ieDecode, India’s first exclusively online techknowledge summit organised by indianexpress.com, concluded on a high note.
ieDecode, India’s first exclusively online techknowledge summit organised by indianexpress.com, concluded on a high note. Sponsored by Airtel 4G, the 2-hour long summit virtual focused on concurrent themes like software, home-tech, mobility and design, with a clear focus on the user. The idea behind the virtual summit was to find answers to how modern technologies shape our present and enable a better future.
ieDecode included keynotes by Jeff Schneider, Engineering Lead at Uber; Puneesh Kumar, Country Manager, Alexa; Shanmugh Natarajan, MD, Adobe Systems; Cooliris co-founder Soujanya Bhumkar; and Sudhir Pillai, General Manager at Honeywell. Manu Jain, Country Head of Xiaomi; Pranav Shroff, Global Director, Portfolio Strategy & Planning, HMD Global; Rajiv Gupta, Partner & Director, The Boston Consulting Group.
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"Whenever I visit India, I am always impressed with the historical beauty - no matter which part of India you visit. So clearly beautiful and intuitive design was a priority for our ancestors. In today’s world I also surprised to see that while India provides tremendous back end support to a lot of applications, how few of the top engagement or top grossing apps are made or rather designed in India. We collectively need to change that," says Bhumkar
Air Pollution is the biggest environmental health risk and one should acknowledge it as a public health problem. India's air quality is so bad that it has become necessary to invest in an air purifier.
Amazon's Alexa voice platform has surpassed 12,000 in India - the voice-powered apps for the Echo range. The information has come from Puneesh Kumar, Country Manager, Alexa, India.
Alexa, Amazon's digital voice-assistant, powers the company's Echo smart speakers range. Kumar says the entire Echo range has been customized for the Indian market and the cheapest of them is the Echo Dot.
Jain says the company is still evaluating to bring more Android One smartphones to India. Last year, Xiaomi launched the Mi A1 - the company's first Android One-branded smartphone in India. Jain claims the Mi A1 was a massive success in India.
Xiaomi wants to bring more and more people online through its affordable smartphones. But the company also seeks to move beyond smartphones. Over the past few months, Xiaomi has launched a number of unconventional devices in India, like TVs, Air Purifiers, smart fitness bands, etc.
Adobe is combining art and technology to bring digital experiences to life. Natarajan says artificial intelligence and machine learning will prove disruptive in nature.
HMD Global is the first third-party OEM to push monthly security patches for its Android-powered smartphones. Pranav says the company will continue to provide smartphones with pure Android
Shanmugh Natarajan, MD, Adobe India will deliver a keynote on AI and Design.
HMD Global sees India as an important market. The Finnish company, which owns the rights to the Nokia brand, is betting on India for its comeback in the mainstream smartphone market. Pranav says both Nokia 2 and Nokia 7 Plus has been designed in keeping the local market in mind.
Network conditions in India ensure it becomes a test bed for companies like Nokia, says Shroff
Pranav Shroff of HMD Global says 80 per cent of India shops in the budget segment. 'Indians customers are very value conscious.'
Uber has already deployed its self-driving in Pittsburgh and Phoenix. Schneider believes someday Uber would like to bring its self-driving car to India.
Jeff Schneider, Engineering Lead at Uber says the car of future will take advantage of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Uber has set its eyes on replacing drivers with its self-driving car.
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"M-commerce, omnichannel, use of predictive analysis, voice and chat bots and personalization will be key to the growth of digitization of India", says Rajiv Gupta, Partner & Director, The Boston Consulting Group
"When we look at usage on The Indian Express platform, we can clearly see that users are maturing", says Durga Raghunath, CEO, Indian Express Digital. "They are comparing more before buying, they are reading and watching more reviews – the deeper the better. We believe that the mature user has moved beyond the single vector of price," she said.
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