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Saurabh Jha

SVP & Global Head - Data & AI, Tech Mahindra

Saurabh Jha

With over 24 years of global experience, Saurabh has worked across India, Europe, the UK, and the US. He leads Tech Mahindra’s Data and AI practice, which helps enterprises strategize, design, implement, and deliver data and analytics, cloud-based data, and AI-related transformation initiatives. He has a wide experience ranging from setting up new teams and practices, planning and executing go-to-market strategies, leading global alliances, and advising customers on effective alignment between their business goals and the latest digital technologies. Previously, he held strategic roles at Oracle, KPMG, and Mphasis, where he advised clients across industries and spearheaded regional expansions.

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We're living through one of the most transformative periods in business. Every day brings new AI breakthroughs, from autonomous systems reshaping industries to generative AI creating unprecedented opportunities for innovation. The vision is compelling: hyper-personalized customer experiences, radical operational efficiency, and new revenue streams emerging from intelligent automation. The recent advent of agentic AI fuels this excitement further, promising a hands-off, human-free future, whether in data engineering workflows or complex business processes.

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Data deluge. This phrase has found a permanent place in the business lexicon. And there is no denying that we live in the data deluge era. But what does the data deluge really look like? To give you an understanding, we have generated and stored 120 zettabytes of data till 20231. By 2025, this figure is about to reach 180 zettabytes. That is more than the number of stars in the visible universe. 

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We are all familiar with the fable of the five blindfolded men describing an elephant. Irrespective of which version of the story you have heard, the crux always remains the same. Five blindfolded men were asked to describe an elephant just by touching it. Since their sight was limited, they described the elephant based on the certain body parts they touched. They claimed the elephant to be a rope, wall, fan, pillar, and plow-shaped animal. This parable underscores the importance of context and the limitations of perception.

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Our planet currently contains 332,519,000 cubic miles of water. This figure is sure to cast some doubt on the water crisis. But in reality, 97.5% of this water is trapped in the oceans, rendering it unusable. The 2.5% freshwater we can use is either trapped in the ice caps or polluted for various reasons. It leaves us with only a tiny fraction of usable water (<0.5%).