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Business Standard
2 days ago
- Business
- Business Standard
Crafting Bharat - S2, powered by AWS Startups and an initiative by NewsReach, launches its eleventh episode with Amit Kaul, COO of Pharmarack
VMPL New Delhi [India], July 22: India's pharmatech sector is pivotal in building a Viksit Bharat, leading innovation in healthcare delivery, digital therapeutics, and modernized supply chains as the nation progresses toward its ambitious Vision 2047 goals for inclusive and tech-driven healthcare. The "Crafting Bharat - Season 2", powered by AWS Startups, an initiative by NewsReach, in association with VCCircle, and production partner - HT Smartcast, explores how startups are harnessing the power of the cloud to accelerate growth, optimize operations, and build solutions that will define the India of Tomorrow. This series is hosted by Gautam Srinivasan, famed for hosting a diverse range of TV and digital programs, currently consulting editor at CNBC (India), CNN-News18, Forbes India, and The Economic Times. In this episode, we spotlight Amit Kaul, COO of Pharmarack, who is transforming the fragmented value chain of chemists, distributors, and brands- and in the process taking India's $58 billion pharmaceuticals industry to new horizons. He shares insights about the pharmaceutical industry, building the largest B2B e-commerce platform and how AI-enabled efforts on AWS are helping them scale. In this series, explore inspiring startup stories that are shifting gears and sparking innovation across sectors, all contributing to India's transformation into a developed nation by 2047 in this captivating series. Edited Excerpts: Segment 1: Ignite Considering the sheer number of issues at play, what was the MVP idea for Pharmarack to start things off in its mission to digitise the trade channel? India's pharma sector is highly fragmented, with over 500 ERP systems creating supply chain and visibility challenges. To solve this, we built a lightweight ordering app that integrates with 200+ distributor ERPs, enabling real-time inventory access and direct ordering, reducing dependency on traditional ways of ordering, manual ordering via phone/chat, and driving early, impactful adoption. Give us a behind the scenes look at how Pharmarack built this momentum play in terms of organic growth for its product stack by resolving relevant customer pain points? The real breakthrough came from empowering retailers--the essential link in pharmaceutical sales--who previously relied on calls and handwritten notes and couldn't invest in technology. By giving them an intuitive ordering platform, we generated strong adoption pull, which in turn convinced distributors and manufacturers of its value in bridging their gap with retailers. Positioned at that critical point in the value chain, we now offer a comprehensive suite--Pharm Retail, PharmConnect 2.0, Trusales, and PharmScan that addresses challenges across the entire pharmaceutical distribution network. Segment 2: Launch Was your pure B2B play a blessing since it's easier to gauge market expansion possibilities in a B2B framework versus a B2C model? What makes Pharmarack a resilient business? Being a B2B provider in pharma distribution isn't easy--our customers are institutionalized businesses laser-focused on sales and ROI, and they won't hesitate to voice their needs. They only adopt tools that deliver tangible business value. At Pharmarack, we've deliberately built deep relationships with small retailers and distributors to truly understand their pain points and design solutions that address real-world challenges. With over a million retailers in the market, the opportunity is vast--but so are the demands on service, resilience, and industry expertise. Today, we boast one of the largest pharma catalogues--nearly 450,000 SKUs across 15,000 distributor catalogues, each mapped to unique product codes--and handle phenomenal order volumes. Our end-to-end integrations span retailers, distributors, and manufacturers, giving us a unique competitive edge in delivering seamless, high-value solutions. Sub-segment: Boost How have your AI-enabled efforts on AWS brought about consistency of the data catalogue throughout your pharma value chain? India's pharmaceutical landscape is highly fragmented, with distributors and retailers using diverse systems and inconsistent product names. Pharmarack brings structure to this complexity by combining advanced AI/ML capabilities with the power of AWS and Snowflake. At the core of this solution is our extensive product catalogue, housing over 450,000 medicines, each uniquely tagged for precise identification. This enables our system to instantly match user inputs to the correct SKU within milliseconds, ensuring a smooth, e-commerce-like experience for all users. Segment 3: Orbit What needs to be the top priority for India to reach those targets and increase its influence in the global pharma value chain? To reach India's goal of becoming the world's third-largest economy, the pharmaceutical sector must tackle several critical challenges. First, we need to overhaul supply chains for reliability and cost-efficiency. Second, we must enhance transparency