I grew up in a home full of music, stories, and imagination. My mom, an Indian classical and folk singer, and my dad, a writer and theatre artist, ensured our house was never quiet. There were always songs, plays, and poems filling the air. From a young age, I realized I didn’t just want to showcase talent; I wanted to create experiences. That idea stuck with me, and eventually it led me to marketing.
Some lessons hit harder than a shuttlecock at full swing. Those lessons have come from the badminton court, the camera lens, and the stage.
We often talk about AI in terms of productivity, disruption, or innovation. It's the engine behind market-leading performance, personalised commerce, and even real-time fraud detection. But every now and then, it’s worth pausing to ask: what does AI look like when it changes a life—not a profit line?
For years, ERP systems have been the digital backbone of enterprises—bringing together finance, supply chain, HR, procurement, and operations into a single source of truth. But as business environments accelerate and expectations shift, a new question is emerging:
Imagine a hospital’s AI-powered analytics systems that forecasts stocking of medical supplies with accuracy — and even prescribes purposing of beds, consultation rooms and operation theatres — based on real-time patterns and trends of both external and internal events.
A recent McKinsey research revealed that while long-term Artificial Intelligence (AI) opportunities are pegged at USD 4.4 trillion in terms of potential productivity growth, only one percent of business leaders professed that their organizations had fully integrated AI in their workflows. Yet, there is no doubt or disagreement that AI for data analysis lends tremendous value to almost every aspect of business operations - be it in delivering intelligent automation, predictive analytics, secure transactions, improved productivity, user experience and more.
Since 1995, Taiwan has leveraged technology to shape its national health agenda — and with tremendous success too. First, it was the introduction of B2B (medical institution-to-medical institution, in this case) telemedicine services for improved access to care in remote areas.
My story with sports doesn’t have a grand beginning. It started on a regular school day, in a dusty playground, with a cricket bat in one hand and endless energy in my legs.
