Tech-à-Tête

  What happens when Europe’s growing demand for advanced digital talent meets India’s scale, specialisation and expanding innovation capacity?    In the fifth episode of Tech-à-Tête , host Ashvini Pandey explores how Global Capability Centres (GCCs) are evolving beyond cost and delivery centres into strategic engines for capability-building, innovation and long-term EU–India cooperation.    He is...

In this episode of Tech-à-Tête, host Akriti Bopanna explores a question central to the next phase of EU-India digital cooperation: how can big political commitments become real investments on the ground? Joined by Stefania Benaglia , Foreign Policy Expert and rapporteur of the 2025 CEPS Task Force Report on the Global Gateway, the conversation unpacks the EU’s Global Gateway strategy and what it m...

In this episode of Tech-à-Tête , host Tanea Bandyopadhyay explores one of the most important questions in the future of digital public infrastructure: can digital identity systems work across borders? Joined by Tanusree Deb Barma , Deputy Director General, Technology Division, at the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) , and Steve Pannifer , Senior Vice President at FIME , the convers...

In Episode 2 of Tech-à-Tête , hosted by Tanea Bandyopadhyay, we move beyond policy frameworks to ask a more fundamental question: what does it actually take to build AI that is safe, sovereign, and scalable? Titled “The Infrastructure Behind Trustworthy AI: What the EU and India Are Building,” this episode features Aalekh Sharan , Head Agentic AI and Head Public Sector at Sarvam AI and a key contr...

In this inaugural episode of Tech-à-Tête , we sit down with Amaia Sánchez, Non-Resident Senior Fellow for the Asia Programme at Institut Montaigne, and Shyam Krishnakumar, Co-Founder of The Pranava Institute, to unpack what tech diplomacy really means for the EU–India partnership at a pivotal moment. With the EU–India Summit scheduled for January 2026, join us as we reflect on where cooperation st...