and implement robust track-and-trace systems. Third, embracing GenAI and other cutting-edge technologies will drive innovation in this industry. Fourth, ramping up R & D investment and developing our patented drugs is essential. Addressing these five key areas will be vital for pharma--and for India's broader economic ambitions. PharmaTech is emerging as a powerful catalyst in transforming India's healthcare and pharmaceutical landscape. By integrating advanced technologies into drug discovery, manufacturing, and delivery, PharmaTech is driving greater efficiency, transparency, and accessibility across the sector. This innovation-led growth is not only strengthening India's position in the global pharmaceutical arena but also playing a vital role in the country's broader mission to become a developed economy. Stay tuned to Crafting Bharat - Season 2 as we bring you these inspiring entrepreneurs for insightful and candid discussions with Gautam Srinivasan. Facebook: Instagram: LinkedIn: X:
Business Standard
15-07-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
Crafting Bharat - S2, powered by AWS Startups and an initiative by NewsReach, launches its tenth episode with Amit Kumar, Director and CTO of Easebuzz
VMPL New Delhi [India], July 15: India has rapidly emerged as one of the world's fastest-growing FinTech markets, ranking third globally in the number of FinTech companies and accounting for 14 percent of domestic startup funding. Fueled by technology-driven innovation, this vibrant ecosystem has transformed traditional financial services, streamlining delivery, cutting costs, and elevating the customer experience. The "Crafting Bharat - Season 2", powered by AWS Startups, an initiative by NewsReach, in association with VCCircle, and production partner - HT Smartcast, explores how startups are harnessing the power of the cloud to accelerate growth, optimise operations, and build solutions that will define the India of Tomorrow. This series is hosted by Gautam Srinivasan, famed for hosting a diverse range of TV and digital programs, currently consulting editor at CNBC (India), CNN-News18, Forbes India, and The Economic Times. In this episode, we spotlight Amit Kumar, Director and CTO of Easebuzz, who is revolutionising the financial operating systems for businesses through their full-stack payment solutions platform. He shares insights about becoming a full stack technology platform for payments & financial operations and how AWS is helping them scale from thousands to millions of transactions per day. In this captivating series, explore inspiring startup stories that are shifting gears and sparking innovation across sectors, all contributing to India's transformation into a developed nation by 2047. Watch Episode: Edited Excerpts: Segment 1: Ignite At the onset, what made your approach to resolving complex payment issues unique versus your competitors? From day one, we recognised that India's 90 million+ online businesses face deeply varied challenges--price sensitivity, uneven digitisation, credit constraints, and broken collection workflows unique to each sector. Unlike competitors offering one-size-fits-all payment processing, we segment businesses by industry (education, insurance, e-commerce, etc.) and tailor end-to-end collection journeys, including payment configuration, collection, split payments, reconciliation and multi-account settlements. This vertical-first strategy lets us solve domain-specific complexities and deliver outcomes our horizontal competitors can't match. What inspired you to go beyond just the education domain to sectors like real estate, and how did you replicate that model in real estate? We began in the education sector at a pivotal moment of digitisation, first building a placement portal to establish revenue. As we gained insights, we pivoted to solve campus-specific payment challenges--today, most institutes depend exclusively on our API-first, domain-driven payment suite, which plugs seamlessly into any ERP with minimal configuration. Leveraging that success, we expanded into real estate, where our platform automates RERA-compliant payment collections and powers a SaaS booking engine that lets buyers reserve flats with built-in validations and workflows--all in one scalable ecosystem. Segment 2: Launch Easebuzz benefited from the Reserve Bank of India embargo on most of the large payment aggregators, causing new brands to look at fresh payment solutions. Take us through how you quickly managed to scale to take advantage of this opportunity. That period not only helped us win early customers but, more importantly, solidified our credibility. Banking ecosystem recognised our rigorous processes and trusted our compliance-driven portfolio, which drove confidence in our solutions. As a result, over 20 banks now directly partner with us, referring both their current account clients and NBFC partners to Easebuzz's full-stack payments platform. Sub-segment: Boost How has AWS enabled you to monetise data at a lower cost and drive product development with new insights? We scaled from thousands to over a million transactions per day on AWS, leveraging their POC credits and rapid-experiment to optimise cost and