AI Appreciation Day 2025: Celebrating Innovation, Collaboration and Responsible Tech
Every year on July 16, AI Appreciation Day highlights the transformative power of artificial intelligence and the individuals driving its evolution. As we mark AI Appreciation Day 2025, it’s clear that this technology is no longer just futuristic; it’s embedded in our daily lives, shaping industries, jobs and even creative expression. From generative AI to ethical frameworks, the conversations around AI have become more critical than ever.
At The Hans India, we take this moment to appreciate the evolving role of AI in India’s digital ecosystem. We are bringing together diverse voices from leading AI experts, developers, and thought leaders who are shaping the future of responsible AI. Their insights remind us that while machines may process data, it’s human intent that gives technology its true purpose. Join us in acknowledging the innovators, experts, researchers, and policymakers who continue to ensure that AI remains a force for good in our rapidly evolving digital landscape.
Deepak Kinger
Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer
AI’s rapid advancement presents a great opportunity but comes with equal responsibility. From autonomous systems in healthcare to predictive analytics in finance and policy, we are entrusting machines with end-to-end decisions. The real challenge is not whether AI can outperform humans, it is whether it can align with our values. Responsible AI must be inclusive, interpretable, and most importantly, auditable. The future belongs to those who balance innovation with integrity, to progress with purpose.
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Ronik Patel
Founder and CEO
AI has rapidly changed the way we work, innovate, reason, and engage with entertainment. We face a choice about how to use this power. This is where the technology must match what humans value most. AI should make our moral reasoning stronger. It must preserve our ability to make our own choices. I believe the goal is not smarter machines but a future where technology lifts up human potential. We are building this technology and our industries around it. It should be us to decide how it shapes our lives. The path forward requires us to stay true to what makes us human while embracing what makes us better.
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Aravind Putrevu
Director of Developer Marketing
Coderabbit
AI is somewhat a brand new industrial revolution, which is transforming the manner in which we utilize the internet and arrange our work. It enhances productivity to give us time to spend with our family and engage in productive activities other than normal activities. This is the way AI occupies the future of science.
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Zabi Ulla
Vice President – Generative AI Practice
C5i
As AI continues to shape our world, the principles of Responsible AI will become increasingly important. Both individuals and enterprises must actively participate in the conversation and contribute to the development of AI that is not only innovative but also ethical and responsible. By doing so, we can harness the power of AI to benefit society while safeguarding against its potential risks. The journey towards Responsible AI is a collective one, and it is through shared commitment and action that we can ensure a future where technology works for the good of all.
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Kinnari Thakker
Co-founder & CXO
AI represents a transformative shift from mere access to true empowerment. At MyFi we have seen how AI creates a safe and welcoming space where first-time earners feel confident to ask silly questions, explore their portfolios and make informed decisions. By simplifying jargon and offering guidance without judgment it helps users focus on what matters to them. Its strength lies in nurturing confidence and clarity at every step. Today we celebrate an intelligence that meets people where they are, aligns with their interest and helps them take action with purpose.
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Kiran Nambiar
Partner
At TIFIN India we see AI as a force that can unlock collective progress. When thoughtfully applied it brings clarity to complexity and transforms data into decisions that serve not just individuals but communities. It helps scale empathy and aligns intent with impact. As we build for a more financially smart society, AI enables us to move with purpose and precision. So let’s celebrate its potential to drive meaningful and measurable change across society.”
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Madhav Krishna
Founder & CEO
At Vahan.ai, we believe AI should remove barriers, not reinforce them. As India’s largest recruitment platform for blue-collar workers, our vision is to democratise job access through intelligent, inclusive technology. By enabling job discovery through a simple phone call without apps or internet, we’re using AI to employ over 40,000 people every month and make growth opportunities truly accessible. We’re now building advanced AI capabilities to support regional languages, enabling deeper access across Tier 2 and Tier 3 markets. For us, AI means Accessibility and Inclusivity in action.
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Sridhar Mantha
CEO of Generative AI Business Services (GBS)
Happiest Minds Technologies
AI is at the core of Happiest Minds' digital transformation strategy. We are enabling scalable, secure, and responsible AI solutions through our Analytics & AI Center of Excellence and Gen-AI Business Services unit. Our innovations include repeatable solutions such as the Research and Legal Companion, AI & Gen-AI solutions, and enterprise-wide intelligent automation. Our unique method uses deep domain-specific AI solutions, utilizing Generative AI in SDLC, ethical leadership, and strategic integrations to implement solutions faster and with measurable results. We add value to businesses by using a structured framework to get several AI & Gen-AI projects into production while following best practices in MLOps & LLMOps with secure guardrails. And while we’re at it, we also provide innovative solutions in emerging AI fields like Bioinformatics.
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Khadim Batti
Co-founder and CEO
Whatfix
This AI Appreciation Day, we celebrate India’s bold strides in making AI inclusive and impactful through missions like IndiaAI and Bhashini. At Whatfix, we believe AI’s true power lies in making technology work for people—across languages, roles, and systems. Our AI engine, ScreenSense, interprets user behavior in real time to deliver proactive, adaptive guidance—without the complexity of deep integrations. It’s how we’re transforming on-boarding, accelerating adoption, and driving real outcomes. As the world shifts to intuitive, user-led digital experiences, we’re proud to help shape an AI future that’s not just smart—but human-centered.”
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Rakesh Agarwal
Founder & Executive Chairman
GenXAI
With every line of code and algorithm, we're not just building technology—we're architecting a future where AI's greatest achievement isn't surpassing human intelligence, but making powerful tools accessible to everyone, moving from an era where technology belonged to the few to one where AI capabilities can be in the hands of anyone with curiosity and creativity.
