Padma Bhushan awardee Rajendra Singh Pawar is the Chairman and Founder of NIIT Group. He graduated with a BTech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi. He co-founded NIIT in 1981 with a vision of successfully combining people and computers. Over the last 40 years, NIIT has trained about 40 million learners in over 40 countries.
Mr. Pawar serves on the Boards of the India School of Business (ISB) and The Scindia School. He also chaired the Board of Directors of the Data Security Council of India (DSCI) and was Vice Chairman of the NCAER Governing Body. Additionally, he has served on various other Boards, including IIT Delhi and IIM Bangalore.
He chaired the NASSCOM Cyber Security Task Force (2016-2017), aligning with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision to make India a global cyber security hub. He was a member of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s National Council on Skills Development (2009-2014). He served on Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s National Taskforce (1998) to develop India into an IT superpower.
Some of his recognitions include ‘Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Delhi’ (1995), 'IT Man of the Year' by Dataquest (1998), 'Master Entrepreneur of the Year' by Ernst & Young (1999), Lifetime Achievement ICT Award (2019) by Dataquest, and Lifetime Achievement Award for Education (2022) by FICCI.
As India stands on the brink of a technological revolution, the potential for Generative AI (GenAI) to reshape industries and society is immense. This fire-side chat brings together two visionary leaders who have been instrumental in the country’s technological and educational advancements: Srikanth Velamakkani, Co-founder, Group Chief Executive & Vice-Chairman of Fractal, and Rajendra Singh Pawar, Chairman & Founder of NIIT Group. The panel will be moderated by Kunal Jain, Founder & CEO - Analytics Vidhya.
The discussion aims to identify the key levers and initiatives needed for building the next-generation GenAI ecosystem in India. We would discuss the diverse thoughts and perspectives form the leaders in front of the community.
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- GenAI Adoption: Reimagining of pivotal roles in organizations through GenAI adoption, focusing on process redesign and talent productivity improvement.
- Funding GenAI Projects: Growing interest among Indian CEOs in GenAI financing projects and the challenges to adoption, such as skills gap and unclear use cases.
- Accelerating GenAI Adoption: The importance of accelerating the adoption of GenAI technology combines genetics and AI for potential industry revolutionization.
- Productivity Impact of Generative AI: Focusing on key functions in GenAI can significantly impact productivity, as per a McKinsey report.
- Typical Gen AI Use-Cases: Real-world examples of how GenAI technology can be applied across industries to enhance efficiency and decision-making.
Managing and scaling ML workloads have never been a bigger challenge in the past. Data scientists are looking for collaboration, building, training, and re-iterating thousands of AI experiments. On the flip side ML engineers are looking for distributed training, artifact management, and automated deployment for high performance
Read MoreManaging and scaling ML workloads have never been a bigger challenge in the past. Data scientists are looking for collaboration, building, training, and re-iterating thousands of AI experiments. On the flip side ML engineers are looking for distributed training, artifact management, and automated deployment for high performance
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