performance. Engineers' lives have become easier as they can access data at the click of a button and drive platform efficiency. Drawing on my data-science background, I built a data-driven culture: our payment gateway and layered SaaS products generate high-accuracy financial data, empower every vertical with actionable insights, accelerate decision-making, and unlock new customer value. You also built an AI-powered Chatbot ERA on Amazon Bedrock, which automates responses for merchant/customer queries and developers. Could you expand on how these have improved your value proposition with customers? Leveraging AWS's intuitive GenAI stack, we've rolled out three core applications: streamlining internal operations, enhancing customer interactions, and powering advanced fraud and risk detection. For instance, our ERA model automatically handles L1/L2 support queries across 200+ WhatsApp groups, resolving thousands of issues in-platform and delivering a 40% boost in efficiency alongside a 20% reduction in turnaround time. Segment 3: Orbit India's digital payments revolution is gaining international momentum, with both UPI and RuPay expanding rapidly across borders. What new opportunities are opening for Easebuzz as a result? We see embedded finance as our next frontier--supporting businesses as they scale globally, facilitate cross-border trade, and integrate services via both our core platform and the B2B Bharat Connect Platform. To accelerate this, we're engaging a strategic investor to guide our geographic expansion and align with regulatory and NPCI initiatives. Additionally, we're preparing for the upcoming interoperable Internet Banking and Mobile Banking initiative, which promises to revolutionise net-banking infrastructure for all banks. The Fintech SaaS market is central to the financial sector's digital evolution. By forging hybrid partnerships that blend banks' institutional resilience with the agility and innovation of fintech solutions, the industry is seamlessly bridging legacy systems and emerging trends. This collaboration not only reshapes the future of financial services but also accelerates India's journey toward developed-nation status. Stay tuned to Crafting Bharat - Season 2 as we bring you these inspiring entrepreneurs for insightful and candid discussions with Gautam Srinivasan. Facebook: LinkedIn:
The Wire
15-07-2025
- Business
- The Wire
Crafting Bharat – S2, powered by AWS Startups and an initiative by NewsReach, launches its tenth episode with Amit Kumar, Director and CTO of Easebuzz.
Amit Kumar, Director and CTO of Easebuzz, in conversation with host Gautam Srinivasan. India has rapidly emerged as one of the world's fastest-growing FinTech markets, ranking third globally in the number of FinTech companies and accounting for 14 percent of domestic startup funding. Fueled by technology-driven innovation, this vibrant ecosystem has transformed traditional financial services, streamlining delivery, cutting costs, and elevating the customer experience. The 'Crafting Bharat – Season 2', powered by AWS Startups, an initiative by NewsReach, in association with VCCircle, and production partner – HT Smartcast, explores how startups are harnessing the power of the cloud to accelerate growth, optimise operations, and build solutions that will define the India of Tomorrow. This series is hosted by Gautam Srinivasan, famed for hosting a diverse range of TV and digital programs, currently consulting editor at CNBC (India), CNN-News18, Forbes India, and The Economic Times. In this episode, we spotlight Amit Kumar, Director and CTO of Easebuzz, who is revolutionising the financial operating systems for businesses through their full-stack payment solutions platform. He shares insights about becoming a full stack technology platform for payments & financial operations and how AWS is helping them scale from thousands to millions of transactions per day. In this captivating series, explore inspiring startup stories that are shifting gears and sparking innovation across sectors, all contributing to India's transformation into a developed nation by 2047. Watch Episode: Edited Excerpts: Segment 1: Ignite At the onset, what made your approach to resolving complex payment issues unique versus your competitors? From day one, we recognised that India's 90 million online businesses face deeply varied challenges—price sensitivity, uneven digitisation, credit constraints, and broken collection workflows unique to each sector. Unlike competitors offering one-size-fits-all payment processing, we segment businesses by industry (education, insurance, e-commerce, etc.) and tailor end-to-end collection journeys, including payment configuration, collection, split payments, reconciliation and multi-account settlements. This vertical-first strategy lets us solve domain-specific complexities and deliver outcomes our horizontal competitors can't match. What inspired you to go beyond just the education domain to sectors like real estate, and how did you replicate that model in real estate? We began in the education sector at a pivotal moment of digitisation, first building a placement portal to establish revenue. As we gained insights, we pivoted to solve campus-specific payment