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In this issue

FOR SIX YEARS now, BW Businessworld has published its Special Tech
Edition to record India’s evolving technology ambitions. When we began
this journey in 2020, much of the conversation was about awareness,
aspiration and targets. Enterprises wanted to know what digital
transformation meant for them, how fast they could adopt emerging
technologies and where India could aspire to be in the global technology
order. That conversation has moved from intent to execution.
The question is no longer whether technology will reshape business.
It is how much capital will be committed, what infrastructure will be
built, which models will survive, how enterprises will secure themselves
and whether leadership teams can keep pace with the change they are
unleashing. That is why the 2026 edition specifically looks behind the
scenes. The visible technology story is about AI, platforms, applications
and user adoption. The deeper story lies in data centres, high-density
compute, cybersecurity, IT services, cloud architecture, power, cooling,
fibre and enterprise governance. Artificial Intelligence is not merely a
tool being added to workflows; it is forcing companies to rethink cost,
capacity, talent and accountability.

Localisation's Necessary Pain

INDIA'S 1 JUNE domestic sourcing deadline for solar cells is more than a compliance milestone.

1 mins

How Long Before Inflation Refuses to Stay in the Rear-View Mirror?

INDIA’S INFLATION genie may be preparing for another outing, and this time the culprit is standing right at the fuel filling station.

1 mins

Home Truths in the New IIP

THE INDEX OF INDUSTRIAL Production (IIP) has been revised at last, bringing in droves of new goods into the basket of manufactured products, like CCTV cameras and minerals like rare earths.

1 mins

Till AI Do Us Part

THE BRAND-AGENCY relationship has long been likened to a marriage, built on trust, collaboration and shared ambition.

1 mins

INDIA’S GROWTH IS OUTRUNNING ITS CITIES

INDIA WANTS TO become a manufacturing and financial superpower through cities that still struggle to manage drainage, transport and land records.

3 mins

Work Worth Living For: What Gen Z Wants

INDIA'S CORPORATE GROWTH was built by a generation that entered the workforce with a clear and compelling promise: if one joined a good organisation, worked hard, respected hierarchy, stayed loyal, and endured the system, life would steadily improve.

3 mins

NAARI SHAKTI

SEVERAL brilliant women have indeed broken the glass ceiling and achieved success in competition with men and a recent issue of BW Businessworld put many on the cover as India’s “most influential women, at the forefront of India’s $700 billion economic opportunity”.

3 mins

CLIMATE AS CAPABILITY: India’s Emerging Climate Strategy

CLIMATE POLICY is rapidly becoming a question of economic strategy rather than environmental ambition.

4 mins

Multi-Million Metal

GOLD IN INDIA has reached a price of over Rs 1.60 crore per kg.

2 mins

What Great Leaders Do!

AS MICHAEL DELL once said, the best definition of a leader is simple: if people are willing to follow you.

2 mins

What Great Leaders Do!

AS MICHAEL DELL once said, the best definition of a leader is simple: if people are willing to follow you.

3 mins

Investment Strategies for a Volatile Market

THERE ARE PHASES in financial markets when uncertainty is not just visible - it becomes systemic.

4 mins

Investment Strategies for a Volatile Market

THERE ARE PHASES in financial markets when uncertainty is not just visible — it becomes systemic.

4 mins

How Bengaluru Turned A Water Crisis Into A Global Model

Driven by infrastructure upgrades, digital innovation and citizen participation, Bengaluru has transformed a severe water crisis into a globally recognised model of urban water governance

4 mins

How Bengaluru Turned A Water Crisis Into A Global Model

Driven by infrastructure upgrades, digital innovation and citizen participation, Bengaluru has transformed a severe water crisis into a globally recognised model of urban water governance

4 mins

“The Future Of Water Utilities Will Be Digital, Sustainable And Citizen-centric”

As Bengaluru emerged from one of its worst water crises in recent history, the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) quietly became a case study in urban transformation. In this interview with BW Businessworld, V. RAM PRASATH MANOHAR, IAS, Chairman of BWSSB, explains how technology, sustainability and citizen participation are reshaping the future of water governance in one of India’s fastest growing cities

2 mins

Adland, AI And The Shift

As AI rewrites the rules of creativity, agency models evolve and client expectations intensify, the advertising industry is grappling with a central question: what exactly needs resetting, and how fast?

