Podcast ft. Nikhil Malhotra
India’s Innovation ecosystem is fragmented at best, and non-existent at worst.
With hardly 0.6% of GDP being spent on research & development-related activities, India stands 40th in the Global Innovation Index.
What are the issues with India’s R&D ecosystem? How deep is the linkage between our industry & academia? And how can we fix the biggest challenges, to unleash India’s R&D potential, to be the world’s largest innovation supplier?
Join me in conversation with Nikhil Malhotra, the Chief Innovation Officer at Tech Mahindra, for a deep dive discussion on this important issue of today.
About Nikhil Malhotra:
Nikhil Malhotra is the Chief Innovation Officer and creator of Maker’s Lab, a unique thin-q-bator space within Tech Mahindra. With 20+ years of experience, Nikhil is also a World Economic Forum AI Fellow working on responsible AI and Quantum ethics.
Nikhil has been a researcher all his life and is now leading the growth of AI, Robotics and Quantum Computing research within his organization. His area of personal research has been how quantum and neuroscience would inspire the growth of AI. He has won numerous awards including the 2020 Innovation Congress Award for the most innovative leader in India.
One of his visions is to enable machines to talk in the local Indian dialect. Nikhil is researching how the ancient Indian language of Sanskrit could sow the seed for the next computer revolution. His hobbies include playing tennis, golf and reading books on quantum mechanics and biographies.
He holds a master’s degree in computing with a specialization in distributed computing from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne.
Nikhil currently resides in Pune with his wife Shalini and sons Angad and Rudra.
His LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhilmalhotra2009/
About The Civilization Project
The Civilization Project is a boutique content marketing agency, promoting the art and science of Decision Making. We work with a simple insight; it is our choices that define our reality.
Choices and decisions we make on 5 levels to be precise:
Level 1: Decisions for Self
Level 2: Decisions by Teams
Level 3: Decisions by Society
Level 4: Decisions by Nation-States
Level 5: Decisions for Civilization
It leads us to think, that we can craft a better reality for the entire human civilization, simply by focusing on making better decisions on all 5 levels.