challenges—today, most institutes depend exclusively on our API-first, domain-driven payment suite, which plugs seamlessly into any ERP with minimal configuration. Leveraging that success, we expanded into real estate, where our platform automates RERA-compliant payment collections and powers a SaaS booking engine that lets buyers reserve flats with built-in validations and workflows—all in one scalable ecosystem. Segment 2: Launch Easebuzz benefited from the Reserve Bank of India embargo on most of the large payment aggregators, causing new brands to look at fresh payment solutions. Take us through how you quickly managed to scale to take advantage of this opportunity. That period not only helped us win early customers but, more importantly, solidified our credibility. Banking ecosystem recognised our rigorous processes and trusted our compliance-driven portfolio, which drove confidence in our solutions. As a result, over 20 banks now directly partner with us, referring both their current account clients and NBFC partners to Easebuzz's full-stack payments platform. Sub-segment: Boost How has AWS enabled you to monetise data at a lower cost and drive product development with new insights? We scaled from thousands to over a million transactions per day on AWS, leveraging their POC credits and rapid‐experiment to optimise cost and performance. Engineers' lives have become easier as they can access data at the click of a button and drive platform efficiency. Drawing on my data‐science background, I built a data-driven culture: our payment gateway and layered SaaS products generate high-accuracy financial data, empower every vertical with actionable insights, accelerate decision-making, and unlock new customer value. You also built an AI-powered Chatbot ERA on Amazon Bedrock, which automates responses for merchant/customer queries and developers. Could you expand on how these have improved your value proposition with customers? Leveraging AWS's intuitive GenAI stack, we've rolled out three core applications: streamlining internal operations, enhancing customer interactions, and powering advanced fraud and risk detection. For instance, our ERA model automatically handles L1/L2 support queries across 200 WhatsApp groups, resolving thousands of issues in-platform and delivering a 40% boost in efficiency alongside a 20% reduction in turnaround time. Segment 3: Orbit India's digital payments revolution is gaining international momentum, with both UPI and RuPay expanding rapidly across borders. What new opportunities are opening for Easebuzz as a result? We see embedded finance as our next frontier—supporting businesses as they scale globally, facilitate cross-border trade, and integrate services via both our core platform and the B2B Bharat Connect Platform. To accelerate this, we're engaging a strategic investor to guide our geographic expansion and align with regulatory and NPCI initiatives. Additionally, we're preparing for the upcoming interoperable Internet Banking and Mobile Banking initiative, which promises to revolutionise net-banking infrastructure for all banks. The Fintech SaaS market is central to the financial sector's digital evolution. By forging hybrid partnerships that blend banks' institutional resilience with the agility and innovation of fintech solutions, the industry is seamlessly bridging legacy systems and emerging trends. This collaboration not only reshapes the future of financial services but also accelerates India's journey toward developed-nation status. Stay tuned to Crafting Bharat – Season 2 as we bring you these inspiring entrepreneurs for insightful and candid discussions with Gautam Srinivasan. Facebook: Instagram: LinkedIn: X: (Disclaimer: The above press release comes to you under an arrangement with NRDPL and PTI takes no editorial responsibility for the same.).
The Wire
08-07-2025
- Business
- The Wire
Crafting Bharat – S2, powered by AWS Startups and an initiative by NewsReach, launches ninth episode with Dr. Raunak Bhinge, MD of Infinite Uptime
Dr. Raunak Bhinge of Infinite Uptime, on Industry 4.0 technologies, digital-first approach and how AWS is helping them scale and optimize Production Reliability outcomes. Artificial Intelligence offers India a unique opportunity to revolutionize its manufacturing sector, positioning it as a cutting-edge factory and service center for the global economy. By harnessing AI-driven automation, predictive analytics, and digital innovation, India can boost productivity, quality, and competitiveness across industries from automotive to pharmaceuticals. This promises sustainable growth and solidifies India's leadership. AI adoption is vital to the Viksit Bharat vision, driving India's evolution into a developed nation by 2047. The ' Crafting Bharat – Season 2' powered by AWS Startups, an initiative by NewsReach, in association with VCCircle, and production partner – HT Smartcast, explores how startups are harnessing the power of the cloud to accelerate growth, optimise operations, and building solutions that will define the India of Tomorrow. This series is hosted by Gautam Srinivasan, famed for hosting a diverse range of TV and digital programs, currently consulting editor at CNBC (India), CNN-News18, Forbes