About
With 28 years scaling IT services and digital engineering businesses, I have led…
Articles by Vikram
-
Digital Transformation and Cloud - A Tight Coupling
Digital Transformation and Cloud - A Tight Coupling
Cloud computing is the foundation of the technologies that enable digital transformation. Cloud offers the flexibility,…
2 Comments -
Digital Transformation with the User at the Center
Digital Transformation with the User at the Center
This article was first published in #Wipro blogs https://www.wipro.
1 Comment -
Are your Operations Intelligent enough? Transforming Banking Operations with AI
Are your Operations Intelligent enough? Transforming Banking Operations with AI
Artificial Intelligence-led solutions can benefit financial services organizations greatly. The enormous amounts of…
10 Comments
Activity
9K followers
-
Vikram Chandna shared thisMost IT services CEOs are still running the last playbook. Their competitors are not. Last month, OpenAI launched a $4 billion services arm. Anthropic put $1.5 billion into one. Both are embedding engineers directly inside client organizations, on the same engagements that built every major IT services firm. The data underneath is worse. 42% of enterprise AI initiatives were abandoned last year. 71% of enterprises cannot trace where their AI spend is going. Average AI budgets grew 483% in two years. The problem with most AI projects is not the technology. It is the absence of anyone governing the estate. That is a problem IT services firms should be selling, not watching others sell. In more than two decades inside enterprise IT services, I have watched cycles like this before. The firms that moved early reset their position. The ones that waited became case studies. Four moves separate them. AI estate management. Full stack capability. Outcome-based pricing. Proprietary IP over headcount. The carousel has the depth. If you run an IT services firm, the honest question is not whether you will pivot. It is which of these moves you are already executing, and which are still in committee. Navigating Next #ITServices #CAIO #DigitalEngineering
-
Vikram Chandna reposted thisAlmost a decade of perseverance. Zero shortcuts. Zero compromises. One milestone that changes the narrative. Protecons Solutions Private Limited is officially recognized in #Everest #Group's #Guidewire #Services #PEAK #Matrix® Assessment 2026. 31 firms assessed. Global giants included. And right there is a Niche Guidewire firm from India, built on conviction, craft, and client trust. They said scale matters. We said depth does. They said brand matters. We said outcomes do. They said you need thousands. We said you need the right ones. The industry is shifting. Everest Group sees it clearly: From migration milestones to business value, From platform replacement to platform depth, From volume delivery to outcome-driven partnerships This is exactly where Protecons lives. Thank you Aaditya Jain, Ronak Doshi, Rugved Sawant, Vanshika Notani, and the entire Everest Group team for the rigorous, unbiased research that gives firms like ours a stage alongside industry leaders. This isn't our destination, it's our launchpad. Next quadrants, here we come. Sharper vision. Unambiguous clarity. Same hunger... Last but never least — it takes a village to raise a child. To every employee — past and present — who poured their heart into Protecons. To every client who trusted a small firm with big ambitions. To every partner, vendor, and well-wisher who stood by us. This milestone is yours as much as it is ours. Steve Doss Susan Brady Mark Williams Dariusz Dębowczyk Jean-Frederic Boisdet Alagesan Natchimuthu Jim Sciarra Lisa Walsh Carolee Dagenais Shyam Sundar Krovvidi Sukanth Joshi J. Giles Mohammed Anzy S Paresh Vartak Siddhartha Nigam Anurag Mishra M.M.Shyam Sankar Kartik Prasad Kini Ranjith Kota Nilesh Agrawal Vikram Chandna Rajib Chatterjee Amit Tiwari Prateek Vijayvergia Arun Balakrishnan Special thanks to Varun Manjappa Mahendra Singh Tanu Mishra for being there in thick and thin!! …and the many more who made this journey possible. 🙌 #DoGoodBeGood #Guidewire #EverestGroup #PEAKMatrix #InsuranceTechnology #CoreModernization #CloudTransformation #InsurTech #Protecons #Insurance #NicheExpertise #PAIM360Vikram Chandna reposted thisGuidewire modernization is entering a new phase. Over the past 12 months, our conversations with Guidewire customers have pointed to a clear shift: insurers are moving beyond first-wave core modernization and are now focused on extracting measurable business value from their Guidewire investments. This changes what they need from SI and consulting partners. The next phase of Guidewire services will be shaped by providers that can: ✅ Industrialize Guidewire Cloud delivery ✅ Activate newer Guidewire layers with fit-for-purpose judgment ✅ Bring strong