Supported by dedicated tech anchors and platforms like Lovable, Claude, and Base44, the tools aided even the non-technical teams successfully built functional solutions. Industry leaders including Shrijay Sheth, Co-Founder, Legalwiz, Rishit Shah, Co-Founder, Kinetiq, Druman Patel, Partner, Manubhai and Shah LLP and Manan Shah, Executive Director, Ardeko Asset Management mentored the participating teams.

Commenting on the initiative Mr. Umesh Uttamchandani, Managing Director, Dev Accelerator Limited, said, "The AI conversation is no longer about isolated pilots. It is about embedding intelligence into the fabric of how organisations operate. DevXplore AI is a reflection of this shift, where problem solving is becoming faster, more contextual, and deeply aligned to business priorities. The real value lies not just in what was built over 48 hours, but in how this mindset will scale across the organisation.”

The hackathon produced highly practical tools across various departments. Some key innovations include:

• Finance: AI tools for automatic TDS and GST reconciliation against internal systems and automated multi stage payment trackers.

• Operations: Multilingual staff onboarding assistants and predictive pantry restock bots driven by simple voice notes.

• Sales and Marketing: A prospect intelligence engine to track high intent leads and a conversational AdsGPT for instant performance insights through cross platform ad.

• HR and Legal: Semantic matching engines for CV scoring and automated compliance deadline trackers for regulatory filings.

At a time when enterprises are grappling with how to scale AI adoption meaningfully, DevXplore AI demonstrates a shift from top down strategy to bottom up innovation, enabling teams closest to business problems to design and deploy solutions with immediate relevance.

The hackathon culminated in a comprehensive jury evaluation focused on the final builds the depth of problem understanding and the effective application of AI. Recognitions were awarded across six dynamic categories including; Most Likely to Ship, Biggest Time Saver, Most Creative Use of AI Best, Interdepartmental Thinking, Crowd Favourite, and Steepest Learning Curve Climbed.

Beyond the tangible outputs, the true success of DevXplore AI was the visible mindset shift across the organization. It sparked organic collaboration and moved teams from simply identifying problems to actively building solutions.

About Dev Accelerator Limited

Dev Accelerator Limited (NSE: DEVX; BSE: 544513) is an enterprise focused full solution managed workspace platform. We design build and operate custom offices end to end covering site selection bespoke fit outs technology integration and facility management under a single SLA. With one of India’s largest Tier 2 footprints by operational flex stock DevX serves enterprises startups and global corporations with collaborative customizable work environments across the country.
 

The company operates 28 centres across multiple Indian cities with over 14,000 seats and 8.6 lakh sq. ft. under management. This complemented by design, build, and allied services that ensure fast handovers and consistent standards.
 

For more information, please visit www.devx.work.

Business Core Solutions acquires Techie2Pillar for AI scaling

This move is part of BCS’s plan to strengthen how it delivers AI solutions for enterprises and expand its Agentic Service as a Software (ASaaS) offerings, enabling organizations to move from fragmented automation efforts to more structured, scalable execution models.

The acquisition comes after six months of collaboration between the two companies. During this period, Business Core Solutions and Techie2Pillar worked on real business use cases using conversational and AI-driven agents. These engagements demonstrated how AI can move beyond experiments and be used effectively in everyday business operations, particularly in areas where real-time interaction, decision-making, and workflow execution are critical.

With this acquisition, Techie2Pillar will be integrated into BCS’ Agentic Service as a Software (ASaaS) portfolio and will form the foundation of Proxyn.ai, a newly established sister company of BCS. This integration brings together Techie2Pillar’s expertise in voice and conversational AI with BCS’ library of 400+ ready-to-deploy agent blueprints, refined across 60+ enterprise environments strengthening BCS’ ability to design and deploy outcome-driven structured and scalable enterprise AI execution.

Speaking on the acquisition, Prakash Palani, CTO of BCS, said “Many organizations have strong ideas for AI, but the real challenge lies in executing them consistently at scale. This acquisition strengthens our ability to deliver reliable production-ready AI Solutions. Through Proxyn.ai, we are enabling faster agentic use cases deployment with reduced risk, while our Agentic System Integrator model, supported by platforms like Symphony, Anugal, and deKorvai, ensures governance and scalability across the enterprise.”

Bharanish, CTO of Techie2Pillar, said, “Our collaboration with BCS has already shown how conversational AI can deliver real business impact. By becoming part of BCS’s ASaaS portfolio, we can now better design and deploy AI systems that integrate smoothly with enterprise tools.”

Together, the combined capabilities are intended to help enterprises move from fragmented automation initiatives to structured, agent-driven operations, addressing one of the key challenges in AI adoption, scaling from pilot programs to production systems.

 About Business Core Solutions

Business Core Solutions (BCS) is a global enterprise transformation company, recognized as the world’s first Agentic System Integrator. Founded in 2014, the company operates across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and India, providing services across enterprise ecosystems including SAP, Salesforce, OpenText, AI/ML, Agentic Orchestration, Cloud, and Data Analytics.

These capabilities are complemented by its platforms, Symphony for orchestration, Anugal for identity governance, and deKorvai for data intelligence, which enable control, coordination, and visibility across enterprise systems. BCS supports organizations in improving execution efficiency, reducing operational complexity, and delivering consistent outcomes across processes.

 For more information, visit www.businesscoresolutions.com

Santosh Mishra

In his new role, Santosh will lead the development and execution of Alta’s AI-focused initiatives, with a strong emphasis on integrating cutting edge technologies into the learning ecosystem. He will work closely with academic and product teams to strengthen the institution’s AI-first approach and ensure that learners are equipped with industry relevant skills aligned with the evolving demands of the technology landscape.

An alumnus of the NIT , Tiruchirappalli, Santosh has built a strong reputation as an educator and mentor in the technology space. Over the years, he has guided more than 50,000 students globally, helping them navigate technical interviews and build sustainable careers in software engineering. His structured teaching approach and practical insights have made him a trusted voice among aspiring engineers and working professionals alike.

Santosh is also an accomplished author, having written more than ten technical books focused on software engineering principles and system architecture. His work simplifies complex concepts for learners and bridges the gap between academic knowledge and real world application. Beyond publishing, his contributions to tech education have been widely recognised across leading media platforms including AajTak, ABP News, Economic Times, Humans of Bombay, and JoshTalks. His impact earned him a feature at Times Square, underscoring his growing influence in the global education and technology ecosystem.

This appointment comes at a time when Alta School of Technology is strengthening its focus on building an AI-led curriculum that prepares students for the next wave of technological transformation. The institution continues to invest in leadership and innovation to enhance its offerings and expand its reach among learners seeking practical and future ready education.

Commenting on the appointment, Ashish Munjal, Founder of Alta School of Technology, added, “At Alta, we believe that the future of education lies in bridging the gap between learning and real world application. Santosh’s experience across leading technology organisations and his deep engagement with the student community will help us accelerate this vision. His leadership will further strengthen our commitment to delivering high quality, outcome driven education powered by emerging technologies.”

Harshit Agarwal, Founding Director at Alta School of Technology, said, “We are delighted to welcome Santosh to Alta. His strong foundation in technology combined with his passion for teaching makes him uniquely positioned to drive our AI innovation efforts. As we continue to evolve our curriculum, his insights will play a crucial role in shaping programs that are both industry aligned and learner centric.”

Sharing his thoughts on joining the organization, Santosh Mishra said, “I am excited to be a part of Alta School of Technology at a time when AI is redefining how we learn and work. I look forward to contributing to an ecosystem that prioritises practical learning and empowers students to build meaningful careers. Together, we aim to create programs that not only teach technology but also enable learners to think critically and innovate with confidence.”

With this appointment, Alta School of Technology continues to reinforce its position as a forward looking institution focused on innovation, scalability, and impactful learning experiences in the field of technology education.

About Alta School of Technology
Alta School of Technology is an AI-first computer science institute focused on delivering industry-integrated, hands-on learning. Founded by Ashish Munjal and Harshit Aggarwal, Alta combines real-world projects, expert mentorship, and a portfolio-driven approach to build future-ready engineers.

(L- R) Anirudh Singla, Co - founder and CEO of Pepper, Vamshi Sriperumbudur, Former Palo Alto Networks SASE CMO, Kishan Panpalia, Founding Team of Pepper & Rishabh Shekhar, Co-founder and COO of Pepper

INDEX’26 featured a distinguished lineup of global leaders at the forefront of marketing, AI, and technology. The event opened with a keynote by Dane Vahey, Head of B2B at OpenAI, followed by Alexandra London, CMO at G2.

The summit witnessed overwhelming demand, with registrations closing at 2.5 times capacity and over 80 professionals waitlisted—achieved entirely without paid promotion. This strong organic response signals a growing urgency among enterprises to understand and adapt to AI-led discovery and visibility.

Anirudh Singla, Co-founder & CEO, Pepper said, “INDEX’26 was never meant to be another marketing conference—it was designed as a room for operators who are actively rethinking growth in an AI-first world. What we saw in San Francisco validates a much larger shift: enterprises are no longer asking if AI will change discovery, but how fast they need to adapt to it. The level of demand, the depth of conversations, and the quality of leaders in the room—from platforms like OpenAI, LinkedIn, and Reddit—signal that Generative Engine Optimization is moving from concept to implementation. INDEX is our way of building a global movement around this shift—grounded in real insights, real operators, and real outcomes.”

An ecosystem panel featuring Dev Khare of Lightspeed Ventures, Sid Arora from LinkedIn, and DJ Capobianco of Reddit explored how shifting market dynamics are redefining growth strategies. The conference also featured prominent speakers including Joyce Hwang from Dropbox, Heidi Bullock from Marketo, Christine Royston from Wrike, along with Amanda Kahlow, Drew Neisser, Sydney Sloan, Elay Cohen, and AJ Gandhi.

The audience comprised a highly curated group of enterprise decision-makers, including leaders from Salesforce, Nvidia, Intel, Snowflake, Gong, 6sense, Demandbase, JFrog, Zendesk, and Tealium, including CMOs, VPs, and Heads of Marketing.

A key highlight of the summit was Pepper’s Founding member Kishan Panpalia’s GEO research presentation, which drew standing-room-only participation. The session drove exceptional engagement, with over 500 screenshots captured by attendees across a 20-slide presentation—an uncommon response for a research-focused session and a strong indicator of the relevance of GEO frameworks.

Reflecting on the broader shift, Dev Khare remarked, “It’s not marketing that’s changing—it’s market structures.” This insight resonated deeply with attendees, reinforcing the need for organizations to rethink not just tactics, but the fundamental systems driving demand.

Within 24 hours of the event, industry leaders including Claire Darling, Genefa Murphy, Anand Akela, Meghan Keough, Sandra Lopez, Karen Brewer, and David DeJonghe shared organic, unsolicited feedback on LinkedIn, calling INDEX’26 one of the highest-quality marketing conferences of the year.

INDEX’26 stands as a testament to the power of conviction-led community building. Without the backing of large-scale funding or agency amplification, Pepper successfully brought together global technology platforms and enterprise leaders in one room—driven purely by relevance, insight, and industry trust.

Building on the momentum from San Francisco, INDEX’26 will next take place in New York City on May 27, as Pepper continues to expand its global footprint and lead the conversation on AI-first growth and GEO adoption.

BrandIQ: AI-Powered, Forward-looking Brand Intelligence

What is BrandIQ?
BrandIQ is an always-on brand intelligence platform developed by TheSixth.AI, SixthFactor's proprietary AI analytics division. It continuously monitors and analyses digital brand signals across four interconnected dimensions to deliver a unified, live, real-time view of brand awareness, perception, trust, and advocacy, replacing the rearview mirror of periodic surveys with forward-looking intelligence.

• AI & LLM Visibility: How a brand is represented in AI-generated responses across large language models including ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Perplexity

• Search Performance: How a brand surfaces, ranks, and competes in organic and paid search environments

• Social Narrative: How brand-related conversations form and travel across social platforms

• Consumer Reviews & Validation: How consumer sentiment and trust signals play out through public reviews and ratings

Today's consumer spends 6–7 hours online daily (Telefonica, 2025), searching, reviewing, comparing, and reacting publicly. Before they buy, they sense-check. Before they trust, they search. What looks like everyday digital behaviour is in reality live brand experience, playing out continuously, at scale, largely outside the view of traditional brand tracking. BrandIQ is built to change that.

Developed by TheSixth.AI, SixthFactor's proprietary AI-led insights division, BrandIQ has been launched globally, with its India debut marking a major expansion of the platform's footprint, bringing always-on brand intelligence to India, home to nearly 1.02 billion internet users and one of the world's fastest-growing digital consumer markets (Reuters, Jan 2026).

BrandIQ's methodology is AI-powered, human-led, and research-grade with analytical models and correlative data analysis. Advanced AI models process the scale and complexity of digital signals. Human expertise interprets them, delivering structured intelligence that can be acted upon, not just observed. Each engagement is bespoke, built around a brand's specific category, competitive context, and strategic questions. Crucially, BrandIQ is one of the few brand intelligence platforms to include Generative AI Visibility as a core tracking dimension, monitoring how brands appear in responses generated by large language models such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Perplexity, a channel that now influences consumer decisions before a traditional search even takes place.

Himanshu Vashishtha, Founder and Global CEO, SixthFactor, said, "Brands today are navigating a digital ecosystem that is more complex, faster moving, and more consequential than anything traditional tracking was built for. BrandIQ is our answer to that. It gives our partners a complete, real-time view of their digital brand health, so that every brand decision starts from the clearest, most current picture of where they stand."

Diptanshu Ray, Managing Director, SixthFactor India, stated, "India is one of the most digitally active consumer markets in the world, and the signals that shape brand perception here are richer, faster, and more complex than ever before. Brand decisions today need to be informed by what consumers are searching, saying, and experiencing in real time. BrandIQ makes that possible, delivering structured, decision-ready intelligence that turns digital signals into genuine competitive advantage."

Faisal Khan, Managing Director, TheSixth.AI, added, "Most AI tools today are built to listen. BrandIQ is built to understand. The AI models powering this solution handle the complexity and scale. The structured analytical framework and correlation modelling applied on top of that make it research-grade. And human judgment ensures the intelligence is real."

Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is BrandIQ?
BrandIQ is an AI-powered brand health intelligence platform by SixthFactor that tracks digital brand signals in real time across AI/LLM environments, search, social media, and consumer reviews.
Q: Who is BrandIQ designed for?
BrandIQ is built for brand managers, CMOs, and insights teams at mid-to-large organisations seeking always-on visibility into how their brand is perceived and experienced across digital channels.
Q: How is BrandIQ different from traditional brand tracking?
Traditional brand tracking relies on periodic consumer surveys, which provide a retrospective snapshot. BrandIQ delivers continuous, real-time intelligence across live digital signals, including AI-generated brand mentions, a channel not captured by any legacy tracking methodology.
Q: In which markets is BrandIQ currently available?
BrandIQ is now live for clients across global markets.

About SixthFactor 
SixthFactor is an insights consultancy, powered by Behavioural Sciences, Artificial Intelligence and Design Thinking, that gives organizations clarity, predictability and profitability at every step of their growth journey. Founded in 2012 and home to the Middle East's first Neuro Lab, the firm is headquartered in Dubai, with offices in Saudi Arabia, India, Singapore, and the United States. SixthFactor deploys a full spectrum of qualitative, quantitative, and advanced research methodologies including neuromarketing, AI analytics (TheSixth.AI), ethnographic research and Design Thinking sprints along with proprietary Behavioural Economics frameworks, translating insight into commercial action. Clients include HSBC, Visa, IKEA, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, Nestlé, Flipkart, ITC, Birla White, Asian Paints, Emami, Tata Consumer Products, Dabur and other global and regional leaders. 

Website : www.sixthfactor.in ; www.thesixth.ai.
LinkedIn : www.linkedin.com/company/sixthfactor-consulting
Business Contact for Queries or to book a BrandIQ demo : Arjun Urs | arjun.urs@sixthfactor.com.

The findings are based on a global survey of 335 senior decision-makers (Director level and above) across North America, Europe, APAC, and India, with the majority (97%) reporting annual revenues exceeding $1 billion.

Key Findings Highlight Why Digital Adoption Is Critical to Digital Transformation Success

• $10.9M at risk: A mid-sized organization of 1,000 employees stands to lose an estimated $10.9 million annually due to ineffective digital adoption.

• 728 hours lost per employee: Workers spend hundreds of hours navigating poorly adopted or complex digital environments. 

• AI adoption gap: While 76% of leaders prioritize AI adoption, only 27% view digital adoption as a critical enabler.

• DAP maturity drives outcomes: Proficient organizations significantly outperform emergent peers on key metrics, including improved user experience (53% vs. 28%) and ROI maximization (56% vs. 28%).

As enterprises scale AI, digital adoption maturity becomes critical. Governance, workflow integration, and measurement determine impact. Modern DAPs are emerging as the orchestrator of AI execution, embedding governance, workflow intelligence and real-time contextual guidance directly into enterprise workflows to ensure measurable outcomes at scale.

Find the full insights from the Whatfix-commissioned Forrester Consulting study here. The study also includes a Forrester-defined framework for organizations to evaluate their digital adoption maturity.

“Enterprises are buying and building AI faster than ever, but adoption is not keeping pace,” said Khadim Batti, Co-founder and CEO of Whatfix. “The real challenge is operationalizing intelligence inside real workflows with governance and measurable outcomes. Digital adoption maturity is no longer optional, it has become the difference between AI ambition and AI outcomes.”

“We treat AI as driving intelligence into whatever we do. With frequent changes in content creators, consistency and speed of delivery are critical for us. This is where AI plays a powerful role,” said Satyen Shah, Vice President – IT & Digital Solutions, JSW Steel. “AI is helping us contextualize user queries across Salesforce modules and deliver highly relevant, in-the-flow support. AI without context is of no use, and Whatfix’s roadmap around contextual intelligence and automation is creating real impact for us.”

Whatfix Momentum in 2025
Financial and Market Momentum Reinforce Category Leadership
In 2025, Whatfix continued its strong growth trajectory, registering 31% year-over-year revenue growth alongside a consistent margin expansion. Built on a foundation of robust core SaaS economics and improving operating leverage, the company continues to drive its growth agenda. This momentum was further validated by the 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™, where Whatfix is recognised as the top-ranked DAP for the fifth consecutive year and rising to #279 globally, a 24% jump in ranking, achieving a remarkable 275% growth rate. Whatfix’s evolution toward an agentic product suite and AI-first innovation was also reinforced by the inclusion of its multi-product offerings—Digital Adoption, Product Analytics, and Mirror—in the 2025 Gartner Market Guides for both DAP and Product Analytics.

As the only Digital Adoption Platform recognized as a "Customers’ Choice" vendor in the Gartner Voice of the Customer report for the third consecutive year, Whatfix continues to attract market leaders. New customers continue to drive growth, accounting for 44% of the new business, with a strong expansion and new wins across a portfolio of enterprise logos, including Shell, Mercedes-Benz Group AG, Experian, Compass Group USA, Ceva Logistics, IDEXX Laboratories, Grant Thornton, and Sentry Insurance. This growth was achieved while maintaining a 99.9% CSAT score and a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 53, reflecting deep product adoption and sustained customer value. Furthermore, Whatfix expanded its partner ecosystem to over 150 global partners, scaling AI-driven digital transformation across diverse industries and geographies.

Whatfix Product Suite: Accelerating AI Powered Digital Transformation
Artificial Intelligence
Screensense advanced as the core AI engine behind Whatfix, strengthening its ability to understand screen structure, workflow context, and user intent in real time.

Agentic Product-Suite 
Whatfix launched a unified suite of AI Agents—Authoring, Guidance, Insights, and specialized domain agents. These were designed as a native intelligence layer embedded across the Whatfix suite, transforming how enterprises create content, guide users, and generate insights across their digital ecosystems.

Early enterprise adopters are already seeing measurable impact, including:

• 30–40% reduction in content creation effort with the Authoring Agent

• 3–4x faster analysis cycles enabled by the Insights Agent

• 4–5x increase in information discovery and search usage through the Guidance Agent

More than 30% of new enterprise buyers in the second half of 2025 adopted AI Agents as part of their Whatfix rollout, signaling a clear shift toward AI-first digital adoption strategies.

Seek for Salesforce was also introduced in 2025 as the world’s first AI Agent to independently navigate workflows and complete Salesforce Trailhead Admin Challenges. This milestone marked a shift from AI that guides users to AI that executes tasks within enterprise systems—reinforcing Whatfix’s vision of governed, autonomous execution at scale.

Launched a Faster Way to Create Flows with Quick Capture Mode in DAP
Authors could now record all steps in one go, and Whatfix automatically generates the flow based on application context and user intent. Using the Authoring Agent, they can refine step titles and descriptions with AI prompts to match user needs. This reduces the number of clicks required to build guidance by 3X and cuts content creation time by up to 50%, significantly accelerating in-app guidance creation at scale.

Mirror Expands into a New Market with AI Roleplay
Mirror emerged as a major growth engine in 2025, with ARR tripling year-over-year following the launch of AI Roleplay. Mirror is now the world’s first GenAI-powered simulation and roleplay training solution that combines system simulation and AI-driven roleplay in a unified environment.

