Digital Conversations - TECH

On the competitive edge: How edge technologies can boost your enterprise value

In this episode of the IET India Digital Conversation, the manufacturing working group of the IET Future Tech Panel, in partnership with Siemens and an expert panel of speakers, explained how Edge is driving new use cases and business opportunities for customers around the world and unlocking tremendous value.

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

AI has the ability to improve care outcomes, reduce costs and improve quality of care while improving patient and provider experience.

The Healthcare Working Group of the IET Future Tech panel along with an expert panel of speakers were invited to our IET India Digital Conversations series to discuss how Artificial Intelligence has been impacting industries globally, including the healthcare sector.

Intelligent Transportation Systems and Internet of Roads

The Smart Cities Working Group of the IET Future Tech panel along with an expert panel of speakers were invited to our IET India Digital Conversations series to discuss the benefits arising from intelligent transportation and how digital technologies like IoT, electronics, AI, ML, DL, Analytics and other technologies would impact the urban transportation modes.

Future in Business Analytics – career and opportunities

This webinar marks the beginning of IET India’s partnership with Jigsaw Academy and through this partnership; we aim to provide future-focused skills through curated courses that deliver the results you need to catapult your career.

We are sure that this partnership with Jigsaw Academy will help our members, who are engineers, entrepreneurs and technology enthusiasts to enhance their business and technology skills through some of these in-demand courses to become future leaders.

Embracing Industrial Automation and Robotics – Guidance for MSMEs

In this episode of the IET India Digital Conversation, the manufacturing working group of the IET Future Tech Panel, in partnership with Siemens and an expert panel of speakers, explained and provided practical insights for a wider deployment and application of industrial automation and robotics in Indian manufacturing.

Influence of AI and advanced analytics in smart city strategies

Rapid falling cost of computing and connectivity have enabled the explosion of AI. How has this enhanced the digitisation strategy for future smart cities?

This episode of the IET India Digital Conversations has experts from all across the world discuss how Artificial Intelligence and advanced analytics is driving new use cases and business opportunities in future smart city strategies around the world and unlocking tremendous value.

5G and beyond – Use cases for mobile connectivity

5G is poised to dramatically transform industries and society as we know them. These new evolving telecommunication networks, that are high bandwidth, low latency and ultra-reliable, will not just supercharge smart phones - they will provide a new platform that will power the next generation of solutions that will transform sectors such as healthcare, manufacturing, agriculture, public safety and transportation.

We brought experts together to discuss “5G and beyond- Use cases for mobile connectivity” to explore 5G use cases that will bring most benefits to the Indian society at large and the conditions that can unleash its tremendous potential.

Tracing and Tracking of 4M’s-Man, Material, Machine and Method

This is the second edition of a multi-part whitepaper authored by experts from our Manufacturing working group of the IET Future Tech Panel on Tracing and Tracking of 4M’s- Man, Material, Machine and Method. It focuses on and explains:

Why traceability of 4Ms (Man, Material, Machine and Method) is important and how it can provide direct visibility into the manufacturing process?
Which are the relevant and cost-effective technologies, combined with application software, to be considered and deployed?
What are the positive impacts of traceability solutions in manufacturing processes?

Disease surveillance: The why and the how

Disease surveillance is a tool for monitoring and targeting interventions for prevention and control of diseases. It is essentially an information based activity which involves collection, analysis and interpretation of large volumes of data from various sources.

In this episode of the IET India Digital Conversation series, the Healthcare Working Group of the IET Future Tech panel along with an expert panel of speakers were invited to our IET India Digital Conversations series to discuss the benefits of disease surveillance, its existing gaps and ways of scaling the same in a country like India.

Confluence of Digital Transformation and Industry 4.0

In this episode of the IET India Digital Conversation series, the Manufacturing Working Group of the IET Future Tech Panel, with an expert panel of speakers explored how the confluence of digital transformation and industry 4.0 could help Indian MSMEs become globally competitive and sustain themselves in the long run and what it takes for them to embark on a digitalisation journey.

Doctor on call? Scaling Telehealth in India

In 2020, as a part of the IET India Digital Conversations on 'Telehealth – breaking stereotypes and embracing technology', we brought healthcare experts to explore the benefits of telehealth platforms and the key challenges that need to be addressed to increase its adoptability.

This year, we invited experts who are evaluating the telemedicine ecosystem in India continuously, to take a crystal ball look at telehealth and evaluate the impact it has on the healthcare ecosystem of India.

Future Cities - Autonomous administration with Blockchain, IoT and AI

In this episode, the IET brought experts together to have a conversation with the experts on:

How would Blockchain Technologies leverage Smart contracts to automatically implement the various city policies and acts and reduce human effort in city administration?
How IoT, AI, Analytics and Cloud technologies can implement predictive and preventive maintenance of energy, gas, water and other utility infrastructure?
How Chatbots, Mobile Apps, Geo-Spatial Technologies can be used to offer citizen services from anywhere, anytime, using any device
How IoT, Analytics can be used to reduce pollution and improve air quality?
What is the significance of having the Chief Digital Officer for each city and the roles & responsibilities?