India, and The Economic Times. In this episode, we spotlight Dr. Raunak Bhinge, MD of Infinite Uptime, who are innovating to deliver production outcomes so that Indian companies can truly embrace the fourth industrial revolution. He shares insights about Industry 4.0 technologies, their digital-first approach and how AWS is helping them scale and optimize their value preposition. In this series, explore inspiring startup stories that are shifting gears and sparking innovation across sectors, all contributing to India's transformation into a developed nation by 2047 in this captivating series. Watch Episode: Edited Excerpts: Segment 1: Ignite What's a big client win that you fondly remember in terms of outcomes delivered? Startups often struggle at the outset. We were championing a forward-looking concept before the digital revolution fully arrived—educating clients on what's possible and the industry's trajectory over the next five to ten years. One standout early engagement was with JSW Steel's Vijayanagar plant in Karnataka, four hours by road from the nearest city. At COVID's outset, their visionary digital leader teamed up with us—and on August 14th at midnight, we were installing IoT sensors on critical equipment to demonstrate this innovation to Mr. Jindal during the August 15th celebrations. How did your product roadmap evolve to address customer challenges around connecting isolated data sources and scalability limitations by creating a plug-and-play solution to integrate modern analytics into their existing infrastructure? Initially, we tried integrating with legacy manufacturing systems for richer context, but found data siloed, fragmented, and non-interoperable. So, we designed an independent product roadmap that maximizes diagnostic insights and predictive accuracy without altering control systems, forming the backbone of our complete product stack. Many companies struggle with the upfront cost. How did you approach this issue when talking to potential clients? There are 2 things to this – ROI and how do you get them to start consuming – which brings into the business model. We decided to eliminate them having to put a lot of money upfront in advance on the table. You don't need to have Capex model, instead have an Opex model which is consumption based. We use a 'show-and-grow' model: clients pay monthly only once they see value. As returns and benefits emerge, they scale usage. This consumption-based approach lets you start small and then scale, creating mutual gains. Segment 2: Launch In serving such a diverse array of customers with vast amounts of data to be processed, how has Infinite Uptime managed its own tech back-end to scale with higher and more varied demands of customers? We've developed a scalable approach—both technologically and organizationally—without needing industry-specific teams. Since most equipment is used across multiple sectors, we apply a common, replicable stack to predict faults. Only niche assets require custom AI models. For those few industry-specific machines, we build separate models, while all standard equipment diagnostics run on our universal platform. This lets us efficiently serve diverse industries with minimal per-segment adjustments. Sub-segment: Boost Take us through the highlights of how AWS enables Infinite Uptime to optimise its value proposition? We outgrew our previous cloud provider and, after evaluating architecture, capabilities, support, and costs, consciously migrated to AWS. Since then, AWS's built-in scalability, optimization tools, and dedicated support have enabled us to refine our architecture and scale globally. We're partnering with AWS to extend our reach and ensure our solution can support and grow with organizations worldwide. Segment 3: Orbit What are the lessons in smart manufacturing that India can learn from the world and vice-versa? India is rapidly embracing smart manufacturing and digital transformation—a promising shift. I witnessed China adopt similar practices back in 2017–18, even before terms like 'digital factories' were popular. India's edge lies in frugal innovation—delivering high-impact, ROI-driven solutions that global industries can adopt cost-effectively, unlike complex, high-cost models in the West. What is your view on drivers for upskilling and reskilling in frontier technologies that are changing the manufacturing landscape in India as we speak? AI is transforming manufacturing by enabling data-driven decisions on the shop floor, replacing intuition with real-time insights and helping teams upskill, ultimately driving efficiency and value across the industry. By aligning sectoral growth with sustainability and inclusivity, India is well-positioned to achieve a $23–$35 trillion economy by 2047. This transformation can enhance quality of life, strengthen global influence, and position India as a leader in economic progress, technological innovation, and social development on the world stage. Stay tuned to Crafting Bharat – Season 2 as we bring you these inspiring entrepreneurs for insightful and candid discussion with Gautam Srinivasan. Facebook: Instagram: LinkedIn: X: This is an auto-published feed from PTI with no editorial input from The Wire.
