Company: Altimetrik
ByArun Kumar, Product & Industry Head – CPG, Retail, Manufacturing & Fintech, Altimetrik
“Enterprise innovation is defined by the ability to engineer ideas into repeatable business outcomes at scale. AI has become a core enterprise capability shaping architecture decisions, operating models, and competitive advantage. This reality places engineering discipline, applied AI, and execution accountability at the center of modern innovation agendas.
India’s innovation landscape reflects this maturity. Enterprises are advancing beyond fragmented initiatives toward outcome-aligned platforms built on deep domain expertise, data-driven design, and product-led engineering. Innovation functions as a system governed by speed, precision, and measurable impact across the value chain.
Sustained innovation demands workforce readiness, responsible AI, and engineering excellence working as a unified model. Organizations that institutionalize this approach will define the next phase of enterprise value creation in an AI-driven economy.”
Company: Agora
By Ranga Jagannath, Senior Director, Growth, Agora
“Innovation often begins with a simple shift in how people connect and communicate. Today, real-time digital interaction is becoming core infrastructure for modern services and user experiences rather than an added feature. Its importance is evident as users now expect instant, intelligent, and interactive engagement across education, healthcare, finance, retail, and public services. Experiences are increasingly judged by responsiveness, personalization, and the ability to support live human and AI driven conversations at scale. In India, strong digital adoption, a vibrant startup ecosystem, and government-led programs such as Digital India and the IndiaAI Mission are accelerating innovation at a population scale.
At the same time, enterprises face challenges around latency, reliability, reach, language diversity, data responsibility, and seamless AI integration across platforms. Meeting these demands requires resilient real-time infrastructure and developer-ready platforms that can be deployed quickly and scaled securely. Agora enables this through enterprise-grade real-time voice, video, messaging, and conversational AI capabilities, helping organizations create immersive, human-centric digital experiences.”