AI Roleplay addresses a critical enterprise gap of moving beyond system training to real-world readiness. By enabling teams to practice conversations, edge cases, and decision-making scenarios, organizations are reducing time-to-proficiency and improving customer experience outcomes at scale.

Product Analytics Advances from Insights to Action
Product Analytics evolved into a true Insights-to-Action platform, directly connecting behavioral data with in-app execution through the Digital Adoption Platform.

Key advancements included:

• Ask Whatfix AI maturing into an AI Analyst capable of contextual reasoning and automated action

• Real-Time Cohorts enabling instant user segmentation

• Session Replay for qualitative behavioral analysis

• Autocapture eliminating manual tagging and accelerating time-to-insight

Together, these capabilities enable enterprises to identify friction as it occurs and immediately trigger contextual flows or guidance.

2026 and beyond: 
Whatfix continues to advance the future of digital transformation by embedding AI into execution at scale. Through Whatfix University, the company has certified 6,500+ professionals, strengthening a growing global DAP community.

In early 2026, Whatfix strengthened its leadership team with the appointment of Amit Sureka as Chief Financial Officer, alongside the return of Patrick Ashamalla as Head of Product Research & Design and the addition of Vasupradha S as Head of Analyst Relations & Market Intelligence, as it scales its AI-native platform globally.

The company continues to receive recognition for its growth, AI innovation, product leadership, and customer centricity including the 2025 AI Breakthrough Award for Product Analytics, InfoWorld’s Technology of the Year Award for Mirror, 2026 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards finalist, G2 best software awards and ranking as a #1 DAP leader on the G2 Grid, Gold Stevie for Customer Service Department of the Year.

As enterprises scale AI, Whatfix will continue expanding its autonomous execution capabilities, positioning its platform as the orchestration layer for AI-driven digital transformation at scale. To support this next phase of AI led growth, the company will pursue disciplined expansion through sustained organic innovation and selective strategic acquisitions, further strengthening its platform capabilities and global enterprise footprint.

About Whatfix
Whatfix is an AI platform advancing  the “userization” of enterprise applications—empowering companies to maximize the ROI of their digital investments. Powered by a proprietary AI engine ScreenSense, Whatfix continuously interprets application workflow context and user intent to boost user productivity, ensure process compliance, and elevate user experience across applications and AI tools. The product portfolio includes a Digital Adoption Platform (DAP), Mirror for hands-on system simulation and AI Roleplay training, and Product and AI agent Analytics for no-code actionable insights. With seven offices across the US, India, UK, Germany, Singapore, and Australia, Whatfix supports 700+ enterprises, including 80+ Fortune 500s like Shell, Schneider Electric, and UPS Supply Chain Solutions. Backed by investors such as Warburg Pincus, Softbank Vision Fund 2, Dragoneer, Peak XV Partners, Eight Roads, and Cisco Investments, software clicks with Whatfix.

For more information, visit the Whatfix website.

Primetrace, India’s leading AI-first consumer startup, announced it has scaled to a INR 550 Cr Annual Revenue Run Rate (ARR) with INR 200 Cr EBITDA run rate as of February 2026. This marks a rare profitability milestone in India's consumer app ecosystem that runs on high cash burn, vanity metrics and broken unit economics. Primetrace has delivered 50x revenue growth over three years — building its growth on real user needs, deep engagement, and strong retention.

Primetrace Team: Naveen Dewangan, Co-founder, Tech; Abhishek Kejriwal, Founder & CEO; Vipul Allawadhi, Co-founder & CPO; ⁠Mohit Sharma, Co-founder, Tech

Primetrace operates a ‘house of apps’ model, identifying large consumer opportunities to build AI-native products around everyday use cases. The company focuses on retention and proven engagement before scaling distribution through a subscription-based monetization strategy.

The company’s product portfolio includes Kutumb (a community platform used by 2 Lakh communities), Crafto AI (AI-powered content creation app used by 200M users), Tarot AI (AI-powered personalised tarot readings), Polo (an inclusive dating platform), and Sundar AI (an AI-powered image enhancement platform). Each of the apps are the most downloaded in their respective categories – with cumulative downloads exceeding 350 million.

Primetrace is powered by a proprietary AI infrastructure built specifically for the Indian market. Rather than relying on standard third-party solutions, the company engineers true AI-first products for Bharat using custom model training and proprietary datasets. Primetrace has built an intelligence layer that deeply understands the needs and preferences of Bharat users.

The company has also received industry recognition for the scale of its technology adoption. OpenAI recognised Primetrace for surpassing 10 billion tokens in usage, while the company ranks among the top service users of Google AI in India. Primetrace had earlier raised $30 million in funding from Tiger Global and Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital India), providing the foundation for building and scaling its AI-driven consumer app ecosystem.

Talking about the company’s approach to building and scaling consumer products in India, Abhishek Kejriwal, Founder and CEO, Primetrace, said, “India's consumer AI opportunity is massive and largely uncaptured. Over the next decade, AI will transform every digital touchpoint for a billion Bharat users — how they learn, earn, communicate, and make decisions. Primetrace is here to lead that transformation. Our greatest strength is the deep, real-world understanding of daily user behavior we've gained through our proprietary dataset across our suite of products. This is the right time, this is the right market, and we have the right playbook. Our goal is clear: to build AI-powered apps that empower one billion Bharat users every single day.”

Looking ahead, Primetrace is actively expanding its suite of AI-native applications to solve everyday needs for Indian consumers. Driven by a dedicated internal research and development team, the company is constantly exploring new high-utility categories across the digital ecosystem. Their long-term mission is singular and focused: to build the native AI products that powers daily lives of Bharat.

ad:tech New Delhi 2026 opens at “The Bold Front,” spotlighting AI’s growing role in shaping the future of marketing

Held under the theme “The Bold Front,” the conference set the stage for conversations around a rapidly transforming industry where human creativity and intelligent technology are converging to redefine how brands connect with audiences.

Reflecting on the broader momentum at “The Bold Front,” Jaswant Singh, Country Managing Director, ad:tech India, noted how the conference captures the strategic pivot taking place across marketing today: "Consumer expectations are changing faster than ever, and brands must respond with intelligence and agility. At ad:tech New Delhi 2026, we are discussing how AI, data, and programmatic media can help organisations understand audiences more deeply and deliver relevant experiences. Success is now defined not only by reach but by the trust and value a brand creates at every touchpoint. Companies are exploring how to combine creativity with insight to foster stronger engagement. Creativity and human judgement remain essential, but technology is amplifying their reach. This is how the industry can build both growth and resilience for the future."

Over the past 15 years, ad:tech New Delhi has emerged as one of India’s most influential platforms for marketing innovation, enabling industry leaders to exchange ideas, explore new technologies, and navigate the evolving digital ecosystem.

At the 2026 edition, the expo hall was buzzing with energy. Over 70 companies, along with their experts and brand teams, demonstrated the latest innovation in AI, programmatic advertising, martech, data intelligence, and digital media solutions. Attendees also engaged in partner sessions by Google, Amazon, Magnite, and Click2Commission, gaining practical insights on platform strategies, publisher success, and emerging trends. Playful activations like Jenga, Tetris, and table tennis brought a fun, engaging dimension to the experience.

With participation from global tech companies, agencies, publishers, and marketing leaders, the scale and diversity of the event highlight the rapid growth and dynamism of India’s marketing technology ecosystem.

Exploring “The Bold Front” of Marketing
Across three stages- VISION, LIVE, and DEEP DIVE- Day 1 explored how marketing leadership is evolving as the industry moves from experimentation with AI toward deeper integration across the marketing stack.

The opening keynote, delivered by Jamie Jouning, Global Head of Advertising, The Economist, highlighted the importance of smarter systems in an AI-driven environment:

“We’re operating in a world of constant uncertainty, where AI is accelerating, but adoption remains uneven. Success won’t come from moving fastest, but from designing the smartest systems and making sharper choices about what truly matters.”

Sessions throughout the day examined AI-powered programmatic advertising, media buying, connected TV, search, generative AI in marketing workflows, and the evolving role of creators and youth culture. Speakers highlighted how AI is not replacing creative thinking, but expanding possibilities for experimentation and innovation. Panels also addressed ethical AI, transparency, and building consumer trust in automated systems.

Practical Insights and Emerging Trends
Creativity in the age of intelligent technology was another central theme, with speakers highlighting how AI is not replacing creative thinking but expanding the possibilities for experimentation and innovation in storytelling. David Shing, aka Digital Prophet, emphasized this evolving dynamic:

“Design has continually evolved with technology. From the shift from paper-led creativity to desktop publishing, each disruption has redefined the role of the creator. Today, AI marks the next inflection point, where it almost feels as though technology can anticipate our intent. As we express ideas, systems are increasingly able to translate them into outputs in real time, blurring the line between imagination and execution.”

Discussions explored hybrid operating models where human expertise works alongside AI-driven systems, as well as the growth of connected TV and quick commerce. Speakers emphasized that effective marketing in 2026 requires balancing speed and scale with intelligence, simplification, and data-driven decision-making.

“Television is far from stagnant; it is evolving through a hybrid model that blends the strengths of linear with the precision of digital. This synergy between scale and performance is redefining how marketers approach media investments today,” said Prasad Sanagavarapu, Invidi, summarising insights from the day’s media sessions.

The afternoon sessions further examined AI-native operating models, content as a core currency, commerce acceleration, and the rise of intelligent search, showcasing how marketing leaders are translating technological transformation into business growth.

Consumer behaviour in the age of AI was highlighted by Paul D’Arcy, Moloco:
"Technology is moving faster than ever, and the 2026 AI Disruption Index makes one thing clear: if your value proposition is purely transactional, you are vulnerable. The only true defense against AI disintermediation is the strength of your customer relationship. When disruption is high, trust is the only currency that doesn't devalue."

The Conversation Continues
By the close of Day 1, a clear theme had emerged across discussions: artificial intelligence is no longer simply enhancing marketing tools. In fact, it is reshaping the entire operating system of the industry.

From programmatic infrastructure and AI-powered creativity to connected TV, quick commerce, and intelligent search, marketers at ad:tech New Delhi 2026 are exploring how to navigate this new frontier where human insight and machine intelligence work together.

The day concluded with the ad:tech Honours Awards, celebrating the organisations and innovators pushing the boundaries of marketing technology.

With one more day of discussions, showcases, and networking ahead, ad:tech New Delhi 2026 continues to bring the industry together to explore what lies beyond today’s digital frontier.

About ad:tech

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Dr. Satya Nitta, Co-founder and CEO of Emergence

Backed by tens of millions of dollars in initial inward R&D investment, with significant long-term expansion planned, EIL is expected to scale to 500 world-class research scientists and engineers over the next three to four years – marking one of the most ambitious expansions of frontier AI research capacity in India.

Strategically located near the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru, EIL will collaborate closely with the IISc ecosystem through joint research, exchanges, hackathons, and summer schools to build a next-generation talent pipeline in autonomous systems. Professor Siddhartha Gadgil of IISc joins as Chief Scientist while maintaining his academic affiliation.

Emergence India Labs is envisioned not only as a research center, but as the nucleus of a broader public-private partnership to ensure that India builds foundational AI technologies domestically rather than importing them. While the initiative begins within Emergence, the long-term ambition is to convene government, industry, academia, and global technology leaders around a shared mission: building the foundational systems that will power the next generation of digital and physical infrastructure. Emergence issued a call to action for partners to join this endeavor, with success over the next five years measured by how effectively Emergence India Labs catalyzes frontier R&D programs to be headquartered in India.

Central to that ambition is the lab’s structural design. Unlike multinational R&D outposts that operate as satellite extensions of overseas global headquarters, Emergence India Labs is conceived as a core, AI-native R&D epicenter in India, designed to anchor sovereign AI capability. For more than two decades, India’s technology sector has been centered on IT services; the next chapter will be defined by building frontier autonomous systems that transform enterprise software, AI capable of operating digital infrastructure, with the same foundational technologies powering advances in physical AI domains such as manufacturing, logistics, ports, factories, and essential infrastructure. AI adoption in Indian manufacturing has already surged – with 65% of manufacturers integrating AI by 2024, up from 45% in 2022 – and the domestic AI-in-manufacturing market projected to grow at roughly 40% annually, surpassing $8 billion by 2030.

Recent global research indicators underscore the urgency of this moment. The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders report shows that Chinese universities now occupy nine of the top ten global research positions in natural sciences, a dramatic shift east in global scientific leadership over the past decade. In parallel, in 2024, China accounted for more than half of all industrial robot installations worldwide – roughly 54% of the global total – with hundreds of thousands of new robots deployed in factories each year. As technological power rebalances globally, India has a strategic opportunity to position itself at the frontier of autonomous systems research.

The launch reflects a broader global shift in AI. The debate is no longer only about training the largest language models, but about developing the autonomous systems layer that enables AI to operate safely and reliably in real-world environments.

“We believe the most immediate opportunity lies in building autonomous AI systems capable of operating the world’s most mission-critical digital infrastructure – from financial networks and telecom platforms to cloud and digital public systems,” said Satya Nitta, Co-founder and CEO of Emergence. “By mastering autonomy in the digital realm, we establish the foundation to extend into robotics, advanced manufacturing, and next-generation industrial infrastructure.”

“For more than two decades, India’s technology sector has been anchored in IT services,” Nitta added. “The next chapter must be defined by building frontier autonomous systems that power critical infrastructure. The hardest problem in robotics isn’t movement – it’s thinking. By focusing on agentic systems, we are solving reasoning under uncertainty. Around the world, leading economies are embedding AI into physical systems at scale. India must participate fully in shaping that transformation.”

“Ultimately, our success will be defined by whether Emergence India Labs helps anchor more frontier R&D in India – making the country a primary home for breakthrough innovation and enabling world-class talent to build and lead from here.”

EIL will place particular emphasis on building a talent pipeline around LEAN as a grounding layer for AI agents, demonstrating how formal verification can be embedded at every level of autonomous decision-making.

“The convergence of formal proof systems and the explosive growth of artificial intelligence creates an unprecedented opportunity – and necessity – to build reliable, mathematically grounded autonomous systems,” said Professor Siddhartha Gadgil of the Indian Institute of Science and Chief Scientist at Emergence India Labs. “Driven by a rich scientific tradition and a dynamic generation of engineers and entrepreneurs, India has the potential to drive this new frontier. By anchoring the entire spectrum of innovation here in Bangalore, from foundational research to real-world application, we will catalyze an ecosystem of sustained, world-class breakthroughs, ensuring India helps architect the future of intelligent systems.”

Anchoring Frontier Research in India

Emergence is widely recognized as a leading agentic AI company, distinguished by its patent-to-research ratio and a team of resident scientists drawn from the world’s foremost R&D institutions, including Google DeepMind, IBM T.J. Watson Research Labs, and the Allen Institute for AI. The company has pioneered several benchmark-leading advances in autonomous agents, including its breakthrough in recursive intelligence, enabling AI systems to autonomously generate new AI capabilities. Central to its approach is a formally verified control architecture for large-scale autonomous AI systems, separating stochastic reasoning from deterministic execution and enforcing mathematical guarantees at runtime.

“Thousands of Indian researchers, engineers, and technology leaders are at the heart of many of the world’s most significant AI breakthroughs, contributing across leading Silicon Valley labs and global technology companies,” added Nitta. “The talent is not in question. The strategic opportunity now is to anchor more of that leadership at home – and to channel it towards areas such as autonomous systems that operate critical infrastructure. India has also long demonstrated disciplined, resource-efficient innovation. Its successful Chandrayaan-3 lunar landing – delivered at a significantly lower cost to comparable international missions – stands as another powerful example of strategic engineering excellence.”

Inward Investment and Ecosystem Impact

Led by internationally recognized scientists, including Dr. Prasenjit Dey (PhD, EPFL; IIT Delhi), who will lead the lab on the ground in India, Dr. Ravi Kokku (PhD, UT Austin; IIT Kharagpur), and Professor Siddhartha Gadgil of IISc (PhD, CalTech, Indian Statistical Institute), Emergence India Labs, aims to strengthen India’s AI ecosystem by:

• Supporting the local start-up ecosystem with access to frontier autonomous systems technologies

• Developing top-tier AI research talent in collaboration with academia, industry, and government

• Anchoring breakthroughs in autonomous systems within India

• Contributing to the development of next-generation autonomous systems capable of operating mission-critical digital and physical infrastructure built in India

• Publishing frontier research in leading global venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR)

“This is a national-scale scientific moonshot,” added Nitta. “For researchers, it is a chance to do career-defining work at the frontier of autonomous intelligence. For investors, it is an opportunity to back a platform with generational impact. And for India, it signals the next step in an ongoing journey – strengthening its position as one of the defining centers of gravity in the global AI landscape.” 

“Today, we urge public and private investors, national labs, R&D centers, universities, and technology leaders to join us in this endeavor to scale the next generation of frontier AI innovation from India.”

This launch introduces a new paradigm for DevOps: Intent-Driven Testing, designed to bridge the "Velocity and Quality Gap", the widening distance between how fast AI generates code and how slowly teams can validate it for enterprise-grade quality.

High-quality test creation is one of software development's most persistent bottlenecks. Developers spend 30%+ of their time writing and maintaining test suites, while non-technical team members, business analysts, product managers, and manual QA testers with deep domain knowledge remain locked out of automation entirely due to the coding expertise required.

Disrupting the $1 Trillion Quality Assurance & Engineering Spend
Today, Fortune 2000 companies dedicate 22% to 25% of their total IT budgets to Quality Assurance & Engineering, representing over $1 trillion in aggregate annual spend across global enterprise IT. As these enterprises adopt GenAI to ship code at up to 10x their historical velocity, they face several key challenges:

• Test Authoring Speed and Ensuring Quality: 89% of CIOs report that "Test Authoring Speed" is now the primary hurdle to AI-driven delivery

• The Coverage Deficit: Automated test coverage for complex journeys typically plateaus at under 35%

• The Maintenance Trap: Teams spend 40% of their working hours fixing "flaky" tests or maintaining legacy scripts

"AI can generate millions of lines of code in minutes," said Dr. Prince Kohli, CEO of Sauce Labs. "The question for enterprises is: Can you verify it and trust it with your business? We are solving this problem, permanently."

Reinventing for the AI Era: Intent-Driven Testing
Today, Sauce Labs is reinventing the future of test automation with Intent-Driven Testing that replaces brittle, hand-coded test scripts with autonomous, self-improving test suites and validation.

Sauce AI for Test Authoring automatically understands intended application behavior by scanning the application workflow or interpreting specifications written by product managers or designs from tools such as Figma. In addition, it allows engineers, application developers and product managers to describe application behavior in natural language. The platform then autonomously generates complete, executable test suites for web, Android, and iOS, with the option to execute them in the Sauce Labs Test Cloud, and automatically reports the results, including insights on where to look and what to fix. Key capabilities include:

• 90%+ Faster Automated Test Case Generation: Achieving real-time test creation from product specifications.

• Resilient, Stable Test Scripts: Framework-agnostic tests built to adapt to application changes, with significantly fewer flaky failures and less maintenance overhead.

• 99%+ Automatic Coverage: Eliminating "blind spots" in the user journey.

• Built-in Review and Editing: Ensuring human oversight and control over AI-generated tests, allowing teams to validate, refine, and maintain reliability.

• Autonomous Learning Loop: Continuous feedback that improves test accuracy.

The Data Moat: Deep Domain-Specific Testing Expertise
Sauce AI for Test Authoring surpasses general-purpose AI with a superior understanding of application workflow and user intent, generating stable OS-agnostic and device-agnostic tests. Fueled by the industry's most robust proprietary dataset, 8.7 billion real-world test runs, this "Data Moat" enables 41% faster root-cause analysis than general-purpose LLMs. Trusted by 80% of the world's top ten financial institutions, Sauce Labs offers enterprise-grade platform capabilities for complex software environments.

"Setting up mobile testing is traditionally painful and can take days and weeks. Sauce AI for Test Authoring's no-code capability gives our team something they simply weren't able to do before. It turns a major bottleneck into an automated process that anyone can navigate," said a Director of Engineering at a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company participating in the Sauce AI for Test Authoring early access program.

Availability
Sauce AI for Test Authoring is available now for enterprise customers. To learn how to reclaim your IT budget and join the Intent-Driven Test era, visit saucelabs.com/solutions/ai

About Sauce Labs
Sauce Labs is the world's largest full-lifecycle, test automation platform, and the company behind Selenium. Trusted by 80% of the world's top ten largest financial institutions and over 300,000 enterprise users, Sauce Labs provides the only AI platform capable of turning business intent into autonomous testing and quality assurance. With a proprietary dataset of 8.7 billion test runs, Sauce Labs empowers the Fortune 2000 to bridge the gap between AI-driven code generation and enterprise-grade software quality.

Learn more at saucelabs.com.

