ETtech Interview | Google learning to build for the world by building in India: Cloud chief Thomas Kurian
The company, the world’s fourth biggest by market value, is also close to setting up two centers of excellence around artificial intelligence and cyber security with the government, Google’s global chief of cloud, Thomas Kurian, told ET in an interview.
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Offering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian School of BusinessISB Digital Marketing and AnalyticsVisitIndian School of BusinessISB Product ManagementVisitIndian School of BusinessISB Digital TransformationVisitNorthwestern UniversityKellogg Post Graduate Certificate in Product ManagementVisitAs a part of the exercise, Google will collaborate with the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In) to provide 100,000 scholarships for cybersecurity learners, Kurian said, besides training 1 million people on AI in India.
“We see India in three different ways. First, we see it as a real market for talent. Second, we have customers in virtually every domain. We also see India as a place where we are learning by building products for India, but also taking them globally,” Kurian said.
Google Cloud has made an aggressive push into the country over the past few years, especially under Kerala-born Kurien, who is going to complete five years as chief of Google Cloud that competes with Microsoft and Amazon Web Services for business.
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In India, the company has clients such as the HDFC Group, Federal Bank, Flipkart, Reliance Retail, Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio, and Apollo Hospital besides start-ups such as Glance.
“By working with some of our large customers, we also understand customer requirements here differently than in other markets,” Kurian said. “In the use of voice, for example, there are lots of nuances in the