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Keith Odom
Senior Vice President- Managed Services, India Operations
AI is fast becoming the operating layer for how modern IT infrastructure is monitored, managed, and optimized. With the scale, speed, and complexity of today’s enterprise environments, manual intervention is no longer sustainable or effective. AI-driven operations are now essential to anticipate incidents, accelerate response times, and enhance resilience.
But the true value of AI lies in its ability to enable continuous improvement without compromising control. Intelligent systems must be explainable, interoperable, and aligned with business priorities - whether it’s detecting performance gaps before they become service failures, optimizing resource usage in real time, or ensuring compliance without added overhead.
At AHEAD, we’ve seen how AI Ops, when purpose-built for hybrid environments, becomes the connective tissue that helps enterprises operate with both scale and stability. This is no longer a future vision - it’s the new baseline for enterprise readiness.
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Ashish Tandon
Founder and CEO
AI has become essential in modern cybersecurity, not because it replaces human decision-making, but because it enables faster, more precise action in an environment defined by scale and unpredictability. As attack patterns grow more distributed and sophisticated, intelligence must evolve from reactive to anticipatory. This is especially urgent in areas like API security, where attacks have now surpassed those on traditional websites. In our recent analysis of over 7 billion attacks, APIs saw 30% more intrusion attempts, and bot attacks surged by 48%.
The future of security lies in systems that can filter noise, detect intent, and enable real-time decisions with confidence. But intelligence without verification can be risky. That’s why AI needs to be paired with people who understand the application, the risk, and the response path. At Indusface, we combine AI-powered threat detection with human-led tuning and response. The goal is not just automation, but trusted outcomes. That’s what gives our customers clarity under pressure and confidence when it matters most.
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Hemant Agrawal
Chief Operating Officer
Netweb Technologies.
On AI Appreciation Day, we recognize the strategic importance of the infrastructure driving intelligent innovation. From high-performance computing and GPU-accelerated systems to secure private clouds, these platforms enable transformative breakthroughs - from precision medicine to predictive finance and autonomous manufacturing. Modern AI infrastructure, built on sovereign, scalable, and energy-efficient architecture, ensures agility, security, and faster decision-making. As AI becomes integral to national competitiveness and growth, the focus must shift beyond algorithms to the digital foundation beneath them. True innovation is not just coded - it’s architected. The future belongs to those who build intelligence into the core of their infrastructure.
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Prakash Kumar
Chief Executive Officer, Government Digital Transformation
Wadhwani Foundation
New and emerging technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence, are transforming lives globally. To fully realize the benefits of AI, policymakers must develop a strategic understanding of its capabilities. The democratization of AI requires government officials to be AI-fluent, enabling informed decisions on technology integration and inclusive governance. At the Wadhwani Centre for Government Digital Transformation, we are working closely with central and state governments to build AI roadmaps and upskill senior officers across key ministries.
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Karan Kirpalani
Chief Product Officer
Much of the global AI conversation still revolves around model innovation. But in India, the focus is shifting to something more foundational , how we build and deploy AI systems at scale, within real-world constraints.At Neysa, we are working with enterprises that are dealing with fragmented data, multilingual user bases, evolving compliance needs, and limited infrastructure budgets. Despite that, they are moving from pilots to production-grade deployments in a matter of months.That kind of progress is no longer limited to large tech companies. It’s happening across sectors, and it’s shaping a version of AI that’s more inclusive, grounded, and scalable both for India and the rest of the world.
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Dr. Adnan Masood,
Chief Architect - AI and Machine Learning
AI Appreciation Day celebrates unleashing human potential at scale. Generative AI has democratized creation; agentic AI is democratizing execution. Ethical AI co-pilots amplify, not replace, human ingenuity. The most productive companies aren’t just using AI tools; they’re embedding human-AI symbiosis into their DNA. AI doesn’t just accelerate technology, but accelerates human potential. The future belongs to humans with AI, not AI with humans. It’s not about ethics boards preventing harm, but systems that make human judgment faster, sharper, and impactful.
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Fabio Fratucello
Field CTO World Wide
AI is transforming organisations' ability to detect and respond to cyber threats. Under immense pressure from rising alert volumes, faster breakout times and a persistent shortage of skilled analysts, security teams must leverage AI to protect their organisations and move from reactive response to proactive threat disruption. Automating time-consuming and repetitive tasks, agentic AI can be a force multiplier for security teams by enabling them to focus on understanding adversary behaviour, hunting advanced threats and stopping breaches before they escalate.
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Nick Magnuson
Head of AI
At Qlik, we believe that AI’s promise in India lies not just in innovation, but in impact. As agentic AI takes root across key sectors like public services, healthcare and financial inclusion, we’re seeing real transformation, not just headlines. These AI systems are helping reduce response times, improve access, lower costs, and enable smarter decision-making at scale. But the foundation for this success is clear: quality data, trust, governance and purpose. India’s forward-thinking approach to digital infrastructure and data diversity offers a strong base for agentic AI to thrive. While AI Appreciation Day may be peculiar to some, we’d like to celebrate how India is evolving into a trusted steward for AI, helping leaders across the country drive progress, with people at the center.
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Sooraj Balakrishnan
Associate Director & Head of Marketing
Acer India
AI Appreciation Day serves as a reminder that artificial intelligence is no longer a frontier technology; it is now embedded across sectors, shaping how we learn, work, heal, and solve problems. From climate modelling and personalized learning to supply chain intelligence and healthcare diagnostics, AI is driving real impact. At Acer, we believe its value lies in amplifying human potential. In a diverse and fast-moving country like India, that potential must be inclusive, ethical, and responsive to real-world needs. This is why our AI PCs are designed to be accessible, adaptive, and relevant — empowering students, entrepreneurs, and professionals to solve, create, and lead effectively in their respective contexts. As India moves toward a digital-first future, we remain focused on delivering intelligent technology with purpose.
