Microsoft India looks to demystify AI to push business adoption
Microsoft India president Puneet Chandok has set for himself, to accelerate the Seattle-headquartered technology giant's cloud and artificial intelligence push in the country.
“The plan in the next 90 days is to do 100 boardroom conversations with top enterprises in India and demystify AI,” Chandok told ET in his first media interview after joining the company in September. He added that he had already met 100 customers over the last 100 days.
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Ensuring ‘AI fluency’ is the first priority and Microsoft is aiming to simplify AI for customers for greater adoption, he said.
The idea is to clear confusion over AI and Microsoft's approach is to take use cases by industry to bring clients onboard the AI journey, said Chandok.
At the same time, work on cloud and data remain important as AI cannot be leveraged unless they are in place, he added.
In 2024, Microsoft will also work with the government to train 3 million government officers on AI fluency in India, he said.
AI adoption in India is three-pronged, Chandok said. The first aspect covers productivity use cases across sectors like manufacturing,