data, integration, and ecosystem capabilities ✅ Support core augmentation - not just core replacement ✅ Translate platform depth into business outcomes In this environment, successful migrations are no longer the finish line. They are the foundation. Excited to announce the release of Everest Group's latest edition of Guidewire Services PEAK Matrix Assessment. Congratulations to all 31 Guidewire SI and consulting partners featured in this year’s research. Leaders: Accenture, Capgemini, CGI, Cognizant, Deloitte, EY, HCLTech, PwC, Tata Consultancy Services, ValueMomentum, and Zensar Technologies Major Contenders: Alchemy Technology Services (part of NTT DATA), BlitzenX, Centric Consulting, Coforge, Exavalu, GFT Technologies, HTC Global Services, IKOR, Infosys, LTM, SBI Technology, Sollers Consulting, Stratus, Tech Mahindra, and Wipro Aspirants: Acini, Aspire Systems, Birlasoft, Norima Consulting Inc., and Protecons Solutions Private Limited. For more details, check: https://okt.to/ylefB6 Ronak Doshi, Rugved Sawant, Vigitesh Tewary, Aurindum Mukherjee, Vanshika Notani, Abhimanyu Awasthi #Guidewire #InsuranceTechnology #Insurance #CoreModernization #CloudTransformation #InsurTech #EverestGroup #PEAKMatrix
-
Vikram Chandna shared thisEvery investment cycle has a metric that turns out to be theater. The current one is the token. The token is the unit the entire AI investment cycle is built on. Hundreds of billions in chips. Thirty gigawatts of new data center capacity. A trillion-dollar infrastructure build sized against a demand number that is starting to look more like a leaderboard than a forecast. I have watched this play out before. Seat license inflation in SaaS. Page view inflation in media. Active user definitions in consumer. Every cycle, the metric was real until it wasn't. This one is already cracking. Uber's CTO told The Information his AI tooling burned the full-year budget by April. Meta and Shopify are putting employees on internal leaderboards for tokens consumed, not output. Nvidia's CEO publicly said a $500K engineer who is not burning $250K in tokens worries him. And Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi, whose platform processes AI workloads for thousands of enterprises, put it plainly. If your goal is to burn money, there are easy ways to do that. If your headline AI metric can be gamed by your own employees, you are not measuring demand. You are measuring theater. Engineers see a usage curve climbing. CFOs see an unhedged liability with the meter still running. They are reading the same dashboard. They are seeing different things. The translation between those two views is the work of the next generation of Chief AI Officers. Not the model selection. Not the prompt library. The unit economics conversation between the engineer and the CFO. My prediction. Within twelve months, leading enterprises will retire token consumption as a primary AI success metric. They will move it to a cost line where it belongs. The top of the dashboard will measure decisions changed, errors avoided, cycle time saved, and revenue actually attributable. The AI math is about to get honest. Navigating Next ▶️ What is the one AI metric your CFO would actually defend? Frame credit: Deirdre Bosa, CNBC. #NavigatingNext #AI #AIInfrastructure #Enterprise #CFO #CAIO https://lnkd.in/eusDEUSwAI Demand Is Inflated And Only Anthropic Is Being RealisticAI Demand Is Inflated And Only Anthropic Is Being Realistic
-
Vikram Chandna shared thisWhat are the hard things you keep choosing to come back to, even when nobody is forcing you? Most of us grew up hearing the same line: follow your passion. The more careers I see up close, the less helpful that sounds. Gallup's 2025 State of the Global Workplace report puts engaged employees at 21% worldwide. If "follow your passion" were good advice, we would be seeing very different numbers. I went back this week to a 2020 Harvard Business Review piece by Dan Cable called "What You Should Follow Instead of Your Passion." His argument is more practical. Notice the work that is demanding and frustrating but you still volunteer for. The work you still think about on a Sunday. For some, that is building deal models long after the room has gone quiet. For others, it is sitting with a client problem until the real root cause shows up. For me, after nearly three decades in enterprise tech sales, it has been the craft of writing the one paragraph that gets a CIO, a CFO, and a CISO to read the same risk the same way. I am still working on that paragraph. This kind of work rarely feels exciting while you are doing it. But it is where the real skill gets built. It tends to go in that order: a spark of interest, then practice, then real impact, then what we end up calling passion. So instead of asking "What is my passion?" I find this question more useful: What are the hard things I keep choosing to come back to, even when nobody is forcing me? That answer points you somewhere real. Waiting for passion to arrive does not. Navigating Next ▶️ #NavigatingNext #Career #Leadership #CareerGrowth