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Dario Schiraldi
Former Managing Director
Deutsche Bank
AI is transforming the core of banking and investment by accelerating data-driven decisions, enabling hyper-personalized financial services, and unlocking new avenues in funding innovation. It's true power lies not just in automation, but in amplifying human insight—reshaping the future of finance with intelligence, trust, and efficiency.
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Ganesh Gopalan
Co-Founder & CEO
At Gnani.ai, we see AI not just as technology, but as a catalyst transforming how India speaks, learns, and transacts. On AI Appreciation Day, we celebrate the incredible strides made in voice AI, small language models, and generative AI that bridge linguistic diversity and democratize digital access. Aligned with the IndiaAI mission, we are committed to building solutions that are inclusive, responsible, and locally relevant—empowering enterprises and everyday users alike. As AI continues to evolve, our vision remains clear: to make conversational AI an enabler of growth and innovation for every corner of India.
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Sriram Kannan
Founder & CEO
On AI Appreciation Day, we celebrate its role in advancing education, innovation, and everyday life while keeping human values at the core. At Routematic, we see AI as a catalyst for smarter decisions, seamless mobility, and sustainable systems. From decoding traffic patterns and EV charging data to optimizing employee commutes, we use AI to turn complexity into clarity. The next decade will be defined not by automation, but by the intelligence with which we apply it to empower people, solve hard problems, and move cities forward. As we continue to build data-driven, eco-conscious mobility solutions, we remain committed to harnessing technology that supports progress and empowers people.
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Nishant Patel
Co-founder & CTO
AI has become the engine room of modern digital innovation, quietly removing friction, automating the mundane, and letting creators and developers focus on what truly moves the needle. At Contentstack, we see AI as a force multiplier that enables hyper-personalised, real-time experiences, anticipates user needs, and accelerates delivery across every digital touchpoint. For developers, it means less time on boilerplate and more time on breakthroughs. For enterprises, it means content that adapts, performs, and resonates at scale. But with this power comes a duty to wield AI ethically, ensuring that every experience is inclusive, responsible, and grounded in human values. AI Appreciation Day is a call to lead with ambition and integrity.
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Murugan AnjunanChief Technology Officer
AI Appreciation Day is a moment to reflect; not just on how far the technology has come, but on what it makes possible. We don’t view AI as a disruptor in isolation, but as a dynamic partner in progress. It helps us reimagine how women return to, remain in, and rise within the workforce at scale and with personalisation. The real potential of AI lies not in replacing human intelligence, but in amplifying it. It’s not about man versus machine; it’s about designing systems where both thrive together. The future of work is not just AI-powered, but it is human-first, AI-enabled.
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Savio D'Souza
Head of Product Communications
OPPO India
India, with its massive smartphone base and growing digital habits, is in a strong position to shape how AI is used at scale. AI on smartphones now handles tasks like summarising meetings, generating content drafts, and improving low-light photography – things that once needed separate apps or even a laptop. The goal now isn’t just to make AI powerful, but to make it practical, fast, and usable for everyone. Today, we are scaling that commitment by bringing generative AI capabilities to 100 million global users by 2025. Backed by 5,800+ global AI patents and a dedicated AI Centre, our focus spans productivity, creativity, and imaging, ensuring AI is embedded across our product range. The aim isn’t to replace people, but to support them, giving users tools to get more done with less effort. That’s how we see the future of AI; not as a buzzword, but as something grounded, practical, and made for real life.
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Manish Jha
Chief Technology Officer
Addverb
AI is integrated into our everyday operations, whether in simplifying warehouse activities, enabling smarter route planning for our robots, or ensuring seamless collaboration between humans and machines.
This AI Appreciation Day, we pause to recognise the revolutionary influence artificial intelligence has in determining our daily inventions. It is helping us to develop solutions that not only provide efficiency but also instil reliability and trust for those who work with our technologies. We remain committed to developing AI-powered automation that honours human agency and elevates the capabilities of people throughout sectors.
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Anuj Krishna
Co-Founder and President of Technology and Growth.
MathCo
AI has evolved into one of the most important multifaceted tools for companies. In nearly every industry and department, we have seen elevated impact with AI: faster decision-making, more efficient operations, and improved understanding of customers. However, what businesses need to focus on in the future is not using AI in piecemeal initiatives or as a bolt-on. The focus should instead be on the deep contextual cross-system integration across the enterprise where AI is infused with purpose, context, and orchestration. This will be core to unlocking the real value of agentic AI in enterprise-wide transformation.
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Pratik Shah
Managing Director India & SAARC
F5
On AI Appreciation Day, it is important to reflect not just on the significant advancements in artificial intelligence, but also on our shared responsibility to deploy it with purpose, trust, and long-term value. Going forward, AI is expected to orchestrate end-to-end processes, replacing traditional management consoles with natural language interfaces and programmable platforms. While every app we interact today leverages AI to some extent, this widespread adoption underscores the critical importance to secure these AI-powered applications, ensuring organizations can safely continue to harness their full benefits. Even our 2025 State of Application Strategy Report revealed that 96% of organisations are deploying AI models.
