META-SKILLS: IT'S TIME TO THINK ABOUT THEM

Sameer Bendre, Chief People Officer, Persistent Systems Ltd gives a peek into how proactivity, granularity and scalability help in matching the challenges of the new world. He also talks about the need to pay attention to deployability, employee experience and employee lifecycle. We are confronting digital transformation of not just industries but talent as well, he stresses.

SEVERAL JOBS WILL BE CREATED DUE TO DEMAND SPURRED BY NEW TECH

The pandemic, as we all know, has forever changed several aspects of the IT industry. As there has been a rise in digitisation, the demand for skilled workers is increasing as well. In this regard, Richard Lobo, executive vice president, head HR, Infosys explains about how the company and its employees are dealing with the rapidly evolving IT industry.

PANDEMIC SAW NEW WAYS OF WORKING AND BUSINESS CONTINUITY

As businesses realign, employees too have to identify their potential to scale. As the scope of a role is constantly changing, an employee’s potential relating to future business objectives come into question. Ritu Rakhra, Regional HR Head – India, Dell Technologies, throws light on the task of talent transformation.

DEEP TECH SKILLS IMPORTANT EVEN FOR NON-TECH SECTORS LIKE MANUFACTURING AND EDUCATION

With the current staff cloud competency levels being still far away from the ideal state, organizations now understand that skilling and reskilling is essential in bridging this gap, says Amit Mehta, Head of Training and Certification, AWS

India could be the global hub for cloud solutions

While cloud computing has been gaining importance from several years, the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated its growth further

DATA SCIENCE IS A KEY REQUIREMENT

Srinivas Rao K, Director, Human Resources, SAS India weighs in the new connotations of re-skilling and up-skilling as he lets us in on how the company is steering workforce transformation from acquiring new-age skills, hiring to performance, productivity to retention

Critical to concentrate on future-oriented skills and knowledge

Institutions must now comprehend future economic trends as well as technological changes in order to prepare students for employment in today’s fast changing world

Ai a boon to the job market

Artificial Intelligence will end up expanding the job market and not the commonly held belief that it will be shrinking it, explain Saket Dandotia, Co-Founder and COO and Shyam Vyas, VP Engineering at Toch.ai

The New Business Mantra: Everyone Has To Do Everything

The term “Jack of all trades” gained great prominence once. Then came the era of specialisation where you had to be “Master at just one thing”. Many companies adopted that mantra and did just one thing. We had Big Oil, Big Tech and Big Finance. Just stick to your own field of expertise, be good at it and reach the top. But now in business we are entering a stage where you have to be a “Master of all trades”

THE IMPORTANCE OF A 360-DEGREE VIEW OF THE CUSTOMER

Pradeep Rathinam, Chief Customer Officer at Freshworks, talks about the rapidly changing world of CX in the pandemic era and beyond, the importance of a social media like service and the shrinking of implementation cycles from years to months in their business. Excerpts from the video interview…

What is in store for DevOps and DevSecOps in 2022?

In 2022 we’ll continue to see the push towards the integration of DevSecOps with product and enterprise application development

The board of iValue is delighted to announce the appointment of Mr. Shrikant Shitole as its Chief executive officer

iValue InfoSolutions, India’s premium technology enabler, announced the appointment of IT Veteran Mr. Shrikant Shitole as its CEO. This appointment comes in as part of the strategic planning iValue InfoSolutions has designed for next 5 years.

DON'T LOSE OUT WITH A REACTIVE CX IN A DIGITAL WORLD

Chris Heckscher, Senior Vice President, Customer ExperienceAPJC, Cisco talks about the transformation business undergoes to provide services and value to customers in a cloud operated world, the role of DeepTech in the aforementioned deal. He elaborates the importance of the right CX culture and how it eventually ties back to employee engagement and satisfaction.

IS DIGITAL GOLD GREENER? NOT EXACTLY, NOT NOW

In the future we can see facets like decentralisation, sustainability and the crypto-complementary power emerging strong with Digital Gold. But where? And how does it stack up against alternatives like bonds, ETFs and against worries like inflation, hidden costs, regulation, scarcity, fractionalisation, liquidity, privacy, and speculation? Tarusha Mittal, COO & Co-Founder, OroPocket rubs away some dust and melts away some doubts about Digital Gold in this interview.

