Gen AI no threat to jobs: Sindhu Gangadharan, MD, SAP Labs India

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) is no threat to anybody’s job prospects, as a substitute, extra younger and sensible technologists are going to be required around the globe and there may be no doubt about it, stated Sindhu Gangadharan, MD, SAP Labs India and Vice-Chairperson, Nasscom.

She was allaying considerations over a standard false impression that Gen AI would put off some jobs, whereas responding to a question from The Hindu on ‘Hiring freeze and job outlook’ within the tech trade.

“The tech sector in general was overwhelmed and hired a lot of people during the pandemic. Now, the demand has rationalised. But that doesn’t mean no jobs. So, find your niche, know where you want to focus on and become the best at it is my message to the young tech grads. Market fluctuations will anyway keep happening, but smart technologists are always wanted all over the world,’‘ she said.

However, she agreed that there was a lot of banter going on around Gen AI, and ‘honestly’ that had to settle down a bit. “Again, we can talk about a lot of use cases, but concrete application of these use cases is what matters and for that we require smart engineers right?” she argued.

With Gen AI providing enterprises additional energy of know-how, technologists might now deal with what issues essentially the most, spend extra energies in innovation or use the remainder of the hours in doing one thing extra higher, she acknowledged.

Commenting on the job scene she stated, “It is a section we now have to undergo. It is vital for younger engineers to deal with what they convey to the desk. No doubt they may get employed,’‘ assured the technologist, the first woman to lead SAP Labs India, who is responsible for overseeing the product development and innovation at all five centres of SAP in Bengaluru, Gurgaon, Pune, Hyderabad, and Mumbai.

Ms. Gangadharan further said, 34% of SAP’s workforce was early expertise (freshers), particularly when many tech providers corporations within the nation introduced hiring freeze or unfavourable hiring within the final two quarters.

“We are a product firm and we discover worth in sensible early expertise. We need younger college students who’re resilient, affected person, prepared to work arduous, in a position to scale, with understanding of applied sciences and able to standing the check of time. We need sensible technologists who’re accustomed to our provide chain administration, core of financials, workforce administration, and complete workforce administration,’‘ she further said.

Some 40% of SAP’s world R&D is sitting in India and 1 / 4 of SAP’s world patents occur in a foreign country, which can also be the quickest rising geography for the German software program agency.

According to her, India represented SAP’s complete breadth of product portfolio and full ecosystem protecting enterprise know-how platform, core of ERP, human expertise administration, buyer expertise, spend administration, sustainability options, trade cloud and so on, “That is the large energy we now have, improvements that go throughout our line of companies, constructing Gen AI-based options from in india for the complete world. We are presently infusing GenAI throughout the road of all our companies,’‘ she explained.

To solidify its Gen AI play, SAP India is currently in the process of equipping its product owners and product managers through extensive training. For example, some 70 of its product managers are currently going through a 16-month, extensive core-technology training at IIM-Bangalore.

“We have similar engagements with other institutes as well. Our target is to make all our people AI ready and we want them to spend the majority of their time on building AI capabilities,’‘ Ms. Gangadharan stated.

Recently concluded SAP TechED 2023, the tech firm’s annual occasion that introduced collectively builders, practitioners, enterprise architects, IT leaders and world tech media, showcased some 53 purely India-developed Gen AI primarily based options, meant for various trade purposes.