-
Vikram Chandna shared thisThe Banking CIO's Agentic Playbook: Why the Middle Office Will Decide the Next Decade Banking AI has a visibility problem. Chatbots customers see produce the lowest returns. The agents driving the P&L are invisible. What is visible does not win. The front office gets the headlines, the back office gets the budget, and the middle office is where the next decade will be won. Bank of America's Erica has 3 billion conversations. An independent academic study found Erica understands 74% of queries and resolves 47%. Wells Fargo's Fargo has the same 35-point gap. Within 24 months every major bank will have a chatbot at parity with Erica or Fargo. The technology will commoditize. The chatbot was always the wrong place to look. The back office is parity, not advantage. KYC, accounts payable, document processing. Every bank gets to 20 to 30% cost takeout. The moat is shrinking, not growing. The middle office is where the engine runs. McKinsey & Company estimates banking's GenAI value pool at $200 to $340 billion annually. Risk and legal alone is $385 billion, more than 8x capital markets. Case studies have stopped being theoretical. HSBC's AML with Google Cloud cut alerts 60%, doubled true positives, shrank cycles from a month to days. JPMorgan's Katana Lens saved over $500 million in one year. A European bank cut KYC 20% and lifted file-closure 67%. The customer never sees these. The P&L feels them every day. I have sat through board AI demos for 27 years. A chatbot lights up the room. A 31% AML false-positive reduction does not. That asymmetry is the entire problem. The integration premium. MuleSoft's 2025 benchmark: banks with mature data integration capture 10.3x AI ROI versus 3.7x for fragmented stacks. JPMorgan's roughly $2 billion annual AI spend goes to data orchestration, not model training. The model is not the moat. The substrate underneath it is. The 93/7 trap. Deloitte found 93% of AI budgets flow to technology and only 7% to people and processes. Banks with this split are 1.6 times more likely to fail. BCG's working ratio is 10-20-70. Almost no bank invests this way. That is the gap between the 5% who scale AI and the 95% whose pilots never see production. So what does this mean for the Banking CIO Monday morning? Three things. Every CIO should know their front-middle-back AI spend split. Most do not. That alone is the diagnosis. The 93/7 has to flip. If you are 93% on technology and 7% on people, no model will close the gap. The middle office cannot be procured. Packaged solutions get every competitor to the same place. The advantage is what you build on your proprietary risk and compliance data. The bank that wins the next decade will not have the best chatbot. It will have the most invisible AI. The CIO who wins is the one who can show the board nothing. Where does your bank's AI spend actually sit? Navigating Next ▶ #NavigatingNext #Banking #AgenticAI #FinancialServices #CIO #BankingTechnology #MiddleOffice
-
Vikram Chandna shared thisThe Agentic Core: Why the Best CRM Is the One Nobody Logs Into For 27 years in Financial Services, I have watched organizations pour millions into CRM platforms that promised a single source of truth. What we actually got were expensive filing cabinets. Systems that sales teams resent updating. Databases that leaders mine for lagging indicators while the real action happens somewhere else entirely. The fundamental flaw is simple. CRMs were built on a pull model. Humans enter data. Humans pull reports. Humans decide what to do next. The system sits there, passive, waiting to be told what matters. The data tells the story. Sales reps spend up to 70% of their time on non-selling activities, and 37% of CRM users report revenue loss directly because of poor data quality. That is not a tooling problem. That is an architecture problem. Agentic AI does not optimize this model. It makes it irrelevant. We are moving from System of Record to System of Intelligence to System of Action. I call the destination the Agentic Core. What changes when you stop logging and start sensing? The system ingests signals across emails, calls, contracts, and market data without anyone touching a keyboard. You do not check a pipeline report in the morning. The system surfaces the three deals that need intervention right now and drafts the communication for you. It does not just flag risk. It initiates the remediation, routes the approval, updates the forecast. The interface disappears. The system works. Top-quartile operators are already there. AE hours per deal compress by 30 to 40%. Proposal turnaround