B2B2C - Talking Business with Gaurav Choudhury: Recent Episodes
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In each episode, Gaurav Choudhury speaks to entrepreneurs, business leaders, CXOs, tech pioneers, marketing gurus, and industry captains to break down a variety of issues. These could range from emerging business models, to digital enablement, to consumer empowerment, to technological developments, to ESG issues, to climate concerns, economic policy, financial markets, and new and emerging frontiers in finance, accounting, and marketing among others.
In this episode, we speak to Sheila Lirio Marcelo, Co-Founder and CEO, Proof Of Learn.Proof of Learn is a Web3 education platform with a mission to unlock accessible, high-quality education across the world through blockchain and a learn-to-earn protocol. As a technology vehicle, how will blockchain break down the digital barriers for education in countries like India where the digital divide often hinders access to education for those coming from the lower income strata? Is gamification going to become increasingly a normalized pedagogical tool for imparting education across all levels? What does AI mean for education and learning?Tune in to this episode, as Sheila breaks these down.#Education #Meta #Blockchain #AI #ChatGPT #Web3
What are the expectations of the common taxpayer from the Union budget 2023-24? Is there a scope for changes in tax slabs and deduction limits? Will the finance minister rationalize capital gains taxes? In this episode, Sudhakar Sethuraman, Partner, Deloitte India, gives his insights on all of these and much more.
In this episode, Nidhi Bhasin, CEO, of NASSCOM Foundation, talks about how technology can help address skill gaps, the impact of the rising gig economy ecosystem, and the need to create opportunities for marginalized communities, among other issues.
In this episode, Ben Page, Ipsos Global CEO talks about market research, electoral analysis, data, surveys, inflation, employment, principles of security, simplicity, speed and substance and much more.
In this episode, Ketan Patel, Chairman and Managing Director and Purvi Patel, Whole Time Director, Creative Newtech, talk about distribution of cutting-edge products in the IT, imaging, lifestyle, and retail security ind
In this episode Matthew Foxton, India Regional President & Executive Vice President Branding & Communications at IDEMIA, talks about identity-related security services, facial recognition, trends in biometric identification technologies, ‘federated digital identities’.
In this episode, Amit Ghosh, Chief Information & Services Officer at R3, talks about how it is possible to share data openly without compromising privacy, security, or integrity. R3 is a leading provider of enterprise technology and services that enable direct, digital collaboration in regulated industries where trust is critical.
In this episode, Dr. Manoj Gopalkrishnan, founder of Algorithmic Biologics, a deep-tech startup building algorithms for molecular programming, talks about building AI to analyze biological data like DNA, RNA, protein, and the likes.
In this episode, Vishal Oberoi, CEO of Marketxcel, talks about Project Bharat: Road to Rural, it's a kind initiative taken to build a digital highway to consumers closer to brands and beneficiaries closer to government and developmental organizations, through a digitally connected network of over 30 thousand village Sahayaks.
In this episode, Veena Sivaramakrishnan, Partner, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co, talks about the National Asset Reconstruction Co (NARCL) or the government-backed bad bank as it is called on the workings of a bad bank work, and the duality model to resolve NPAs in the banking sector.
In this episode, Krishnan Chatterjee, COO, MarketsandMarkets, talks about helping companies stay relevant in a disruptive ecosystem, providing actionable insights on disruptive trends and identifying blind spots, assessing competitive landscape in real-time, and analyzing how these trends are impacting not only customers but also their customers as well.
In this episode, Vishrut Rana, Economist, Asia-Pacific,S&P Global Ratings, talks about the state of the world economy in the current context, inflation, commodity and global oil prices, and the Indian economy, among a host of other things.
Arvind Nagpal, Founder and CEO, HealthWorksAI, talks about the role of rapid access to very efficient and insightful market data, necessary for accurate predictions and strategic decision-making.