Inuguration of AI & Robotics Lab at Bharat Sevashram Sangha

The Swami Pranavananda AI & Robotics Lab was inaugurated at Bharat Sevashram Sangha, Sriniwaspuri, New Delhi by Smt. Nidhi Khare IAS, Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs, Government of India. Ms. Nisha Damor, IAS, Addl. Collector, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, Capt. (Dr.) Indu Boken Kasana, District Education Officer, Gurugram, Haryana, and Swamy Atmajnanananda Ji Maharaj, Secretary Delhi, Bharat Sevashram Sangha, were guests of honour.

The lab is a project of the Bharat Tech-Shakti Mission, spearheaded by three volunteers: Basab Dasgupta, Dhirender Saini, and Aditya Sen. All three are working professionals who conceived, planned, and built this lab entirely in their personal time, drawing no salary or benefit from the Mission. For them, this is deliberate, selfless service — a choice to give back to the community precisely because their careers have given them skills that most people around them never had access to. The Mission’s tagline, Srijan Se Shakti, meaning strength through creation, frames their conviction: that hands-on practice with AI tools is what separates a passive consumer of technology from someone who can build with it.

The lab’s curriculum is built around exactly the skills that matter most right now. Learners will work with text generation and image creation tools, build voice-controlled applications, run computer vision experiments, and use platforms like Google Teachable Machine to understand how machines learn from data. The advanced track goes further: model training, IoT-enabled smart device control using Raspberry Pi and Arduino, and building real applications through APIs. Crucially, the lab also teaches what it calls “vibe coding” — describing what you want in plain language, and having AI write the code for you. This single skill has the potential to open software creation to people who never studied programming.

Responsible use of AI is woven into every track. Learners are taught not just what AI can do, but when not to trust it, how to check its outputs, and what ethical responsibilities come with using tools that can generate text, images, and decisions at scale.

The physical infrastructure matches the ambition. Five high-performance desktop workstations, a 65-inch EDLA-certified interactive smart board, Raspberry Pi computers, a complete Arduino sensor kit, an Alexa Echo Dot connected to IoT-enabled smart devices, UPS support, and fibre broadband with WiFi coverage make this a fully networked, production-grade learning environment.

The lab admits anyone. No entrance test, no age limit, no prior computer knowledge required. Three tracks serve three audiences: Beginner, for those starting from zero; Intermediate, for those with some computer familiarity who want deeper exposure to data analysis and hardware; and Advanced, for those with a programming background who want to work on model behaviour, IoT, and API-based applications. A Class 5 student and a 55-year-old first-time computer user can both walk in on the same day and find a starting point.

Demo classes are scheduled to begin the week of 21 March 2026. For enrolment and further details, contact the lab directly located at Swami Pranavananda Marg, Sriniwaspuri, New Delhi.

Remarks from the Inauguration

“AI is no longer a tool only for the technologist. It is fast becoming as fundamental as reading and writing. An initiative that teaches a first-generation learner to use these tools is not just building a skill — it is building a future.”

- Smt. Nidhi Khare IAS, Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs, Government of India

“Swami Pranavananda taught us that true seva is giving people the power to stand on their own feet. Every technology has transformed the world in its time. Today that technology is AI. This lab carries forward the Sangha’s founding purpose in the language of our era.”

- Swamy Atmajnanananda Ji Maharaj, Secretary Delhi, Bharat Sevashram Sangha

“Artificial intelligence must not become another wall that separates the privileged from the rest. Initiatives like this lab are about tearing that wall down — one learner at a time. When a girl from a modest household walks into this lab and builds something with AI, she is not just learning a skill — she is rewriting what is possible for herself and every woman who follows her.”

- Ms. Nisha Damor, IAS, Addl. Collector, Indore, Madhya Pradesh

“Students today are growing up in a world where AI will decide who gets a job interview and who does not. A school student who understands how these tools work has a head start that no textbook can give them. Initiatives like this should exist in every district of India.”

- Capt. (Dr.) Indu Boken Kasana, District Education Officer, Gurugram, Haryana

• 66% of Indian developers say accountability for AI-generated outcomes falls on them personally, while just 4% say accountability remains unclear.

• 70% of Indian developers trust AI tools to be fair across genders. Across respondents, 65% of women developers expressed trust, compared with 72% of men developers.

• 36% of Indian developers say AI has increased women’s visibility or opportunities in software teams, while 31% say they have not observed a noticeable change, and 12% say it has reduced visibility or opportunities.

• 90% of Indian developers feel that using AI and developing AI-related skills is improving their career momentum.
   

Who Indian Developers Believe Is Accountable for AI Outcomes

The findings point to a broader inflection point in enterprise AI adoption. AI is accelerating career mobility and productivity, while responsibility and validation are consolidating at the individual contributor level as governance models continue to formalize.

These results reflect how AI-powered software development is reshaping both delivery workflows and career trajectories inside modern engineering teams in India.

“AI isn’t a side tool anymore. It’s embedded in production workflows. And once it touches production, accountability changes. That’s great for career mobility, and infrastructure demands accountability,” said Nacho De Marco, CEO and Co-Founder of BairesDev. “As adoption accelerates, our data shows developers feel personally responsible for AI outcomes. What we’re seeing is a shift toward disciplined review. The teams that scale AI successfully are the ones that treat validation as engineering, not as an afterthought.”

Indian developers broadly report confidence in AI adoption, with 92% saying they feel comfortable using AI tools and 58% stating the benefits outweigh the overhead.

However, validation remains a growing focus among Indian developers:
 

• 60% say evaluating AI output critically is the baseline skill for 2026.

• 68% say a lack of knowledge about validating AI outputs is the most common gap they see in teams adopting AI tools.

• 34% cite deadline pressure as the primary barrier to verification of AI-generated work.

“Building accountability into AI-assisted processes doesn’t have to be complicated,” said De Marco. “AI is drafting the first version of the code, but a human still owns the final decision. That means validating outputs, testing rigorously, and taking responsibility before anything goes live.”
 

In enterprise AI deployment environments, accountability typically includes code review and validation processes, testing standards, documentation requirements, and production monitoring.

Access Determines Who Benefits from AI

Indian developers identified the top factors influencing who benefits most from AI adoption:
 

• 68% cite access to tools, training, and infrastructure as the top factor, tied with willingness to experiment.
• 58% say seniority and experience remain a driving factor.
• 51% cite organizational culture and team norms.

Among Indian women developers surveyed, team culture and norms (60%) ranked above seniority and experience (56%) as determinants of advancement through AI skills. This suggests that AI advantage is increasingly shaped by enablement environments, not just tenure.

Dev Barometer is a quarterly survey conducted by BairesDev, a nearshore software development company working with organizations including Abbott, Adobe, Coca-Cola, eBay, Google, HP, and Rolls-Royce.

Q1 2026 edition surveyed 1,329 developers across 61 countries in January 2026, including 200 developers from India. Among Indian respondents, 36% had eight or more years of professional experience, and 29% were women.

Media OutReach Newswire, Asia Pacific's Global Newswire, has introduced functionality for AI search, empowering brands and boosting PR visibility.

The AI search enabling tech, in combination with Media OutReach Newswire's guaranteed online news posting exclusively on real and authentic media, enhance SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) for AI search. This increases the visibility and reach of press releases distributed via Media OutReach Newswire.

Schema Markup Code is added to Media OutReach Newswire press releases posted online. This key piece of technology significantly enhances both SEO and GEO.

The code helps search engines index, find and list content in search results, while making AI models like LLMs discover, understand, surface and cite content in AI generated answers – increasing the visibility and reach of press releases.

LLMs and other AI models rely heavily on credible, and authoritative online sources, and among the top-ranked are authentic news media sites – sources with authority, content frequency, consistency and with strong E-E-A-T signals, signalling authenticity.

Media OutReach Newswire is the only global newswire that offers Guaranteed Online Posting exclusively on real, authentic news media sites.

Press releases with Schema Markup code, published verbatim on real online news media sites, are seen by LLMs as trusted information, enhancing both SEO and GEO. As a result, Media OutReach Newswire's press release distribution builds trust with journalists and audiences, while empowering SEO, GEO for AI search and LLM citations.

Jennifer Kok, Founder & CEO of Media OutReach Newswire, said: "As part of our continuous strive to redefine press release distribution, we are pleased to introduce this research-based technology, which, combined with our guaranteed online news postings, empowers both SEO, GEO for AI search, as well as LLM citations. I am proud of our strong focus on innovation and that we the only newswire that provides guaranteed online news posting exclusively and 100% on real, authentic news media."

Media OutReach Newswire continuously adopts and develops AI technology to further improve its Total Communications Solutions, helping PR professionals achieve success, with targeted distribution, direct journalist access, guaranteed visibility on real news media, data insights, ready-to-use reporting, and C-suite ready PR campaign intelligence showing ROI.

About Media OutReach Newswire

Media OutReach Newswire is Asia Pacific's first global newswire, serving as a trusted partner to the media, and PR professionals at corporations, agencies and governments across the region and the globe.

Founded in 2009 as a champion of the PR industry, Media OutReach Newswire leverages next-generation technology to redefine press release distribution and reporting, with data insights and PR campaign intelligence, providing total communications solutions for PR professionals.

With a global network of 200,000 journalists and editors, 70,000+ media titles, 1,500 media partners, and more than 40 languages, Media OutReach Newswire is the only newswire with guaranteed verbatim postings exclusively on real news sites. Press releases on authentic media are trusted by search engines and AI models, powering both SEO and AI search GEO, surfacing brands for LLM citations.

Headquartered in Hong Kong, with offices across China, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Taiwan, the global press release distribution network spans Asia Pacific and Southeast Asia, the US, Canada, South and Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

For more information about our services, solutions and network, please visit www.media-outreach.com.

Medigo AI-powered health screening robot for preventive healthcare screening

Built and engineered in India, Medigo Robot introduces a scalable healthcare robotic solution designed to support early detection and routine health monitoring. The AI-powered system enables individuals to assess 65+ health parameters and receive a structured health report in approximately 3 minutes.

Preventive healthcare depends on early and reliable screening, yet access to screening infrastructure remains limited across many regions. Globally, 537 million adults live with diabetes and nearly 45% remain undiagnosed, while 1.28 billion people are affected by hypertension, much of it undetected in low- and middle-income countries. Medigo addresses this gap by enabling rapid health screening with up to 95% screening accuracy, delivering technology-enabled assessments that can be deployed across hospitals, transit hubs, corporate campuses, educational institutions, and community health programs.

 
Through an AI-guided interface and integrated medical sensors, the health screening robot captures key health indicators and generates reports that can be delivered digitally or printed on-site. Screenings can include blood glucose and HbA1c for diabetes, blood pressure and ECG monitoring, cholesterol and lung function tests, infectious disease screenings such as HIV and TB, and mental health assessments including ASD. Multilingual interaction and telemedicine connectivity also allow users to consult remote medical professionals when further evaluation is required.

By combining robotics, artificial intelligence, and connected healthcare technologies, Medigo introduces a practical model for robotic health screening infrastructure, enabling healthcare providers, governments, and institutions to conduct preventive health screening programs at scale.

“Medigo is the result of years spent building the artificial intelligence capability, engineering depth, and healthcare expertise required to make large-scale screening possible. It was developed with a clear understanding of the environments it will operate in, the populations it will serve, and the institutions it will work alongside. Its real impact lies in the millions of lives that can benefit from earlier detection and better access to care. With proprietary AI systems, centralized data infrastructure, and a growing installed base, each deployment strengthens the foundation we are building as we work toward creating one of the most important health screening infrastructures in the emerging world.” — Manav Patel, Managing Director, Kody Technolab Limited.  

As healthcare systems increasingly prioritize preventive care and early detection, Medigo Robot provides a scalable platform for rapid health screening and supports efforts to expand healthcare access across both urban and underserved regions. 

About Kody Technolab Limited 
Kody Technolab Limited is a deep-technology company specializing in intelligent software systems and robotics platforms. With expertise spanning artificial intelligence, software engineering, and advanced robotics, the company develops technology solutions designed for large-scale real-world deployment. Kody Technolab’s robots operate across enterprise, retail, healthcare, and public environments, supporting automation, digital interaction, and infrastructure-driven technology applications.

• Serving over 13 million customers with a distribution footprint covering over 18,600  of India’s PIN codes (as of March 31, 2025)

• Reflects the company’s focus on leveraging technology and AI integration alongside organisational capability and talent development

As artificial intelligence and advanced analytics reshape credit decisioning across India’s lending ecosystem, financial institutions are now increasingly combining advanced analytics with organisational capability to deliver faster credit access and scalable growth.

Reflecting this shift, Hero FinCorp Limited, an Indian Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC), has received two industry recognitions for its tech-led lending architecture and organisational practices.

The company has been awarded Best Digital Strategy Delivering Business Value (MSME Lending) at the 3rd Annual NBFC & Fintech Excellence Awards 2026, held in Mumbai. In addition, Hero FinCorp also received recognition for Significant Achievement in HR Excellence at the 16th CII National HR Excellence Awards 2026.

Introducing Project Dhruv Tara
At the core of Hero FinCorp’s digital lending evolution is Project Dhruv Tara, the company’s AI-led lending architecture designed with the aim to strengthen credit decisioning, reduce cyclical exposure and improve portfolio predictability.

Drawing on a combination of diverse datasets, and advanced analytics, Project Dhruv Tara enables the company to evaluate credit opportunities more holistically and identify higher quality borrowers on a segment-level.

By strengthening decision intelligence across the credit lifecycle, the initiative supports Hero FinCorp in building a more predictable and resilient loan portfolio, with the aim to enable  faster and more seamless credit access for customers.

AI-Led Decision Intelligence
Hero FinCorp’s technology architecture integrates underwriting intelligence, advanced analytics, and data-driven customer insights with the aim to strengthen credit governance and improve decision accuracy.

These capabilities allow the company to better understand borrower behaviour, evaluate risk across multiple dimensions, and tailor credit offerings in a disciplined and scalable manner.

This technology-led approach also enables faster loan assessments, streamlined onboarding, and improved operational efficiency, delivering a smoother borrowing experience for customers.

With over 13 million customers and a distribution footprint spanning over 18,600 of India’s PIN codes (as of March 31, 2026), Hero FinCorp is leveraging technology and AI integration with an aim to enable scalable credit deployment across urban, semi-urban, and emerging MSME clusters.

Building Organisational Capability
Alongside its investments in tech-led AI-based models, Hero FinCorp continues to work towards strengthening organisational capability through structured talent management and leadership development initiatives.

The recognition at the CII National HR Excellence Awards 2026 reflects the company’s focus on human potential initiatives that support its evolving technology-enabled operating model.

Commenting on the recognition, Ms. Priya Kashyap, Chief Operating Officer & Chief of Staff, Hero FinCorp, said: “At Hero FinCorp, we see data intelligence and advanced analytics as a key strategy towards building a resilient and responsible lending institution. Project Dhruv Tara represents an important step in this journey, enabling us to combine diverse data signals with technology-led decisioning to strengthen credit quality and improve the speed of credit delivery. Equally important is building the organisational capability required to sustain this transformation. The recognition for HR excellence reflects our continued focus on developing and retaining top talent that can support long-term growth in an evolving financial services landscape.”

These recognitions underscore Hero FinCorp’s ongoing efforts to strengthen both its lending intelligence and human potential as the financial services sector increasingly adopts data-driven operating models.

Project Dhruv Tara serves as a strategic anchor for Hero FinCorp’s AI-led lending journey, guiding the company’s efforts to deliver responsible credit access.

About Hero FinCorp
Hero FinCorp is an Indian Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) offering a diversified portfolio of lending solutions across Retail, MSME, and Corporate segments. Its product suite includes two-wheeler, car, home, and personal loans, along with business, SME, and corporate financing.

The company has built an extensive national presence covering 18,600+ of India’s PIN codes, supported by a network of 4,200+ touchpoints. This wide distribution net enables Hero FinCorp to deliver financing solutions across 2,000+ cities, towns, and villages across India.

Having served over 13 million customers, Hero FinCorp operates on an AI-led architecture that integrates underwriting, analytics, and marketing capabilities across the credit lifecycle. This technology backbone enables faster underwriting, lean operating model, and credit delivery at scale.

As part of the Hero Group, Hero FinCorp draws on a legacy of trust, integrity, and long-term institution-building envisioned by the Hero Group’s Founder, Dr. Brijmohan Lall Munjal, while advancing responsible lending and building a future-ready financial services platform.

(All data as of March 31, 2025)

With this launch, Mirror evolves beyond system simulation to combine adaptive AI-driven roleplay with realistic enterprise application simulations, enabling frontline teams to practice customer conversations and workflows together in a single, risk-free environment.

Strong Market Momentum 
Mirror’s expansion is backed by rapid enterprise adoption. With the introduction of AI Roleplay in 2025, Mirror’s ARR grew more than 200% year over year. Having raced to $3M ARR in just 6 quarters, Whatfix expects Mirror revenue to grow 3x in 2026, driven by large-scale deployments across customer support and operations teams. Multiple Fortune 100 organizations have already implemented Mirror with AI Roleplay training as part of their frontline training programs, reporting early improvements in metrics such as time-to-proficiency, Average Handle Time (AHT), and Customer Satisfaction (CSAT).

From System Training to Real-World Readiness
Mirror was launched in 2024 to help enterprises train employees on complex systems without putting live environments—or customers—at risk. As adoption grew, Whatfix identified a broader gap: teams also needed a safe way to practice the most unpredictable part of their roles—customer conversations. AI Roleplay training closes that gap.

While many solutions offer AI roleplay as a standalone capability, they lack system context. Mirror uniquely combines adaptive AI conversations with high-fidelity system simulations, allowing employees to practice what to say and how to work together in the exact environment where performance happens. 

This shift reflects a broader change in how enterprises approach workforce readiness in an AI-driven world.

“Despite accelerating enterprise adoption, only about a third of organizations feel very effective today. Simulation teaches process, and roleplay builds judgment and confidence,” said Khadim Batti, Co-Founder and CEO of Whatfix. “With AI Roleplay in Mirror, we’re helping enterprises reduce time-to-proficiency and improve customer outcomes by preparing employees for real-world situations before they go live.”

Key capabilities of AI Roleplay training in Mirror include:

• Adaptive AI roleplay training conversations that respond in real time to learner inputs, mirroring real customer interactions

• Rapid roleplay training creation using AI prompts to reduce time and effort to scale practice experiences.

• Built-in readiness evaluation within simulated workflows, giving leaders clear visibility into performance before go-live

• Multi-language support to enable consistent, scalable training for global teams

Industry analysts see this convergence of AI roleplay and system simulation as a critical shift in how enterprises enable customer-facing teams.

“By combining AI-driven roleplay and system simulation in a single solution, Whatfix offers organizations a unified approach to employee enablement-especially for customer-facing roles-allowing learners to safely gain hands-on experience before transitioning to live systems,” said Gina Smith, Research Director at IDC.

AI Roleplay training is available today as part of Whatfix Mirror. Learn more at:  whatfix.com/products/mirror/

Advancing AI-First Enterprise Enablement
AI Roleplay training in Mirror is part of Whatfix’s broader AI-native strategy focused on measurable outcomes and execution readiness. By applying AI to high-impact moments, where employees interact with systems and customers, Whatfix helps enterprises reduce risk, accelerate performance, and deliver better customer experiences at scale.

About Whatfix
Whatfix is an AI platform advancing the “userization” of enterprise applications, empowering companies to maximize the ROI of their digital investments. Powered by a proprietary AI engine ScreenSense, Whatfix continuously interprets application workflow context and user intent to boost user productivity, ensure process compliance, and elevate user experience across applications and AI tools. The product portfolio includes a Digital Adoption Platform (DAP), Mirror for hands-on system simulation and AI Roleplay based training, and Product and AI agent Analytics for no-code insights. With seven offices across the US, India, UK, Germany, Singapore, and Australia, Whatfix supports 700+ enterprises, including 80+ Fortune 500s like Shell, Schneider Electric, and UPS Supply Chain Solutions. Backed by investors such as Warburg Pincus, Softbank Vision Fund 2, Dragoneer, Peak XV Partners, Eight Roads, and Cisco Investments, software clicks with Whatfix.

For more information, visit the Whatfix website.

DocuGenie.AI™, SecureKloud’s Intelligent Document Automation (IDA) platform, is now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace

This milestone marks a significant step in SecureKloud’s global growth journey. The listing further strengthens SecureKloud’s SaaS strategy and opens new opportunities for global enterprise adoption. Enterprises can now discover, procure, and deploy DocuGenie.AI faster, integrating it seamlessly into their existing cloud and enterprise ecosystems to accelerate adoption and simplify onboarding.

DocuGenie.AI is an AI-native, cloud-agnostic SaaS platform built to transform how organizations process and manage business-critical documents. Leveraging advanced technologies including GenAI, machine learning, LLMs, VLMs, SLMs, RPA, and intelligent data extraction, the platform automates high-volume document workflows with speed, accuracy, and built-in intelligence.

The platform is already witnessing rapid adoption among enterprise customers across key industries. In the NBFC and banking sector, DocuGenie.AI enables automation of KYC processing and verification, bank statement analysis, financial document extraction, and end-to-end lending workflows. In the logistics and transportation industry, organizations are using the platform to automate high-volume operational documents such as Proof of Delivery (POD), trip sheets significantly reducing manual effort and improving turnaround times.

