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DataQuest
LinkedIn's Nithya Rajagopalan on growing and backing women tech leaders
\"You don't have to play by someone else's rules.\"- to Nithya Rajagopalan, LMS Lead and Director of Talent Enterprise Products at LinkedIn India, these words are not just a statement, they are a way to rethink the practice of leadership in technology.
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June 2025
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NOT A TRIBUTE, BUT A MIRROR AND A MEGAPHONE
In May, the daily briefings of Operation Sindoor—India’s resolute answer to cross-border terrorism—were fronted by two women: Colonel Sofiya Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh.
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June 2025
DataQuest
If you've ever been called too much, too emotional, too bold — that's your badge of honour.
She does not believe in talking about corporate ladders but about building bridges. She confronts the tough dilemma of being a juggler and a sniper at the same time. She bravely points out the struggle of internalised shame of balancing work success with personal life.
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June 2025
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Defying gravity: What it takes to build women leaders in tech
In a candid discussion with Dataquest, three trailblazers - Sharda Tickoo (Country Manager, Trend Micro), Hemapriya Dharshini (SVP, Agilisium Consulting), and Hardika Shah (Founder & CEO, Kinara Capital) - speak about their journeys, the barriers they broke, and the legacy they want to leave for the next generation.
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June 2025
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Green, Fast, and Al-Ready: The Data Centre Formula Digital Connexion Is Betting On
Where Performance Meets Planet: How Digital Connexion Is Building India's AI-Ready, Sustainable, Ultra-Connected Data Centres.
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June 2025
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Why MAGA will automatically lead to MIGA
One never knows when the law of unintended consequences will kick in. US President Donald Trump wants to Make America Great Again. But many of his actions could well end up weakening some aspects of American trade and internal supply chains. India, on the other hand, has a golden opportunity to strive for a new kind of greatness.
4 min |
June 2025
DataQuest
Cyber Warfare and Defence: The Hidden Conflict
Cyber warfare is the new battleground—silent, borderless, and increasingly central to modern conflict.
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June 2025
DataQuest
Cars24. Not Cars......24. Here’s how data crosses that distance
Selling or buying a car is different from selling or buying a burger. But can it be made that easy, and that fun? By changing the wheels of speed, transparency, immersive experience and ecosystem-trust? Abhishek Gupta, AVP - BI & Strategy at Cars24 shows us some of those spins and helps us steal a peek at what's inside the trunkand it’s not just AI-video-tours or a swipe-that-app experience but also the data pistons and analytics engine oil busy at work inside.
5 min |
June 2025
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When Grit Meets Code
Technology’s future is being shaped by women who refuse to be sidelined. Against entrenched biases and systemic hurdles, these leaders are advancing the frontier of innovation while redefining what leadership looks like in tech. Their journeys reveal a powerful blend of technical skill, strategic vision, and human empathy that challenges conventions and drives meaningful change.
6 min |
June 2025
DataQuest
The world is Black and White. No Blues here.
And definitely, and imprimis, no pink prisms, as we discover in this quick, but deep and ruthlessly-honest, chat with Charu Bhargava, Senior Vice President, Sheela Foam.
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June 2025
DataQuest
When men hit a rough patch, they recalibrate. For women, it's the Exit Door.
Tricky board-rooms, Golf, Cigar rooms, Whisky tastings - what do women leaders navigate apart from all the other challenges, red velvet ropes and gate-keepers as they ascend the leadership mountain? Do they hold themselves back? Do they internalise their difference instead of using it as a differentiator? Are their ideas overlooked until someone else repeats them?
8 min |
June 2025
DataQuest
Not Just a Seat at the Table: Supriya Patil on Redefining the Tech C-Suite for Women
When Supriya Patil began her career in technology, she wasn't chasing titles—she was chasing solutions. With a natural sense of curiosity and a desire to step outside of 'normal' convention, she quickly stepped outside of conventional boundaries in a fashion that redefined not only the problem she solved, but how she even thought of and approached that problem.
6 min |
June 2025
DataQuest
Rewriting the Rules of HR: Nuvoco's SMART Approach to Workforce Transformation
What happens when a traditionally industrial brand begins to think, act, and scale like a digital native? At Nuvoco, 'SMART' isn't just branding—it's a blueprint for how people, platforms, and performance come together to build what's next in a safer, smarter, and more sustainable way.
4 min |
June 2025
DataQuest
Targeting Threats with Precision
Inside Target's Cybersecurity Strategy: Tackling Fraud Rings and more with AI-Powered Defences.
3 min |
June 2025
DataQuest
Why Real-Time Data Architecture Is the Cornerstone of AI Success
Aerospike Founder and CTO Srini Srinivasan outlines how real-time data architecture empowers CxOs to scale AI, elevate customer experience, and lead in the AI-driven enterprise era.
