last 18 years, the foundation has partnered with over 2600 towns and cities in 16 states across India, and more than 16 crore citizens have benefited from its platform. What is the vision and mission strategy of eGov Foundation?
Lendingkart: Technology first approach for financial resiliency
Read Article What kind of growth in business have you witnessed in the last 15 months and how has technology ensured business continuity for your organisation? Manish Bhatia, President – Technology, Analytics & Capabilities, Lendingkart The past year has been one of significant distress due to the pandemic. Everyone was impacted. Majority of our customers and their businesses have had negative impact and they naturally shifted focused first on survival.
Why Bengaluru startup's blockchain implementation for MSBSD is a key tech milestone for Indian education
Read Article What is the technology behind your platform for secure, tamper-proof digital documents? Neil Martis, Co-founder and CEO, LegitDoc LegitDoc makes use of both permissioned blockchain networks (Eg: Hyperledger Fabric) as well as permissionless blockchain networks ( Eg: Ethereum and Polygon) technology to render security and tamper-proofness to digital documents. LegitDoc is an Ethereum-based software application for issuing and verifying tamper-proof digital documents.
How a fintech startup is committed to promote digital doorstep banking in rural India
Read Article What inspired you to start digital doorstep banking for rural and remote areas? Shams Tabrej, Founder & CEO, Ezeepay Ezeepay DDS (Doorstep Digital Services) will bring the bank to the doorstep of people living in villages. I noticed that as there are only one gramin bank at village level, people from the villages had to spend their entire day at the bank just for a money withdrawal or 5 minutes banking work.
IIT Kanpur incubated startup develops IoT and AI products for sustainable farming
Read Article What are your IoT and AI solutions for the farming community in India? Ashutosh Verma, Founder of Oxy Neuron India Oxy Neuron’s AI and IoT tools include giving them various training and guidance in low-cost organic farming, which is the best kind of practice they can learn for a sustainable future.
We have seen an increase in engagement on all our digital platforms: Goutam Datta, Chief Information & Digital Officer, Bajaj Allianz Life
Read Article As Bajaj Allianz Life completes 20 years in private insurance space, can you share with us the key tech innovations that have driven your success story? We have been on a digital transformational journey for a few years now. During this time we introduced several industry first technology led interventions, basis the requirements of our customers and stakeholder groups.
AI & other emerging tech to revolutionise debt recovery for banks, NBFCs
Read Article Established in 2018, Credgenics is a SaaS-based end-to-end debt recovery platform. Presently, over 50 lenders are using the platform, which includes seven banks with notable names like ICICI, Axis, and HDFC and more than 40 NBFCs, such as LoanTap, Drip Capital, Udaan, among others. In the last three years Credgenics has managed to grow MoM from 80–100 per cent.
AI enabled predictive analytics helps farm entrepreneurs make informed decisions
Read Article Unnati is a fintech powered agritech platform, which is powering farm entrepreneurs and bringing efficiencies to their businesses via digital technologies. The startup addresses the issues that farmers in the country face owing to lack of knowledge and resources. From Unnati banking services to crop-specific advisory, the brand reaches out to the farmer at every step of the farming life-cycle and works with them to create a sustainable future.
How Uber's India tech centres are driving unique innovations for global markets
Read Article Can you share with us a brief background of Uber’s tech centres in India ? How are you using India as your key engineering hub? Megha Yethadka: We started our journey of the India tech centres from a house in Jubilee Hills in Hyderabad in 2014, with a three-member team, and are now a crucial part of Uber’s tech story, with a 750-plus-member team, and plans to grow further. We have also recently announced plans to hire 250 more engineers in the India tech centers through 2021.
How tech integration is enabling vaccine cold chain
Read Article How is technology integration enabling vaccine cold chain in the country? Swarup Bose, Founder and CEO, Celcius The ongoing vaccine drive in India is of a colossal scale. As per the latest data provided by the government, nearly 10.6 per cent of the adults in India have been vaccinated. However, we still have a long way to go to meet the vaccine requirements of the country.
Creating smarter industrial robots with visual intelligence technology
Read Article Nikhil Ramaswamy, Co-Founder & CEO, CynLr Gokul NA and Nikhil Ramaswamy met when they joined together as Applications Engineers at National Instruments (NI), a US-headquartered leader in Test, Measurement & Automation.
Building semi-autonomous e-scooters for the future
Read Article The story of your beginning, how did you come up with the concept of semi-autonomous e-scooters ? Manesh Jain, Founder & CEO, Flo Mobility We launched our operations in July 2020.
How the pandemic has led more organisations to leverage data sciences
Read Article How has the Covid-19 situation led more organisations to leverage data sciences? Gaurav Shinh, CEO & Founder, DASS Labs India has witnessed a sudden acceleration towards technology-led innovations in the past year. Recently, many tech companies have been investing heavily in big data, data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.
Bengaluru based space tech startup building high speed space communication for the future
Read Article The story of how you started, and what is your mission strategy? Nitish Singh, Co-Founder & CEO, Astrogate Labs The smallsat industry is observing a significant expansion both in terms of the number of satellites and bandwidth requirements which led to a greater need for effective communication solutions. Currently, most space systems rely on radio and microwave networks for interplanetary, inter-satellite, and space-to-ground communication.
Bengaluru based space tech startup building high speed space communication system for the future
Read Article The story of how you started, and what is your mission strategy? Nitish Singh, Co-Founder & CEO, Astrogate Labs The smallsat industry is observing a significant expansion both in terms of the number of satellites and bandwidth requirements which led to a greater need for effective communication solutions. Currently, most space systems rely on radio and microwave networks for interplanetary, inter-satellite, and space-to-ground communication.