5 mins

"The Greatest Creation Is Still Unexpressed, What is Expressed Is Data"

PRASOON JOSHI, Chairman, Omnicom Advertising India & Chairman, Prasar Bharati says human adaptability has outlasted every disruption before, and will outlast AI too, in an exclusive conversation with BW Businessworld's Reema Bhaduri.

2 mins

Melody’s Moment, Parle’s Mission

Following PM Modi gifting Melody to Italy’s PM Meloni, Mayank Shah speaks on how Parle now aims to transform the confectionery brand from a strong export product into a global powerhouse

3 mins

“AI Is A Labour-market Disruption, Not Covid Or Cancer”

MANISH SABHARWAL, Co-founder, TeamLease Services and co-author of ‘Made in India’, speaks to Annurag Batra, Chairman & Editor-in-Chief, BW Businessworld, about his book, entrepreneurship, AI, education, succession and India’s 2047 opportunity

3 mins

From EQ To Smart Choices How IIMA Students Are Told To Walk The Talk

FIIMA's chief guests at its convocations also reflect its vision and values

4 mins

Saraswat Plans To Go Pan India In Next 6 Years, Become Mid-Sized Bank In Next 10 to 15 Yrs

In an interaction with Suman K Jha; GAUTAM THAKUR, Chairman of Saraswat Co-operative Bank, opens up on the road ahead

2 mins

Building Responsible Business Leaders

In an interaction with BW Businessworld's Shriya Mishra, GODWIN TENNYSON, Director (in-charge), IIM Tiruchirappalli, discusses AI-led disruption, industry linkages and the changing role of B-schools

1 mins

India’s Next Big Buildout

How artificial intelligence is bringing in capex and reshaping India’s digital infrastructure

10+ mins

“Policy Momentum Giving Data Centre Players Confidence To Invest Ahead Of Curve”

ASHISH ARORA, CEO of Nxtra by Airtel, speaks to BW Businessworld’s Rohit Chintapali about how the company is scaling AI-ready data centre infrastructure across India, its plan to expand capacity from 300 MW to 1 GW, and why connectivity, power reliability and sustainability will define the next phase of India’s data centre and AI growth. Excerpts

4 mins

“AI Is Already Driving Massive Capacity Demands”

MANOJ PAUL, Assocham Data Centre Council Co-Chair and MD at Equinix India, sits down with BW Businessworld's Rohit Chintapali to unpack how homegrown players are matching global scale, the widening geographic corridors beyond traditional hubs, and the regulatory catalysts that are positioning India as a global powerhouse for cloud and AI compute capacity.

3 mins

The Homegrown Data Centre Boom

SHARAD AGARWAL, CEO, Sify Infinit Spaces, discusses India’s accelerating data centre build-out, AI readiness and the importance of disciplined, market-led growth in a conversation with Rohit Chintapali

4 mins

The New Space Race Nobody Saw Coming

Will the next great infrastructure race be fought 500 kilometres above earth?

4 mins

Deal-Rich, Job-Light: How AI Is Repricing Indian IT

The sector that built its empire on human scale is now being forced to reimagine itself in an age that prices intelligence, not effort. The results are in and they are complicated

8 mins

THE ORGANISATION HAS LEFT THE BUILDING

India’s IT sector isn’t just losing jobs to AI. It is being redesigned from inside out — and the new organisational chart has far fewer floors

7 mins

India’s Chip Future—Beyond Fabs

India has semiconductor talent at scale, but turning design strength into globally competitive IP-led chip companies remains the bigger challenge

4 mins

What India's Semiconductor Design Ecosystem Needs Today

INDIA’S SEMICONDUCTOR journey has reached an important stage.

4 mins

“India Cannot Become A Semiconductor Powerhouse With Fabs Alone”

SANDEEP KUMAR, Chief Executive, L&T Semiconductor Technologies, discusses the company’s product and design focus, long revenue cycles, and the opportunities in energy and power in a conversation with BW Businessworld’s Rohit Chintapali

4 mins

Too Fast, Too Autonomous?

