As the Indian technology industry marches towards the next decade of Hyper-Digital future, Trust, Innovation, Resilience and Agility will be the key ingredients for India to emerge as the hub for technology innovation globally.
The Day 2 of the NASSCOM Technology & Leadership Forum (NTLF) 2021 highlighted the theme, Hyper Digital Future – The new Playbook.
Despite headwinds in 2020, Indian tech contributed ~8% relative share to the national GDP and rallied round to grow at 2.3% year on year at the back of rapid acceleration in digital transformation and tech adoption.
As we enter the new normal, NASSCOM highlighted the four key areas that will shape the new playbook for the hyper-digital future. These include Customer-centric operational focus; Building expertise in the remote operating model; Accelerated digital capability building; and Expanding access in emerging and growth sectors.
Day 2 at NTLF 2021 saw CEO’s from top IT companies, HR professionals and others industry leaders which included, Chuck Robbins, CEO CISCO Systems, Thierry Delaporte, CEO & MD Wipro limited, C Vijayakumar, CEO HCL, Salil Parekh, CEO & MD, Infosys, Rajashree R, CMO, TCS, Kunal Bahl, Co-Founder & CEO, Snapdeal, Eric S. Yuan, CEO, ZOOM, Sanjay Poonen, COO, VMware, Supria Dhanda, Vice President & Country Manager, Western Digital India, among others.
The leaders deliberated around some of the key topics which included Building the better normal; Tech trends that will shape the future; People-centric innovation; Future of workplace & talent; Playbook for DeepTech innovation and much more.
Debjani Ghosh, President NASSCOM, said, “Technology industry in India is poised for growth and job creation. Developing digital talent and equipping them with the right set of skills should be job one from the country. Talent is the key ingredient of the new normal. Developing fostering ecosystem for constant innovation will strengthen the digital economy so when the world will think digital, the world will think India.”
Chuck Robbins, CEO CISCO Systems, said, “Covid has unveiled many new opportunities for the globe and the most important opportunity is creating a digital connect. Pandemic has led us to a more connected world and the need of the hour is visionary leadership that will create digital connectivity. India will emerge from the crisis as a stronger economy like never before.”
Sanjay Poonen, COO, VMware, explained, “Looking ahead towards 2021, we can not only predict changes such as growth of cloud computing and edge computing markets, cybersecurity threats and the need to educate the world on cybersecurity hygiene but also means of working from anywhere. The future of hybrid culture is here to stay!”
Salil Parekh, CEO & MD, Infosys, said, “For scalability of the industry, it is important to look at platform-based services.”
C Vijayakumar, CEO HCL, said, “Value expectation has changed multifold as we have evolved significantly in the last decade.”
Thierry Delaporte, CEO & MD Wipro limited, said, “Acquisition is the strategy to accelerate.”
