In this episode we speak with Joydip Gupta who is the APAC head of Scienaptic Systems. Joydip talks about the evolution of the business rule engine in banking and how algorithms today are intelligent to understand an individual's banking needs faster than in the past. Algorithms today allow a risk officer's team to look at the credit history of an individual and customise a financial product.

00:00 - Introduction
02:12 - Scienaptic - what is it?
03:43 - Enabling a bank's revenues.
07:55 - Using data to build intelligence.
14:40 - The journey with technology in banks.
18:00 - Understanding the end customer.
22:22 - The business of co-op banks
26:21 - Deploying the BRE and its components
32:40 - Understanding the needs of a business owner.
44:44 - How CROs work with AI

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00:00 - Introduction to Ambee.
00:30 - Maddy’s vision of starting Ambee.
05:00 - The early days: air quality monitoring and scaling the solution.
07:41 - Building a data first climate intelligence platform.
09:20 - The NASA moment.
10:00 - The science of Ambee and its impact.
16:00 - The business of Ambee - sales, product market fit.
20:30 - The short term, mid term and long term plans of business.
22:50 - The business of trust in monitoring air quality.
25:02 - The core is the data in this business.
26:38 - Being married as “founders” for eight years.
32:00 - Why hedge funds want Ambee’s data.

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In this episode I talk with Sujatha S Iyer, the head of AI Security @manageengine . ManageEngine enables enterprises to be future ready when it comes to their critical IT, where security is a critical aspect while scaling an organisation. Sujatha paints a wonderful story on how CIOs and CTOs should look at security in the era of AI and the evolution of an enterprise's defences against malware.

00:00 - Introduction to Sujatha
03:00 - Early security, which were rule based.
05:10 - Proactiveness of malware these days.
07:32 - Ensuring digital maturity
09:20 - After being digitally mature, security has several use cases.
12:35 - Combating AI attacks with AI defences.
15:00 - Being a proactive security manager today.
19:09 - LLMs in the large Enterprise world - traditional and new methods.
20:30 - LLMs, agentic AI - beyond the hype.
23:20 - Reactive to productive security and how AI helps.
29:20 - The future of the security stack - the ManageEngine advantage.
32:49 - Training LLMs within your network.
35:30 - It is all about compliance when it comes to security.
37:00 - Research and rapid learning at ManageEngine.
39:14 - Developer productivity with AI is going to shoot up.
40:58 - Your understanding of math should be good even while using AI.
41:41 - Sujatha's love for Maths and her love for continuous learning.

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In this episode we talk to Vijay Arisetty, the founder of Aurm, who went from being in the Airforce to becoming the co-founder of MyGate. Aurm is a special project with a special purpose because a majority of urban Indians are living in a gated community and these communities don't have access to safe-deposit lockers. Aurm is a new age safe deposit company and Vijay explains to us about the market size for this business. There is also a lot of technology behind it. Enjoy this episode.

00:00 - Introduction to Aurm
04:20 - Gated communities need lockers.
09:58 - Bank's cannot scale lockers.
14:55 - Why Aurm works for the customer?
19:30 - Aurm's security protocols to protect customer assets.
26:00 - Behaviour of people in gated-communities in storing gold/jewellery.
33:31 - Aurm's pricing and its users.
38:42 - Insuring lockers - a different way to look at the service.
43:00 - The market opportunity and the team.
43:40 - Transforming oneself to becoming a better entrepreneur.

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In this episode we have Naganand Doraswamy, the founder of Ideaspring Capital who interviews Parithi Govindaraju about the future of made-in-India drones and the technology that powers them.

Parithi comes from the field of deep science and his interest in aerospace has enabled him to build Okulo Aerospace to capture the High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite space. He has thoughts on long-endurance drones and you will love this podcast because the government of India has launched a deep tech fund and has increased the size of funding for startups through the fund-of-funds program.

00:30 - Introduction to Parithi of Okulo.
04:20 - Okulo Aerospace - its genesis.
06:15 - Building Okulo to the future.
09:20 - The market that Okulo is after - the opportunities, the challenges.
14:10 - Okulo's focus in the market.
19:10 - Listening to customers - solar electric hybrids & HAPS.
22:49 - Talent management in this industry.

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In this episode of theUpStreamLife.com we have Sriniketh Chakravarthi, the CEO of Apexon who talks about new age IT Services and how the world of industry is changing with technology.

00:00 - Introduction
02:00 - Engineering, data and experience.
07:00 - Managing the entire cycle of technology.
10:27 - Mapping the old and new.
20:00 - Complete transformation, failures and making it work for CTOs.
25:00 - AI agents and Saas transformation.
35:44 - Working with startups and the Apexon journey.
41:35 - Why change is difficult, but why change is important.
49:32 - Being in the CEO role.

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In this episode of theUpStreamLife.com we talk about AI and ethics. The conversation is led by Padmashree Shagrithaya, one of the leading proponents of ethical AI from India. As EVP and MD of Insights & Data GBL at Capgemini, she is preparing organisations to understand how AI should be built around the foundation of ethical principles. Listen to this podcast as we start the year 2025 with these difficult questions of AI, accountability and ethics.

00:00 - Introduction to the subject.
01:30 - What is AI? Building a context.
09:23 - Ethical AI in its foundation.
14:00 - Ethical layer applies to infrastructure, algorithms and use cases.
18:23 - Infringements while using AI.
22:40 - Energy utilisation in AI and can compute be standardised.
28:00 - Responsibilities of the ecosystem towards ethical AI
33:00 - Trust, generative AI and Small Language Models.
35:35 - Implementations of ethical AI.
45:50 - Can AI help children learn.
49:16 - Conversations around ethical practicals.
52:11 - Padmashree's reading list.

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In this episode of theUpStreamLife.com we talk with Abhimanyu Saxena, the co-founder of Scaler about how corporations and nations will manage the future of productivity. This episode focuses how organisations in India, Global Capability Centres, are focusing on building transformative talent.

02:00 - Being in a nervous planet: people and technology.
06:46 - Many technology revolutions that created jobs.
10:10 - Managing youth and energy, making them productive.
15:30 - Selling to CHROs in GCCs, transforming the talent pool.
22:00 - Large companies on training talent.
24:20 - Governments and their role in managing talent.
26:00 - Being relevant as an entrepreneur - journey of Abhimanyu.
32:00 - Building a business in tech-education in India.
37:06 - Managing the marketing of great content.
39:22 - Managing scale.
42:03 - Keeping the story of a business alive with the right goals.
44:30 - Being an avid reader and being a fan of Russian and Hindi literature.

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