Organizations deploying DocuGenie.AI are able to handle large-scale document volumes with greater speed and accuracy, realizing measurable productivity gains and operational ROI within days of implementation. By minimizing manual intervention and accelerating processing cycles, the platform helps enterprises reduce operational costs, strengthen compliance, and improve decision quality across financial services, lending, logistics, manufacturing, and enterprise operations.

“Being listed on Google Cloud Marketplace is further validation of the enterprise readiness, security, and scalability built into DocuGenie.AI,” said Venkat Krish, CRO & Whole-Time Director, SecureKloud Technologies. “In a relatively short span, the platform has gained strong enterprise traction and enabled us to onboard marquee customers across industries. This milestone is a feather in the cap for our team and positions DocuGenie.AI on a global stage as we continue to help organizations accelerate their AI-led automation journey.”

To learn more, visit: www.docugenieai.com.

About SecureKloud Technologies

SecureKloud Technologies Ltd. (NSE: SECURKLOUD | BSE: 512161) is a global technology company with over 17 years of expertise in AI-powered digital transformation, cloud-native SaaS enablement, managed services, and cybersecurity. Its portfolio spans Intelligent Document Automation with DocuGenie.AI™, AI and Data Engineering, Cloud Transformation, FinOps, SaaS Delivery, and 24x7 Managed Services. Backed by industry-recognized certifications and compliance frameworks including SOC 2, ISO 27001:2022, GDPR, ISO 9001, ISO 20000, and CMMI Level 3, SecureKloud delivers secure, scalable, and compliant digital operations for modern enterprises.

Visit: www.securekloud.com.

MAHE Partners with OpenAI to Drive Responsible and Ethical AI in Higher Education
 

Lt. Gen. (Dr.) M D Venkatesh, Vice Chancellor, VSM (Retd.), MAHE, said, "MAHE has always been guided by academic excellence and innovation. Our partnership with OpenAI represents a strategic step toward embedding AI as a transformative enabler across teaching, research, and administration. By integrating advanced AI tools responsibly, we aim to enhance learning outcomes, accelerate research impact, and prepare our students for leadership in an AI-driven world."
 

The collaboration will focus on building AI literacy across disciplines, ensuring that students from Health Sciences, Technology & Science, Management, Law, Humanities & Social Sciences, and allied fields gain practical exposure to AI applications relevant to their domains. MAHE will also promote interdisciplinary research and innovation using AI to address complex real-world challenges. MAHE will also establish structured AI governance guidelines to ensure responsible, ethical, and transparent governance use of artificial intelligence across academic functions.
 

The partnership aligns with MAHE’s long-term digital transformation roadmap and reinforces its commitment to innovation, industry relevance, and societal impact. With this collaboration, MAHE reinforces its vision of becoming a globally benchmarked, AI-enabled university committed to shaping responsible innovation and future-ready leaders.
 

About Manipal Academy of Higher Education

Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) is an Institution of Eminence Deemed-to-be University, offering over 400 specialisations across Health Sciences, Management, Law, Humanities & Social Sciences, and Technology & Science. MAHE operates through its constituent institutions across campuses in Manipal, Mangalore, Bengaluru, Jamshedpur, and Dubai.
 

Renowned for its academic excellence, world-class infrastructure, and impactful research contributions, MAHE has earned strong national and international recognition. In 2020, the Ministry of Education, Government of India, conferred MAHE with the prestigious Institution of Eminence status. Currently ranked 3rd in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), MAHE continues to be a preferred destination for students seeking a transformative learning experience and vibrant campus life, as well as for national and multinational organisations seeking top talent.

Frontier AI firms, NGOs, Governments and philanthropic organisations came together to launch GAILA
 

AI can improve learning outcomes, save teachers time, and expand equitable access to quality education. However, frontier AI investment remains concentrated in the higher income countries, and education systems in the LMICs face persistent barriers: limited infrastructure, affordability constraints, and weak alignment between technology and system needs. Unlocking AI’s potential in these contexts requires coordinated engagement between AI firms and education stakeholders, grounded in national priorities and local realities.
 

GAILA is working towards an Industry Compact to align AI firms and the global education community around measurable commitments on performance, safety, accessibility, affordability, and relevance. As an initial step, the AI for Learning Industry Call to Action outlines joint commitments across four areas: coordinated investment in shared public goods; improved model performance for education in LMICs; strengthened standards for safety, ethics, and contextual relevance; and expanded affordability and uptake of AI models. By convening diverse stakeholders, GAILA will align incentives and reduce fragmentation in response to national and local priorities, while supporting transparency, accountability, and shared learning across the ecosystem.

The Compact will be co-developed in 2026 with more specific, measurable, and time-bound commitments.

Pia Britto, Global Director Education & Adolescent Development at UNICEF, started the session by saying that, “GAILA is designed to go beyond dialogue. It aims to serve as a bridge from commitment to implementation, supporting collective action that translates innovation into measurable improvements in learning outcomes. Ultimately, GAILA is an invitation to all ecosystem stakeholders to lead together."

“This ecosystem needs to work better and I am really excited about the progress made in this room,” said Benjamin Piper, Director, Global Education at Gates Foundation.

“At Anthropic, we're already seeing what happens when AI is built with communities rather than deployed to them through partnerships with governments, educators, and non-profits in places like Rwanda and India,” said Elizabeth Kelly, Head of Beneficial Deployments at Anthropic. “GAILA gives that work a shared framework, and we're glad to be part of it.”

“We have two key mandates: one is to build the talent pipeline, and the second is to use AI to deliver better educational services, like personalized learning,” said Rohit Tripathi, Deputy Secretary at India’s Ministry of Education. “For both mandates, we need everyone in the room: academia, researchers, evaluators, industry, philanthropy – all of us together.”

Paula Ingabire, Rwanda’s Minister for Communication Technology and Innovation said, “As we join GAILA, we are joining both a vision and a community. A vision because we believe the Global South must write the rules of how AI serves learning, not simply adopt the tools developed elsewhere. And a community, because no country can do it alone.”

 A spokesperson from Google and Google DeepMind, "Getting AI in education right requires cross-sector collaboration - with policymakers, educators, researchers and experts. It’s critical to create tools that are genuinely helpful to teachers and students in enhancing learning outcomes. That means using AI backed by research, built responsibly, distributed equitably and grounded in learning science principles."

The launch event convened senior leaders from across government, AI firms, and education ecosystem actors. Discussions focused on real-world use cases, responsible and scalable deployment, and stronger global coordination across the education ecosystem. The event was co-hosted by Observer Research Foundation and Carnegie India, with participation from organisations including UNICEF, the Gates Foundation, the Government of Kenya, Pratham, Google, Anthropic, and Karya AI.

More information on GAILA is available here. Organisations can review and endorse the AI for Learning Call to Action: www.globalaiforlearningalliance.org/call-to-action-statement 

To date, more than 40 organisations have endorsed the Call to Action, including Africodia Foundation, Angaza Elimu, Anthropic, ARED, Boston Consulting Group, BRAC, Brink, Central Square Foundation, ConveGenius, Dalberg, Education Above All, Eedi, EdTech Hub, Eidu, EkStep Foundation, FabAI, FCDO, Gates Foundation, Global Partnership for Education, Global Schools Forum, Gooey.ai, Google, Government of Kenya, Government of Rwanda, Government of Sierra Leone, HundrEd, International Centre for EdTech Impact, International Rescue Committee, J-PAL, Karya, Khan Academy, MakerGhat, OpenAI, Pratham, Project Tech4Dev, Rising Academies, Rocket Learning, ShikshaLokam, SHOFCO, Spix Foundation, Teach For All, The Agency Fund, TUMO, UNICEF, VVOB, and WISE.

About Dalberg Advisors 

Dalberg Advisors is a global professional services firm that puts impact at the centre of decision-making.
 

Founded in 2001, Dalberg Advisors now has over 450+ full-time staff spread across 29 global locations, bringing global perspectives to local solutions for over 1600 clients. 
 

This includes local and international NGOs, governments, financial institutions, philanthropies and business leaders; and entities that sit at the intersections of these organisations. 
 

Link: Dalberg.com | LinkedIn: Dalberg 

The summit was anchored around the theme “Rise of Enterprise Agents,” GAAIS 2026 examined how AI is evolving beyond insight generation. The discussions focused on the emergence of autonomous, intelligent agents capable of reasoning across data, taking action, and embedding intelligence directly into enterprise workflows.
 

The The Great Asia AI Summit 2026 also featured leading academic and industry thinkers, including Michael Wooldridge, Ashall Professor of the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Oxford; Sangeet Paul Choudary, Author - Reshuffle, Senior Fellow, Univ. of California Berkeley; and Prof. Saurabh Amin, The Edmund K. Turner Professor at MIT and Co-Director of the MIT Operations Research Center, who offered perspectives on the evolving role of autonomous systems, governance, and human oversight in enterprise AI adoption.
 

Arundhati Bhattacharya, President & CEO of Salesforce - South Asia said, “South Asia sits at a unique inflection point—where scale, digital ambition, and a strong talent base converge. As enterprises across the region adopt more autonomous AI systems, the opportunity is not just efficiency, but augmentation—empowering people with intelligent enterprise agents that enhance decision-making and execution. Trust, governance, and human oversight will define who scales responsibly, and GAAIS 2026 reflects the region’s readiness to move from experimentation to enterprise-wide impact.”
 

Jayant Madhukar Dabholkar, Chief – D&IT (Renewables & B2C PLA), The Tata Power Company Limited, said, “As AI becomes more deeply embedded in enterprise operations, the priority must be on driving real outcomes and generating business value by augmenting human decision-making with intelligent systems that are secure, governed, and scalable. These themes came across strongly in the discussions at the Great Asia AI Summit.”
 

Siew Chiun Tan, Head of Platforms & Digital UX, Singlife, said, “The conversations at the Great Asia AI Summit highlighted how enterprise agents are moving AI from experimentation to execution. For organisations like ours, the real value lies in augmenting teams with intelligent systems that can act across data, while remaining grounded in trust, governance, and human oversight."
 

A central focus of the summit was how enterprises across Asia are transitioning from isolated AI pilots to scalable, trusted, and governed AI-driven operating models. Sessions highlighted the shift from manual and rule-based processes to self-optimizing, intelligent workflows, alongside discussions on trust, security, governance, and responsible deployment as autonomous systems assume a greater role in decision-making and execution.
 

The summit featured deep dives into Agentforce 360, alongside showcases from select startups from the Salesforce Startup Program building AI solutions. Beyond technology, GAAIS 2026 also offered practical frameworks to help organizations advance their AI maturity, with guidance on data readiness, governance, and change management to operationalize AI at scale.
 

For more information, visit: www.salesforce.com/in/events/gaais-2026
 

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Despite massive technology investments, the healthcare market continues to struggle with the usability of EHRs. Clinicians spend an estimated one-third to one-half of their workday interacting with these systems, directly leading to high rates of burnout. Usability scores for many top EHRs rank in the bottom tier of all software systems, linking technical complexity to professional dissatisfaction and gaps in care delivery.
 

Having served select healthcare organizations over the years, Whatfix has built deep expertise in navigating these complex workflows. This launch represents a decision to double down on that knowledge to better serve the industry and drive greater adoption of EHRs, patient portals, and billing systems, ensuring clinicians spend less time navigating software complexities and more time delivering patient care.
 

“Whatfix believes technology in healthcare must serve people first, clinicians and patients alike,” said Khadim Batti, CEO and Co-founder of Whatfix. “Our healthcare launch, expanding on our work in Life Sciences, reflects our commitment to improving care through digital adoption. We are not just entering a new market; we are building our success to solve the critical EHR usability crisis that is contributing to burnout across the care spectrum.”
 

The new Healthcare Vertical provides a comprehensive suite of solutions, including Digital Adoption Platform (DAP), Mirror for simulated and AI-Roleplay training, and Product Analytics, all seamlessly powered by Screensense, Whatfix’s proprietary AI technology. Screensense integrates throughout the clinician’s workflow to interpret application context and user intent, providing intelligent content creation, real-time guidance, and adaptive user support at the moment of need. This powerful combination allows healthcare institutions to overcome fragmented workflows, enhance patient safety, and minimize human error.
 

Whatfix’s early work in the sector has already demonstrated significant improvements, reclaiming valuable time for patient interaction. Results achieved with customers include:

• 113 hours saved every week for therapists, redirected toward patient care.

• 10x faster provider onboarding for online portals and appointment systems.

• 100% accuracy achieved in patient billing workflows.
   

Fox Rehabilitation, an early customer whose success helped inform this launch, highlights the immediate impact of in-app support. Dr. Rachel Reed, Occupational Therapist and Director of Enterprise Systems, notes, “We have utilized the AI QuickRead in our self-help so that our team members and clinicians can go into the self-help that's integrated in the EHR system and ask it a question... It will read through what's in our self-help and generate a response for them, consolidating a quick read response and linking any of the articles.”
 

Investing in the Future of Healthcare
To execute on this vision, Whatfix is making a significant investment in a specialized, full-lifecycle team of healthcare experts, including customer support specialists, implementation consultants, and product developers, dedicated to supporting this vertical and specializing in its unique regulatory and workflow challenges.
 

Whatfix will showcase its AI-powered healthcare solutions at HIMSS 2026, where attendees can experience how the platform simplifies EHR adoption and clinician workflows. Visit Whatfix at Booth 464 (Venetian, Level 2) to see live demos or learn more and register here.
 

About Whatfix
Whatfix is an AI platform advancing the “userization” of enterprise applications, empowering companies to maximize the ROI of their digital investments. Powered by a proprietary AI engine ScreenSense, Whatfix continuously interprets application workflow context and user intent to boost user productivity, ensure process compliance, and elevate user experience across applications and AI agents. The product portfolio includes a Digital Adoption Platform (DAP), Mirror for hands-on system simulation and AI Roleplay based training, and Product and AI agent analytics for no-code insights. With seven offices across the US, India, UK, Germany, Singapore, and Australia, Whatfix supports 700+ enterprises, including 80+ Fortune 500s like Shell, Schneider Electric, and UPS Supply Chain Solutions. Backed by investors such as Warburg Pincus, Softbank Vision Fund 2, Dragoneer, Peak XV Partners, Eight Roads, and Cisco Investments, software clicks with Whatfix.

For more information, visit the Whatfix website.

Anku Jain (MD, MediaTek India); Ken Sekhar (Marketing Lead, POCO India); Anuj Sidharth (Director, MarCom, MediaTek India & SEA); Goldee Patnaik (Head of Comms, OPPO India)

“As leaders in smartphone global share, we are committed to increasing our investment in advanced technologies and striving to make bleeding-edge products available to more people,” said JC Hsu, corporate senior vice president at MediaTek and general manager of the Wireless Communications Business Unit. “This mission is evident in this pair of Dimensity chipsets, which are intended to provide more flagship and premium smartphone experiences while upholding our vision in bringing the best possible performance and power efficiency to more people.”

MediaTek Dimensity 9500s: Designed for the ultimate flagship experience 

Built on a cutting-edge 3nm process and featuring an All-Big Core architecture, the MediaTek Dimensity 9500s delivers powerful performance with improved energy efficiency. 

The flagship SoC features an octa-core CPU comprising one Cortex-X925 ultra core clocked at up to 3.73GHz, three Cortex-X4 premium cores and four Cortex-A720 performance cores. It also integrates the Immortalis-G925 GPU, delivering a full-frame, immersive experience for demanding mobile games and supporting advanced ray tracing to meet the performance expectations of gamers. The powerful NPU in the Dimensity 9500s is optimized for generative reasoning and multi-modal models, enabling a more advanced flagship edge camera experience and enhanced content creation capabilities.

Dimensity 9500s features include:

• 8K full-focus Dolby Vision HDR recording with real-time 30fps motion tracking via the MediaTek Imagiq ISP. 

• Adaptive game technology 3.0 (MAGT 3.0) and frame technology 3.0 (MFRC 3.0) significantly improve energy efficiency, prolonging device battery life.

• 5G Release-17 modem supports 4CC-CA and up to 7Gbps downlink.

• Support for MediaTek 5G UltraSave 4.0 power saving technology.

• AI Network Suite 2.0, designed to enhance network performance in weak connectivity environments

• Support for MediaTek Xtra Range 3.0 technology, extending indoor Wi-Fi coverage, while enabling phone-to-phone Bluetooth direct connections of up to 5 kilometres.

MediaTek Dimensity 8500: Powerful Performance for Ultra-Fast Play

The MediaTek Dimensity 8500 adopts an energy-efficient 4nm process, and the All Big Core CPU architecture includes eight Cortex-A725 cores with a frequency up to 3.4GHz, which further improves performance and energy efficiency. Dimensity 8500 supports accurate scheduling technology and LPDDR5X 9600Mbps memory with higher transmission speed, so users can enjoy smooth and long battery life in daily applications, games and multitasking.

With its fully upgraded computing core and gaming engine, the Dimensity 8500 brings players a refreshing experience with full frame stabilization, rapid loading and high energy efficiency. In addition, Dimensity 8500 also applies ray tracing technology to mainstream mobile games, providing more realistic image quality effects and significantly enhancing the player's immersion. 

Dimensity 8500 features include:

• MediaTek 8th-generation NPU supports global mainstream big language models (LLM/MLLM) and image generation models.

• The integrated Mali-G720 GPU delivers a 25% performance boost over the previous generation.

• Support AI ultra-clear telephoto algorithm.

• Dimensity AI semantic engine, which can intelligently optimize image content frames.

“With the launch of the MediaTek Dimensity 9500s and Dimensity 8500, we are democratizing the flagship experience. Equipped with All Big Core architectures, agentic AI and flagship imaging capabilities, the chipsets bring next-gen user experience to a wider audience,” said Anuj Sidharth, Director, Marketing and Corporate Communication, MediaTek India and SEA Region.

“Building on the success of the Find X9 series powered by Dimensity 9500, including multiple industry awards received by Find X9 Pro, OPPO will soon introduce Find X9s in India, a new addition to the Find X9 series powered by MediaTek Dimensity 9500s. As the entry point into OPPO’s flagship ecosystem, it reflects a refined and balanced approach shaped by our engineering philosophy, with more details to be shared through our official communication,” said Goldee Patnaik, Head of Communications at OPPO India.

Ken Sekhar, Marketing Lead, POCO India said, “At POCO, performance is a core philosophy that guides how we design and build our devices. Our long-standing partnership with MediaTek strengthens this approach through a shared focus on delivering meaningful upgrades in real-world smartphone performance. We congratulate the MediaTek team on the development of the MediaTek Dimensity 9500s and are proud to bring this advanced platform to a POCO smartphone soon. This chipset will enable a new generation of performance-led experiences, and with our upcoming device, we aim to set benchmarks that truly matter to users.”

MediaTek Tech Day is an interactive platform showcasing the latest innovations shaping everyday life and underscoring MediaTek’s commitment to making advanced technology accessible to consumers. 

Built for scale, research, and impact—Galgotias University’s Artificial Intelligence & Data Science Block driving the next wave of AI talent

At the center of this landmark investment is a purpose-built, state-of-the-art AI complex designed to transform how artificial intelligence is taught, researched, and applied at scale. More than a new academic facility, the complex represents an immediate national priority. It is aimed at strengthening India’s competitive position in the global AI race, particularly alongside established leaders such as the United States and China. The university’s leadership views this investment as a long-term strategic commitment to national capability building rather than a symbolic expansion of infrastructure.

To anchor this vision, the university has established multiple Centres of Excellence in collaboration with leading global technology and research institutions, including NVIDIA, Tata Technologies, IIT Mandi, and HCLTech. These are supported by partnerships with Tech Mahindra, Cisco, Vivo, and Wipro. Together, these collaborations form a rare academic–industry ecosystem where education, research, and real-world deployment converge under one roof.

A defining highlight of the initiative is the deployment of NVIDIA’s DGX H200, one of the most advanced AI supercomputing platforms and GPU available. With this addition, Galgotias University enters a small and elite global group of institutions equipped to train large-scale AI models and conduct frontier-level research. The platform enables work across generative AI, computer vision, natural language processing, large language models, and advanced data science, areas that increasingly define economic competitiveness and strategic advantage worldwide.

For students, the impact of this investment is immediate and transformational. Instead of learning AI in abstract or simulated environments, students gain direct access to enterprise-grade infrastructure and tools used by global technology leaders. Curricula are aligned with real industry needs, and learning is anchored in solving real-world problems across domains such as manufacturing, healthcare, smart cities, finance, and digital infrastructure. This exposure significantly shortens the gap between academic learning and professional readiness, producing graduates who are equipped to contribute from day one.

For faculty and researchers, the initiative unlocks new possibilities. Access to high-performance computing and industry-backed research programs enables foundational research, complex simulations, and large-model experimentation that traditionally remain confined to a handful of global research labs. The environment encourages interdisciplinary collaboration and supports long-term research agendas rather than short-term academic outputs alone.