Sanjeev Chhabra, MD & CEO, Beetel talks about innovative product solutions, latest technology, and Beetel’s go-to-market strategy over the next 18 months.
Julia Karst, Head of Project, GIZ Her & Now, GIZ GmbH talks about the need to support aspiring and existing women entrepreneurs in India through skills and institutional assistance.
N. Balasubramanian, CEO, 24 Mantra Organic, India's pioneer of organic food brand, talks about origin, source, process of cultivation, and building their awareness on organic cultivation and reassuring them of its purity and safety.
Amit Singhal, founder of Sitare Foundation, a not-for-profit organization, talks about how supporting talented underprivileged children all the way through higher education can be a powerful socio-economic empowerment tool.
Harsh Binani, Cofounder, Smartworks talks about innovations and emerging trends in co-working spaces in a rapidly evolving post-pandemic world.
Madhav Krishna, Founder & CEO, Vahan talks about how the power of analytics and machine learning is helping employers find the right resource at the right price.
To succeed in today’s digital age, enterprises need the right insight-generating tools that fit their needs and maturity. One also needs to seamlessly integrate content into critical business applications to save users time and frustration. In this episode, Isaac Rajkumar, Managing Director, India and Vice President, Engineering, OpenText and Manish Dangwal, Country Manager, Sales, OpenText explain how AI and analytics offer a comprehensive set of tools that help enterprises overcome data challenges at their pace.
In this episode, Ravi Saxena, MD Wonderchef, talks about the current state of consumer confidence in India, the pattern changes in India’s household consumption behaviour, and growing coffee drinking culture among Indians.
In this episode, Arvind Bali, CEO, Telecom Sector Skill Council, talks about skill development in emergent technologies like 5G, IoT, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and drone technology among others.
In this episode, Agendra Kumar, Managing Director, Esri India Technologies, shares his thoughts on the role of GIS technologies in India’s economic growth, digital leadership, drone policy, unlocking of the space sector that is accelerating GIS tech adoption, and new skills that are required for the ‘Geo-Enabled Era’, among others.
In this episode, Prashant Lohia, MD and Chief Executive Officer of Ginesys talks about building a full tech stack of cloud-based solutions for online and offline retail companies, enabling them to manage processes from anywhere.
In this episode Sharad Malhotra, President, Automotive Refinishes and Wood Coatings, Nippon Paint India, shares his thoughts on China's ongoing exodus, its impact on Indian automobile refurbishing industry, and the importance of the PLI scheme for ensuring the growth of the Indian automotive refurbishing market.
Praphul Chandra, founder CEO of KoineArth tells us about the fun he is having building an NFT platform, whose purpose is to let the creator economy engage with their respective audiences. N-GageN is where Praphul and his team are stirring up quite an action.
Rishi Srivastava, Co-founder, Offgrid Energy Labs, and Siddharth Mehta, Principal Shell Ventures, give a lowdown on the need for cost-effective transition of renewables on the grid, and the current state of play in the energy storage market.
Pallavi Utagi, Founder & Mom-in-Chief of SuperBottoms, talks about the importance of reusable cloth diapers for babies and toddlers, and the role that parents have played in creating a company that is run by a core team of mothers.
Two experts - Anil Rajput, Chairman of FICCI CASCADE and PC Jha, former chairman of Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs - talk about the scourge of smuggling and counterfeiting activities in India how to prevent it.
Co-founder of Eduvacany Manav Shah talks about how the bootstrapped edtech start-up is seeking to make recruitment simpler for educational institutes.
Rolls-Royce India and South Asia President Kishore Jayaraman speaks to Earshot about working with India to co-develop and manufacture engines for the country’s fifth-generation fighter aircraft programme, called AMCA.
Bridgeweave's founder and Chairman Akshaya Bhargava speaks about how humans and machines (You+AI) is a powerful combination.
Marketing guru and CEO of Paul Writer, Jessie Paul gives her insight on creating a scalable marketing engine and talks about her latest book - Marketing Without Money.