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Sandy Carter is responsible for IBM\'s worldwide focus on developers and startups. She has been ranked among the ten most powerful women in tech.
Sandy Carter is responsible for IBM's worldwide focus on developers and startups. She has been ranked among the ten most powerful women in tech. She has been called a social media legend. She's been ranked among the top digital and cloud influencers. Carter was in Bengaluru on Friday at the Social Media Week conference and spoke to TOI. Excerpts:
How do you see the Indian developer ecosystem today?
It's one of the strongest in the world. There will be more developers in India than anywhere in the world by 2018 and that's just two years away. The second will be the US and third will be China. About 60% of the developers in India have been experimenting with AI ( artificial intelligence ) and machine learning, compared to 39% in the rest of the world. Those are figures from Evans Data Corp. The Evans data found that, between the first half of 2015 and the first half of 2016, there was a 40% increase in the number of developers in India using internet-of-things. Importantly, a very large percentage of Indian developers also know Java. While cloud developers now are mashing things up, the real benefit is when it gets integrated into the back-end. And back-end systems are all done in Java. So you have the front-end and the back-end talent, and that's a winning combination, a power punch.
Doesn't Silicon Valley have this combination?
The Silicon Valley folks are more open source, more Swift (programming language for Apple iOS) developers, so more front-end.
What does this mean for the future of India?
With developers as the new king makers and queen makers, this will propel forward a number of startups and hence the business side of India. But the other element we need to see in India is VC funding - the Valley still accounts for 80% of the (funding) numbers. We, however, see India, more particularly Bengaluru, moving up the list. To be successful, you must have strong technical skills, both new-age and back-end, you guys have that. You must have passionate people who want to start businesses, you have that. The one piece that people are working on is the funding piece. Once you have that, India will become the next startup nation like Israel is today.
With the emergence of IoT, AI and cognitive computing, the action is increasingly centered around software developers. Apple is tweaking the economics around the App Store to give higher revenue to some developers. How are you engaging with this community in India?
Our engagement is on multiple fronts. We provide digital sources of information that can improve developer skills in IoT, cognitive, in architecting. We help developers in person, because a lot of them will grow digitally but some of them will want to do meet ups. Developers want to make money and start a company, so we have the most robust entrepreneur programme. We help developers with free tech and we do business mentoring and go-to-market support. In the last 1.5-2 years, we have 800,000 choosing our platform, and we want that to double and triple in the future.
source: techgig.com
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