Generative AI and I - with Ranjani Mani

In this episode we talk to the CEO of Bhashini, Mr Amitabh Nag on India's AI led platform driving digital inclusion with tech.

We discuss Bhashini's concentrated efforts on the 22 constitutional languages of India, offering services such as automatic speech recognition, machine translation, and text-to-speech. Get to know how Bhashini is instigating a major shift in digital inclusion, facilitating everyday transactions in native languages, and promoting efficient voice-based operations to bridge the digital and literacy gap.

We cover a lot of ground, including

• How Bhashini is transforming the language landscape of India and the world - bridging the digital divide and empowering citizens
• Current use cases and potential applications of Bhashini across sectors from education to healthcare
• How it leverages the power of crowdsourcing and collaboration through incentivizing users
• Future roadmap and how the citizens of the country and the world can look at leveraging it

Personally, I liked how through the conversation Mr Amitabh remained absolutely grounded - not touting AI as a panacea to solve it all but striking that fine balance between how AI can drive tech for good with continuous learning.

In today's episode we talk to a Chief Data and Analytics officer - Steffin Harris who in his last role was the CVP and Global Head of Cloud+ AI at Microsoft. With 27+ years of professional experience and a stellar track record of achieving success across Data, Analytics and AI, setting up and leading global data teams across Microsoft, Meta and VMWare.

In this episode we cover his perspective across three key themes

#1 As a leader : Focus and Impact areas - Elaborate on the 'AI Sherpa' role that leaders play in driving the adoption and responsible use of Generative AI?

#2 Perspective of Gen AI : Talent and Staying Relevant - How to work towards staying relevant

#3 Perspective of Gen AI : Industry views and Anticipated challenges - Challenges faced by orgs in adoption and keeping up with exponential change

Read more about Steffin here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sdharris/

Understanding the '3T framework' and what is enabling the tech ecosystem in India

In this exciting new episode of Generative AI and I, I am excited to interview Sanket Atal, Managing Director - Salesforce India Operations, Site Lead - Technology/Marketing/Product.

With 29+ years of experience across firms such as Informix, Oracle, CA Tech, MakeMyTrip (E-commerce), and Intuit, working in the US and India with geographically distributed teams, Sanket's deep tech experience is evident across the discussion

I love the passion he has towards startups and innovation, customer centricity driving mindful leadership and building diverse and inclusive workplaces

An engineer at heart, Sanket chats about the 3 T framework that is enabling the tech ecosystem, how to build AI first products with innovation whilst focussing on customer centricity with a focus on data governance and security.

Learn more about Sanket Atal here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanketatal/

"Half life of knowledge is decreasing - careers are more like a Pie vs T shaped'.

I thoroughly enjoyed this discussion with Srikant, the co-founder and Chief Executive of Fractal Analytics.

He is someone I admire for being able to balance well between the strategy and the weeds of challenges in execution - something I have seen few executives do so well.

He is a thought leader, independent board director, and member of NASSCOM executive council and someone whose work in this space I admire and follow

We cover a lot of ground here -

• What's different now? A mental model of how to think about GenAI and how it is different from the AI journey thus far?
• Talent/career lens here - How should folks across early, mid management and executives look at leveraging Gen AI to stay relevant
• What should India's strategy be wrt Generative AI? How do we play to our strengths? What should we be wary about?
• Industry and Ecosystem Trends- What does the GenAI ecosystem look like now: How are large players seeking to evolve?
• What are the most important use cases and products in this space? Areas that will be most prone to disruption and then what they can do

Connect with Srikanth here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/srikanthvelamakanni/

I quite loved my conversation with the inimitable JB

We cover quite a gamut of topics -

1. 101 on Open AI's Chat GPT - Both from a tech stack perspective and what it will disrupt
2. What are the 5 principles of Gen AI that folks need to know?
3. Can AI achieve singularity? Will AI ever become conscious
4. What does the future of work with Gen AI look like? Will ChatGPT take our jobs?
5. Will Gen AI disrupt IT and ITES - what are the challenges and opportunities for India?
6. Should GPT exist?

In this episode we talk to the inimitable, Jaspreet Bindra

With 25+ years of business and P&L leadership, digital transformation, technology and entrepreneurial experience across t consumer and enterprise businesses

JB is the ex-CDO Mahindra, Microsoft, TAS , Best selling Author of The Tech Whisperer.

Currently the Founder and MD of Tech Whisperer Ltd., Cambridge, he has held Advisory Board and Advisory Positions with Thoughtworks, Findability Sciences, IDC and Mahindra Group

A Global Keynote Speaker, Advisor, Writer and Educator on Technology, He also writes a Fortnightly column 'Tech Whispers' for Mint, columnist for NDTV, write for Hindustan Times and others

Connect with him here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaspreetbindra/