In this episode, Peter J Arduini, president and CEO of GE HealthCare Technologies, talks about his plan to expand R&D and manufacturing in India. GE HealthCare has committed to investing a billion dollars in expanding these capabilities via its local joint venture Wipro GE HealthCare — a partnership that’s endured over more than three decades. Arduini also talks about how India is uniquely positioned to take ownership of more GE HealthCare product development because of its software prowess and growing applied AI capabilities.  ..read more

In this episode, Nimeet Dhokai, co-founder of Happi Planet Eco Products, talks about how he and his friend Mayank Gupta started their venture, determined to convert consumers to sustainable home care products. The two-year-old startup is backed by investors including 100X.VC and Fireside Ventures. Dhokai also talks about how he and Gupta found a successful combination of effective products and meeting consumers’ perception of cleanliness, while sticking to their goal of producing genuinely sustainable cleaners ..read more

In this episode, Jaya Jagadish, Country Head and Senior Vice President at AMD India, talks about why the company is very optimistic about the prospects of India’s fledgling semiconductor ecosystem over the next decade. Jaya also talks about how, over the last 20 years, AMD India has become the company’s biggest global R&D location at a time when the multinational chip maker is ramping up its efforts to produce processors specifically suited for artificial intelligence applications ..read more

In this episode, Dr. Jahnavi Phalkey, founding director of the Science Gallery Bengaluru, talks about how she got to be a historian of science and technology. Jahnavi, who recently won the Infosys Prize for 2023 in the humanities category, harnesses a historian’s discipline and a storyteller’s craft to try and make science accessible to everyone. And, in her own words, to show that science doesn’t happen in isolation. In this conversation, she also talks about the interplay of various factors that have influenced scientific research in India, and her aspiration that the Science Gallery should ..read more

In this episode, Annu Talreja, founder and CEO of Accacia, talks about how her company is helping real estate businesss accelerate their efforts to decarbonise their operations. Annu, an architect and urban planner by training, is building a carbon tracking and decarbonisation recommendation platform as a service platform at Accacia, her second venture, backed by marquee investors including Accel, B Capital, Blume Ventures and Rainmatter ..read more

In this episode, Rafee Tarafdar, chief technology officer at Infosys, talks about what generative AI might mean for the future of the IT services industry. Rafee, who’s also a senior vice president and the head of the company’s strategic technology group, explains how becoming an “AI first” company, back-to-back with adapting to the “cloud-first” transformation in the industry, is changing Infosys from within, even as it helps customers implement and benefit from generative AI applications ..read more

In this episode, Sidhant Rastogi, managing partner at Zinnov, a technology consultancy in Bengaluru, talks about why engineering R&D services is a promising area of outsourcing at the cusp of its next big phase of growth. As the world makes the energy transition from fossil fuel to renewables, the scope of the work that the Indian providers can offer is set to approach close to tier-1 supplier levels, going beyond software, catalyzed by the convergence of multiple technologies, he says ..read more

Jyoti Gera, global general manager at GE HealthCare for general imaging and primary care ultrasound, talks about the future of precision medicine, including in markets such as India where access and affordability are crucial factors. Gera also talks about her own career, starting out as an engineer and rising to running a multi-billion-dollar engineering-intensive business, and why someone starting out today should equally care about the long run ..read more

In this episode of Deep Tech India, GS Madhusudan, co-founder and CEO of Incore Semiconductors, gives us a sense of how we missed the bus on the semiconductor opportunity, decades ago. He also talks about how we have the opportunity today, and most of the ingredients, to build our own semiconductor ecosystem that could supply the world with made-in-India chips, starting with embedded applications ..read more

In this episode, tech entrepreneur Madan Padaki talks about his journey from founding MeritTrak to the Head Held High Foundation and OneBridge. The foundation is a non-profit organisation that focuses on training rural youth. Over the last 15 years or so, it has touched about 30,000 youth. Padaki also talks about how he sees philanthropy and entrepreneurship as two faces of a coin – with the former well suited to boost capabilities of large numbers of India’s youth, and the latter acting as an engine to generate economic opportunities for the same young people ..read more