Using AI for Good Business and Sustainability

From the Terminator and the Matrix in pop culture, to facial recognition and ethical issues, AI has always been a hot topic and it’s had a history of negative press. In fact, AI is a force for good! How has AI actually helped in the fight against corona virus — the crisis that’s changed all our lives? And, how is it helping in other areas, for example, preventing climate change?

STPI Transforms Government's Vision

The opening session the 29th STPI Foundation Day kicked off with Dr. Omkar Rai, DG, Software Technology Parks of India, who said that the STPI is a very industry-friendly organization. We have worked as a service provider for the Indian industry. We received the ISO certificate in the 1990s. We are providing the bandwidth and solving the problems of the Indian IT industry. We have been sticking with our work culture. As soon as Covid-19 happened, we gave a notification on March 11 for WFH

TECHNOLOGY FOR BUSINESS GROWTH

Dr. Richard SOlEY Executive Director, Digital Twin Consortium

PRIVATE CLOUD FOR DATACENTERS

VINOD GANESANCountry Manager, India, Cloudera

Innovation and Role of Government

The Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) recently celebrated its 29th Foundation Day. At the inaugural session, Dr Rajendra Kumar, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and IT welcomed the delegates stating that we should all work together to achieve the vision of a digital economy. Rajneesh Agarwal, Director, STPI Noida, who moderated the session, said that STPI is a premier government organization working for the promotion of IT

Datacentre Spectrum

The datacentre scene is evolving very fast, with many diverse developments taking place. On one hand, India has built the largest datacentre in Asia and received the highest design certificate for it from the US. On the other hand, there are signs that investments in datacentres may be declining in India, while investments in cheaper, cloud-based data storage and management options are going up. Read on to find out about this melange of datacentre-related developments

COBOTS FOR INDUSTRY

RAJEEV SHARMA Chief Strategy Officer, Mitsubishi Electric India

A Challenge with Opportunities

As the pandemic continues to spill across the globe impacting lives, livelihood, and businesses, it has made us realize that we need to flatten the curve and move forward on a war footing

Blockchain And Corona

Today this COVID-19 crisis makes me wonder, that if we had a blockchain-based real-time reporting of Communicable Diseases, maybe we could have avoided a pandemic?

Businesses Need To Embrace Digitisation On Scale

DQLive, Cybermedia, hosted a webinar on Accelerate Your Business Growth, in the Ask Me Anything series, featuring Karan Bajwa, Managing Director, Google Cloud

RISING DEEP LEARNING VIDEO SURVEILLANCE

Prama Hikvision India is a supplier of video surveillance products and solutions. It specialises in video surveillance technology and designing and manufacturing a full-line of innovative CCTV and video surveillance products. The product line ranges from cameras and DVRs to video management software. Since its inception in 2001, Hikvision has quickly achieved a leading worldwide market position in the security industry. Here, Ashish P. Dhakan, MD & CEO, Prama Hikvision India, tells us more about what it is doing in India and about the Indian video surveillance market

MEETING THE NEEDS OF PATIENTS AND PROVIDERS

Siemens Healthineers India enables healthcare providers to increase value by empowering them on their journey towards expanding precision medicine, transforming care delivery, and improving patient experience, all enabled by digitalising healthcare. Here, Gerd Hoefner, MD & President, Siemens Healthcare, talks about transforming the future of healthcare in India

Tackle Corona Effectively

AT&T is at the forefront of helping the enterprise workforce shift from face-to-face communications to mobile and WiFi-based solutions

MORE APPEALING MODEL

Red Hat offers open source solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container and Kubernetes technologies. We help you standardise across environments, develop cloud-native applications, and integrate, automate, secure, and manage complex environments with award-winning support, training and consulting services. Marshal Correia, VP & GM, India, South Asia, Red Hat, tells us more about the future of work

ENABLING INDUSTRIAL DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) transforms business and society by accelerating the adoption of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), announced the publication of the Enabling Digital Transformation with IIoT Performance and Properties Measurement White Paper. Written for all IIoT stakeholders, the White Paper explains why measuring the efficiency and efficacy of industrial digital transformation solutions across industries is essential. Jacques Durand is Technical Director IoT technologies Fujitsu America and Member, Steering Committee, the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC). Here, he discusses the White Paper

Future of work

Thanks to Covid-19, it is high time that the organisations across India and the world take stock of things. In future, how will clients’ sales and other meetings take place? Will remote working be the new normal? Are the various workforces ready to WFH?

AI-BASED VIDEOBOT

CoRover provides enterprise conversational AI platform to help businesses give authentic information to their customers’ queries automatically and instantly. This can be in any language (foreign, vernacular), any channel (web, app, social media, IVR, SMS, email), any format (video, voice, text), so that users can save time and the organisations can save cost. Here, Ankush Sabharwal, Founder & CEO, CoRover, tells us more

A V-SHAPED RECOVERY

SoftBank recently appointed Manoj Kohli as its India head. He is currently in charge of the government relations and public policy efforts. Earlier, he was the executive chairman of Softbank’s renewable energy arm, SB Energy, before being the MD and CEO of Bharti Airtel for 13 years. Here, Manoj Kohli speaks about how India is facing Covid-19, and the way ahead

Cryptocurrency Search Growing Fast

SE rush started out in 2008 as a small group of SEO and IT specialists united by one mission, to make online competition fair and transparent, with equal opportunities for everyone. After 11 years of trailblazing experiments and constant progress, it has grown into the world’s leading competitive research service for online marketing. Here, Fernando Angulo, Head, Communications, SEMrush, talks about cryptocurrencies

Business Still Not As Usual, In Covid-19-Hit China

Manufacturers/exporters/logistic service providers are facing difficulties in terms of cancellation of orders, bankruptcies of buyers, as well as the uncertain market forecast, etc. Those who have the resources to switch to the domestic market have a better chance to survive. Otherwise, the closure of some businesses is inevitable.

Long-Term Industry-Internship Essential

Through innovative software and services, SAS empowers and inspires customers around the world to transform data into intelligence. Srinivas Rao K, Director-Human Resources, SAS India, tells us more about how they approach T-Schools

SOFT TARGETS

It is no surprise that even today cyber attacks attract the maximum attention. In India Also, the corresponding data generated by the large population makes us a goldmine for cyber criminals. How do we go about handling this? J Kesavardhanan, Founder & CTO, K7 Computing, tells us more

Short Restart

A move to Windows 10 is a crucial part of maintaining security. What exactly can users and businesses gain from the Windows 10 update?

Logistics Software making Business Efficient

From lost packages to high shipping costs, there are several concerns that plague the e-commerce industry. Adding to the mix is the growing trend of same-day deliveries, initiated by Amazon, an industry-standard that is hard to match by most E-retailers of any size and maturity

SCALING WITH AI

Organisations that are the early adopters of artificial intelligence, are struggling to accrue the benefits because they have not been successful in scaling and using AI widely. Infosys has implemented a Centre of Excellence-driven strategy for the discovery and delivery of AI and automation opportunities, among others. Balakrishnan D R, Head, AI and Automation, Infosys, tells us more

Leadership Transformation Needed

Often, we hear about transformation of people, process and technologies to bring about desirable changes in an organisation to make it a world leader. While most of the time we discuss and ponder over these changes, seldom do we think about bringing transformational changes in behavioural aspects of the leadership team.

Empowering Industry 4.0 with AI

Industry 4.0 has the potential to be a powerful driver of economic growth, predicted to add between $500 billion-$1.5 trillion in value to the global economy between 2018 and 2022

Cloud Transformation Success in 2020

2020 is the year the businesses are starting to address their cloud-related challenges. In our conversations with enterprise IT leaders, we sense a growing appetite to systematically navigate cloud complexity

AUTOMATED SELF-INSPECTION OF CARS

ICICI Lombard has launched a facility called InstaSpect, the mobile self-inspection feature that eliminates the need for physical inspection of cars. Girish Nayak, Chief, Service, Operations & Technology, ICICI Lombard General Insurance, talked about the Instaspect campaign and service available across ICICI Lombard’s product portfolio

Preparing Job-Ready Candidates

Data analytics is becoming an important field for killing of young graduates. Here, Bhuvan Nijhawan, Director, Education, SAS Asia Pacific, tells us more about their experiences regarding T-Schools