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Suvabrata Sinha
CISO-in-Residence
Zscaler
AI Appreciation Day is a timely reminder that we’re witnessing a dual transformation one of innovation and one of responsibility. Our ThreatLabz 2025 AI Security Report analysed over 536 billion AI transactions and revealed both the enormous potential of AI and the growing complexity of its misuse. From agentic AI to deepfake platforms and AI-enhanced phishing, the risks are evolving as fast as the technology itself. India is leading AI/ML transaction volumes in APAC, highlighting the region’s accelerated digital transformation. But this rapid adoption also brings real-world challenges navigating compliance, managing costs, and bridging talent gaps in securing AI at scale.
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Amit Luthra
Managing Director
Lenovo ISG India
AI Appreciation Day is a timely reminder that AI is no longer a futuristic concept — it’s a business-critical imperative today. Yet, many organizations are limited not by vision, but by the realities of their infrastructure and readiness. Lenovo’s CIO Playbook 2025 reveals that 63% of enterprises in India favor hybrid or on-premises environments for AI workloads, underscoring the urgent need for secure, scalable, and low-latency infrastructure. As AI advances, it is transforming how data is analyzed, decisions are made, and business outcomes are achieved. At Lenovo, we see the future in Hybrid AI — a secure, flexible, and distributed model that empowers AI to operate wherever it delivers the greatest impact: in the cloud, on-premises, or at the edge.
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Mayank Baid
Regional Vice President, India & South Asia
Cloudera
On AI Appreciation Day, we honor the extraordinary advances in Artificial Intelligence and its power to redefine our world. Over the years, AI has become a key enabler of digital transformation. In fact, our recent survey, titled The Future of Enterprise AI Agents, revealed that 84% of Indian respondents said they have implemented AI agents in the past two years, and 98% plan to expand their use in the coming years. At Cloudera, we are committed to the rapid deployment of trusted AI by enabling organizations to integrate any AI model with secure and governed data across hybrid environments.
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Karthik Rajaram
Area Vice President & General Manager
Elastic India
AI has rapidly evolved over the last few years - it is now able to learn and create a wide range of creative responses far quicker than humans. Fueling this evolution is search, which enables AI applications not only to learn but also to extract value from data. While not immediately apparent, search drives many of the applications and services that we use frequently. For example, India’s largest jobs and professional networking platform, Apna, uses AI and search to connect 50 million registered users and 600,000 employers. The service provides users with highly relevant and personalised job notifications while connecting employers with candidates that match their hiring criteria. As India seeks to establish itself as a leader in AI through the IndiaAI Mission, Elastic is proud to support the country’s AI vision with technologies that are open, adaptive, and capable of providing a real-time, complete view of all data.
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João Moura
CEO
CrewAI
AI Appreciation Day is more than a celebration of technology — it’s a reflection on how AI is reshaping the way we work, where human and AI collaboration drives lasting value. At CrewAI, we believe the future lies in multi-agentic driven workflows: intelligent agents that operate with autonomy, align with business goals, and collaborate with people as capable teammates. These agents aren’t just responding to prompts — they’re reasoning, coordinating, and driving complex workflows end-to-end. Through our partnership with Cloudera, we help organizations operationalize these agents securely across hybrid environments, ensuring performance at scale without compromising compliance or control.
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Amit Agrawal
President
Techno Digital
Artificial intelligence is only as powerful as the infrastructure that fuels it. At Techno Digital, we recognize that AI innovation begins with robust, sustainable and scalable digital infrastructure. From GPU-optimized clusters and liquid-cooled high-density compute to latency-sensitive AI workloads at the edge, our infrastructure is built to meet the speed, scale, and diversity AI demands. On this day, we reaffirm our commitment to building a digital backbone that supports ethical AI, fosters collaboration, and transforms lives - one intelligent node at a time.
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Jay Modh
Founder & CEO
Intuitive.Cloud
AI is fast becoming the backbone of intelligent enterprise across industry verticals. At Intuitive.Cloud, we are co-building the Data Intelligence and AI-led future with scale, agility, security and governance where enterprises can accelerate the context-aware intelligence and transformation with trust and confidence.” said Jay Modh, Founder & CEO of Intuitive.Cloud. “India is not just a talent hub; it’s emerging as a global engine of applied AI innovation. It’s estimated that AI could contribute over $500 billion to the Indian economy and $4 Trillion to the world economy in the near term, underscoring the scale of transformation already underway. The priority now isn’t adoption but orchestration, for high-quality data, responsible AI, security, and governance delivering measurable business outcomes.
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Chetan Jain
Founding Executive Director and Managing Director
Inspira Enterprise
At Inspira Enterprise, we celebrate the endless possibilities and opportunities presented by AI and generative AI (GenAI), on this AI Appreciation Day. This technology continues to empower our cybersecurity defenses by enhancing the Security efficiency in across threat detection, mitigation, and response, in addition to anomaly detection. GenAI enables real-time threat simulation and threat modeling for testing and improving security systems as well. However, it is important to note that while GenAI is a valuable tool for cybersecurity, it is also being used maliciously by cybercriminals to launch sophisticated cyberattacks. Organizations have to utilize an robust AI governance framework and implement robust security solutions to address threats posed by GenAI, while establishing digital trust to enable a safer and smarter future.
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Rahul S Kurkure
Founder and Director
Cloud.in
At Cloud.in, we don’t just look at AI as a tool — we see it as a force that's reshaping the way businesses think, operate, and innovate. With GenAI revolutionizing creativity and interaction, and Agentic AI stepping in as autonomous decision-makers, the cloud has gone beyond infrastructure — it’s now the launchpad for intelligence. On AI Appreciation Day, we celebrate how far we’ve come, and more importantly, where we’re heading.
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Dr Sunil Vuppala
VP – AI Labs
Aurigo
The true value of AI does not only lie in its novelty but also in its ability to help us tackle real-world challenges. As we advance, the conversation around AI must shift from what it can do to what it should do to make our systems and environments more trustworthy, purpose-driven, and inclusive.
