Mumbai:
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella on Monday urged Indian business leaders to build technology capabilities that are inclusive in nature.
Beginning his three-day visit to India, Nadella was addressing Microsoft's Future Decoded CEO Summit here.
"Indian CEOs need to build own tech capability and ensure that the solutions are inclusive," he said.
Stating that the last decade saw emergence of the aggregators, he asserted that aggregators are not enough alone. "We need to ensure that digital interventions lead to broadening of productivity."
Nadella stated that 72 per cent of jobs for software engineers in India are outside of the technology industry.
Speaking at the same event, Rajesh Gopinathan, chief executive and managing director of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) said the company prefers to train internal talent for the changing technologies and ensure that good quality talent is retained, rather than searching for it externally.
He said the millennials possess phenomenal knowledge and are quick learners as well, but need to be trained on the same.
The era of multi-year projects in IT is over; and three years ago, TCS took a bet to completely adopt Agile technologies by 2020, he said.
59 per cent of all the developers are now working on Agile, he added.
Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani said India is at the cusp of becoming a premier digital society, and will be among the top three economies of the world.
In conversation Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella at the Future Decoded CEO Summit here, he said the big change driving this transformation is the deepening of mobile networks which are working at a much faster pace than before.
"It all kickstarted in 2014 when PM gave us the vision of Digital India… 380 million people have migrated to Jio's 4g technology," he said.
Pre-Jio, the data speed was 256 kbps; and post-Jio, it is 21 mbps, he pointed out.
Referring to US President Donald Trump's visit to the country, Ambani said India is much different than what it was during the visits of his predecessors Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton or Barack Obama, and pointed out that mobile connectivity was a key change.
“I have no doubt in my mind that we will be among the top three economies in the world, Ambani said, adding that the only debate which can exist is whether it happens in five or in ten years.We in India have the opportunity to become the premier digital society. The next generation will see a very different India than what you (Nadella) and I have grown up in," he said.