Nikhil Malhotra | Tech Mahindra

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Nikhil Malhotra

Chief Innovation Officer & Global Head – AI, Tech Mahindra

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Nikhil has been a researcher all his life and is now leading the growth of AI and Quantum Computing research within Tech Mahindra. His area of business research is how quantum Computing, AI, and neuroscience would inspire the growth of AI and the next change in society, business, and humanity. He has won numerous awards, including the 2020, 2021, and 2023 Innovation Congress awards, for being the most innovative leader in India.

Nikhil is also a TEDx speaker and the author of a best-seller book – Courage, the Journey of an Innovator. One of his long-standing visions has been to enable machines to talk in the local Indian dialects. Most notably, he has spearheaded Project Indus, Tech Mahindra's seminal effort to build Indic LLM (homegrown large language model), which was successfully launched globally in June 2024.

Nikhil holds a master's degree in computing with a specialization in distributed computing from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, and is an avid physicist.

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An era of rapidly changing technology, fuelled by the recent advances in generative AI, is redefining businesses across the globe. The digitalisation wave has brought artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and generation, analytics, big data into the foray; making it more possible for the machines to emulate humans and in turn, do most things exceptionally well.  At its peak, we expect the traditional operations to be replaced with operations driven by speech recognition, natural language generation, artificial intelligence, and secured by quantum. There will be new key roles emerging in facilitating machine learning (helping machines become intelligent) and analytics.