Clifton Menezes
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Bengaluru
There exists a disaster in Indian schooling; the academia and academic establishments can not operate in isolation anymore in a extremely converging and quickly altering know-how panorama, cautioned Clifton Menezes, India Head of Group Portfolio at Capgemini.
“At least four academics recently approached us to explore the possibility of redrawing their syllabi to keep their institutions updated with the changing requirement of business globally,” mentioned Mr. Menezes, who’s chargeable for Capgemini’s go-to-market transition and digitisation applied sciences.
“Educators and educational institutions are increasingly realising the fact that corporations like Capgemini, which are focusing on innovation, and doing extensive research around cutting-edge technologies, will be able to help them change and fit the industry requirements,” he advised The Hindu.
“The faculty in India is good, but the problem is all of them are not up to date with fast-moving technological changes that are taking place. There is a lag,” he mentioned.
“The industry-academia collaborations are going to be a win-win for all and academia can not operate in isolation any more,” Mr. Menezes emphasised.
Capgemini had already collaborated with many IITs, universities and start-ups in the nation in Quantum Computing, AI, Design and Edge Computing.
“Capgemini has been quite inclined towards innovation and that makes us more attractive to academia globally,” he mentioned.
However, the know-how evangelist at Capgemini mentioned, IT “need not always mean doing complex things”.
For occasion, the French tech agency helps to digitally rework a big postal organisation in the U.Ok.
“With Capgemini’s intervention, the postal company started partnering with large e-tailers such as Ebay and Amazon as the postal firm knows the last-mile like nobody else in U.K. and Europe,” he added.
With Capgemini’s assist the postal agency is now in a position to roll out merchandise in weeks as a substitute of six months and extra.
“Today, some 35% of this postal company’s entire business comes from last mile logistics business on behalf of Ebay and Amazon,” he added.
Capgemini’s just lately concluded Tech Fiesta introduced collectively its whole ecosystem comprising staff, companions, prospects, the academia (from over 50 universities) and start-ups (representatives from over 100 companies) on the tech capital of India.
At Tech Fiesta, the corporate showcased cutting-edge GTM options to purchasers which have had a big influence throughout retail, healthcare, manufacturing, BFSI, and companies sectors. With a number of codecs of interactions similar to demo zones, panel discussions, and interactive classes, Capgemini additionally offered 20 progressive options throughout all the spectrum of future applied sciences.
“Today, we are in the midst of too many technologies such as Cloud, IOT, Quantum Computing, Mesh, Edge, Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and many more are evolving as we speak. It creates a quite involved and intense tech environment for any individual or organisation, so it is good to do things in collaboration,” Mr. Menezes advisable.