drops from days to hours. The Rule of 40 stops being a fight against headcount-linked growth. Here is the part most people in my audience are not yet thinking about. For the IT services industry, this is not just a software shift. The largest IT services firms have built billion-dollar Salesforce and HubSpot delivery practices over the last decade. The Agentic Core does to those practices what SaaS did to on-prem implementation. The firms that win the next decade will not be the ones with the deepest Salesforce certification benches. They will be the ones who can architect, govern, and orchestrate the agentic layer for regulated enterprises. Most Tier 1 IT services firms have not internalized this yet. My conviction has only deepened recently. Watching Harshit Jain walk through KaizenFox, with Anil K Jain at Nomiso in the room, reinforced what I have been seeing from the advisory side. The smartest minds in this space are not asking how to make CRM better. They are asking what comes after it. The harder question is not whether CRM is dead. It is whether the IT services firms that built their growth on selling and implementing CRM are ready to rebuild their playbook. Navigating Next ▶ #NavigatingNext #AgenticAI #ITServices #EnterpriseAI #CRM #BFSI
-
Vikram Chandna shared thisThree days at Google Cloud Next 26. A few things stayed with me. Back in Princeton after three days at Mandalay Bay. Over 32,000 people on the floor, 700+ sessions, and the usual sensory overload of a Google keynote. Sundar's full-stack push made headlines, the 8th gen TPUs (8t for training, 8i for inference) signaled the chip war is real, and the $750M partner fund landed exactly where it needed to. But the session that stayed with me was not on the main stage. It was a data migration panel with MaiLin Jan from Wells Fargo, Alicia Henderson from Target, and Vinay Pai from Virgin Media O2, moderated by Geeta Banda from Google Cloud. Three very different industries, one shared confession. Their data estates were not built for AI, and migration had always been a multi-year slog. That has changed. AI-assisted migration is now in production. As MaiLin put it, migration used to be the thing that delayed innovation. Now it is the thing that enables it. A real reframe for any BFSI CIO. Pulling that together with what I saw across the floor, the underlying shift at Next 26 is simple. The agentic stack is no longer a demo. It is being deployed, measured, and run as production infrastructure by some of the most regulated and complex enterprises in the world. The IT services partners who win the next decade will be the ones who can stand on a stage like Wells Fargo did and credibly say, we modernized the data, we deployed the agents, we measured the outcome. Everyone else will be selling proof of concepts. A quick acknowledgment. I attended Next 26 alongside the team at Bilvantis Technologies. They were on the floor at booth #4709 with their #PowerCenter to #BigQuery #modernization play, which is exactly the kind of workhorse capability the panels above were calling for. Thanks to Narasimha Vadde and the team for the invite and the conversations. And thanks also to Sabapathy Arumugam and Srikanth Matcha at CoreStack, where I also advise, for making time to meet at Next. Navigating Next ▶ #GoogleCloudNext #AgenticAI #DataModernization #BFSI #CloudMigration #EnterpriseAI Rajiv Batra Pallab Deb Nageswara Rao Koganti Vijay Narayanan Ashish Saxena Ezhilarasan (Ez) Natarajan Thomas Kurian
-
Vikram Chandna shared thisA rare privilege today. Attended a public lecture by RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra at Princeton University, just a short drive from home. The event was hosted by the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance and the M.S. Chadha Center for Global India and the talk was titled "The Role of India's Central Bank in Shaping India's Growth and Navigating Global Challenges." The room was packed and the energy was palpable. A few things stayed with me long after the talk ended. First, Governor Malhotra was very clear that stability and growth are not a trade-off. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) holds both in productive tension and that requires institutional discipline and strategic flexibility working together, not against each other. Second, he made a point that I thought was really important and often gets lost in global macro commentary. India's inflation target is a band, not a single number like the U.S. Fed's 2%. That's a deliberate and nuanced framework designed for the structural realities of a large, diverse and fast-growing economy. Third, on UPI and India's digital journey, he wasn't talking about aspiration. He was talking about proof. India has built a payments and financial inclusion infrastructure that developed economies are now studying. That's a remarkable place to be. What struck me most personally was the full arc of the man. An IIT Kanpur engineer. A Princeton MPP alumnus coming back to his alma mater. Now the steward of one of the world's most consequential central banks. He carried all of that with quiet confidence and real substance. Grateful to have been in the room this morning. Jitendra Muchhal Ujwal Mantri Jagdish Laddha Pavan Heda #RBI #ReserveBankOfIndia #SanjayMalhotra #Princeton #IndiaGrowth #MonetaryPolicy #UPI #DigitalIndia #IndiaEconomy #BFSI #CentralBanking #FinancialInclusion
-
Vikram Chandna shared thisA Practitioner’s Guide to AI Tools Across the Sales Cycle (2025 vs. 2026) The hard truth: 95% of GenAI projects in enterprise sales fail to hit ROI. It’s rarely the tool’s fault; it’s usually "AI theater" layered over broken processes. I have spent weeks mapping 40+ tools that actually deliver. (Full map in the infographic below). Here is the reality of the 2026 workflow: 1. The New Buyer Reality The buyer has moved on. 70% of the B2B journey is over before you’re even called. Your job isn't "pitching", it’s helping 6-10 stakeholders achieve internal consensus. 2. Lead Gen: Precision is the Moat Apollo/Cognism: Great for volume but expect 70–80% accuracy in the weeds. Clay: The "Waterfall" winner. It cascades through 50+ providers for 95%+ accuracy. Seamless.AI: My go-to for direct dials that actually connect. 3. Lead Nurturing: The "Engaged" Gap Deals die here. Use AI SDRs (11x, Artisan) as "digital interns" for 24/7 outreach with zero ramp time. Pair HubSpot (scoring) with Brevo or Lemlist (multichannel) to keep the conversation moving. 4. Proposals & Pipeline: Speed Wins Gamma and PandaDoc turn briefs into polished decks in under an hour. Your CRM (Pipedrive/Close) should surface deal risks, not just log activity. Finally, automate the "last mile" with Stripe or Razorpay. 5. Delivery & Automation: The New Moat Reps now use Lovable or Cursor to build working PoCs in hours showing product value before the second call. Connect everything with Zapier or n8n so data flows without manual entry. The "Shelfware" Audit If fewer than 60% of your reps log into a tool weekly, it is dead weight. Map your actual process: if a tool doesn't drive adoption, cut it. Bottom Line: Winners aren't those with the most tech, but those with the cleanest data and human-centric workflows. I’ve mapped all 40+ tools into a spreadsheet (Pricing + Use Cases). Drop a comment with "MAP" and I’ll send it over. #SalesAI #RevOps #SalesEnablement #B2BSales #SDR #SalesStrategy #GTM
-
Vikram Chandna reacted on thisVikram Chandna reacted on thisHarvard Business School | Voyage Grateful to Wipro for sponsoring this incredible program at HBS! Great to network with Wipro leaders from across the globe - China, Australia, UK, Switzerland, Saudia Arabia, India & the Americas. A heartfelt Thank You to the fabulous HBS faculty — David Fubini , Ashish Nanda, Monique Burns Thompson, Hise Gibson & Scott Snook— for sharing their amazing wisdom, insights, and perspectives!! Each case study made us pause and ponder — how we frame the business context, the decisions we take, and the impact we have on our clients & teams. Looking forward to putting these lessons into practice as we continue to drive profitable growth! Misbahul Haque Syed Tanusree Saha Balasubramani Harikrishnan Ramachandran Padmanabhan Srinivasaa HG Ashish Gupta Chetan Kshirsagar Rahul Kumar Sharad Jain Praveen Sivasankar Raid AlZahrani Niya Wang Judy Ruth Bahirvani Amarshilan Anbalagan Siddhish Mittal Girish Naik Tara von Andreae Tejas Jois Sridhar Marthineni Amit Karande Bijoy C Anjali Devi, PMP Manjeet Kaur Ramesh babu Nadella Ajoykumar B. Partha Borah Priya Bakthisaran Hanif Girach Avishek Bimal Gaurav Parakh ☁️
-
Vikram Chandna liked thisVikram Chandna liked thisMost RIAs believe they are leveraging AI, but the reality is that nearly 70% remain stuck in basic data aggregation or integration. Some may have the data, as they have figured out data aggregation, but they lack actionable intelligence from it. As an investor and advisor to CogniCor | AI for Financial Advisors (cognicor.ai), I am thrilled to see Sindhu Joseph, PhD, and the team launch the CogniCor RIA AI Readiness & Maturity Assessment. This framework moves past the AI buzzwords to evaluate wealth management firms across distinct stages of operational maturity. If you want to understand where your firm actually sits on the AI maturity curve, benchmark your capabilities, and map a safe path to agentic automation, check out the survey below. Trust me, you will get the results right away. 👇 Take the assessment and discover your firm's AI Maturity Stage today: https://lnkd.in/g5swtCcg Dr. Manjusha Vidhyadharan, Ph.D. Douglas W. #WealthTech #ArtificialIntelligence #RIAs #WealthManagement #FinancialAdvisors #CogniCor #AIAssessment #AgenticAI
-
Vikram Chandna liked thisVikram Chandna liked thisBe Proud of Your Agentic Pilots! Coming back from some intensive conversations in Tokyo on all manner of AI and the data underpinning it, I am now convinced that the most over-used term in insurance AI circles at present is: "at scale." With few exceptions, claims of agentic use "at scale" fall apart under even light questioning. The one exception seems to be the adoption of personal agents within the foundational productivity AI solution of choice (e.g. MS Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, etc.). In this case, "at scale" is a horizontal statement, meaning "all staff have access to them." Doesn't necessarily mean they are being used to substantial business benefit "at scale." Outside of personal agents, using a horizontal basis for the claim falls flat. A few agents in claims, a couple doing an underwriting thingy, and one in customer services does not represent scaled use of Agentic in any meaningful way. Using [groovytool dot ai] for development in 6 of your 300 business applications is a pilot, not scaled use. In the not-so-old-days, no one would claim having a couple RPA routines running in claims and another in UW represented "scaled use" of RPA. But the thirst for claims of success with Agentic is so intense, that we basically have forgotten the term "pilot" and leap from PoC/PoV to Production. Just because a couple of things are in prod, does not actually mean agentic is being used "at scale." We're making massive progress with AI use in insurance. We should be proud of pilots and of early production use. Overscaled claims of, well, scale just add to the hype and and misapplication of time and resources that distracts from actual beneficial business outcomes from this game-changing set of capabilities. Nigel Walsh Rory Yates Gail Mc Giffin Arron Lamp Yuri Aguiar
-
Vikram Chandna liked thisVikram Chandna liked thisA bit of a late update here, but after an incredible journey of more than 14 years at Wipro, the time has come for me to turn the page to my next professional chapter. I want to express my deepest gratitude to the exceptional leaders, brilliant colleagues, and dedicated teams I’ve had the privilege to work alongside. A special thank you to Deepak Jain, Rajeev Mendiratta, Suprio Sengupta, Kiran Desai, Anuj Bhalla, Devender Malhotra, Manish Garg, Sebastien Sauvage, @Viswanathan Rajavelu, Shankar Kandala, Aman Minhas, Sudesh VP Puthoor, and Mudit Sharma for your guidance, mentorship, and support over the years. Most importantly, I want to thank the incredible teams I had the honor of leading. Any success I achieved is entirely due to your hard work, dedication, and unwavering support. It truly would not have been possible without you, and you made my journey unforgettable. Together, we managed massive global operations across geographies, navigated complex P&Ls, and built high-performing talent ecosystems. I am incredibly proud of what we achieved, and the leadership awards I received along the way are a testament to the amazing teamwork we shared. As I look ahead, I am officially open to new leadership opportunities within the UK. I am looking to bring my 26+ years of IT industry experience—specifically in Workforce Management, IT Talent Strategy, and HR Operations—to a new organisation. 🚀 What I'm looking for next: Director of Workforce Strategy, Operations Head, Head of Talent Management, or Chief of Staff (People Ops) roles. 🌍 Flexibility: Open to permanent or contract roles, based in Reading with up to 50% travel, and available immediately. To my Wipro family—thank you for a spectacular 14 years. Let’s definitely stay connected! #NewOpportunities #WorkforceManagement #TalentStrategy #HRLeadership #ITOperations #ExecutiveSearch #ReadingJobs
-
Vikram Chandna liked thisVikram Chandna liked thisThe future feels a lot closer when you're surrounded by young people determined to shape it. Earlier this month, I had the privilege of participating in the opening ceremony of Venix 2026 at IIM Bangalore, alongside Dr. John Ebnezar, Padma Shri awardee and renowned orthopaedic surgeon. What stayed with me long after the event were the questions. They reflected a generation that is curious, thoughtful, and deeply invested in shaping the future. As professionals, we often talk about mentoring the next generation, but moments like these remind us how much we learn from them as well. The energy, ambition, and openness to challenge conventional thinking were truly inspiring, and left me optimistic about the possibilities ahead. My sincere thanks to the Venix team for bringing together such a vibrant community of future leaders and innovators, and for creating a platform where ideas are challenged, perspectives are broadened, and meaningful connections are forged. VENIX - IIM Bangalore #IIMBangalore #FutureLeaders #Innovation
-
Vikram Chandna liked thisVikram Chandna liked thisComing September 15, the next chapter… I’m excited to officially announce that I have joined The Taffie Phelps Team. For years, people have told us we make a great team in life, in business, and in the way we approach big decisions. Now, we’re bringing that partnership fully into real estate. My decades of executive leadership, strategy, negotiation, and relationship-building experience helps our clients secure stronger outcomes at the negotiation table and make more confident, well-timed decisions. Taffie’s market knowledge, real estate experience, marketing and design skills along with hands-on client service, ensure every detail is handled seamlessly and every listing and purchase is positioned for maximum advantage. Together, our clients benefit from clearer strategy, stronger negotiation power, and a more streamlined, high-level experience from start to finish. You might call it a power couple. We call it The Taffie Phelps Team. Your Goals. Our Strategy. Every Move Matters. Ready to make your next move with confidence? Let��s talk. Connect with us today to schedule a private consultation and discover how our combined expertise can help you achieve your real estate goals. 📸 @amberticephoto
-
Vikram Chandna liked thisVikram Chandna liked thisHappy to share that I have transitioned to a new role as Global Lead, Capability & Leadership Enablement at Version 1. Looking forward to this next step!
-
Vikram Chandna liked thisVikram Chandna liked thisCelebrating 20 years of Manulife Global Solutions is a chance to recognize the incredible people who have helped build this success and the impact they continue to make across our organization every day. Thank you to our colleagues, leaders, and pioneers whose expertise, innovation, and commitment have shaped MGS into the trusted global partner it is today. As we look ahead, I'm excited about what we'll accomplish together and the opportunities still to come. Congratulations on this remarkable milestone and exciting new chapter. @Manulife #ManulifeGlobalSolutions
-
Vikram Chandna liked thisVikram Chandna liked thisINDIA IS HELPING SHAPE THE AI ERA If AI adoption and enthusiasm are indicators of future innovation, India is in a very strong position. Technology adoption depends on more than access. It grows when people find real value, build familiarity, and incorporate new tools into how they work, learn, create, and solve problems. The EY research suggests India is doing exactly that. Among the markets studied, India ranks among the leaders in both AI adoption and positive sentiment toward AI, creating a powerful combination for innovation, experimentation, and new business models. The findings also point to an important evolution in how AI is being used. For many people, AI has already become part of everyday workflows, helping organize tasks, support decisions, manage information, and automate routine activities. The relationship with AI is becoming increasingly collaborative and integrated into daily life. ❇️ High levels of AI usage across the population ❇️ Strong optimism about AI's potential ❇️ Growing comfort with AI-powered experiences ❇️ Expanding adoption across work, education, and consumer applications ❇️ Openness to new forms of AI-enabled services For businesses, the opportunity extends well beyond deploying AI tools. Success will increasingly depend on designing experiences that combine trust, usability, transparency, and human-centered thinking with strong technical capabilities. What makes India's position particularly interesting is the scale at which these shifts are happening. When a large, digitally connected population embraces new technology with this level of enthusiasm, the market becomes a testing ground for new ideas, products, and business models. I'm especially interested to see how Indian entrepreneurs, startups, and enterprises build on this momentum. Many of the AI products, services, and experiences that gain traction here could help shape how the next phase of AI adoption unfolds around the world. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I'm Rohit Adlakha, your guide to the world of business, tech and transformative leadership. Click the 🔔 for updates. The future is ours to shape – so what are you waiting for? Follow along and let's make it happen! 🚀
Experience & Education
Licenses & Certifications
Publications
Languages
-
English
Native or bilingual proficiency
-
Hindi
Native or bilingual proficiency
Recommendations received
12 people have recommended Vikram
Join now to viewOther similar profiles
Explore more posts
-
Rohit Mathur
