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/