Former Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee declared on 11 May 1999 to celebrate this day as ‘National Technology Day’ as a reminder of the anniversary of Pokhran — II tests. Moreover, the day is celebrated under different kind of themes every year. Similarly, this year the day is celebrating under the theme named, ‘Integrated Approach in Science and Technology for a Sustainable Future’. Commemorating the ‘National Technology Day – 2022’, below we have featured the notions of the leading industry veterans.
Name of the spokesperson: Sudha KV, Vice President, Dell Technologies, India
Quote: “In todays’ digital age, technology is driving human progress and the driving force behind technological growth comes with introducing disruptive ideas. Dell Technologies continues to be one of the global leaders in producing server tech, and India has a key role to play in this. Our Bengaluru R&D centre has been instrumental in bringing about cutting-edge technology in the server portfolio. Right from conceptualization of the servers, to product upgrade and then retiring the offerings, and thinking about the next product and technology trends, the Bengaluru R&D centre is the locus of innovation. Having filed over 100 patents in the last 3-4 years, the team at the Bengaluru centre has been dedicatedly helping Dell Technologies meet their goals of driving growth through technology.
To integrate software and hardware with specific capabilities, the R&D centre runs about 7 petabytes of networking traffic, 1600 virtual machines and 1400 test configurations to mimic all possible customer scenarios before making solutions available to global markets. With highly skilled engineers, distinguished technical staff and a dedicated team of designers and developers, the team is able to churn out adaptive and autonomous modern infrastructure solutions aligned with modern workloads which meet the customer interests in the areas of cloud computing, AI, analytics and edge computing. Our aim is to increase efficiency and boost performance of end-user computing with new developments and improvements to their PowerEdge portfolio, which allow customers to bring the computing power closer to their data, and our R&D centre is at the cornerstone of these innovations.”
Name of the spokesperson: Attributed to RK Shenoy, Senior VP — Mobility Engineering, Bosch Global Software Technologies
Quote: The world has witnessed tremendous technological improvement in the last decade. The technology available today is powerful and increasingly transformative with substantial impact in sectors such as Mobility, healthcare, manufacturing, oil and gas, agriculture, etc. Majority of businesses are amid navigating their digital transformation journey and are investing in Innovation and R&D to deliver effective products and services, keeping the User-Experience in mind. With emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Digitization and Software defined products combined with Electronification, every domain is helping in improving the quality of life of people across the world, creating newer business models to generate recurring revenue and strive for better operational efficiencies.
Today, as India observes National Technology Day, it is important that we acknowledge how technology is aiding in providing innovative and sophisticated business offerings. At Bosch Global Software Technologies (BGSW), we expect an increased penetration of technologies such as Cloud computing, Big data, AIoT, Robotics and Edge computing, in every domain we are working in. The success lies in applying these technologies using our core domain competence to create new products and services while providing high quality offerings at competitive pricing. We, at BGSW have also strengthened our innovation focus with targeted investments in Center of Excellences, and nurturing best-in-class talent, both in-house and at Academia, while enhancing capabilities to hone global technology leaders for the next techade.
Gaurav Vasu, CEO, UnearthInsight
Quote: “India employs over 1.8 million women in Tech sector largely IT services, GCCs, Software Products and Tech Start-ups but gender diversity for senior roles in core product or tech services remains low both globally and in India largely due to various factors. India has seen significant improvement of Women participation in STEM across Tech Start-ups along with middle management roles in Tech services and Software product in the last 2 to 3 years due to Hybrid working models, Satellite office models, Remote roles however senior roles/CXO lacks gender diversity at less than 3-5%.
Industry players can definitely showcase women leaders as role models and also create defined career paths for women from coding to quality to managerial to service line head roles as that would encourage more women in STEM to aspire to grow to leadership roles. Marketing and HR function has done well and has over 5000+ women leaders but Tech Services, GCC and Tech Start-ups have a lot of work to improve this “
Kunal Purohit, Chief Digital Services Officer, Tech Mahindra
“Today, technology has become all pervasive and helps create needle moving outcomes across all industries and governments as well. The development and adoption of solutions through advanced technologies, including intelligent automation, artificial intelligence, Metaverse, Blockchain, 5G, and Quantum Computing can impact one or more of the following: a) significant reduction in the cost of doing business b) increase in revenues through increased differentiation and c) higher customer delight. At Tech Mahindra, we are focused on leveraging next-generation technologies to enable end-to-end digital transformation for global customers and solve complex business challenges. Some relevant recent examples are:
- We have launched TechMVerse, our Metaverse practice to deliver interactive and immersive experiences in the Metaverse for our customers. We launched ‘Meta Village’ to gamify learning. A part of TechMVerse, Meta Village will gamify the learning process for children in rural India thereby providing them with an opportunity to develop the crucial technical skills needed to become tomorrow’s disruptors. Today Pargaon is India’s first Meta village created by Tech Mahindra
- We have launched amplifAI 0->∞ to democratize AI (artificial intelligence) for enterprises globally.
Name of the spokesperson: Geetika Goel, Head of Technology
Quote: “As a woman in the technology industry for the past two decades, I have encountered a variety of challenges and opportunities to create a niche for myself. It’s encouraging to see a surge in female talent and a growing interest in upskilling. It is unquestionably a sign of India’s bright future in the technology industry. This, combined with the government’s laser-like focus on digitising the country, has boosted the industry and created an inclusive environment for all genders to thrive on a national and international scale. At Hero Vired, I work with a world-class team of engineers and tech enthusiasts to realise the company’s shared vision and growth goals, all while instilling a strong digital-first culture.”