3 min |
June 2025
DataQuest
AI isn't replacing people— it's empowering them
The future of HR is human and machines. Chief People Officer Agnes Garaba explains how UiPath blends emotional intelligence with agentic AI to create a workplace where people thrive alongside intelligent automation.
7 min |
June 2025
DataQuest
Do glass elevators matter?
In a world where women have to work hard on self-advocacy, face high expectations, manage tight timelines, cruise through a little margin of error, work around corporate politics, handle biased judgments, and battle unequal recognition - how fair and comfortable is the view from the top? Why are second innings and non-linear career paths important for women? Let’s sit besides Purvi Shah, an impactful CIO, with a métier that spans Real Estate, Banking, Telecom, Vehicle Finance, and Paper Stationery Exports). She helps us see this all from a window that is not gilded, not blocked with heavy curtains and bravely adorns a lighthouse.
6 min |
June 2025
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Rethinking Finance: Where AI Acts, Explains, and Anticipates
As AI shifts from suggesting to acting—and from automating to anticipating—the finance function is entering a new phase. BlackLine’s CTO, Jeremy Ung, unpacks what it takes for CFOs to lead when decisions are no longer made at month-end, but in milliseconds.
6 min |
June 2025
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The 5-second rule: Does it apply to ice-creams?
While the jury is out on that one, with solid resistance from kids and popsicle-lovers, one thing is for sureit surely applies to all the data around your ice-cream today. It cannot be dropped on the floors of ignorance or delays. IT and marketing teams have to eat it in real-time, before it melts. Arvind Ramachandran, Vice President — Marketing, Dairy Day Ice Creams, a leading ice cream brand across South & West India (that has grown to 80,000 outlets across 8 states) gives us a generous scoop on that, and more.
4 min |
June 2025
DataQuest
"We're excited to support India's push to develop their domestic capabilities in advanced technology"
Ritu Favre, President, Emerson Test & Measurement Business Group, answers a wide range of questions from the test market, acquisition of NI, the India story, AI, data analytics, to their partner ecosystem.
6 min |
May 2025
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SAP NOW AI Tour Mumbai 2025: Business AI at Scale, with India at the Helm
SAP has made a strategic shift from automation to agentic AI — a framework where AI is seamlessly embedded across applications, data, and platforms to unlock autonomous, outcome-driven business processes.
4 min |
May 2025
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Agentic Al: A la Carte or Table d'hote?
It's only been a few years since SaaS and Cloud models disrupted the IT licensing landscape with a completely new pricing approach. Will it last now? How do you crunch the 'pay as you use' maths in the AI era?
10 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
Chief Intelligence Officers? How Gen AI is rewiring the CXO's Brain
Not long ago, executive strategy hinged on experience, instinct, and PowerPoint decks.
3 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
The New C-Suite Ally: Generative AI
The role of Chief Executives and their C-suite counterparts is profoundly transformed, driven by the rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence, particularly Generative AI (GenAI).
7 min |
May 2025
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Packing a punch with containerised AI applications
Just like no two lunchboxes look the same, there are endless possibilities and considerations in the development of a modernised IT infrastructure.
3 min |
May 2025
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Is Nuke the Next Normal?
All SMRs utilise nuclear energy, but not all SMRs function the same way. Which one do you prefer?
6 min |
May 2025
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AI is like a super coder at our disposal
Ultimately, we need to shift from AI vs. developers to an AI + developers' mindset, advises Nagasanthosh Joysula, Co-founder of TableSprint, as he unpacks the new trend and possibilities of Vibe coding, while also addressing concerns around quality, accuracy, the value of human lens, copyrights, citizen-coding etc.
5 min |
May 2025
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Public sector in India is looking at the next wave of digitization and digital transformation
Shipra Sinha, Lead Analyst – Industry Intelligence Group (IIG), CyberMedia Research (CMR), engaged in a conversation with Rishi Mehta, President and CEO of WAISL, and Pankaj Gupta, Leader – Public Sector, AWS India and South Asia, to explore how digital transformation is reshaping India’s public sector and aviation industries.
3 min |
May 2025
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India's Critical Role: Flexera's CTO on Strategic Growth and Talent
As the pace of digital transformation speeds up, Flexera is investing even more into India, in particular as a strategic hub for innovation, product development, and customer success.
3 min |
May 2025
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How Enterprises Can Rethink Data Management in the AI Era
Enterprises are generating data at an unprecedented scale, requiring a shift from traditional storage to AI-driven solutions. Sanjay Agrawal from Hitachi Vantara discusses how enterprises can rethink data management with AI.
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