Every week day, Forbes India's Hari Arakali, Editor - Tech & Innovation, brings you his take on one piece of tech news that caught his attention, covering everything from big tech to India's growing tech startup ecosystem.
IT services: why the days of sheer people-based delivery are numbered
In today’s episode, Yugal Joshi, a partner at Everest Group, a research and advisory company, talks about how the world of tech services is changing rapidly. The expectation is that what was manual and time-consuming yesterday should be codified and efficient today. Value is to be had at incrementally higher levels of abstraction and outcomes will matter much more than the tech under the hood. The broader message is that the days of sheer human driven tech services are fast numbered.
1 Oct 2024
What’s driving the modest IT hiring pickup? Hint: not the IT companies
In this episode, Kamal Karanth, co-founder and CEO of Xpheno, a staffing firm in Bengaluru, explains the modest increase in open IT positions in recent times. Consider that in FY22, the IT sector alone hired some 2,30,000 people, net, according to the industry lobby Nasscom. That fell to 60,000 in FY23 and FY24 was about the same. Not much has changed yet for the IT giants, but non-tech companies rooted in India’s economy, as well as a new wave of global capability centres are hiring, Karanth says.
27 Sept 2024
Not jugaad, but a scientific approach to using AR and Gen AI in schools
In this episode, Sumeet Mehta, co-founder and CEO of Leadership Boulevard, more popularly known as Leadschool, offers a quick update on the company’s latest product. Techbook, as they’re calling it, is actually a physical textbook, designed and engineered to comprise scannable pages that link up with an AR solution. This opens up a world of interactive content for students, and, alongside an AI-based reading assistant, makes learning a more personalized experience. Mehta hopes to put Techbooks in the hands of 4-5 million students by 2028.
Inside a recent episode
India tests Agni-5 missile; Merck’s Covid-19 pill; Snap hits 100 million users mark in India; and a chat with Mohit Yadav on REVOS’s P2P charging network
Published 28 Oct 2021 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So once the photos are out and everything, product photos are out, you'll look at it that if you see the socket that is present inside a bolt charging point, it's your regular 16-inch socket. And the same socket on which your ACs, geysers, PV and everything else has been running for the past 70 years. […]
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