Aurigo is harnessing the power of AI to make infrastructure smarter and more secure. By embedding AI across capital planning and construction management, we are enabling our customers to gain better insights, drive greater accountability, and ultimately, improve the quality of life for citizens. We are not only building task agents that improve efficiency but also decision agents that help our customers take data-driven actions autonomously. For instance, our Lumina search agents empower construction professionals to access information across documents or records via natural language, accelerate timely decision-making, and derive insights.
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Sreekumar Pillai
CTO
Experion Technologies
Agentic AI is set to transform businesses by moving beyond task automation to make autonomous decisions and achieve specific goals. While this offers immense potential to create value, it presents a significant challenge: how to manage the risks of misaligned goals and unintended actions when human oversight is reduced. Organizations must invest in robust guardrails—transparent models, ethical frameworks, and continuous human-in-the-loop governance. The future of Agentic AI is not just about what it can do, but what it should do. As we embrace this new era, we must pair innovation with intention—embedding ethics, oversight, and human alignment to ensure that what we build serves us, not replaces us.
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Dhruvil Sanghvi
CEO & Founder
LogiNext
With the global AI market projected to reach $1.85 trillion by 2030, it’s clear that AI has gone far beyond automation. Over 78% of companies worldwide are already using AI, nearly doubling their usage in the past two years. With AI in logistics, used for route optimization, demand forecasting, autonomous vehicles, and data intelligence, it is transforming the industry, leading to increased efficiency, lower costs, and enhanced overall reliability. The AI logistics market is expected to grow from $18.01 billion in 2024 to $549 billion by 2033. As we use AI to optimize each step in the supply chain, we move toward achieving this goal with greater efficiency and precision, driving smarter, faster, and more resilient logistics operations. On AI Appreciation Day, we celebrate these groundbreaking advances that continue to reshape the world.
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Atul Rai
Co-Founder & CEO
Staqu Technologies
In the education sector, AI should serve as an enabler of safety and accountability, not a threat to human agency. The debate shouldn’t be about man versus machine, but how intelligently designed AI can safeguard students, support teachers, and deter harm. At Staqu, we believe ethical AI, powered by privacy-by-design features, can preserve dignity while protecting the vulnerable. The real danger lies not in surveillance, but in silence. Technology must be used to illuminate, not obscure, the truth.
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Anku Jain
Managing Director
MediaTek India
Artificial Intelligence has evolved from a futuristic concept to a transformative force, particularly in the semiconductor and smartphone industries. AI is redefining user experiences by enabling everyday features, from voice assistants and computational photography to real-time translations. At MediaTek, we’re embedding advanced AI capabilities into our chipsets to make devices smarter, faster, and more responsive. Our latest flagship Dimensity 9400 series and performance-driven MediaTek Dimensity 8450 SoC feature next-gen NPUs built to handle complex AI tasks efficiently. By integrating AI across our premium platforms, we enable brands to deliver cutting-edge, flagship-level experiences. As AI continues to evolve, MediaTek remains focused on enabling meaningful, intelligent technology for the next generation of devices.
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Agendra Kumar
Managing Director
Esri India
AI is transforming the world by unlocking new possibilities across every sector. From automating routine tasks to generating deep insights from massive datasets, it is enabling faster, smarter decision-making. The integration of AI into geospatial workflows is transforming how we collect, analyze, and share spatial data. We are calling this Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI). With GeoAI, users across sectors are able to derive actionable insights from satellite imagery, drone videos, unstructured text, and more at unprecedented speed and scale. Additionally, natural language-powered AI assistants are making GIS more accessible, enabling users to interact with complex spatial datasets simply by describing what they need in plain English or even in their native language. These advancements are happening now, and our newly launched GIS and AI Centre is a step towards democratizing this potential, empowering users across domains to solve real-world problems more intelligently and intuitively.
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Deepak Gupta
Co-Founder
Style Lounge
Artificial intelligence is not just about algorithms and data, it is like reimagining human experiences. In the beauty industry, AI serves as an invisible bridge between tech and self-expression, creating ways to personalization that were once unimaginable. When we use AI's potential, we don't just transform industries—we enhance the very fabric of human connections.
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Soumendra Mohanty
Chief Strategy Officer
Tredence
AI is no longer just a futuristic idea, it's a present-day catalyst transforming how we think, work, and lead. It is critical for businesses to efficiently navigate the NOW, NEW, and NEXT phases of AI-driven transformation to thrive in the era of agentic AI. In the 'Now', the focus is on building a strong, financially sound AI foundation that delivers real business outcomes. As we move into the 'New', AI begins to scale, enhancing collaboration, streamlining operations, and driving competitive advantage. In the 'Next', AI becomes deeply embedded in business models, enabling continuous reinvention, adaptive decision-making, and human-AI co-intelligence. This journey is a testament to what becomes possible when intelligence evolves from automation to autonomy, where technology not only augments human potential but also helps reshape the future of enterprise itself.
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Sanjay Katkar
Jt. Managing Director
Quick Heal Technologies Limited
AI Appreciation Day reminds us of the transformational role artificial intelligence plays in securing our connected world. As digital threats evolve, AI-powered cybersecurity is critical for stronger, adaptive defenses. At Quick Heal Technologies Limited, we recognized AI’s potential decades ago and made it central to our innovation. As India’s only cybersecurity company in the US Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium, we champion responsible AI. Our patented GoDeep.AI engine and new AntiFraud.AI solution showcase our commitment to real-time threat hunting and fraud prevention. With AI at our core, we’re making security simpler, sharper, and more effective for everyone.