From Teams, to Game-Changers, to winners

A Dataquest-Microsoft Workshop on Reimagining Education distils some new disruptions that are redefining the education landscape.

Cloud Transformation: From Infrastructure to Verticals

Embracing the cloud doesn’t require some big bang effort. Indeed, it can be done in small, thoughtful steps that help you side-step complicated legacy app renewals or disruptive core modernization initiatives

Big Tech is the Ruling Ring for the world's industries

J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring has a brilliant quote about the Ruling Ring that controls the 19 rings of Elves, Dwarves and Men… “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.”

Ambani leads the battle with Bezos (for now)

Both became centi-billionaires (personal worth @ $100 billion). Both are looking to global domination in the future. One rules America and the other rules India. And they’ve been fighting a proxy battle over control of the Future Group

What Happens When The Flight Plan Is With I.T.?

From the tail-end of automated irrigation, IoT-enabled supply-chain monitoring to the frontrows of virtual desks, contactless processing, biometric boarding and self-service bag drops, the Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru (KIAB) is already past the layover from pre-pandemic to post-pandemic travel. Let’s sit at the window seat and get a better view from Satyaki Raghunath (Chief Strategy & Development Officer), BIAL.

Faster adoption of loT deployments & use cases post-Covid

In the panel on "Enabling Digital Transformation with loT", the panellists discussed how Internet of Things is enabling digital transformation, changes in standardization and policies to come, and how to measure the success of loT implementation using the right metrics

Blockchain solves the problem of information asymmetry

In the session “Developing and Managing Blockchain Innovation", the panelists discussed the application of blockchain in governance projects, enterprise, and medium to long-term changes to be witnessed due to it

Al usage is higher in prevention and management

In the session "Role of Al in Health Tech", innovators in the healthcare sector gave their insights on the role of Artificial Intelligence in every stage of healthcare from clinical trials to diagnosis to treatment and also the impact of technology in treating mental health

A massive transformational impact has happened in India

Pradeep Gupta, Chairman, Cybermedia, delivered the welcome address at the second edition of the Virtual Event Dataquest Deep Tech, with the 2021 theme of "Unlocking the Next Tech Frontier”. He said that Deep Tech is going to have a massive transformational impact. Everybody is watching this transformation very closely. It can change the very future of business in this country

Produce for the next 10 billion people will come from tech

In the session “Disrupting Agriculture with Deep Tech”, innovators in the AgriTech sector spoke about how technology empowers the agriculture vertical and how advanced technologies will bring in different business models (Moderated by Vaishnavi Desai)

Need to make software developers use quantum computing

In the session on “Commercializing quantum for business”, the future of quantum computing was discussed and how it has the power to transform almost all the industries in the world

Edge computing in 5G will facilitate use of Al

In the session “Future of Talent", Professor Abhay Karandikar, Director, IIT Kanpur, said that innovations in tools and platforms, combined with the applicability of AI/ML can bring a very significant shift in the gig economy

India is gaining ground geo-politically

The inaugural address on “Deep Tech for Next Trillion Economy" was delivered by Manoj Kohli, Country Head, Softbank India. He said that the next 10 years, the impact of technology will be bigger than the last 100 years

WELCOME TO A BRAVE NEW BUSINESS

The future was inevitable, but it is already here, speeded up by the pandemic. While going high-tech was usually an "option", now it is no longer so, becoming part of the very DNA of the business and economy of the world. A look at the complete global transformation that we are entering

Tremendous potential from Industry 4.0

In the session on “Deep Tech effect in manufacturing", the panellists spoke about the role of technology in supply chain management and shop floor management

Covid Turns The Spotlight On ‘Lightsout' Data Center

Data centers are the backbone of today’s Digital Economy. By forcing people to work from home, the COVID-19 crisis has forced enterprises to rethink how they access and manage their data centers too. Lights-out or unmanned data centers became more critical in such scenarios. Anjani Kommisetti, Country Manager- India & SAARC, Raritan & ServerTech explains how Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) helped enterprises emerge from the crisis and now as the scramble for digital transformation thrust upon us by the pandemic begins to subside, why they must consider investing heavily in the remote data center management capabilities. Excerpt: