Our Own Devices with Nandagopal Rajan

In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, CEO, The Indian Express Digital is joined by Pragya Misra, Head of Strategy and Government Affairs, OpenAI India. This conversation explores the growth of AI with regards to India. After a whole season of discussing AI, the final episode had to be with the company that changed the meaning of AI for the world and made it into something...

In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, CEO, The Indian Express Digital is joined by Tami Bhaumik, Vice President, Civility and Partnerships, Roblox. This conversation explores the concept of civility in gaming. Tami shares what it means and how it makes the process of gaming safer for gamers of any age. She shares how at Roblox, they are trying empower and educate the paren...

In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, CEO, The Indian Express Digital is joined by Eshwar K Vikas, Founder and CEO, Beyond Appliances. In this conversation, our guest talks about how technologies is taking over the Indian kitchen and the kind of changes that Indians are embracing. Indian people love their traditional techniques of cooking, so Eshwar elaborates how Beyond A...

In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, CEO, The Indian Express Digital is joined by serial entrepreneur Soujanya Bhumkar, and Ritu Lal, CEO and Co-founder, GEn1E Lifesciences Inc. Today's conversation centres around using AI for discovering and developing drugs at a fast pace. As far as the field of biotechnology is concerned, a major use case for artificial intelligence is...

In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, CEO, The Indian Express Digital is joined by Dattatri Salagame, CEO, President and MD, Bosch Global Software Technologies. In this conversation the speakers highlight the advent of software driven cars and how this is bringing a new wave of advancements in the auto industry. There is also a discussion on how AI is changing and bringing...

In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, CEO, The Indian Express Digital is joined by Toshit Panigrahi, Co-founder & CEO, Tollbit. In this conversation the speakers highlight the changes that publishers are going through with the advent of AI. They discuss how the internet is now forking between human users and bots. But how does that work? What is the economics of it? Wi...

In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Deepak Dhanak, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Rocket. This conversation highlights how enterprises can use AI to their best interests and how these days single-person companies are becoming a thing. Deepak talks about the democratisation of creation and how AI has been aiding it. H...

In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Dennis Gada, Executive Vice President and Global Head of Banking & Financial Services, Infosys. This conversation highlights the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance industry's adoption of AI. The benefits that it brings with regards to fraud detection and the security concerns that...

In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Pradeep Kumar Singh, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Aakash Educational Services Limited. The conversation explores the use of AI in education. Our guest elaborates how AI is being used to personalise education, so that each and every student can get to learn and understand the materi...

In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Vineet Nayar, Founder, Sampark Foundation and Former CEO, HCL Technologies. The conversation focusses on education and how AI can be used to its fullest potential in the field. Our guest breaks down myths and beliefs around artificial intelligence and who is gaining profits out of its use, he...

In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Dwarak Rajgopal, Vice President, AI engineering and research, Snowflake. This conversation explores Snowflake and how it is working in the field of AI. Our guest highlights the need to upskill in order to be able to use Snowflake's products to its maximum potential. The discussion also moves...

In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Dr. Pawan Kumar Gurzada, Associate Director AI and Data Science, Great Learning. This conversation explores how as a user you can upskill yourself in order to be able to use AI to its full potential. It highlights the need to ask intelligent and correctly worded questions to AI tools like Cha...

In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Panos Panay, Senior Vice President, Amazon Devices and Services. The chat revolves around Alexa and how Amazon devices are leveling up with AI. Panos talks about Alexa's transformation into a natural assistant due to the incorporation of artificial intelligence and how people can have actual...

In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Founder of Equal AI, Keshav Reddy. In this conversation Keshav talks about Equal AI and how it can help Indians answer or retrieve information from calls that they don't want to pick up, no points for guessing, AI will do it for them. He talks about the interesting use cases that have come up...

In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by author and storytelling coach Ravishankar Iyer. In this very interesting chat, Ravishankar Iyer talks about the importance of storytelling behind a product and a company. He also addresses the topic of AI in storytelling and how you can use artificial intelligence to enhance your edits and re...

In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Madhav Sheth, CEO, Ai+ Smartphone and Founder, NxtQuantum Shift Technologies. Madhav has been working towards creating AI+ smartphones and this conversation explores what differentiates NxtQuantum OS from other brands and how AI in smartphones will enhance the user experience. The discussion...

In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Tajh Taylor, Senior Advisor, Product and Technology, Wikipedia Foundation. Today, we explore what goes behind the making of one of most popularly visited online site for all forms of information - Wikipedia. Our guest highlights the work that is consistently put in by Wikipedia's editors to m...

In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Rob Seaman, Chief Product Officer and CEO, Slack. Here we talk about Slack and the Slack Bot and how it is fitting into this new wave of agentic AI. Rob shares his insights on how enterprises are inculcating agenting AI and how it impacts workflow. The conversation also explores how agents ca...

In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Srini Chinamilli, Co-Founder and CEO, Tessolve. Our guest today, talks about the semiconductor industry, an industry which had been front row centre when it comes to the growth of AI. He begins by talking about Tessolve, followed by sharing deeper insights on the impact that AI is having on t...

Welcome to a brand new season of The Indian Express' tech podcast Our Own Devices. In this episode, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Siddhesh Naik, Country Leader, Data & AI Software, IBM India & South Asia. We start this season by talking about Artificial intelligence, a technology that is touted to change the world, but for that to happen, the right...

In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Masaharu Morita, Founder & Program Director, NURA. This conversation explores how AI can help improve India's healthcare system. Masaharu shares how Nura is contributing towards promoting preventive health check ups in India by making them more visual through AI and keeping them affordabl...

In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Sanjib Sahoo, President of Global Platform Group, Ingram Micro. In this conversation we explore the route that your gadget takes before it reaches you. Sanjib extensively explains how a gadget reaches it's customer. He shares how Ingram Micro and its platform Xvantage becomes a medium which m...

In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Leo Duncan, Sr. Solutions Architect at Kyvos Insights. Today we once again turn our attention towards Artificial Intelligence and one of its manifestations - Semantic Intelligence. Leo explains how Kyvos Insights is exploring the field of Semantic Intelligence and helping companies and people...

In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Manu Sharma, Managing Director, Dreame Technology. Today we explore the concept of Smart Homes and how with they are becoming more and more prevalent in today's time. With all kinds of smart appliances entering the market, all the way from vacuum cleaners to lighting and smart locks, the Indi...

In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Rohan Nayak, Co-founder and CEO, Pocket Entertainment. This conversation explores a new and less talked about manifestation of AI....the use of AI for storytelling. Rohan highlights how at Pocket Entertainment they are trying to give writers an upper hand and providing them with an AI copilot...