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Harsha Solanki
VP GM Asia
Infobip
Over the years, Artificial Intelligence has emerged as a revolutionising force that changes the way we innovate and interact with technology. At Infobip, we see AI evolving from a support tool to an autonomous agent driving the future of customer experience. With the rise of Agentic AI and platforms like our Customer Experience Orchestration Platform (CXOP), brands can now deliver truly proactive, contextual, and personalised conversations across the customer journey. Whether guiding users from a social ad into a WhatsApp chat or resolving queries before they’re even raised, AI is enabling experiences that are seamless, smart, and scalable. On AI Appreciation Day, we celebrate the shift from reactive engagement to intelligent orchestration, where every interaction is an opportunity to build trust and long-term value.
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Parag Khurana
Country Manager, India
Barracuda Networks
It is not an overstatement to say that the adoption of AI is moving at breakneck speed. The ease of using generative AI to create and enhance content is having a far-reaching impact on people’s lives. AI tools and capabilities continue to evolve. The most advanced AI-based threats can adapt in real-time and target vulnerabilities to exploit. The attackers only need to succeed once, with one user or security gap – the cybersecurity tools that defend against them need to succeed 100% of the time. Organisations need their own, powerful multimodal AI security that can detect and neutralize AI-based attacks regardless of whether they are delivered in an image or a QR code, and even if the language and sender seem completely legitimate.Vishal SharmaCo-Founder & CTOCohyre.ai
We are seeing AI to transform hiring as a true strategic partner. At CoHyre.ai, we've developed AI agents making smart, unbiased decisions, leveraging human intuition with a human in the loop, and machine speed to identify the right role and cultural fit for a candidate. In our view, the future of recruitment isn't about replacing human judgement, but enhancing it, with the result that every recruiter will be a super-recruiter.
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Siva Balakrishnan
Founder & CEO
On AI Appreciation Day 2025, we celebrate AI’s power to transform education while safeguarding human agency. AI should elevate educators’ creativity and judgment, not replace them. By blending smart automation with empathetic teaching, we can use AI to scale learning without diminishing our human essence. Our goal must be to empower people to direct technology, ensuring classrooms where technology amplifies human insight and values.
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Praveen Joshi
MD and a Founding Member
RSK Business Solutions Pvt Ltd
In an age where AI transforms education and automation becomes pervasive, safeguarding human agency is vital. Technology must support, not supplant our ability to choose, create, and connect. As machines reshape learning, it is up to us to ensure they amplify our humanity rather than diminish it, keeping compassion, creativity, and ethical judgement at the forefront.
Venugopal GangannaCo-founder & CIO, LS DigitalLS DigitalAt LS Digital, we’re building towards a future where AI is not an overlay on marketing, it’s the architecture itself.
Our most exciting work involves developing agentic systems that can autonomously synthesize market signals, interpret brand tone, and generate campaign narratives that are not just context-aware, but culturally resonant. Think of them as co-pilots, not just for media or content, but for business decision-making at large. The future belongs to firms that don’t just adopt AI tools, but engineer AI-native ecosystems, where every function (creative, commerce, CRM) is interlinked through intelligence. That’s the leap we’re trying to make at LS Digital.
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Sujit Patel
CEO & MD
SCS Tech
Machines are becoming increasingly intelligent, and thankfully, so are we. But, AI Day isn’t just about shiny robots or futuristic promises. It’s about asking better questions and building systems that don’t break under real-world pressure. At SCS Tech, we’re not here for the AI hype. We’re here to make AI work where it actually matters in public systems, critical infrastructure, and enterprises that don’t have time for experiments. Smart tech isn’t smart until it solves something. That’s what we’re chasing. Happy AI Day to the ones building quiet revolutions, one smart solution at a time.
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Nakul Kumar
Co-founder & CMO
Cashify
The biggest shift AI is bringing to warehousing and logistics isn’t just speed, it’s foresight. We’re no longer asking, ‘How fast can we process what’s arrived?’ but ‘How accurately can we prepare for what’s coming?’
In global retail, AI already predicts SKU-level demand with over 90% accuracy. But in re-commerce, the variables are more complex. You're not just dealing with units, you're dealing with uncertainty. Every incoming device is different. Different conditions, different repair effort, different resale value. Sometimes, with no resale value. Now imagine an AI system that can estimate all of that, before the product even hits the warehouse. That’s where the industry is headed.
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Naresh B. Wadhwa
Vice-Chairman & Managing Director
Videonetics
As we celebrate AI Appreciation Day, it is essential to recognize that the true potential of AI lies not just in automating tasks, but in empowering intelligent, real-time decision-making across critical environments. At Videonetics, we believe in building what we call ‘True AI’: AI that is explainable, contextual, and deeply integrated with real-world scenarios.
From enhancing urban safety to streamlining traffic systems and securing vital infrastructure, our mission is to enable organisations to look deeper into video data and derive actionable insights that drive impact. India has the talent, scale, and ambition to lead the next wave of AI innovation, and we are proud to be building world-class, Made-in-India solutions that are already transforming how cities and enterprises think about security and intelligence.
AI is not just the future; it is the foundation of smarter, safer societies, and it must be built responsibly, for people and with purpose.
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Dr Sarath Kumar
Chief Technology Officer
ACT Fibernet
AI is no longer just a frontier technology, it’s a foundational layer for modern enterprises. But its potential is only as strong as the digital infrastructure that supports it. From low-latency networks to edge computing and intelligent bandwidth allocation, AI thrives on robust, adaptive connectivity. On AI Appreciation Day, it’s worth recognizing that the real enabler of AI-led transformation lies in the invisible yet critical backbone of infrastructure. As industries pursue smarter, real-time decision-making, the convergence of AI and next-gen networks will define the next era of innovation.
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Anand Mahurkar
CEO & Founder
Findability Sciences
On AI Appreciation Day, we celebrate the incredible strides AI has made in reshaping industries and enhancing daily life. While the challenges of coding complexity and data volume continue to grow, the opportunities to innovate, improve efficiency, and make smarter decisions are limitless. As AI evolves, it paves the way for a brighter, more intelligent future for all.
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Narendra Sen
Founder & CEO
RackBank & NeevCloud
AI is one of the most exciting chapters in the story of technology. It’s changing how we live, learn, and lead. It is helping us solve complex problems, unlock new possibilities, and reimagine the future. Today, we recognize AI not just as a workload we support, but as a partner that drives value, innovation, and trust. It is redefining how we work, serve customers and grow as a company. At RackBank and NeevCloud we are proud to be at the forefront of this journey of shaping technology that empowers people and enriches lives, while also championing the need for homegrown, sovereign AI capabilities that strengthen India’s digital ecosystem.
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Umesh Shah
Director
Orient Technologies Limited
AI Appreciation Day serves as a powerful reminder of how artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic concept but a present-day catalyst for progress across sectors. It’s a day to acknowledge the innovations that AI enables—from smarter governance and efficient enterprises to empowered communities. At Orient Technologies, we are dedicated to advancing this vision by helping position India as a global AI powerhouse. Through cutting-edge solutions and continued collaboration with MeitY, we bring deep expertise in managing large-scale digital infrastructure, ensuring that AI adoption is not only ambitious but also sustainable, secure, and impactful for businesses and society alike.
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Vivek Chadha
Founder
AccelerateX Ventures and angel investor
AI is becoming the backbone of how India builds, scales, and solves. With the economy at $4.19 trillion, growth now depends on sharper systems and faster execution. Startups are putting AI to work, for instance, in healthtech for diagnostics in remote areas, in logistics to reduce delays, and in agriculture to protect yields. Founders are solving for complexity, not just scale. With IndiaAI laying the base, the next phase needs better data, deep-tech capital, and regulatory clarity.
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Ashutosh Prakash Singh
Co-founder & CEO
AI is a foundational layer in how India operates and expands opportunity. As the economy hits $4.19 trillion, sustained growth needs smarter execution. For instance, in financial services, AI supports compliance and scale; in FinTech, it bridges talent gaps and speeds onboarding through voice agents and biometric KYC. Insurance claims are faster and more reliable. As digital access grows in Tier 2 and 3 cities, AI literacy, better data systems, and deep-tech support will shape the next phase.
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Rahul Jha
VP of CloudGenAi & Cybersecurity
Visionet Systems
On this AI Appreciation Day, we celebrate not only the progress AI has unlocked, but also the future we’re shaping through it. Through our in-house platforms like GenAI Studio and AgentVerse, we’re enabling scalable, secure, and high-impact adoption of AI and empowering businesses to build and deploy intelligent agents, enterprise copilots, and automation frameworks tailored to real-world needs. Internally, our AI Now campaign is a movement to embed AI into how we work, think, and grow.
From hands-on training and dedicated AI workspaces to the launch of our internal companion SPARK, we’re enabling every team member to build confidence, skills, and shared momentum in the age of intelligence.
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Jaspreet Bindra
Co-founder
AI&BEYOND
Indian AI startups had a strong 2024, with funding rising 40% to $800 million. Investors focused more on late-stage deals, including Sarvam’s $45M round led by Lightspeed. The Indian government also launched a ₹10,000 crore AI fund, partly benefiting startups. Bangalore led the ecosystem, with Hyderabad following. However, challenges remain: early-stage funding is weak, large deals declined, and issues persist around data access, talent gaps, and compute limitations. Despite this, momentum suggests 2025 could be even better.
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Vijay Navaluri
Co-Founder and CCO
Supervity
On AI Appreciation Day, July 16, 2025, we celebrate not just what AI does, but what it enables us to become: smarter collaborators, more creative thinkers, and ethical stewards of our collective future. In this new era, agentic AI, intelligent systems that independently plan, adapt, and take action, brings us into a partnership where humans set the goals and agents chart the course. These AI employees don’t just respond; they initiate, evolve, and learn from context. As these agents become integral to our workflows, handling complex negotiations, predictive maintenance, or personalized care, they amplify human ingenuity while demanding that our values remain central.
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Ranga Pothula
SVP, Global Delivery Services
Infor
AI today is no longer about experimental tools or isolated features; it’s about enabling businesses to address real-world challenges more effectively. At Infor, our approach to AI is rooted in purpose and practicality. We’ve integrated multi-modal intelligence, from machine learning and process automation to document interpretation, into a unified platform designed to serve diverse industries. Our engineering teams in India play a central role in developing these solutions, applying deep industry expertise to ensure AI aligns with the unique processes of sectors such as manufacturing, F&B and retail. The result is AI that’s not just advanced, but impactful, helping people work smarter and organizations move forward with confidence.
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Prashant Singh
CEO & Co-Founder
Blue Planet Environmental Solutions
Today, we celebrate AI, for its power to reshape the world. At Blue Planet, we are leveraging AI to advanced material recovery, and predict circularity outcomes with greater accuracy. We can track the data, map the flows of waste, monitor and report impact in real-time, and provide stakeholder insights, which is unprecedented in the industry. Waste management goes far beyond disposal; it involves tracking the waste's journey, reuse, and proving value at every step which relies on AI. The entire process becomes seamless and intuitive. Without AI, the opposite is true. With AI, we automate sorting and optimization while transforming waste into intelligent resources that are transparent and traceable.
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Prashasti Rastogi
Director
Coursera for Campus, and Government – India
India is leading the world in GenAI learning with over 2.6 million enrollments and 2 million learning hours on Coursera — that’s more than 230 years of learning in under three years. This momentum reflects the country’s potential to power the global AI talent pipeline but realizing that promise hinges on the right skilling at scale. As momentum builds across India — especially with more women and first-generation learners embracing AI tools like Coursera Coach — we’re focused on delivering accessible, localized, and job-aligned training to help every learner thrive in the digital economy.
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Mr Siva Balakrishnan
Founder & CEO
On AI Appreciation Day 2025, we celebrate AI’s power to transform education while safeguarding human agency. AI should elevate educators’ creativity and judgment, not replace them. By blending smart automation with empathetic teaching, we can use AI to scale learning without diminishing our human essence. Our goal must be to empower people to direct technology, ensuring classrooms where technology amplifies human insight and values.
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Mr Praveen Joshi
MD and a Founding Member
RSK Business Solutions Pvt Ltd
In an age where AI transforms education and automation becomes pervasive, safeguarding human agency is vital. Technology must support, not supplant our ability to choose, create, and connect. As machines reshape learning, it is up to us to ensure they amplify our humanity rather than diminish it, keeping compassion, creativity, and ethical judgement at the forefront.
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STL Digital
CEO
Naveen Bolalingappa
At STL Digital, we’re committed to changing that narrative. Our approach integrates AI with cloud, data engineering, and security by design, helping enterprises scale responsibly and innovate consistently. We are enabling businesses to move from experimentation to execution—with frameworks that ensure fairness, scalability, and real-time intelligence. On this AI Appreciation Day, we urge Indian businesses to not just adopt AI, but to embed it deeply and ethically into the core of their operations.
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Niraj Kumar
Chief Technology Officer
Onix
On World AI Appreciation Day, we at Onix celebrate the remarkable evolution of AI from experimentation to a true enterprise accelerator. We also reaffirm our commitment to AI that is transparent, trustworthy, and human-centric. Our agentic AI, the Wingspan platform, powered by Eagle, Raven, Pelican, and the Phoenix context engine, and strengthened by Onix Kingfisher, which generates high-fidelity synthetic data, helps enterprises overcome bias, protect privacy, and build fairness into AI from the ground up. With human-in-the-loop governance and deployment timelines under four weeks, we’re not just accelerating AI adoption, we’re doing it responsibly. At Onix, we believe ethical innovation is the only innovation that scales with impact and integrity.
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Nataraj Kumar
Head of Software Engineering and Components, Innovation Engineering
Philips Innovation Campus
For us, AI is not just a powerful technological advancement - it is an enabler that helps address complex healthcare challenges, support diagnostic decision-making, and personalize care pathways.
While we celebrate the opportunities AI brings, we also remain focused on its thoughtful and ethical integration. Transparency, trust, and human empathy must guide every solution we develop. We believe that the real promise of AI lies in responsibly aligning technology with human values —improving care delivery, reducing disparities, and empowering both patients and care providers.
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Preethy Ayappan
Principal II Technology Program Manager
Sabre India
In the evolving landscape of travel, AI is no longer just a tool but a trusted companion. From understanding nuanced traveller preferences to anticipating disruptions before they happen, AI is quietly transforming the experience behind the scenes. It doesn’t just automate; it collaborates. It listens, learns and adapts, helping travel providers personalize journeys at scale, while making operations smarter and more responsive.
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Arijit Mitra
Managing Director, BEAT
Acuity Knowledge Partners
AI Appreciation Day 2025 arrives at a pivotal moment. With models reasoning like PhDs and coding agents boosting developer productivity by 50%, AI is transforming industries. Nvidia’s $4T valuation reflects this shift. Generative copilots are evolving from chatbots to workflow orchestrators in finance and logistics. In healthcare, over 850 FDA-approved AI devices are in use, and tools like DeepMind’s cyclone predictor are outperforming traditional models. AI’s true power lies in amplifying expert judgment—enabling regulators, clinicians, and engineers to co-design smarter, safer systems for high-stakes challenges.
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Chaitali Moitra
Regional Director South Asia
Turnitin
Artificial intelligence is transforming how we learn, create, and solve problems. It is important to recognize AI as a collaborative ally rather than just a tool. When integrated thoughtfully, AI can support educators and students by offering new ways to explore ideas, provide feedback, and foster originality. The challenge and opportunity lie in using AI responsibly balancing innovation with transparency. By embracing AI as a partner, we encourage a future where technology enhances human creativity and integrity, helping learners develop skills that will be essential in tomorrow’s world.
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Divye Agarwal
Co-founder
BingeLabs
AI has become one of the greatest equalisers of our time. Today, a creator sitting in a tier-3 city has the same tools, reach, and creative firepower as someone in a metro. From generating content in local languages to pushing it in culturally relevant ways, AI is breaking down barriers that once felt immovable. At Binge Labs, we see this not just as a technological shift, but as a social one; where access, expression, and opportunity are finally becoming truly democratic
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Amit Relan
Co-founder and CEO
mFilterlit
As AI becomes central to how digital ecosystems operate, it’s also driving the threats we face—from deepfake-led scams to hyper-personalized fraud. At mFilterIt, we believe the answer to AI-generated threats lies in AI itself—but only if it's guided by the right guardrails. Accuracy isn’t enough. Transparency, accountability, and continuous validation must be built into every AI model we deploy. Because in a world where machines can mimic humans, brands need machine intelligence that can think deeper, trace wider, and act responsibly.