BVR Mohan Reddy stressed the need for collaboration as there is no scope for growth if one chooses to remain in isolation.
Published Oct 05, 2024 | 2:42 PM ⚊ Updated Oct 08, 2024 | 3:35 PM
BVR Mohan Reddy at the Dakshin Dialogues 2024. (South First)
The third annual South First‘s Dakshin Dialogues got off to a colourful start on Saturday, 5 October, in Hyderabad with Cyient’s chairman BVR Mohan Reddy, in his welcome address, stressing collaboration between academia and the industry, for technology to make much more progress than now.
Setting the stage for a thought-provoking discussion on helping society take full advantage of the advances in technology, particularly Artificial Intelligence (AI), he advocated a constant upgradation of skills of the teacher in the classroom to help the right talent to emerge that meets the industry’s requirement.
The South First hosted the Dakshin Dialogues on “People & Technology: Governance for Tomorrow” to act as a motive force to spur thinking in taking the technology forward for the betterment of society and how AI, a double-edged tool, could become the leader in this transformational journey.
Drawing from his experience in being a thought leader in the technology sector, the former chairman of NASSCOM said that more than the right student, what was needed was the right teacher. For this to happen, there has to be constant upgradation of the knowledge of the teacher. Skilling a teacher would prepare his students better for the constantly evolving industry. Rote learning is passe, he said.
He pointed out that the students too are different from the past. Resources once used to be very limited. But the students of today have different options. The teachers have to create value by upgrading themselves constantly as the technology of today may become irrelevant within the next two years.
He stressed the need for collaboration as there is no scope for growth if one chooses to remain in isolation. “Industry, Educational institutions, the government, and the other stakeholders have to collaborate,” he reiterated.
BVR Mohan Reddy noted: “At level 1, there has to be collaboration within the institution and then it should be forged between the institutions. The Industry should take an interest in academia and vice-versa. They should speak to each other rather than live in two different cocoons. The southern states which are doing well in the technology sector should further collaborate for better results.”
“We need to collaborate more because, in the current environment, the government, education, and industry cannot work in isolation.” — @BVRMohanReddy, Founder Chairman of @Cyient.
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— South First (@TheSouthfirst) October 5, 2024
Another crucial area, according to him is the need for nurturing the start-up eco-systems as it is where the opportunities abound for job creation. About 60 percent of the jobs in the technology sectors are created by startups. “We need to innovate, think differently and challenge the status quo to create more opportunities,” he said.
Mohan Reddy, explaining how the Information Technology sector has evolved over the years, said the time has come for the service-oriented sector to think and get solutions for its clients. “It once used to be ‘hear and do’ and now the sector is required to ‘think and do.’ The clients need thinking to be done by the service providers for solutions to beat their competitors in the market.”
Dakshin Dialogues 2024 was presented by KarPing in association with Governments of Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Karnataka along with Ichor Biologics, Start up Karnataka, ELCOT, K-Tech with IIIT-Hyderabad as knowledge partners.
(Edited by Sumavarsha Kandula)