Business Standard
08-07-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
Crafting Bharat - S2, powered by AWS Startups and an initiative by NewsReach, launches ninth episode with Dr. Raunak Bhinge, MD of Infinite Uptime
VMPL New Delhi [India], July 8: Artificial Intelligence offers India a unique opportunity to revolutionize its manufacturing sector, positioning it as a cutting-edge factory and service center for the global economy. By harnessing AI-driven automation, predictive analytics, and digital innovation, India can boost productivity, quality, and competitiveness across industries from automotive to pharmaceuticals. This promises sustainable growth and solidifies India's leadership. AI adoption is vital to the Viksit Bharat vision, driving India's evolution into a developed nation by 2047. The "Crafting Bharat - Season 2" powered by AWS Startups, an initiative by NewsReach, in association with VCCircle, and production partner - HT Smartcast, explores how startups are harnessing the power of the cloud to accelerate growth, optimise operations, and building solutions that will define the India of Tomorrow. This series is hosted by Gautam Srinivasan, famed for hosting a diverse range of TV and digital programs, currently consulting editor at CNBC (India), CNN-News18, Forbes India, and The Economic Times. In this episode, we spotlight Dr. Raunak Bhinge, MD of Infinite Uptime, who are innovating to deliver production outcomes so that Indian companies can truly embrace the fourth industrial revolution. He shares insights about Industry 4.0 technologies, their digital-first approach and how AWS is helping them scale and optimize their value preposition. In this series, explore inspiring startup stories that are shifting gears and sparking innovation across sectors, all contributing to India's transformation into a developed nation by 2047 in this captivating series. Edited Excerpts: Segment 1: Ignite What's a big client win that you fondly remember in terms of outcomes delivered? Startups often struggle at the outset. We were championing a forward-looking concept before the digital revolution fully arrived--educating clients on what's possible and the industry's trajectory over the next five to ten years. One standout early engagement was with JSW Steel's Vijayanagar plant in Karnataka, four hours by road from the nearest city. At COVID's outset, their visionary digital leader teamed up with us--and on August 14th at midnight, we were installing IoT sensors on critical equipment to demonstrate this innovation to Mr. Jindal during the August 15th celebrations. How did your product roadmap evolve to address customer challenges around connecting isolated data sources and scalability limitations by creating a plug-and-play solution to integrate modern analytics into their existing infrastructure? Initially, we tried integrating with legacy manufacturing systems for richer context, but found data siloed, fragmented, and non-interoperable. So, we designed an independent product roadmap that maximizes diagnostic insights and predictive accuracy without altering control systems, forming the backbone of our complete product stack. Many companies struggle with the upfront cost. How did you approach this issue when talking to potential clients? There are 2 things to this - ROI and how do you get them to start consuming - which brings into the business model. We decided to eliminate them having to put a lot of money upfront in advance on the table. You don't need to have Capex model, instead have an Opex model which is consumption based. We use a "show-and-grow" model: clients pay monthly only once they see value. As returns and benefits emerge, they scale usage. This consumption-based approach lets you start small and then scale, creating mutual gains. Segment 2: Launch In serving such a diverse array of customers with vast amounts of data to be processed, how has Infinite Uptime managed its own tech back-end to scale with higher and more varied demands of customers? We've developed a scalable approach--both technologically and organizationally--without needing industry-specific teams. Since most equipment is used across multiple sectors, we apply a common, replicable stack to predict faults. Only niche assets require custom AI models. For those few industry-specific machines, we build separate models, while all standard equipment diagnostics run on our universal platform. This lets us efficiently serve diverse industries with minimal per-segment adjustments. Sub-segment: Boost Take us through the highlights of how AWS enables Infinite Uptime to optimise its value proposition? We outgrew our previous cloud provider and, after evaluating architecture, capabilities, support, and costs, consciously migrated to AWS. Since then, AWS's built-in scalability, optimization tools, and dedicated support have enabled us to refine our architecture and scale globally. We're partnering with AWS to extend our reach and ensure our solution can support and grow with organizations worldwide. Segment 3: Orbit What are the lessons in smart manufacturing that India can learn from the world and vice-versa? India is rapidly embracing smart manufacturing and digital transformation--a promising shift. I witnessed China adopt similar practices back in 2017-18, even before terms like "digital factories" were popular. India's edge lies in frugal innovation--delivering high-impact, ROI-driven solutions that global industries can adopt cost-effectively, unlike complex, high-cost models in the West. What is your view on drivers for upskilling and reskilling in frontier technologies that are changing the manufacturing landscape in India as we speak? AI is transforming manufacturing by enabling data-driven decisions on the shop floor, replacing intuition with real-time insights and helping teams upskill, ultimately driving efficiency and value across the industry. By aligning sectoral growth with sustainability and inclusivity, India is well-positioned to achieve a $23-$35 trillion economy by 2047. This transformation can enhance quality of life, strengthen global influence, and position India as a leader in economic progress, technological innovation, and social development on the world stage. Stay tuned to Crafting Bharat - Season 2 as we bring you these inspiring entrepreneurs for insightful and candid discussion with Gautam Srinivasan.