University leadership has emphasized that the vision extends well beyond infrastructure and technology acquisition. The Centres of Excellence are designed as active innovation hubs where students, faculty, and industry experts work together to co-create solutions, develop deployable AI applications, and file patents with real commercial and societal value. These centers are expected to become breeding grounds for startups, intellectual property, and applied research that addresses pressing national and global challenges.

“When Indian institutions invest at this scale, India’s global leadership in AI is no longer an ambition. It becomes inevitable.” Says Dr Dhruv Galgotia CEO Galgotias University.

The statement underscores a growing confidence that India’s AI future will be shaped not only by corporate R&D centres or government programs, but also by universities willing to think strategically and act decisively.

As India positions itself as a global AI powerhouse, Galgotias University’s INR 350+ crore commitment marks a defining moment for private higher education. It challenges traditional assumptions about the role private universities can play in national development and sets a new benchmark for ambition, execution, and impact. The message is clear: the next wave of artificial intelligence will be built not just in boardrooms and labs, but on campuses prepared to lead boldly, invest deeply, and build for the future.

Tapping into India's Rapidly Growing AI & Data Centre Market

India is emerging as one of the world's fastest-growing markets for AI adoption, hyperscale data centres, and cloud-based computing, driven by enterprise digital transformation, data localisation requirements, and increasing demand for GPU-powered AI workloads. States such as Telangana are positioning themselves as preferred destinations for large-scale AI and data centre investments.
 

Against this backdrop, the MoU provides a framework for Aqylon Nexus Limited and MBuzz Technologies to evaluate and explore collaboration opportunities aligned with India's growing role in the global AI and digital infrastructure ecosystem.
 

Scope of the MoU: AI, Hyperscale & Global Markets

Under the MoU, the parties will explore potential cooperation in areas including:

• AI-driven platforms, applications, and enterprise solutions

• AI-ready hyperscale and edge data centre infrastructure

• High-performance computing (HPC) and GPU-accelerated ecosystems

• Evaluation of opportunities across India, the Middle East, and other mutually agreed international geographies
   

Collaboration with an NVIDIA AI Factory Partner

MBuzz Technologies, headquartered in the Middle East, is an NVIDIA AI Factory Partner with experience in deploying advanced AI platforms, GPU-based computing environments, and data centre enablement solutions. Through this MoU, the parties intend to assess the potential application of NVIDIA-based AI technologies and AI factory architectures in future digital infrastructure initiatives, subject to further agreements and approvals.
 

Positioning for Long-Term AI Infrastructure Opportunities

The MoU aligns with Aqylon Nexus Limited's long-term focus on building scalable, sustainable, and AI-ready digital infrastructure to serve enterprise customers in India and global markets. As AI increasingly becomes foundational to modern enterprises, demand for AI-optimised data centres and cloud infrastructure is expected to continue rising.
 

The MoU is non-binding in nature and does not involve any equity participation between the parties. Any definitive agreements, if entered into, will be subject to due diligence, internal approvals, and applicable regulatory compliances.
 

About Aqylon Nexus Limited

Aqylon Nexus Limited (formerly Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network Limited) is a publicly listed company focused on developing AI-ready hyperscale data centre infrastructure and cloud-based digital services. The Company is building capabilities across AI infrastructure, next-generation computing, and digital platforms to support enterprise and global market requirements.
 

About MBuzz Technologies, Middle East

MBuzz Technologies is a global technology solutions provider headquartered in the Middle East and an NVIDIA AI Factory Partner, specialising in AI infrastructure, GPU-accelerated computing, and hyperscale data centre enablement.
 

Forward-Looking Statement Disclaimer

This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially due to various factors, including regulatory approvals, market conditions, and the execution of definitive agreements. This release is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial guidance or investment advice.
 

Magic Bus representatives with youth participants at their Employers Summit

As part of this initiative, Magic Bus is convening the Employers Summit Series, its official pre-summit engagement ahead of the India AI Impact Summit 2026. The multi-city series, being held across Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Delhi, and Mumbai, is anchored in the theme “AI-Ready Talent: What Employers Really Want Tomorrow.” With editions in Chennai and Hyderabad already concluded, the Employers Summit Series now moves to Bengaluru, Delhi, and Mumbai, building on early conversations that set the tone for inclusive, ethical, and scalable AI adoption.

The series aims to strengthen employer–youth linkages and shape demand-driven skilling pathways by bringing together employers, policymakers, CSR leaders, academia, and youth innovators. By aligning industry expectations with grassroot realities, the series supports India’s goal of democratising access to AI skills and preparing an AI-ready workforce at scale.

The India AI Impact Summit 2026, organised under the IndiaAI Mission by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), is India’s flagship platform to accelerate AI adoption and workforce transformation. The Summit will convene global leaders to shape a future where AI benefits every citizen. Magic Bus’s pre-summit series plays a vital role by channelling employer insights and workforce readiness strategies into national deliberations.

Arun Nalavadi, Chief of Programmes – Livelihood, Magic Bus India Foundation, said, "At Magic Bus, our mission is to ensure that youth from underserved communities are not left behind as the world of work evolves. Our AI skilling programmes are built on the belief that access to future-ready skills should not be limited by geography or socio-economic background. Leveraging technology, we combine AI with life and employability skills to deliver impact at scale. By aligning with employers and providing foundational AI literacy, we bridge the gap between aspiration and opportunity, making AI a pathway to sustainable employment."

As one of the early movers in the development sector, Magic Bus launched the AI for Masses initiative to equip young people with future-ready skills and enable a smooth transition to the world of work. A flagship programme under this initiative, AI–Connect with Work (AI-CWW), is a 7–10-day intervention for college students and graduates from underserved communities. It builds practical AI awareness and workplace-relevant skills, preparing youth for emerging roles in an AI-driven economy. Last year, 35,000 youth were skilled through AI-CWW, and the programme is on track to reach 1.5 lakh participants this year. By equipping youth with the skills and confidence to make informed career and life choices, the programme empowers them to support their families, break the cycle of poverty, and become role models in their communities.

About Magic Bus India Foundation

Magic Bus India Foundation is one of India’s leading NGOs in education and skilling. Over the past 26 years, the organisation has expanded its reach and impact across the country through innovative, inclusive, and gender-responsive programmes.

With a strong focus on school-to-work transition, Magic Bus enables adolescents and youth from underserved communities to build the life and employability skills needed to break cycles of poverty and empower future generations. Magic Bus is also empowering women aged 25 years and above, in peri-urban and rural areas, to enable their economic and financial independence.

Through its Adolescent Programme, Magic Bus equips adolescents aged 12 to 18 years with life skills and Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN), reaching over 38 lakh adolescents. The programme is implemented across 22 states and Union Territories and is strengthened through partnerships with 12 state governments and NITI Aayog, with interventions across nearly 30% of India’s aspirational blocks. Girls account for 52% of participants.

The Livelihood Programme empowers youth aged 18 to 25 years by equipping them with life and employability skills. Since 2015, over 7.15 lakh youth have been skilled, with 80% placed in sustainable jobs. Young women constitute 60% of participants, reflecting a continued focus on gender equity.

The Rural Livelihood Programme empowers women by strengthening life skills, leadership, and entrepreneurial skills. The programme has supported over 1,100 women across six states to establish and sustain enterprises and move towards financial independence.

For more information, visit: www.magicbus.org.

Students from Naval Base Primary School at the Microsoft Singapore office during the Hour of AI, jointly hosted by Enabling Leadership and Microsoft Singapore

Addressing this need, Microsoft collaborated with Enabling Leadership to host an “Hour of AI” learning experience at their Singapore office. The session brought together 20 students from Naval Base Primary School, offering them a unique opportunity to engage directly with AI concepts through hands-on, age-appropriate learning.

The Hour of AI is a bold global initiative by Microsoft that aims to demystify artificial intelligence for 25 million students, educators, and families worldwide, transforming them from passive consumers of AI into confident and responsible creators. Through interactive activities and real-world examples with Microsoft 365 Copilot, students are encouraged to understand not just what AI can do, but how it works and why responsible use matters.

Speaking on the collaboration, Ravi Sonnad, Founder and CEO of Enabling Leadership Global, said, “At Enabling Leadership, we work with children from underserved communities to build confidence, character, and leadership through experiential learning. As the world becomes increasingly driven by technology, it is critical that students develop not just AI skills, but also human intelligence - empathy, ethical thinking, and leadership. Initiatives like the Hour of AI allow us to prepare young people to engage with AI thoughtfully, responsibly, and with the confidence to shape the future rather than be shaped by it. Thank you, Microsoft, for giving our young learners this unique exposure.”

Mike Yeh, Vice President and Director of Corporate, External and Legal Affairs of Microsoft Asia added, “As AI transforms education, careers and daily lives, every young person should have the opportunity to use and understand this technology that has the potential to shape their future. Hour of AI gives young people hands on experiences that demystify AI and show what’s possible when they use it responsibly and creatively. I’m also grateful to corporate volunteers that helps ignite that spark, empowering the next generation to lead in the era of AI.”

The session was supported by Microsoft volunteers, who guided students through interactive learning modules, shared real-world applications of AI, and encouraged curiosity-driven exploration. 

For many students, the experience marked their first exposure to understanding AI beyond everyday tools and applications. 

Mohd Norzaidi Ahmad, a teacher from Naval Base Primary School, who accompanied the students, shared, “This experience made AI feel accessible and exciting for our students. They weren’t just using technology - they were understanding it. The confidence and curiosity they demonstrated throughout the session was truly inspiring.”

About Enabling Leadership
Enabling Leadership is a global non-profit organisation that equips children from under-served backgrounds with the essential Life and Leadership skills necessary for them to work themselves out of the cycle of poverty and become productive and responsible adults. 

The organisation currently reaches around 10,000 children between the ages of 9-15 across 7 cities and 45 villages in India, Cambodia, Singapore and Kenya. Its programs use the mediums of music (Enabling Leadership Create), football (Enabling Leadership Play) and Lego-type building blocks (Enabling Leadership Build) to inculcate 21st century skills, values and attitudes so students grow to be tomorrow’s role models, global citizens, and change makers. 

AdvantageClub.ai Launches 4th Edition of 100 Most Admired Women Awards 2026

The MAW Awards celebrate women across industries who are driving innovation in HR practices, championing inclusive workplace cultures, and leading impactful initiatives that elevate employee experience, well-being, talent development, and organisational transformation.

Nominations for the 2026 Most Admired Women (MAW) Awards are now live and will remain open until February 15, 2026. Celebrating excellence across four distinct categories- Leaders, Pioneers, Champions, and Achievers—the award invites women HR professionals to submit nominations immediately via a short nomination form. Peer nominations are also active, encouraging the community to recognise professionals making a meaningful impact in the HR ecosystem.

Building on the success of its three previous editions, the MAW Awards continue to spotlight global women HR leaders whose visionary influence spans organisations of every scale. In an era marked by rapid digital transformation and evolving work models, the awards highlight the pivotal role women play in driving organisational success and building future-ready workplaces.

The previous edition of the MAW Awards featured winners from leading organisations, including Concentrix, HCL, Hexaware, Tech Mahindra, Teleperformance & more. By honouring these professionals, the awards reflect a shift toward more inclusive, high-impact HR practices. These leaders are not merely managing talent; they are architecting organisational change and fostering resilience across some of the world’s most influential enterprises.

Commenting on the launch, Smiti Bhatt Deorah, COO and Co-founder of AdvantageClub.ai, said, “We are proud to invite nominations for the fourth edition of the MAW Awards to honour women HR leaders who are empowering workforces, nurturing talent, and innovating for a better world of work. These awards are more than recognition; they celebrate the courage, creativity, and commitment that inspire the HR community and beyond.”

The nomination process is currently open to women HR professionals across all sectors, including startups, mid-sized organisations, and global enterprises. Each submission will undergo rigorous evaluation by a distinguished jury panel, with a focus on leadership impact, pioneering innovation, employee-centric initiatives, and sustained contributions to the HR profession.

Key Dates:

• Nomination Deadline: February 15, 2026

• Final winners announced: March 8, 2026

The MAW Awards serve as a platform to recognise, inspire, and celebrate women whose contributions are profoundly shaping the future of work. To submit a nomination today, visit: (maw.advantageclub.ai/awards_nominate)

About AdvantageClub.ai
AdvantageClub.ai is a global AI-powered employee engagement, rewards, and wellness platform with offerings like rewards & recognition, wellness solutions including OPD plans, Annual health checkup, wellness challenges, sales incentive automation, flexible benefits, surveys, moments that matter, and communities on a single platform. It provides end-to-end solutions to facilitate employee engagement by digitizing the company’s R&R policies, allowing them to drive better employee retention and happiness. AdvantageClub.ai has over 15 million users, with presence in over 100+ countries, 1200+ clients, and 10,000+ brand options. Established in 2016, AdvantageClub.ai is the brainchild of UCLA postgraduates, Sourabh Deorah and Smiti Bhatt Deorah, who identified employee engagement as a space to create disruption using AI, data mining, and analytics. Headquartered in San Francisco, AdvantageClub.ai has an impressive client portfolio featuring Air India, Biocon, Concentrix, HCL, Hexaware, L&T, Tech Mahindra, Tata Steel, Teleperformance, and many more.

The combined entity will have meaningful scale, surpassing $100 million in annual revenue from more than 4,000 customers globally. It will have a dominant presence in its two largest regions – the United States and Europe, accounting for ~90% of its revenue. With 11 offices and distributed teams across North America, LATAM, Europe, and APAC, this combination unlocks global reach with local execution. The goal is to forge deeper customer partnerships through in-market expertise and make significant investments in a full stack tech platform, offering AI-native capabilities.

“VWO was founded on the conviction that great products, strong fundamentals, and long-term thinking build enduring companies. In AB Tasty, we found a team that shares this philosophy and complements us strongly in product and organization capabilities, while having a strong alignment in culture, vision, and mission. Together, we see an opportunity to create a global leader that delivers greater scale, depth, and consistency to customers, while staying committed to the core value proposition that have made both companies successful,” said Sparsh Gupta, Co-founder and CEO, VWO.

The merged business will be led by a strengthened co-founding executive team drawing from both organizations. Sparsh Gupta, Co-founder and CEO of VWO, will serve as the Chief Executive Officer of the combined entity. Ankit Jain will step in as the Chief Product and Technology Officer. Rémi Aubert, AB Tasty's Co-founder and Co-CEO, will become the Chief Customer and Strategy Officer, while Alix de Sagazan, AB Tasty's other Co-founder and Co-CEO, will become the Chief Revenue Officer. These leaders are demonstrating strong conviction and excitement by continuing to be significantly invested with substantial individual ownerships in the combined company.

“Our ambition has always been to create a global leader in experimentation and experience optimization that delivers tangible, measurable value to customers. Over the past few years, as we reflected on the next chapter for AB Tasty, it quickly became clear that the right path was about alignment—across ambition, culture, product, and geography. With VWO, the alignment was clear early on: shared ambition, shared values, complementary strengths, and a common commitment to customers. This combination gives us the opportunity to pursue the same ambition we’ve always had, but at a much greater scale and significantly expanded resources,” said Alix de Sagazan, Co-CEO, AB Tasty.

The transaction is led by Singapore-headquartered Everstone Capital, the private equity arm of the Everstone Group, which focuses on control investments in the mid-market space with strong focus on the technology sector. Everstone Capital is a majority shareholder in VWO and is investing significant additional capital to remain the largest institutional shareholder in the combined entity.

“This investment is a continuation of the Everstone playbook of combining deep domain expertise with cross-geography perspective to build a market leader, in this case a global, best-in-class digital experience optimization platform. Together, VWO and AB Tasty will have among the most comprehensive product offerings in the category and a well-balanced geographical footprint with a leading market share in multiple major regions. Everstone will also support the company with an advisory board drawing from some of the leading industry experts and operators,” said Sandeep Singh, Managing Director, Everstone Capital.

VWO and AB Tasty will provide further information at the appropriate time once customary closing conditions are met and the transaction is concluded.

About VWO
Founded in 2010, VWO is a unified experience-optimization platform that product, marketing, growth, and engineering teams use to improve customer journeys and accelerate digital performance. With a connected suite of experimentation, analytics, personalization, and feature-delivery tools, VWO enables organizations to make data-driven decisions at scale. Trusted by more than 3,000 brands like Forbes, Walt Disney, Amway, Hilton Vacations, TAP Portugal, Cigna across ecommerce, SaaS, travel, and media, VWO helps teams deliver consistent, measurable improvements to experience, conversion, and revenue. Website: vwo.com.

About AB Tasty
Founded in 2014 in Paris, AB Tasty is a leading experimentation and personalization platform that enables global brands to optimize digital experiences through A/B testing, feature management, and AI-driven personalization. It is used by more than 1000 leading global brands worldwide, including L’Oreal, Samsonite, USA Today, and Ganni, and across multiple industries, including travel, retail, banking and insurance. Website: abtasty.com.

About Everstone Capital
Everstone Capital, the private equity arm of the Everstone Group, is a Singapore-headquartered investment firm with $3.5 billion in assets under management and a presence across seven global offices. We focus on control-oriented, mid-market investments across high-growth sectors including Technology Services, Healthcare & Pharma, Consumer, Financial Services, and Industrials. Our platform-building approach combines operational expertise with strategic capital to unlock sustainable value and drive long-term growth.

With a team of ~100 experienced professionals, we bring deep domain knowledge, local insight, and an on-ground execution edge to every partnership. Our active ownership model and disciplined execution enable us to scale businesses, accelerate transformation, and consistently deliver strong risk-adjusted returns for our investors. Website: everstonecapital.com.

For media enquiries, please write to, paresh.mandhyan@vwo.com for Wingify and AB Tasty and corpcomm@everstonegroup.com for Everstone Capital.

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Flam AI partnered with some of the world's most prestigious brands to explore a new frontier of storytelling, redefining how people engage with brands in a world of shrinking attention spans and skip buttons.

The year marked a bold reimagination of the product launch format. For the launch of the all-new Hyundai Venue, Flam AI delivered a Haptic Multi-Sensory AI-native experience that introduced an entirely new way of engaging with an automobile brand. By combining touch interactions, adaptive intelligence, and immersive storytelling, the experience invited audiences to feel the product, including actual vibrations of the roaring engine, rather than simply consume it. It marked one of the earliest large-scale demonstrations of how AI could create physical resonance through digital interfaces.

Flam AI's focus on audience participation led to the introduction of what became known as the world's first interactive voice experience, designed to engage users through conversational voice. In partnership with Samsung, the experience added layers of innovation and interaction to a static ad, allowing audiences to explore content intuitively and conversationally. Discovery became fluid, personalized, and immersive, reflecting how people naturally seek information rather than forcing them into predefined paths.

The Indian Premier League, one of the world's largest and most-watched sporting events with over 600 million viewers globally, presents a battleground where marketers fight fiercely for attention. Flam AI collaborated with Campa Cola to create an AI-native fandom experience designed for one of cricket's most passionate audiences. Rather than treating fans as viewers, the experience treated them as participants. It responded in real time, adapted to the rhythm of the game, and reflected the language and energy of cricket culture. The brand presence felt organic, woven naturally into moments of excitement, anticipation, and celebration.

YouTube has defined an era of content with videos, and YouTube Shorts continues to define the pace of modern attention. Flam AI extended this ecosystem by introducing interactive and immersive layers directly into the YouTube video ad. This experience transformed linear viewing of a static ad into two-way engagement, allowing users to explore, respond, and interact with the video. It was a subtle yet powerful shift that reframed video ads as experiences rather than interruptions.

Together, these campaigns highlight a broader shift already underway. Brands are moving beyond storytelling to experience-building, where interaction itself becomes the narrative. From voice and motion to touch and AI-native experiences, Flam AI is enabling brands to meet audiences where curiosity, participation, and immersion drive deeper engagement.

Commenting on Flam AI's growth and global outlook, Karthik K Raman, CMO, Flam AI, said, "2025 has been a defining year for us. It was the year Flam AI put itself on the map by charting out an era of content beyond images and videos. We have already partnered with some of the most iconic brands across industries. Our focus remains on building tech that scales creativity and delivers real business impact."

For more information, visit www.flamapp.ai.

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As enterprises across industries accelerate digital transformation, the contact center landscape is undergoing a fundamental shift driven by Generative AI, automation, and data-led customer experiences. Recognizing this momentum, the Ritesh Agarwal’s family office has made this investment to support TVT’s long-term growth and innovation roadmap.

“This investment is a strong validation of our long standing relationship with PRISM and Ritesh Agarwal; his feedback and guidance over the years have helped our vision and capabilities. With AI rapidly redefining customer conversations, TVT is uniquely positioned to help businesses deliver smarter, faster, and more human-like customer experiences at scale. I am super happy to welcome Ritesh Agarwal as a shareholder and be part of our AI journey ahead.” said Saket Setu, CEO of TVT.

TVT has been steadily expanding its AI-powered offerings, including intelligent AI voice and chat agents, real-time analytics, co-pilot for agents and supervisors and omnichannel customer engagement solutions. The company plans to leverage the investment to accelerate product innovation, expand into new markets, and strengthen its AI and engineering teams.

