Secretariat of the EU-India Digital Policy Dialogue

Tech-à-Tête

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Tech-à-Tête is a podcast by the Secretariat of the EU–India Digital Policy Dialogue that takes listeners through the conversations shaping Europe and India’s shared digital future. Anchored in the EU–India Trade and Technology Council, Working Group 1, the podcast brings together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners from industry to unpack the technologies driving the partnership. Through these conversations we explore digital cooperation in the two economies and the factors shaping the cooperation: laws and regulation, standards, geopolitics, market and investment incentives, and how...

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Secretariat of the EU-India Digital Policy Dialogue

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The GCC advantage: Leveraging the Indian Digital Talent landscape for EU Industries 10.07.2026 28:37

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...

Unlocking the EU-India Digital Partnership through the Global Gateway 15.06.2026 22:09

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...

Trusting Across Borders: Digital Identity Interoperability Between the EU and India 29.04.2026 29:55

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...

The Infrastructure Behind Trustworthy AI: What the EU and India Are Building 08.04.2026 26:06

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...

Talking Tech Diplomacy: Europe, India, and the Shared Digital Future 29.12.2025 24:34

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...