With strong GDP growth, expanding base of start-ups and growing trend of new technologies like cloud in the country, the 21st century is Indian century, IBM chief Virginia Rometty said.
IBM has chosen Surat, Allahabad and Vizag among 16 global locations for its smart cities programme.
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IBM started using Watson last year in India in two of its key divisions, services and infrastructure, for the bulk of its 150,000 employees as part of its "predictive retention" programme.
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The applications range from disaster recovery to predicting demand and understanding customer choices using artificial intelligence.
The companies on the list are from sectors including trading, finance, packaging, textile, realty, and others. Trading and finance companies account for half-a-dozen companies each.
'This is a race where every technology can be used by the bad guys and good guys.'
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TCS plans to build ignio as a standalone company.
ignio has more than 75 patents filed in the artificial intelligence, machine-learning and intelligent-automation space
Engineering graduates specialising in artificial intelligence and machine learning can earn up to 24 lakh a year, says Saran Balasundaram, founder and CEO, HanDigital, a talent consulting firm.
'Some experts believe that the only jobs that will escape automation are the ones that involve anticipating the client's need, something that AI cannot do -- not yet anyway,' says Vikram Johri.
With the demand for lower costs in process driven activities and a move away from the high rate, billable hours of legal services, AI platforms are being used internationally in many legal tasks.
The ability to make smarter data-driven decisions will be a critical skill that every employer will be looking at in every prospective employee.
Indian companies seem to be trailing behind. They will have to catch up by reskilling the workforce and ramping up investments.
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The event, organised by Deutsche Messe AG, is held each year at the Hanover fairground, the world's largest, in Hanover, Germany.
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'Middle-level managers account for 10 per cent -- or 450,000 people -- in the IT industry in India.' 'And of these 225,000 would lose jobs over the next one decade as their work would get automated.' 'This is grim news for many reasons,' says Aakar Patel.
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PE firm True North's investment model is to take 51% stake in mid-sized companies and make them large, says Niraj Bhatt.
'The government's proposal to store citizens' data including Aadhaar data under its Digital India initiative on cloud is violative of the citizens' human rights because the cloud is admittedly beyond India's jurisdiction.'
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