“CX is at an inflection point, with AI fundamentally changing how businesses engage with customers. C-Zentrix’s strong technology foundation, customer focus, and clear execution strategy make it well-positioned to capitalize on this transformation. I am happy to strengthen our long lasting relationship with C-Zentrix and become a part of their journey”. said Ritesh Agarwal.

With this strategic backing, TVT aims to further its mission of enabling enterprises to deliver seamless, intelligent, and scalable customer experiences in an increasingly AI-first world.

About TVT Ltd.

TVT Ltd. with its flagship brand C-Zentrix is a global contact center and customer engagement technology company delivering AI-powered CCaaS solutions to enterprises across industries. The company’s platform enables organizations to manage customer interactions across voice, chat, messaging, video and social channels, while leveraging artificial intelligence, automation, and real-time analytics to enhance customer experience and operational efficiency. With a strong focus on innovation and scalability, C-Zentrix helps businesses transform customer conversations into meaningful, data-driven engagement.

Astrikos AI has secured a strategic investment from Gorilla Technology Group
 

Market Growth and Opportunity

The smart infrastructure, IoT, and AI-driven urban management markets are undergoing exponential growth. According to a recent report by MarketsandMarkets™ (M&M), the global smart cities market size is projected to rise from approximately USD 699.7 billion in 2025 to USD 1,445.6 billion by 2030, at a 15.6% CAGR.
 

Furthermore, India’s AI-optimized data center market specifically is forecast to grow from $1.19 billion in 2025 to more than $3.10 billion by 2030, with a sustained growth rate above 20%. The broader data center industry is expected to reach $21.8 billion by 2030, driven by AI adoption and data localization. It is expected that global connected IoT devices will hit approximately 39 billion by 2030, driving a tidal wave of data generation and demand for real-time analytics.
 

Strategic Alignment

Against this backdrop, Astrikos AI - a recognized NASSCOM Emerge 50 award winner - is strategically positioned to capitalize on this rapid expansion. With its flagship Smart Interop Analytical Platform, Astrikos is currently engaging in high-value deployments across Smart Buildings, Security, Data Centers, and Smart City Infrastructure.
 

"Astrikos AI gives us a springboard into the United Arab Emirates, the USA, and India - all leading technology markets," said Jay Chandan, Chairman and CEO of Gorilla Technology Group. "By joining forces with Astrikos.ai, we combine their deep Indian presence and infrastructure intelligence engine with our proven delivery across the Middle East and Asia. We can deliver AI-ready national infrastructure at scale and move decisively into markets that are expanding at historic speed."
 

Leadership Commentary

Dr. Chinmay Hegde, CEO & Managing Director of Astrikos AI, stated, "This investment from Gorilla Technology Group marks a pivotal moment in Astrikos AI’s journey. It validates our vision of transforming Data Centers, Smart Cities, and Public Infrastructure through Real-time Operational Intelligence. With Gorilla’s expertise in edge computing, intelligent video surveillance, and advanced cybersecurity, we can enhance our real-time intelligence offerings across edge devices to national command centers."

Nani Iswara, Head of Operations, North America for Astrikos AI, added, "In North America, operators of Data Centers, Airports, Ports, and Large Campuses face the challenge of running more AI, GPUs, and Automation on aging or fragmented infrastructure. By drawing on Gorilla’s expertise in video analytics and cybersecurity alongside Astrikos AI’s infrastructure intelligence platform, customers can pursue more resilient operational intelligence."

About Astrikos AI

Headquartered in Bengaluru, India, Astrikos is a fast-growing infrastructure intelligence company that specializes in real-time monitoring, prediction, and optimization for critical national systems. Astrikos delivers advanced AI-driven solutions across large-scale public infrastructure, smart cities, Industry 4.0/5.0, government estates, data centers, and transport sectors.

For more information, please visit www.astrikos.ai.
 

About Gorilla Technology Group Inc.

Headquartered in London, U.K., Gorilla is a global solution provider in Data Centres, Security Intelligence, Network Intelligence, Business Intelligence and IoT technology. Gorilla provides a wide range of solutions, including Smart City, Network, Video, Security Convergence and IoT, across select verticals of Government & Public Services, Manufacturing, Telecom, Retail, Transportation & Logistics, Healthcare and Education, by using AI and Deep Learning Technologies.

For more information, please visit Gorilla-Technology.com.
 

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains 'forward-looking statements' within the meaning of the 'safe harbor' provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results for Astrikos or Gorilla may differ from expectations, estimates and projections and consequently, you should not rely on these forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. These statements include, without limitation, projections regarding the market size, CAGR, and capacity growth of the data centre and AI sectors in India and globally.
 

These forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expected results, including but not limited to: the possibility that the projected market growth described in third-party reports may not materialize; risks related to the integration of Astrikos.ai's technology; and other risks described under the heading 'Risk Factors' in the Form 20-F Gorilla filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the 'SEC') on April 30, 2025. Market data used in this release relies on third-party analyst reports which are subject to change and have not been independently verified by Astrikos (with respect to Astrikos-specific data) or by Gorilla (with respect to data referenced from Gorilla's disclosures). Astrikos undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made except as required by law or applicable regulation; Gorilla's obligations are as stated in its public filings.

Speaking on the platform’s trajectory, Mr. Abdul Ahad said, “At N+ our focus has always been clear and consistent, we want to empower learners with the skills that matter today and the capabilities they will need tomorrow. The momentum we are seeing across enterprises, institutions, and individual professionals shows that the shift toward AI-native learning is already underway. Being able to stand at the forefront of this transformation and support people as they prepare for the future means a great deal to us.”
 

N+ is preparing for its next phase of growth with deeper AI-driven personalization features that will introduce adaptive learning paths, smart practice modules, and advanced analytics designed for corporate L&D decision-making.
 

The team is strengthening the mobile experience to ensure smooth and reliable learning across all devices. Learners can access content offline, open lessons with faster load times, and engage with short, flexible learning formats that fit varied schedules. At the same time, N+ is building a wider network of partners by working more closely with universities, government skill programs, and global technology organisations. The idea is to make high-quality training accessible at a scale that truly matters.
 

For more information, visit www.nplus.global.

Participants collaborate on innovative, AI-powered approaches to teaching at Oakridge Gachibowli’s leadership conference

The conference featured a high-impact keynote and workshop by international leadership coach Ann Palmer, who guided delegates through practical frameworks on AI-enabled leadership, change management, and preparing students for an AI-powered future.

“We explored leadership in the context of our school, with staff diving deeper into their roles, reflecting, setting intentions and actions to make leadership more visible across school. We focused on AI in education the myths, realities, anxieties, and how to use AI sustainably while keeping data protection, organic thinking, and student safety in mind,” Dipika Rao, Principal, Oakridge International School, Gachibowli.

Designed as a working forum rather than a conventional seminar, the conference gave delegates the opportunity to understand global trends in AI in education and their implications for Indian schools, explore real classroom use cases spanning personalised learning, assessment, and data-informed decision-making, reflect on ethics, wellbeing and safeguarding considerations around use of AI in schools, network and collaborate with peers on shared challenges and opportunities. 

“In this changing framework of AI, leaders need to develop skills to steer the community safely while incorporating AI practices in school. Collaboration between industry and schools can replace fear with enthusiasm and positivity as we walk into the future together," Added Dipika Rao.

A highlight of the conference was Ann Palmer’s session on meaningful AI leadership, where she urged school leaders to move beyond viewing AI as a “tool” and instead treat it as a catalyst for rethinking pedagogy, leadership culture and school operations. Delegates explored how AI can support differentiated instruction, reduce teacher workload in planning and assessments, and help schools design more intentional student wellbeing strategies.

“The key is recognising the potential that AI brings along. As lead learners, we have to understand its capabilities and embrace technology now. I hope Oakridge will adapt and evolve its leadership within AI framework to be the leaders in education fraternity. I’ve chosen to come to Oakridge because they have fabulous staff and considerable potential, and I look forward to seeing how leadership training transforms practice and impacts children, leaders, parents, and everyone in the school,” said Ann Palmer, international leadership coach and keynote speaker for the conference.

The conference also highlighted Oakridge Gachibowli’s journey toward AI readiness, with purposeful use of digital tools to personalise learning and support student growth. Platforms such as Raz-Plus, ManageBac, Turnitin, Revision Village, New Scientist, CPOMS, JSTOR and JCS Online are integrated across year levels to build literacy, track progress, encourage academic honesty, support wellbeing, and connect learners to global resources.

With Leading with AI: Shaping the Future of Education, Oakridge Gachibowli has taken a significant step in convening Hyderabad’s education leaders around a shared agenda, ensuring that AI serves as a force for deeper learning, greater inclusion, and future-ready skills for every child.

About Nord Anglia Education
As a leading international schools organisation, we're shaping a generation of creative and resilient global citizens who graduate from our schools with everything they need for success, whatever they choose to be or do in life.

Our strong academic foundations combine world-class teaching and curricula with cutting-edge technology and facilities, creating learning experiences like no other. Inside and outside of the classroom, we inspire our students to achieve more than they ever thought possible.

No two children learn the same way, which is why our schools around the world personalise learning to what works best for every student. Inspired by our high-quality teachers, our students achieve outstanding academic results and go on to study at the world's top universities.

Our Nord Anglia global family includes 89 day and boarding schools in 37 countries, teaching over 100,000 students from ages 3 to 18.

To learn more or apply for a place for your child at one of our schools, go to www.nordangliaeducation.com. 

Rodic Consultants, a leading engineering and digital infrastructure consulting company, announced the official launch of Rodic AI, its pioneering technology subsidiary dedicated to Artificial Intelligence, advanced data analytics, and digital transformation.
 

Rodic Consultants launches Rodic AI
 

Headquartered at the Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) in Boston, a global nexus widely recognized as the most innovative square mile in Cambridge and affiliated with MIT and Harvard, Rodic AI is strategically positioned to accelerate AI-driven innovation with a vision to create sustainable solutions that uplift lives globally.
 

Mr. Raj Kumar, Chairman & Managing Director, Rodic Consultants said, “Opening Rodic AI at the Cambridge Innovation Center, MIT, is a proud and defining step for the Rodic Group. It places us at the heart of global innovation, where we can work with the best minds in AI and bring that knowledge to design smarter, future-ready solutions for the world.”
 

Rodic AI's work spans the full spectrum of artificial intelligence applications from Generative AI for predictive modelling to the transformative potential of quantum-inspired AI. The subsidiary's strategic priorities include:

• Global Expansion with Boston serving as the launchpad to forge partnerships across geographies and sectors while leveraging Rodic Group's proven delivery capabilities

• Innovation & Scale tapping directly into Boston's world-class innovation ecosystem to rapidly translate breakthrough AI research into market-ready solutions

• Data-driven Transformation converting data into competitive advantage through sophisticated AI frameworks that embed intelligence into workflows and strategic decision-making.
   

To commemorate the launch, Rodic organised an exclusive event at its New Delhi office on 5th December, featuring fireside conversations with senior leadership and a prominent AI industry expert. The event included a presentation of Rodic AI’s vision and strategic roadmap by Mr. Raj Kumar, CMD, Rodic Consultants, followed by a fireside chat with Rodic’s leadership exploring how AI will integrate with the company’s existing service portfolio and drive future growth.
 

The day concluded with a thought leadership session with an external AI expert Abhishek Bhat, an Entrepreneur, Technologist, and Public Policy Advisor. The session provided valuable insights into the rapidly evolving AI landscape, with discussions on why AI has become critical for business competitiveness and how all sectors must view it as an essential strategic tool.

About Rodic AI
Rodic AI is the pioneering technology subsidiary of Rodic Group, dedicated exclusively to Artificial Intelligence, advanced data analytics, and digital transformation. Headquartered at the Cambridge Innovation Centre in Boston, Rodic AI combines Boston-built innovation with India- focused execution to deliver AI solutions that create sustainable impact. The company's vision is to create a sustainable future where technology uplifts every life.

Som Prakash Satsangi  

A veteran of India’s technology ecosystem, Som brings over four decades of experience in Enterprise technology, Digital transformation, and Strategic leadership. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President & Managing Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) India, where he led one of India’s largest technology organizations – driving growth, scaling operations, forging high-impact strategic partnerships, and delivering award-winning performance.

An influential voice in shaping India’s technology landscape, Som Satsangi has served as the Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) India, and contributed actively to major industry and policy platforms including NASSCOM, CII, USISPF, and the World Economic Forum’s South Asia Working Group. He continues to champion India’s digital transformation agenda, advocating for innovation-led growth and global competitiveness.

In his role with ParadigmIT and Pathsetter AI, Som will provide strategic guidance across key areas including:

• Public sector and mission-critical market expansion

• AI enablement of national infrastructure and capital projects 

• Enterprise AI transformation and go-to-market strategy

• Organizational scaling, leadership development, and governance

• Long-term growth and value creation initiatives 

Speaking on the appointment, Sridhar Gadhi, Founder & Chairman, said, “Som’s deep understanding of enterprise transformation and national digital priorities will significantly accelerate our journey. His strategic insight will help us take our flagship AI platforms to the right users and deliver meaningful impact across industries. His belief in India as a global innovation powerhouse aligns with our mission, and his expertise will be pivotal as Pathsetter AI advances the Alfred platform to drive greater efficiency in capital projects.”

Commenting on his appointment, Som Satsangi said, “ParadigmIT and Pathsetter AI are redefining the frontiers of digital transformation combining deep technology, mission-critical use cases with national impact. I look forward to supporting their vision of building India-led innovations with global relevance and long-term value.”

This strategic appointment further strengthens ParadigmIT and Pathsetter AI’s mission to build secure, sovereign and globally competitive AI platforms that drive measurable outcomes, unlock new capabilities, and transform the future of enterprise and government operations.

Sushil Kumar, Chief Executive Officer, Cyara

Sushil brings entrepreneurial vision and enterprise-scale leadership to Cyara. He has focused his career on building category-defining AI, DevOps, and cloud platforms, both as a founder and as a leader of large global organizations. Most recently, he was Co-Founder and CEO of RelicX.ai, a generative AI test automation pioneer acquired by Harness. Before that, he held senior product and general management roles at Oracle, CA Technologies, and Broadcom, leading global teams and multi-hundred-million-dollar businesses that improved digital performance and customer experience at scale.

"Sushil brings a rare combination of proven ability, and deep customer and product insight to building and scaling category-defining platforms," said Alok Kulkarni, Co-Founder and Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors, Cyara. "Cyara created and now leads the CX assurance category, with strong and growing global momentum. Under Sushil's leadership, we see a significant opportunity to extend that lead as enterprises race to modernize customer experience, deploy GenAI safely, and ensure that every customer interaction simply works."

Cyara's unified, AI-powered platform continuously tests, validates, and monitors customer journeys across voice, digital, messaging, and conversational AI. Assuring more than 350 million customer journeys each year, and validating over a million AI-generated responses, the platform gives enterprises full visibility into quality, reliability, and risk. With emerging Agentic AI capabilities, Cyara is expanding into intelligent, continuous CX optimization to help organizations improve workflows, reduce cost-to-serve, and deploy new experiences with confidence.

"AI is transforming customer experience faster than any technology shift we've seen in decades," said Sushil Kumar, CEO, Cyara. "As enterprises rethink their CX stacks and explore agentic AI, what they need most is confidence. Confidence that every interaction will be accurate, trustworthy, and delivered at the speed and quality customers expect. Cyara already plays a pivotal role in enabling that shift. It provides the reliability and assurance organizations need to turn AI from experimentation into meaningful, real-world impact. I'm excited to build on this foundation and work with the team to raise the bar for customer experience globally."

Cyara has pursued a focused mergers and acquisitions strategy; acquiring Botium and QBox (bot and conversational AI testing), Spearline/testRTC (telecom and WebRTC assurance) and CentraCX (voice of the customer), to build one of the industry's most comprehensive CX assurance stacks.

Sushil will focus on accelerating product innovation in AI-powered CX assurance, deepening Cyara's ecosystem of CCaaS, CPaaS, UCaaS, and AI partners, and expanding the company's global footprint, which serves customers in more than 135 countries.

For further information, please contact: Janet Vito, janet.vito@cyara.com

About Cyara

Cyara is the global leader in AI-powered customer experience assurance. As the only unified platform for continuous testing and monitoring across voice, digital, messaging, and conversational AI channels, Cyara empowers hundreds of the world's leading brands to optimize more than a quarter of a billion customer interactions every year. From full customer journey visibility to AI governance and compliance, Cyara ensures every touchpoint works flawlessly, helping businesses deliver secure, friction-free, and high-quality CX at scale.

To learn more, visit www.cyara.com.

WebEngage EMCX Edition 25' set a new benchmark for customer engagement excellence - proud to bring industry leaders together under one roof

EMCX (EngageMint CX), the company’s flagship Martech showcase, brings together industry leaders, product builders, CRM specialists, and marketers to explore the future of retention-led growth. The 2025 editions introduced WebEngage’s next wave of innovation, featuring BLACK, CDPx, purpose-built AI Agents, and major enhancements across Analytics and Segmentation.

Across all three cities, EMCX saw strong participation from growth, marketing, product, and data teams, all experiencing how WebEngage is redefining customer engagement with real-time decisioning, composable data models, and autonomous lifecycle marketing. The final edition in Gurugram also featured leaders from diverse organisations who shared insights on building strong data foundations and CRM-led growth engines that drive measurable, business-first outcomes.

EMCX 2025: WHAT MADE IT A STANDOUT SERIES
Across three editions, EMCX showcased:

• BLACK, the industry’s first real-time, outcome-driven decisioning agent

• CDPx, the world’s first composable CDP inside a Martech platform

• Purpose-built AI Agents for segmentation, content, insights, and journey orchestration

• Analytics 2.0, featuring revamped Funnels, Events, Session Analytics, and more

• A strong hiring initiative that supported India’s growing pool of growth and retention talent 

The event series highlighted WebEngage’s commitment to building a future where lifecycle management, personalization, and customer success operate autonomously with full transparency.

“EMCX has been a celebration of what Martech can achieve when powerful technology meets deep customer understanding. BLACK is our biggest leap toward real-time, outcome-led engagement, and the industry’s excitement has been incredible. We also ran India's biggest hiring drive for growth marketing professionals with MetaMorph, connecting 40+ leading brands with 500+ pre-screened candidates across 100+ growth roles,” said Avlesh Singh, Co-founder and CEO, WebEngage.

“CDPx is the world’s first composable CDP inside a retention platform. It gives brands the flexibility to build data models that mirror their business, moving beyond rigid user - event structures and enabling richer, more connected customer intelligence. This depth is what sets the foundation for autonomous lifecycle management,” added Ankit Utreja, Co-founder and CTO, WebEngage.

“Renewal predictability, CLM improvement, autonomous journeys, and integrated reminders are finally achievable with CDPx. This is a significant unlock for financial services brands,” said Nitin Khanna, VP Marketing, Acko.

“CDPx gives us the flexibility to mirror our product catalog and user lifecycle without workarounds. This clarity will change how we drive CRM at scale,” said Anil Gelra, Co-founder, Snapmint.

“At EMCX, our conversation reinforced a simple truth: sustainable, profitable growth comes from strong data foundations. The real unlock in martech is not the tools on the surface, but the technology, data architectures, intelligence layers and automation beneath it that quietly power smarter decisions at scale,” said Mikhil Raj, Chief Product Officer, BlueStone.

"At EMCX, what really stood out was how WebEngage makes customer data easier to use and brings different systems together seamlessly. The way WebEngage brings these layers together shows how Martech can do more than run campaigns, it can actually improve the entire customer journey and drive steady, measurable growth. WebEngage’s ability to connect data, simplify systems, and organise CRM processes shows how technology can make customer lifecycle management clearer, stronger, and easier to scale.” said Nakul Kumar, Co-Founder & CMO, Cashify.

“The response across all three editions has been exceptional. EMCX reflects how brands are shifting from channel-based engagement to lifecycle-led customer success and value creation. Over the last 3–4 months, our teams have worked closely with key accounts to deeply understand their evolving needs, and what you see here today is the outcome of that collaboration,” mentioned Keyur Dhami, SVP Customer Success, WebEngage.

“BLACK represents a new era for WebEngage. It brings intelligence, speed, and clarity to decisions that were previously rule-based and manual. With the world’s first outcome-driven agents built into the platform, BLACK has the potential to change how brands think about retention entirely,” said Abhijat Shukla, Vice President of Data Science at WebEngage.

“We built Analytics 2.0 to give teams visibility, speed, and accuracy. Funnels, Events, Session Analytics, and cohorts now work seamlessly with CDPx and BLACK, creating the most powerful analytics toolkit to move from insight to action with absolute clarity,” shared Amit Shinde, Director of Products, WebEngage.

BLACK and CDPx marked a breakthrough moment for WebEngage, reaffirming its leadership in customer engagement and retention innovation. EMCX 2025 has set the tone for how brands will leverage data, automation, and AI to build more profitable and sustainable growth engines.

About WebEngage
WebEngage is an advanced Customer Data and Engagement Platform that helps consumer brands engage and retain their customers to achieve higher lifetime value and marketing ROI. The product stack includes a robust customer data and analytics platform - unifying data across silos, the best-in-class engagement layer with a multi-channel journey builder, and a personalization engine that helps boost conversion for all channels, including the web and mobile apps.