Rapid AI adoption in India has effectively doubled the cybersecurity market since 2022, but businesses remain underprepared as security capabilities struggle to keep pace with the expanding threat landscape

5 mins

“AI Has Killed Patch Tuesday; Welcome To Patch Every Day”

CrowdStrike’s Chief Business Officer DANIEL BERNARD on why frontier AI has made vulnerability management the most urgent conversation in cybersecurity today in a chat

4 mins

AI Has Collapsed The Cyber Clock

As Claude Mythos signals a new era of machine-speed vulnerability discovery, India’s payments, banking and legacy systems face a sharper test of cyber readiness

5 mins

Building The Sovereign Quantum

AJAI CHOWDHRY, Chairman, Mission Governing Board of the National Quantum Mission of India, in an exclusive chat with Rohit Chintapali, shares a critical update on India’s rapid quantum advancements. Against a backdrop of shifting global dynamics and tightening tech export controls, Chowdhry outlines India’s product-driven blueprint to achieve absolute technological sovereignty across quantum computing, communication, and sensing. Excerpts

4 mins

“The AI economy’s foundation will be the infrastructure beneath it”

PANKAJ MALIK, CEO & Whole-time Director, Invenia-STL Networks, discusses why India’s AI ambitions will depend on execution discipline, fibre depth, data centres and resilient digital infrastructure

3 mins

Between Triumph And Panic

India’s AI moment will be decided by what it owns

6 mins

THE QUIET OWNERS OF THE FUTURE

How the future of artificial intelligence came to be controlled by some of the world's least transparent institutions

9 mins

WHERE INDIA’S CFOS CAME TOGETHER TO DECODE A WORLD IN FLUX

With UP’s Deputy Chief Minister and senior IAS officers in the room alongside CFOs, the BW Businessworld CFO Offsite turned a three-day gathering in Lucknow into one of India’s consequential finance conversations of the year

3 mins

As India’s Next Big Growth Engine

The Deputy Chief Minister said improvements in infrastructure, law and order, power supply and connectivity have transformed Uttar Pradesh into a credible large-scale manufacturing and investment hub

3 mins

The New Uttar Pradesh Story Is Being Written Through Fiscal Discipline

DEEPAK KUMAR, IAS, outlines how Uttar Pradesh is balancing fiscal discipline with aggressive growth, capital expenditure and infrastructure expansion

3 mins

Uttar Pradesh’s Investment Moment

Invest UP CEO outlines how infrastructure, governance reforms, industrial policy and investor facilitation are shaping Uttar Pradesh’s next phase of growth By Ruhail Amin

2 mins

“Every District Must Contribute”

As Uttar Pradesh chases its trillion-dollar ambition, the state is betting on manufacturing, infrastructure, regional growth and private investment to power its next phase of economic expansion

3 mins

“We Don’t Just Build Dashboards, We Build Support Systems”

As Uttar Pradesh pushes governance reforms at scale, PRERNA SHARMA, IAS, outlines how Invest UP is simplifying approvals, accelerating clearances and strengthening investor confidence By Ruhail Amin

3 mins

Inside Uttar Pradesh’s Energy Backbone

MAYUR MAHESHWARI, MD, UPPTCL, says transmission infrastructure, not generation, is the real enabler of UP's trillion-dollar economy ambition

1 mins

Rewriting Capital Allocation Playbook

Companies are moving away from growth-at-any-cost models towards disciplined deployment that balances returns, resilience and future competitiveness

1 mins

Data-led Mandates Reshape Modern Office

Executives say automation, predictive analytics and new capabilities are turning finance functions into strategic hubs for transformation

2 mins

Climate Commitments Become Balance Sheet Imperative

As geopolitical headwinds test global climate action, India’s leaders say ESG has become a business reality with no turning back

1 mins

Cyber Threats Push Audit Readiness

With AI-powered fraud rising and accounting standards tightening, finance leaders are treating cyber risk and compliance as business-critical priorities

2 mins

Ledger Custodians Turn Outcome Architects

As businesses navigate AI, data democratisation and market shifts, finance heads are taking on wider strategic and operational responsibilities

1 mins

KARGIL'S FORGOTTEN HEARTBEATS SIMMER THROUGH STORIES & FOOD

THERE ARE SOME books that inform, some that document, and a few rare ones that feel alive in the reader's hands.

3 mins

India Can Spearhead The AI Supercycle

SAMAR MITTAL of Nokia on how AI execution in India will depend on networks that are intelligent, resilient and built for measurable outcomes

1 mins

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BW Businessworld Magazine Description:

Publisher: BW-Businessworld-Media-Private-Limited

Category: Business

Language: English

Frequency: Fortnightly

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