Hyperautomation: Powering enterprise ROI of this decade

In this episode, the IET brought experts from the three main technology areas that are integral to hyperautomation and shed light on how these emerging technologies can add more value to your business in the next decade; the technologies being Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).

Our speakers explored more about hyperautomation and explained how this can be implemented to maximise business efficiency and ROI.

Future Technologies: A game changer for Agripreneurship

Can AI, ML, Big Data, IoT and the related technology applications be a game changer for agripreneurship? How can agriculture be made more profitable through science-based and tech-driven solutions?

The Social Impact Working Group of the IET Future Tech Panel, with an expert panel of speakers explored how intervention of technologies can reduce losses and increase productivity as well as profitability to create a robust agri business ecosystem in India.

1 Million by 2025: Future Technologies Jobs in India – Framework & Action Plan

In an increasingly data-driven future, access to skilled workers is a key factor for success. Rapid advances in the technological field are changing the very nature of jobs and the skills needed to do them, resulting in skills gap across all industries.

Quantum leap for India - Technologies and applications

The adoption of quantum computing and communication in sectors like healthcare, energy, finance, security and entertainment is exponentially increasing. It has gained significant traction given its disruptive nature in using subatomic particles to build faster and smarter devices.

LPWA networks – Shaping the future of IoT

The growing need to transmit data from remote locations that are not connected to power sources is the need of the hour. At present, LPWAN is being used to support business cases in agriculture, transportation, smart cities, supply chain, manufacturing and many others.

Ethical AI: Implementation, challenges and frameworks

In this episode our panel discussed the ethical AI considerations that need to be fed in. What the future of ethical AI looks like in developing countries like India? How can we make AI systems robust and bias-free at the same time? Among others.

Necessity is the mother of invention – Rise of XR

In this episode, our panel of award-winning immersive media specialists shared insights on XR technology, challenges faced by the industry and mitigating actions. They also discussed possible security and privacy challenges that may be roadblock in adoption of the technology and its mitigation actions and the way ahead for the industry.

Leveraging Blockchain to transform rattled supply chains

Covid-19 has disrupted supply chains beyond an unlikely return to the pre-pandemic levels. With dependency reducing on exports and emphasis on vocal for local, blockchain technology can play an influencing role in tackling supply chain failures.

Accelerating Innovation in energy storage and EV ecosystem

The energy storage sector has come a long way in the past decade and is seen as an enabler for transformation towards greener grid and cleaner transportation.

Telehealth - Breaking stereotypes and embracing technology

To strengthen the delivery of medical consultation in the post-Covid-19 world, the government issued the Telemedicine Practice Guidelines on 25 March 2020. These guidelines enabled registered medical practitioners to provide online consultations to patients across the country.

Adopt Industry 4.0 or risk being overtaken

Before the pandemic, Industry 4.0 was an area of great interest for many manufacturers. Currently, manufacturing is being affected by demand, supply and workforce availability- all at the same time across the globe.

Getting India Inc Back on Track: A Future Tech Perspective

The global pandemic has had an adverse impact on India Inc, resulting in a disruption in production lines, sales funnels and a dip international collaboration. Today, industry leaders are faced with a steep uphill task – to navigate businesses on the road to recovery.

Cobotic Responses – Drones to the rescue

Cobotics is an emerging technology where robots and human beings work together to do tasks in synchronisation. As smart assistants, cobots can perform repetitive tasks with consistency, accuracy and speed, thus helping humans to perform a task.

AI skilling in India: Opportunities, challenges and road ahead

India supports more than half of the world’s technology-related outsourcing requirements and our limited supply of skilled AI talent is alarming. This is in spite of having a flourishing start-up ecosystem, high-growth companies and the Government investing in building a robust tech infrastructure.

MSMEs, are you open for business?

Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), the largest employment generator, is facing huge threat amid an economic slowdown and demand contraction.

Leading India's digital revolution

In a very special session of IET India Digital Conversations, N R Narayana Murthy, Founder, Infosys Limited shared perspectives on how the Covid -19 pandemic has catalysed a pivotal change in the Indian economy and pushed organisations to adapt technology for survival, business continuity and future growth.

Digital twins for secure, green and healthy future cities

Most cities across the world are looking at transforming into ‘smart future cities’. With the world becoming exponentially digital and data increasing in volume and value, smart cities are now becoming more of a necessity.

Clearing the 5G obstacle course in India

Experts from the telecom industry predict that 5G will reinvent businesses, but this ‘revolutionary’ aspect of 5G is still beyond the near future.

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