Ranked #1 consistently across all review platforms on ease of use and comprehensiveness of the platform, WebEngage is used by 850+ consumer brands across India, the Middle East & Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asian markets. The roster across E-Commerce,  Online Travel,  Financial Services, Automobile, CPG and CPD verticals includes customers like Unilever, Airtel, Myntra, Sony, Groww, Acko, Spinny, Arabian Oud, Shoppers Stop, The Sultan Center, Reliance General Insurance, FlyNAS, Tata Motors, Eureka Forbes, CIPLA, Metro Brands, Yatra, PFI Mega Life etc.

For more information about WebEngage, visit www.webengage.com.

Alliance for Inclusive AI
 

AI is set to reshape economies and public systems, yet new divisions are emerging: between countries that can afford the necessary technology and those that cannot; between enterprises able to adopt AI tools and those left out; and between people who can access these tools and those who cannot. Without leadership from emerging markets, AI will be built on assumptions that fail to reflect how most of the world lives and works.
 

Ajay Banga, World Bank Group President, cautioned that “Big AI will create a bigger disparity between the developed world and the developing world at the start. On the other hand, 'small AI’ - local models delivered on local devices - is going to be amazingly productive.”
 

The Alliance is an open, collaborative, practitioner-led effort to bring inclusive AI into the workflows of financial inclusion, agriculture, climate resilience, and digital public services across the Global South.
 

Prateek Shrivastava, MD of BFA Global, said, “Only by joining forces to mobilize resources, we can bring meaningful AI infrastructure and solutions to hundreds of millions of people globally.”
 

Jessica Osborn, CEO of Caribou, said, “AI will reshape how people earn, learn, and access services. It will only deliver real impact when marginalized communities shape it. This Alliance ensures local actors build and use AI in ways that reflect their realities.”
 

Working at the intersection of global development and AI innovation, the Alliance's work is organized around six pillars:

1. Create foundational AI infrastructure tailored to emerging markets.
2. Deliver practical, small-AI solutions that cater to the needs of the underserved.
3. Partner with universities to develop local talent for responsible AI.
4. Develop operational tools that work in low-resource, low-connectivity environments.
5. Support governments, DFIs, regulators, and regional bodies to design and implement inclusive AI strategies.
6. Create shared repositories of datasets, case studies, and toolkits.

Technology providers, DFIs, investors, governments, research institutions, and civil society organizations are invited to join.
 

Graham Wright, Co-Chair and GMD, MSC, warned, “Countries that lack digital infrastructure, skilled workforces, and supportive policy frameworks may find themselves further marginalized.”
 

BFA Global is a global impact innovation firm that combines research, advisory, venture building, and investment expertise to build a more inclusive, equitable, and resilient future for underserved people and the planet. We partner with leading public, private, and philanthropic organizations to catalyze innovation ecosystems for impact across emerging markets.
 

Caribou is a global digital development consultancy that helps foundations, companies, and governments design and deliver responsible, inclusive digital systems. With expertise in data governance, digital identity, youth employment, and responsible technology, Caribou strengthens the policies, programs, and ecosystems that shape equitable digital futures.
 

MSC is a global inclusion consulting firm that works with governments, providers, and innovators to enable social, financial, and economic inclusion for everyone in the digital age. Its local teams in 70+ countries bring practical expertise across finance, technology, agriculture, and social protection. We help clients seize the digital opportunity, address the mass market, and future-proof operations.

Careervira AI: Agentic AI Platform for Learning and Talent Development

A Top 10 Global LXP and HCM Platform Built on Google-Scale Principles

Careervira AI has earned its elite ranking by filling a critical market gap: offering mid-market organizations and employees access to world-class learning technology previously available only to Fortune 500 enterprises. "At Google and YouTube, I witnessed firsthand how technology and scale can transform entire industries," says Vijay Singh, Founder and former Head of Product Sales for YouTube across India and Southeast Asia. "Our guiding belief—'You Can Be Everything That You Want To Be'—drives everything we build at Careervira AI. We're bringing that same Google-quality engineering and global scale to HRTech, democratizing access for the mid-market."​

The platform offers over 125K+ courses from 20+ global providers and 1,000+ expert instructors on its platform, guaranteeing organizations worldwide have access to best-in-class training resources.​

January 2026: Vira AI Launch with 15+ Specialized Agents for Learning and Talent Development

Careervira AI will unveil Vira AI in January 2026 a purpose-built, HR-focused locally trained Large Language Model (LLM) with 15+ specialized agents automating the full spectrum of learning and talent workflows. The multi-agent system achieves 70%–80% automation across skill intelligence, career orchestration, learning curation, and compliance tracking, saving L&D managers over 10 hours weekly.​

The Most Affordable Enterprise LXP and HCM Platform

At approximately $2 to $10 per user per month, Careervira AI delivers up to 70% cost reduction compared with legacy systems, making it the most affordable best-in-class LXP available today. "We practice what we call 'frugal engineering'—building radically affordable technology without sacrificing power or intelligence," Singh explains. With zero-code configuration and seamless HRMS integrations, implementation drops from 6–12 months to just four weeks.​

Industries Driving Adoption

IT/ITES, BFSI and funded startups companies across India and Southeast Asia are leveraging Careervira AI's stack-specific learning paths for 150+ tech stacks. BFSI organizations are deploying compliance automation capabilities, while internet enterprises use AI-powered career pathing to reduce attrition and accelerate onboarding. With presence across key global markets Careervira AI is the platform of choice for organizations navigating rapid transformation.​

About Careervira AI

Founded in 2020 by Vijay Singh, former Google executive and Head of Product Sales for YouTube across India and Southeast Asia, backed by USD 2.5Mn in seed funding by global HR and Tech Leaders, the company serves 148 countries for its B2C platform and connecting professionals and enterprises through its AI-powered LXP and LMS marketplace across US, Canada, UK, SEA and India.​

Anand Balaji, Co-Founder, Xflow

Over the last year, Xflow has seen increasing adoption from SMEs, enterprises, and fintech platforms looking for transparent, predictable, and compliance-first international payments. Businesses are increasingly moving away from legacy correspondent routes and opaque forex structures, opting instead for faster settlement, clearer pricing, and 24x7 support in compliance.

Xflow recently received in-principle authorisation from the RBI to operate as a cross-border online payment aggregator (PA-CB) -  boosting its credibility as a regulated fintech for cross-border transactions.

“What we are witnessing is not just growth in adoption - it’s a fundamental change in how Indian businesses expect cross-border payments to work,” said Anand Balaji, Co-founder, Xflow. “There is a new baseline for speed, transparency, and compliance, and exporters are no longer willing to compromise. Our goal over the next 18 months is to build the scale and infrastructure needed to meet this demand and enable better pricing and platform infrastructure to growing businesses.”

Exporters using Xflow report faster settlement times, multi-currency capabilities, and clarity on charges that previously impacted working capital and revenue planning. For many, the move has been transformational. A leading IT consultancy shared, “Switching to Xflow gave us predictability we didn’t have before. We know exactly what we’re receiving and when it will land, and that reliability has helped us expand into two new markets this year.”

Xflow recently announced a new service called “Compliance Desk” to ensure seamless & stress-free compliance for exporters. Through this desk, exporters can outsource the complex compliance work related to foreign inward remittances. In parallel, Xflow recently launched FX AI Analyst, an AI-powered tool intended to help businesses with data-driven FX decisions. Through FX AI Analyst, companies can track USD/INR trends, get data-driven insights, and make informed currency conversion decisions - aimed at maximising returns per dollar for exporters. 

Xflow’s upcoming growth phase includes strengthening its global banking partnerships, deepening its FX intelligence engine, expanding corridor coverage, and investing in platform integration capabilities for marketplaces. The company emphasized that its scale-up strategy remains focused on reliability, compliance, and building the most trusted cross-border infrastructure for Indian exporters.
 

About Xflow
Xflow is a leading cross-border payment platform dedicated to simplifying and securing international fund reception for Indian freelancers, SMEs, and global enterprises. Focused on transparency and speed, Xflow utilizes advanced API technology and institutional partnerships to deliver next-generation payment infrastructure.

Xflow’s commitment to security and compliance is validated by its In-Principle Authorization from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), ISO 27001, and SOC 2 certifications. All transactions on the platform are powered by the infrastructure of J.P. Morgan Chase, ensuring bank-grade safety and reliability. Xflow's mission is to empower India’s digital economy by making global payments frictionless.

Pushkar Pendse, Co-founder & CEO, Lemnisca and Shilpa Nargund, Co-founder & CTO, Lemnisca

Lemnisca is building an AI companion for fermentation that helps manufacturers scale bioprocesses faster, more predictably, and with greater efficiency. As industries shift to renewable feedstocks and biological alternatives to petrochemicals, scalable biomanufacturing has become essential. While AI has accelerated molecule discovery, the critical challenge now is taking these innovations from lab to industrial scale reliably and at speed. Lemnisca’s science-aware AI works alongside scientists and operators, coupling wet-lab experimentation with dry-lab modelling to understand process biology and steer production in real time. The result is a continuously learning system that makes biomanufacturing more efficient, predictable, and fundamentally more reliable.

Lemnisca will initially partner with fermentation-led manufacturers already advancing along their biomanufacturing journey, while also building its own internal product pipeline. The company aims to reduce development timelines by up to 50%, improve operating efficiency by 25%, and accelerate adoption of renewable and waste-carbon feedstocks, ensuring rapid validation and scalable impact. The company is currently inviting pilot collaborations and strategic partnerships across CDMOs, OEMs/SIs, and global ingredient brands.

“We are delighted to be early partners in Lemnisca’s journey, where we firmly believe that biomanufacturing in today's era needs advanced digital simulators that predict how microbial processes will perform before reaching large industrial scale,” said Priya Shah, Partner at Theia Ventures. “The team brings rich practical experience to support the symbiotic development of this product to be applied to nutraceutical markets.”

“From day one, our question was simple: how do we make biomanufacturing the default manufacturing mode globally?” said Pushkar Pendse, Co-founder & CEO, Lemnisca. “Our focus is to build the digital operating system that brings biology from lab to factory, making scale-up faster, smarter, and globally accessible.”

“We are rethinking everything, right from lab workflows to model architectures,” added Shilpa Nargund, Co-founder & CTO, Lemnisca. “The goal is fewer surprises at scale and faster, repeatable success.”

This is Theia Ventures' third investment from its new fund, which announced its first close anchored by British International Investment last month. The fund counts Sarla Aviation (an electric aircraft company) and Climitra Carbon (a biochar company catering to the steel industry) as its first two investments, and the fund has committed to three additional investments to be deployed within this financial year.

About Lemnisca
Lemnisca is building the AI companion for fermentation, enabling manufacturers to optimize, scale, and operate bioprocesses with confidence. Its science-aware AI models make biomanufacturing faster, more predictable, and more sustainable. Headquartered in Bengaluru, Lemnisca works with partners across industrial biotech and specialty ingredients globally.

About Theia Ventures
Theia Ventures is one of India’s first specialist early-stage funds focused on energy transition, deep tech, and decarbonization. The fund backs founders building technologies that transform industrial systems and accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy.

For media inquiries:
Theia Ventures – info@theia-ventures.com
Lemnisca – pushkar@lemnisca.bio
Website - www.lemnisca.bio

How Indian developers expect their roles and responsibilities to evolve in 2026

AI Redefines Work and Skills for Indian Developers:

• 63% of Indian developers say AI-generated code is currently “somewhat reliable,” requiring continued validation to ensure quality, accuracy, and security. Only 12% believe AI code can be used without human oversight.

• 79% say AI has strengthened their technical skills, 52% say it improved their work-life balance, and 52% say it has expanded their career opportunities in 2025. 

• 7 in 10 (72%) Indian developers believe their role will be redefined in 2026. Of those: 

• 81% expect to shift from coding to designing technical solutions

• 70% expect to integrate AI-generated code into their workflows

• 52% anticipate a greater focus on strategy and architecture

"At the start of the year, many asked how AI would change developers’ roles. It’s clear now: developers are the first professionals to reinvent their jobs in real time,” said Nacho De Marco, CEO and Co-Founder of BairesDev. “They’re using AI to boost productivity, learn faster, and drive innovation. What’s happening in software today will soon happen across every knowledge industry: people will think bigger, break old limits, and redefine what productivity means."

How Will the Developer Role Be In 2026?
As AI reshapes their day-to-day work, Indian developers see 2026 as a turning point for how software teams are structured, managed, and the skills required to stay competitive: 

• 67% expect new career opportunities to emerge. 

• 6 in 10 (63%) predict that AI will create more specialized roles in 2026.

• 53% foresee smaller, leaner teams as automation reduces entry-level tasks.

While Indian developers expect AI to continue transforming the industry in 2026, they are divided on how it will affect early-career roles: 31% expect these positions to shift in quality, requiring stronger analytical and AI-assisted coding skills; 28% anticipate growth as AI creates new products and markets, and 11% predict a decline in traditional junior roles.

Five in Ten Indian Developers Unlocked New Career Opportunities in 2025
Indian developers are increasingly operating in AI-integrated environments: 6 in 10 say AI accelerates project delivery, shortening time-to-market, and saving 10 hours a week. While enthusiasm is high, developers are also realistic about its current capabilities.

Overall, Indian developers still spend most of their time on writing code and building features (64%), debugging and fixing bugs (52%), and reviewing code and pulling requests (32%). 15% of Indian developers said they focus primarily on creative problem-solving and innovation, a figure expected to grow as AI continues to automate routine coding tasks.

Where Will Tech Jobs Grow in 2026?
As software teams become smaller and leaner in 2026, there is a shift toward more specialized structures, AI-integrated workflows, and human oversight in design and delivery.

• 67% of Indian developers warn that those without AI skills risk falling behind. Global PMs identified AI/ML specialists (76%) as the biggest upcoming talent gap, followed by data engineers and prompt engineers. 

• Indian developers expect AI/ML (76%), data analytics (49%), and prompt engineering (43%) to be the fastest-growing areas in 2026. 

• 63% of global PMs said developers will require more training in AI, cloud, and cybersecurity.

The Dev Barometer Q3 2025 edition showed AI had already become standard practice: 92% of Indian developers were using AI-assisted coding, saving an average of 10 hours per week. This new Q4 Edition points to an industry defined by AI integration: Indian developers foresee their core work evolving into a strategic role. Teams get leaner and more specialized, and upskilling in AI, data, and security becomes mandatory. In short, the role changes, the team structure follows, and human oversight remains central, turning individual AI gains into a repeatable way to build software in 2026.

About Q4 Dev Barometer survey
The survey was conducted in October 2025 among 501 developers, 53% of whom had 8+ years of experience, and 19 project managers working across 92 projects. India was the country with the second-highest participation in the Dev Barometer survey, with 75 developer respondents.

About BairesDev
BairesDev provides nearshore software development services to some of the world's largest and most respected companies like Abbot, Adobe, Coca-Cola, eBay, Google, HP, and Rolls-Royce. Backed by 4,000+ engineers across LATAM, BairesDev has delivered high-quality software in over 130 industries. 

CP Gurnani, Manoj Chugh, & Jagdish Mitra joined Ipsita Kathuria at the 10th Annual TalentNomics Conference: Equity in the Age of Automation

The day was anchored by powerful insights from three of India’s most respected leaders:

• CP Gurnani underscored that the path to AI equity requires deliberate, ethical design. “What can we do to keep our power of curiosity, our power of creative thinking, our power of learning and applying data in our everyday life. Because to me AI is all about training the data, and if AI is all about training the data, then I need to pick up instances where I can power it.”

• The pivotal question from industry veteran Manoj Chugh served as a call to action: “Are we interrupting the bias? If not, we are not doing good.” The core message was that since AI learns from historical, often biased, data, the responsibility lies with human leaders to interrupt these patterns through sponsorship and intentional design.

• Suparna Mitra highlighted the necessity of intentional gender equity strategies in leadership and consumption. “At the Talentnomics India 10th Annual conference, I had the privilege of addressing the good people who had gathered to discuss how the AI revolution will impact gender dynamics. Whenever a new technology comes, the existing norms get re-shaped. The AI revolution does not just belong to the people who work on the technology, but all of those who use the technology. The moral and ethical dimensions need to be examined for us to ensure that the gender gap is balanced, rather than get worsened.”

The Future of Work & The Disruption of Income

The session, 'Work Rebooted – Breaking the Digital Ceiling,' moderated by Lata Singh, dissected the differential impact of AI on the workforce, highlighting the urgent need for task-level reskilling.

• Task-Level Disruption: Jagdish Mitra emphasized that AI disruption occurs at the task level, not just the role level. He noted that while women make up 35% of the IT workforce, nearly 70% of their roles are task-heavy and highly exposed to automation. His guidance: HR teams must champion diversity, and individuals must perform a task-based analysis of their job to identify what to reskill for.

• The Investment Risk of Inequity: Dr. Archana Hingorani connected workforce gender equity to the balance sheet. She argued that ignoring the displacement of women creates systemic market instability and limits the available talent pool, making ignoring gender equity a bad business decision for the investor.

• Owning the AI Ecosystem: Shalaka Verma outlined the three key opportunity domains: Builders of AI, Maintainers of AI, and Users of AI, urging women to seize the early-mover advantage in this transition and actively define their space before others define it for them.

The Infrastructure of Wealth & Wellbeing

These panels addressed how AI impacts the fundamental structures of wealth creation and care, from investments to healthcare access.

• Code to Capital: Reducing the Wealth Gap: The deeply insightful session on the gender wealth gap, led by Soumya Rajan and Anita George, concluded that the gap stems from structural issues and behavioral biases. They affirmed that AI is a powerful 'copilot' capable of de-biasing financial planning and nudging women from mere savers to active investors. Anita George stressed that "Investing is self-care" and emphasized the need for trust, governance, and security in the financial sector to ensure women become true capital creators.

• Rebalancing Care & Rural Healthcare: The sessions highlighted that both urban and rural women face unique barriers to wellbeing. Partha Dey showcased how the shift of services from hospital to home significantly improves access for women. Furthermore, the session on "Beyond the Grid: AI and the Future of Rural Healthcare" with Jyotsna Krishnan & Priyadarshi Mohaparta highlighted how a hybrid "phygital" model using Community Champions (primarily women) can be the viable solution for India’s large rural market, ensuring the entire loop of diagnostics and medicine is closed and reducing time burdens for women caregivers.

• The Human Heart of Empathy: Dr. Dev Brar addressed the limits of AI in mental health, noting: “AI heard my words, but not my silence.” Bhavana Issar also emphasised that while AI can enable wellbeing, it cannot replace the Human touch. Shilpa Ajwani concluded that Human and technical review must go hand in hand to ensure AI works for everyone.

Governance and Guardrails: The Mandate for Equitable AI

The consensus across the conference was that AI is not inherently biased, but rather amplifies the bias already present in the human data it learns from, necessitating strong guardrails.

• Bias Amplification: The session on 'Unbiased by Design' concluded that AI models are inherently prone to perpetuating historical human biases because they learn from flawed data, making simply removing gender labels insufficient. The core consensus of the panel, featuring Kiran Chhabra, Renu Menon, Uma Rani, and Arjun Venkatraman, captured by the motto "Nothing About Us Without Us," is that achieving equitable AI requires active, sustained oversight.

• Policy and Accountability: This includes enforcing mandatory AI audits and governance frameworks to ensure equal error rates across demographic groups, and critically, involving women and underrepresented groups as data stewards to reduce bias at the source of data collection and annotation. As observed by L Venkata Subramanian and Aneesh Patnaik, we need technological solutions, diverse policy input, and active user feedback.

• Societal Movement: Sunaina Kumar emphasized that patriarchal structures are mirrored in digital spaces, and without robust governance, AI risks weakening women's economic security. Ratnesh Jha concluded that fixing this requires a societal "movement," stressing that companies must be held accountable by consumers, and organizations must commit to not allowing bias in their own systemic decisions.

Conclusion: Sponsorship and Concrete Action

The conference underscored that fixing the future starts with fixing the present. The most potent advice from the floor was the need to move from mentorship to sponsorship. Sponsorship is the action—the advocacy and the intentional door-opening—that ensures women are in the rooms where AI decisions are being shaped.

Neeta Boochra, member of the TalentNomics Advisory Board, rekindled the room’s momentum with her vote of thanks, reinforcing that influence must translate into opportunity and conversation into measurable change. The conference's success lay in its commitment to translating high-level dialogue into concrete, actionable steps toward a gender-equitable Digital future.

About TalentNomics India

TalentNomics India is a non-profit organisation working to create a world where gender equity is the norm. Since 2016, the organisation has operated leadership development programs for women and convened annual conferences featuring multi-stakeholder dialogues on barriers to equity in work, wealth, wellbeing, and welfare. Through research, advocacy, and collaboration with corporate, government, and civil society partners, TalentNomics India advances systemic approaches to gender equity.