Pleased to represent Nucleus Software at the India–Brazil Business Forum 🇮🇳🇧🇷 at Taj Palace, New Delhi. India 🇮🇳 and Brazil 🇧🇷 are dynamic, high-growth economies with immense opportunity for collaboration in fintech and digital financial services. As Brazil advances in digital lending and financial inclusion, and India continues to lead in scalable fintech innovation, there is tremendous scope for mutual learning and knowledge exchange. At Nucleus Software, we are committed to enabling financial institutions with robust, compliant, and scalable lending platforms that support sustainable growth across global markets. Looking forward to meaningful conversations and stronger cross-border learning and partnership session.🙏🏻 #IndiaBrazil #Fintech #DigitalLending #GlobalCollaboration #NucleusSoftware #DigitalTransformations
1 Comment -
Nageswar Cherukupalli
Cognizant is partnering with Uniphore to develop industry-specific #AI solutions powered by small language models (#SLM) and #AI agents. In highly regulated sectors like #Banking and #CapitalMarkets, precision, governance, and operational alignment are more critical than ever. That’s why we’re focused on building targeted, scalable AI capabilities designed to support specific workflows—such as customer onboarding and operational decisioning—while keeping compliance and efficiency top of mind. By combining Uniphore’s Business AI Cloud with Cognizant’s deep industry expertise and delivery excellence, we’re looking to bring forward AI systems that truly reflect the unique regulatory and operational requirements of #FinancialServices. Our goal is to help institutions turn AI into a durable, governable part of how business gets done. I’m proud to be part of a team that’s shaping the future of AI for financial services, and I look forward to seeing the impact our partnership will have for clients and their customers. Read More : https://lnkd.in/eUAV67pV #CognizantBFSI Ravi Kumar S | Surya Gummadi | Mohd Haque | Naveen Sharma | Meena Athinathan | Raj Kumar Mani | Marcie Kroeker | Rimna Radhakrishnan | Gokul Gopalakrishnan | Umesh Sachdev | Shanker Udyaver
-
Tinu Cherian Abraham
UST Announces Strategic Transaction with Bain Capital to Propel Next Phase of Growth UST, a leading AI and technology transformation solutions company, has successfully closed its transaction with Bain Capital involving UST HealthProof, a subsidiary of UST that provides solutions for core administration and clinical operations across all lines of business. As part of this transaction, UST HealthProof will combine with HealthEdge, creating one of the healthcare industry’s leading next-generation platforms for payers. For UST, this move marks a deliberate and strategic step in its growth and transformation journey. By divesting UST HealthProof, UST has aligned its strategic focus around high-growth areas such as enterprise AI, cloud transformation, data modernization, and platform engineering. These capabilities are reshaping the digital future for clients across healthcare, BFSI, retail, and other industries, and UST is committed to further enhancing its leadership position in these key sectors to increase solutions and benefits to payers, providers, and clients. UST remains one of the largest and fastest-growing healthcare technology solutioning enterprises, with a 5,000+ strong healthcare team, and more than 20 years of industry expertise. The company serves all the top five U.S. healthcare payers, more than 50 leading U.S. healthcare systems, as well as global pharmaceutical and life sciences leaders. With a customer retention rate of more than 98% over the last five years, UST remains a trusted partner for payers and providers in addition to pharma and healthtech companies. At the same time, UST HealthProof begins its next chapter with Bain Capital and HealthEdge. With its dedicated investment and leadership structure, UST HealthProof will be positioned to scale more rapidly, explore new partnerships, and continue delivering innovation for its clients. UST was instrumental in the growth and evolution of UST Healthproof, a testament to its longstanding expertise in fostering robust, innovative, and effective client-focused platforms. The two companies will continue to maintain a strong relationship, ensuring continuity for shared customers and ongoing collaborations. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gV7iYmHW Kevin Adams Lisa Bond Brewer Krishna Sudheendra Manu Gopinath Alexander Varghese Leslie Schultz Vijay Padmanabhan Praveen Prabhakaran Gilroy Mathew Sunil Balakrishnan Niranjan Ramsunder Tony Velleca Sajesh Gopinath Yuval Wollman Colleen Doherty Kishore AK David Berney Krishna Prasad Youssef Mogadam Vinay Kumar Vijayakumar Neha Misri Merrick Laravea Roshni Das Kailash Attal Kaushal Tripathi Nitin Kalra #UST #PublicRelations #MediaRelations #PR #CorporateCommunications
2 Comments
Explore top content on LinkedIn
Find curated posts and insights for relevant topics all in one place.
View top content