Smart building solutions powered by IoT, ML, cloud computing
Read Article 75F was created to find a solution to an age-old problem. When 75F’s CEO & Co-Founder, Deepinder Singh’s one-year-old daughter would often wake up crying in the middle of the night. He soon discovered this was because her room temperature was more than 8-10 degrees cooler than the other rooms – a significant difference in Minnesota, where the outside temperature could fall to -30 degrees Celsius.
How a blockchain startup is reducing identity thefts and frauds
Read Article The story of how you started the company and your vision strategy. Shiv Aggarwal, CEO – MyEarth.ID In my 15 plus years of experience working with global organisations, I have realised that there’s a massive cost of identity thefts and frauds, having both financial and reputational implications. Some of the large financial institutions are spending over US$ 500 million annually on their customer due-diligence processes.
How AI & IoT provides environmental data to combat air pollution
Read Article What is the story behind the vision and mission strategy of Ambee ? Akshay Joshi, CEO and Co-Founder, Ambee Ambee is an environmental intelligence startup that measures, processes and analyses hyperlocal air quality data in real time. Using AI and IoT, Ambee provides location specific, real time environmental data and actionable insights to businesses and consumers to mitigate the effects of various threats from environmental factors, for example air pollution.
DotPe avails Google Pay’s Spot Program to enable hyperlocal discovery, online ordering for its offline partners
Read Article Gurgaon-based, O2O commerce and fintech platform DotPe has availed Google Pay’s Spot Program to enable hyperlocal discovery and online ordering for its offline partners such as restaurants. The additional channel aims at empowering restaurants to share their online catalogue enabled by DotPe directly with their customers via DotPe’s Spot on Google Pay.
How data analytics helps in making strategic investment decisions across geographies
Read Article How are you using data and algorithms for making investment decisions ? Sailesh Ramakrishnan, Partner, Rocketship.vc Rocketship.vc has a unique approach to investment that sets it apart from its peers. Our team uses machine learning and data science to identify and invest in startups around the world. Our smart algorithm tracks companies globally using a series of metrics to indicate the probability that a startup will be successful.
BelYO: Covid blockchain tracking platform for healthcare sector
Read Article Brief background of the company and key milestones. Praveen Kumar, Founder & CEO, BelfricsBT BelfricsBT, a blockchain focussed entity, is a technology arm of Belfrics group of companies with presence in over eight countries. Ever since the launch of Belrium, a patented KYC compliant hybrid blockchain, BelfricsBT has been developing decentralised applications (DApp) for healthcare, education and employment sectors.
How cutting-edge AI/ML tech is strengthening the gig ecosystem
Read Article How has the Covid crisis impacted the gig economy in India, particularly from a tech workforce perspective? Sahil Sharma, Co-Founder and CEO, GigIndia Covid-19 pandemic has added momentum to the gig economy. Due to lockdown, small to large enterprises have been forced to operate in remote work models. Along with remote working, operating cost or fixed employee cost have been the major concern for all businesses.
AI-powered software for solar sites accelerating transition towards clean energy
Read Article The story of how you started SenseHawk, and what is your vision strategy? Swarup Manvoor, CEO & Co-Founder, SenseHawk SenseHawk journey Entrepreneurship often comes from a desire to make a difference in the world. Once we recognise a problem and realise we can be the one who solves it for someone, a fire is lit within us. That’s how SenseHawk came into existence.
Pandemic gives a fillip to C-suite gig economy
Read Article What is the vision strategy of COHIRE? Vineet Arya, Founder, COHIRE COHIRE is a pioneer in C-suite gig economy. COHIRE was established as a by- product of the pandemic and its spillover to the economy. COHIRE enables startups to easily on-board C- level managers to manage key functions like technology, marketing, sales, product at a divided cost.
Preparing the workforce for a new digital economy
Read Article Please share with us the story of Simplilearn. How did you start ? What is your vision strategy ? Any key milestones? Krishna Kumar, CEO and Founder of Simplilearn Today, Simplilearn is a renowned name in the edtech industry and a global provider of digital skills training. It started as a blog in 2009 by NIT-K alumnus Krishna Kumar. As an online learning platform, the startup began with a project management certification program called PMP (Project Management Professional certification).
Digital learning is all set for a second wave of technology developments : Dr AK Pani, XLRI
Read Article Your perspective of how digital learning will evolve in India’s higher education segment in the next decade or so. Will this help in democratising education ? With higher education no longer being a “one-time education” and the growing requirements of life-long and continuing education, higher education will evolve into two segments – the traditional higher education segment and the continuing education segment.
How visual recognition and IoT based detection can help the visually impaired
Read Article What are your key tech solutions for the visually impaired? Nandu Jith, Founder and CEO, Nexart TechnoSolutions We, at Nexart have developed ‘Eyewey’, an affordable visual recognition and detection technology for helping people with complete visual impairment. The concept of Eyewey, which was first named “Ioptyc” came about while our work on image recognition.
Mastercard leveraging big data analytics for business in a post-Covid world
Read Article Why has data analytics become so critical in the current times, particularly for the payments industry? Data analytics help tapping the power of data by using tools and technologies to find patterns that yield insights. It’s these insights that businesses and governments find truly actionable, especially in uncharted times when there is no rear view or past trends. Its problem-solving prowess becomes an essential navigational tool.
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