Website: www.india.talentnomics.org

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Multiples PE-backed QBurst has rolled out its new branding and positioning as a ‘High AI-Q™’ company, signifying its commitment to delivering AI-first, futuristic digital experiences. High AI-Q delivers AI-powered differentiated digital experiences by combining QBurst’s technical expertise (High IQ) with understanding client needs (High EQ), with the fabric of AI infused into every aspect of operation and delivery. The framework is built to deliver measurable client outcomes across Growth, Productivity, and Transformation (GPT).

Multiples PE-backed QBurst unveiled its ‘High AI-Q’ positioning, signifying its commitment to AI-first futuristic digital experiences

“The market has moved past the novelty of 'AI-powered' features—that is now the absolute minimum expectation. The true competitive battleground is 'AI-First' design, which means AI is architected into the core of every operation. As the industry rapidly transitions toward complex Service-as-Software models and autonomous managed agents, we are raising the bar with 'High AI-Q.' This is our commitment to providing the necessary rigor, trust, and accelerated efficiency that clients need to not just keep pace, but to truly realize the scale of their ambition,” said Arun ‘Rak’ Ramchandran, CEO, QBurst.

Since securing the strategic investment from Multiples Alternate Asset Management earlier this year, QBurst has undergone a transformative shift, establishing a future-ready organizational structure and a focused leadership team with deep experience in Data Engineering & AI, Cloud, Digital Experience, and Quality Engineering.

This new positioning reflects the integration of Generative AI and Agentic AI into all core services, highlighting AI-native enterprise transformation.

What does High AI-Q look like in action?

• For a global mining giant, QBurst implemented a GenAI-powered operations intelligence platform, enabling real-time KPI analytics through natural language queries and voice commands—transforming how executives access and act on operational data.

• For a leading US healthcare university, QBurst implemented a multi-camera vision AI solution featuring edge inference and an open modular architecture to create a Centralized intelligence dashboard providing real-time, multi-object tracking and significantly enhance campus security.

• For a global luxury retail brand, QBurst with the support of AI based agents migrated its legacy system to a modern composable architecture, enhancing performance, scalability and editorial workflows—future-proofing its digital experience strategy.

Event Highlights: Innovation and Leadership

The High AI-Q brand launch event also featured the launch of the book “Changing Fast & Slow: How to Find Your Organization’s Best Pathway in the New Business Paradigm,” authored by Jeroen Tas, Co-founder of Mphasis and ex-Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer of Philips Healthcare. The book provides strategies for CEOs and leaders to build resilient companies in the face of rapid technological change.

The event concluded with a leadership panel discussion based on the book featuring: Jeroen Tas; Vishal Kulshrestha, Head of eCom and Omni Channel, Alshaya Group; and Arun ‘Rak’ Ramchandran, CEO, QBurst.

About QBurst

QBurst is a 'High AI-Q' digital engineering company delivering measurable business impact through data-driven solutions and deep application engineering expertise. Combining agility with technical depth, QBurst drives digital transformations for enterprise clients across five major industries: Retail, Realty, Healthcare, Manufacturing, and Hospitality to innovate, scale, and succeed.

Backed by Multiples Alternate Asset Management, the company is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, and maintains a global footprint across 21 cities in 11 countries spanning critical geographies including Japan, USA, The Middle East, South Africa, and India. QBurst employs over 3,500 professionals.

The company's comprehensive service portfolio anchors on five solution pillars viz. Digital Experience Solutions, Intelligent Enterprise Solutions, Product Engineering, Managed Agents, and Modernization Initiatives. Strategic and technology partnerships with industry majors such as Microsoft, AWS, Salesforce, Google, Adobe, Pimcore, and Strapi enable QBurst to deliver value-added services to its global client base.

In 2025, Everest Group's PEAK Matrix assessment positioned QBurst as a 'Major Contender' in the Quality Engineering space. Additionally, Deloitte, Dun & Bradstreet, Statista, Economic Times, and Financial Times have recognized the company among the fastest-growing technology firms across India and the Asia-Pacific region.

Huawei representatives deliver a speech at CEPSI 2025

Jason Li, President of Huawei Global MKT & Solution, Electric Power Digitalization Business Unit, stated that, "The portfolio of automation, digitalization and AI will become the key drivers for grid modernization. We believe that the deep integration of digital technologies into electric power scenarios, and the reconstruction of production and operation modes through communication and AI technologies can help meet dual-requirements of ultimate stability and ultimate flexibility." This model is showcased in Huawei Intelligent Substation's new intelligent perimeter fiber sensing features.

Traditional substations have long relied on manual inspections and passive monitoring that struggle to detect complex risks. Huawei's innovative solution leverages fiber-optic sensing and AI large-model algorithms to precisely identify vibrations, personnel movement, and foreign intrusions. By integrating intelligent management with on-site verification, the system delivers exceptionally low false-alarm and missed-detection rates, enhancing both safety and operational efficiency.

Leo Zhang, Vice President of Huawei Enterprise Optical Network Domain, highlighted in his speech, "The AI-based intelligent fiber-optic sensing solution enhances perimeter protection and underground cable security for substations and power plants through high precision, environmental resilience, and 24/7 monitoring. This has significantly improved the safety while reducing manual inspection costs and boosting operational efficiency."

Jacky Wang, Vice President of Electric Power Digitalization Business Unit, addressed that, "For the energy industry, real-time and high-quality data are essential to get the most out of AI, while highly reliable communication networks are the foundation for real-time, high-quality data. We need to redefine digital scenarios and the communication target network, as well as reposition network security." He also noted, "Computing power is the foundation of AI, electricity is the ceiling of computing power and AI is the future of electricity."

Jing Kong, CMO of Beijing Yueneng Technology Co, Ltd., shared her thought, "AI+ will help new energy grow healthier and smarter—turning that grow well, not just fast. It will help build a greener planet for all of us. Yueneng partners with Huawei to drive the digital transformation of new energy together!"

During the event, Huawei hosted the IDS Club roundtable and the APAC Energy Power Partner Forum, engaging both customers and partners on regional development and opportunities. Energy companies also visited Huawei OpenLab to explore its intelligent power solutions. In short, Huawei will continue working with customers and partners to accelerate the energy industry's digital and intelligent transformation.

Learn More: e.huawei.com/en/industries/grid.

In line with the resolutions approved at the Board meeting on 24 November 2025, the Company has unveiled a bold blueprint for the future, including the proposal to establish a 50 MW AI & Green Data Centre Campus in Telangana - a facility envisioned as a next-generation sovereign compute platform enabling advanced AI, defence, governance, enterprise and archival infrastructure.

Strategic Shift Beyond Media Into High-Growth Technology Domains

The Company's Board has also approved a change of name from Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network Ltd. to Aqylon Nexus Limited (subject to Registrar of Companies approval), signaling a decisive move beyond traditional media into deep-tech and infrastructure. The Main Object Clause has been completely substituted to formally incorporate artificial intelligence, machine-learning, deep-learning, NLP, robotics, cloud solutions, intelligent software systems, and AI research infrastructure.

Introduction of New Professional Management

As part of this transformation, a new professional management team has taken over operational leadership, bringing high caliber experience in technology, digital infrastructure and global project execution. This leadership change reinforces SABTNL/Aqylon Nexus's focus on governance, operational excellence, and growth - serving as a key market catalyst.

The new management team is tasked with:

• Driving execution of the 50 MW AI & Green Data Centre campus

• Overseeing the Company's pivot to deep-tech and AI-infrastructure business

• Strengthening corporate governance and operational discipline

• Expanding technology partnerships and footprint in India and North America

A Major Leap for India's AI & Digital Infrastructure

The proposed Data Centre Campus in Telangana positions the Company at the forefront of India's emerging AI and sovereign compute ambition. The facility is designed to support:

• High-density compute and AI training/inference workloads

• Defence & governance AI-driven systems

• Large-scale enterprise digitalisation

• Cloud, edge and sovereign data demands

• Innovation hubs for AI research & development

This initiative underscores SABTNL/Aqylon Nexus's commitment to becoming a meaningful player in India's national AI ecosystem - one of the fastest-growing technology domains globally.

Products & Solutions: A Broad Technology Portfolio

Under the new brand Aqylon Nexus, the Company now offers a diversified technology portfolio across AI, space systems, semiconductors and datacentre infrastructure. Key solutions include:

• AI Solutions: LLM Router (unified API access to all AI platforms), Computer Vision (image/video analysis), NLP (natural language understanding), AI Code (intelligent development tools), Call-Centre AI, Farm Management. Aqylon Nexus Limited

• Space & Semiconductors: Micro Thrusters, Satellite Systems, AOCS (Attitude & Orbit Control Systems), NexusEdge AI-SoC family (edge AI accelerators for LoRa/industrial, automotive, sensor applications). Aqylon Nexus Limited

• Datacentre / Infrastructure: GPU Cloud Infrastructure with enterprise-grade GPU as-a-Service, industrial-grade systems with high reliability and 99.9% uptime SLA. Aqylon Nexus Limited

This broad product and solution architecture positions the Company to address diverse markets across space technology, agriculture, telecommunications, industrial automation, and enterprise AI - forging new growth pathways for shareholders.

Legacy of Innovation, Re-imagined for Tomorrow

Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network brings a legacy of over four decades in media leadership, content innovation and industry trust. With this transformation, the Company is leveraging its historic foundation to build a technology-first organisation capable of serving the next generation of digital and AI-driven needs.

About the Company

(BSE: 530943) (NSE: SABTNL) (ISIN: INE416A01044)
Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network Ltd., soon to be renamed Aqylon Nexus Limited, is undergoing a major strategic shift into artificial intelligence, digital technologies, and advanced infrastructure solutions. The Company now intends to serve national-priority sectors including AI research, enterprise technology, defence-grade compute systems, and large-scale datacentre deployments, while building global partnerships across India and North America.

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This release contains forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially depending on a variety of factors, including but not limited to market conditions, regulatory approvals, supply chain dynamics and other risks.

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Mr Jairaj Bhattacharya, CEO & MD, ConveGenius Group at the launch of Swiftee

Despite the rapid scale of device shipments, most classroom hardware still functions as passive screens, with limited ability to support how children actually learn. ConveGenius is addressing this gap by introducing a new category that shifts India’s devices from Hardware to Heartware. Heartware is the AI layer that makes hardware emotionally aware, contextually relevant, and purpose-driven for learning.

At the centre of this shift is Swiftee, an on-device multimodal AI companion that transforms any tablet, panel, or device into an active, guided learning tool. Positioned as a “heartware” layer, Swiftee sits atop existing hardware to make digital learning safer, more personal, and more meaningful for children aged 5 to 18. Built on ConveGenius’ decade-long research in AI-led learning, Swiftee offers capabilities such as homework support, safe search, creative exploration, emotional check-ins, and guided engagement. Live demos at the summit showcased Swiftee running seamlessly across diverse hardware ecosystems and operating systems, reinforcing how easily it integrates with both entry-level and premium devices.

Unlike generic cloud-AI tools, Swiftee works in low-connectivity settings, understands multilingual inputs, and responds safely around children. For OEMs, this means a device is no longer just a screen. It becomes an intelligent assistant built for real learning use cases, an evolution the education sector has long awaited.

On the vision behind Swiftee, Jairaj Bhattacharya, CEO, ConveGenius Group said: “Over the last ten years, we’ve learned that AI becomes meaningful only when it fits the lives of the people it is meant to support. We’ve seen this firsthand across 22 states and 170 million users. That is why we built Swiftee-to make AI relevant for students, helpful for teachers, and dependable for parents and schools. It is intelligence shaped by India and not imported for India. Swiftee has the potential to immensely contribute towards accomplishing India’s commitment for ensuring inclusive and quality education to all children by 2030.”

With Swiftee’s API framework, hardware companies can also build custom AI agents to shape solutions around the exact needs of their buyers. Wellbeing support for students, assistance for teachers, lesson planning automation, curriculum-aligned remediation, and much more. The possibilities are endless.

“Everyone is excited about AI, but operational challenges like cloud costs, unpredictable behaviour, and constant oversight often hold hardware players back,” said Viprav Chaudhary, Senior Vice President, ConveGenius. “Swiftee removes those constraints. It runs locally, operates on safe AI guardrails, and works with all types of hardware. There’s no need to rebuild systems, one can plug into our stack and start delivering value immediately.”

Industry partners echo this sentiment. Mrs. Kamini Talwar from Iris Global Services said, “Education has long needed a solution that goes beyond hardware upgrades and brings educational intelligence directly into the device. An AI layer like Swiftee makes hardware truly meaningful for classrooms, adapting to real use cases for students, supporting teachers in instruction, and helping schools deliver better learning outcomes. This is the kind of custom-built innovation the education sector has been waiting for.”

As India’s device market continues to grow, the next phase will not only be defined by bigger screens or faster processors, but also by the intelligence that lives inside them. Swiftee represents this new category of Heartware, where devices become intelligent companions that understand classroom realities and accordingly support learning.

About ConveGenius
ConveGenius is a leading AI and EdTech company delivering learning, assessment, and data-intelligence solutions for state governments and education partners. Its data and AI tools power decision-making at Vidya Samiksha Kendras (VSKs) and bring data-driven governance to public education across India.

Naukri’s Pro AI Resume Maker

The Naukri Pro - AI Resume Maker is an advanced online self-service platform that allows job seekers to create professional resumes that appeal to recruiters effortlessly. Whether you're a fresher searching for your first opportunity or an experienced professional eyeing the next move, this AI tool keeps your resumes polished, powerful, and perfectly tailored to land in the right hands.

So, what makes it special?

Forget spending hours tweaking margins or guessing what “ATS-friendly” even means. Naukri’s AI Resume Maker simplifies it all with:

• Customizable, professional templates : Choose a design that mirrors your vibe, classy, modern, or minimalist.

• Smart AI-powered content tweaks : Refine your phrasing and highlight your achievements so your skills don’t get lost in jargon.

• Seamless Naukri profile import : Already have a Naukri account? Just pull in your profile and auto-fill your resume in seconds.

• ATS-optimized formats : Ensure your resume clears recruiter screening systems with flying colors.

• Real-time preview & easy download : Edit, preview, and download instantly, no waiting, no stress.

With just a few clicks, your resume is ready to impress, whether you’re applying on Naukri, LinkedIn, or any other job platform.

Because first impressions count – and yours just got an upgrade

Your resume isn’t just a document; it’s your first handshake with opportunity. The AI Resume Maker uses intelligent algorithms to polish your profile, sharpen your tone, and present your skills in a way recruiters can’t ignore.

And it doesn’t stop there. As part of Naukri Pro, users also get access to premium features like profile enhancement, hidden job invitations, AI mock interviews, and skills insights —everything needed not just to apply for a job but to ace the entire process.

Affordable plans, premium results

Because career growth shouldn’t break the bank. Choose from three flexible plans:

• Rs. 999 for 1 month

• Rs. 1,999 for 3 months

• Rs. 2,999 for 6 months

Each plan includes complete access to Naukri Pro and its suite of powerful career tools.

Here’s the bottom line

Job hunting can be overwhelming. Between writing cover letters, preparing for interviews, and second-guessing your resume format, it’s a lot. The Naukri Pro AI Resume Maker takes one major stress off your plate.

It’s like having a smart, experienced friend by your side, one who knows what recruiters want and helps you put your best foot forward.

So stop overthinking fonts and bullet points. Start building a resume that speaks for you.

Try it now: Naukri Pro AI Resume Maker

Because the right job starts with the right resume, and with Naukri Pro’s AI Resume Maker, you’re already halfway there.

About Naukri

For over two decades, Naukri.com, the leading job platform in India, has been benefitting millions of professionals in finding the right opportunities. With tools like Naukri Pro AI Resume Maker, the company is one step closer to its mission to make job searching simpler for everyone through smart technology combined with human understanding, one resume at a time. Job seekers can also download Naukri app to explore opportunities, apply instantly, and manage their job search seamlessly.

The record-breaking launch, led by Founder & CEO Kumar Manish and Co-founder Abhimanyu Jha, reflects the company’s vision to leverage AI-human collaboration as the foundation of modern product development.

SabPaisa, a bootstrapped fintech company serving government departments, educational institutions, and businesses across India, has been pioneering an AI-First approach that is transforming how financial technology is built and deployed. The launch, which spans core payment infrastructure, operations and compliance tools, and merchant analytics platforms, represents what industry observers are calling a "watershed moment" in how technology companies operate in the AI era.

What makes this achievement particularly remarkable is the company's revolutionary development approach: each product was built using an "AI-First" approach where individual developers paired with advanced AI systems to architect, develop, test, and deploy production-ready solutions at unprecedented speed.

Adopting a “prototype-first” development cycle, instead of using the traditional approach, the team redefined their process to move directly from ideas to a working prototype using AI tools. Each prototype was then internally launched for testing and “dogfooding,” where employees across functions provided real-time feedback. The products were iterated rapidly based on both qualitative and quantitative input, with high-usage prototypes prioritised for rollout and low-engagement ones refined further. This continuous feedback loop helped the company accelerate development while ensuring precision and quality at every stage.

"We're not competing on marketing spend or team size anymore – we're competing on intelligence and speed," said Abhimanyu Jha. "What we've demonstrated today is that a bootstrapped company with the right approach can deliver in one day what well-funded competitors deliver in months. This isn't about replacing humans with AI – it's about fundamentally reimagining what becomes possible when you stop treating AI as a tool and start treating it as a collaborative force."

The company has mandated that every team member engage with AI development, dissolving traditional barriers between product, engineering, marketing, and operations. This organisational restructuring has enabled SabPaisa to operate with a velocity and efficiency previously thought impossible for bootstrapped companies competing in a space dominated by venture-backed giants.

"When cars were first invented, Karl Benz didn't create steel horses with engines inside them – he completely reimagined transportation. We're doing the same at SabPaisa," Jha added. "When you transform your entire organisation around AI as the foundation rather than as an add-on, the constraints that defined what's possible for decades simply evaporate."

With this launch, SabPaisa is not just shipping products – it's proving that in the AI era, competitive advantage belongs to those who reimagine their organisations from first principles.

Learn more about SabPaisa’s 14-product AI launch at sabpaisa.in/ai-native-fintech

As we gear up for PowerPixelParity 2025 we revisit the energy and conversations that shaped last years TalentNomics conference

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C.P. Gurnani, Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of AIONOS and former CEO of Tech Mahindra, will deliver the Special Guest of Honour address. Manoj Chugh, Independent Advisor and former President of Group Public Affairs at Mahindra & Mahindra, will deliver the keynote address to share his insights on building equity in the age of AI.

Suparna Mitra, former CEO of Titan Company's Watches and Wearables Division and Independent Director at Swiggy, will deliver a special address on technology and business transformation. 

The moderators and panellists are current and former leaders of large and new-edge organizations, including Google, IBM, Mahindra Tech, Microsoft, the International Labour Organization, Gates Foundation, World Bank, ORF, EPIC World and the United Nations Global Compact Network India.

"This conference will provide a critical forum for diverse stakeholders to align on practical pathways for the fast-evolving AI to be inclusive and that serves to reduce the gender gap," said Ipsita Kathuria, Founder and CEO of TalentNomics India.

Confronting AI's Gender Divide Across Work, Wealth and Wellbeing
The conference centres on TalentNomics India's vision of an "Equiverse"—a Universe where gender equity is the norm and power, resources, decision-making opportunities and recognition are equitably shared. This year's agenda confronts the reality that AI systems are being coded with the current gender biased assumptions and blind spots of their predominantly male creators, which will adversely affect women who remain overrepresented in sectors vulnerable to automation and underrepresented in technology leadership.

Five panel sessions will examine AI and automation’s role in workforce equity, financial access, care and healthcare delivery, mitigation of biases in AI systems, and regulatory frameworks needed for equitable automation. The program features "Nothing About Us Without Us," a session demonstrating how bias manifests in hiring algorithms, credit scoring, and medical diagnostics.

A dedicated session will explore how AI can influence social norms around unpaid care work, which remains disproportionately performed by women. It will feature executives from CureBay, U4RAD, and Caregiver Saathi discussing AI applications that can impact the physical and mental wellbeing of women in rural and urban India.

The event will feature a fireside chat between two financial and investment experts who will examine how AI-driven financial tools impact gender disparity in wealth, asset ownership, and investment decision-making.

The afternoon sessions will address the data and algorithm gap that enhances the current biases in AI adoption and the lag between AI adoption speed and regulatory frameworks. These discussions will bring together policymakers, corporate leaders, and civil society to close the data gaps and shape equitable technology governance.

Decade of Advancing Gender Equity Through Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue
Now in its tenth year, the conference continues to advance TalentNomics India’s mission to build equitable futures through dialogues and cross-sector collaboration. Registration remains open through the organisation's website. Equiverse Conference 2025 will also feature networking sessions and a product showcase.

About TalentNomics India
TalentNomics India is a non-profit organisation working to create a world where gender equity is the norm. Since 2016, the organisation has operated leadership development programs for women and convened annual conferences featuring multi-stakeholder dialogues on barriers to equity in work, wealth, wellbeing, and welfare. Through research, advocacy, and collaboration with corporate, government, and civil society partners, TalentNomics India advances systemic approaches to gender equity.

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