{"id":1013346,"date":"2026-06-10T07:40:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T02:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013346"},"modified":"2026-06-10T07:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T02:18:20","slug":"india-can-take-the-lead-in-applying-ai-in-industries-sap-ceo-christian-klein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/10\/india-can-take-the-lead-in-applying-ai-in-industries-sap-ceo-christian-klein\/","title":{"rendered":"India can take the lead in applying AI in industries: SAP CEO Christian Klein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial Intelligence models are becoming commoditised, so the bigger opportunity lies in applying AI in industries \u2014 manufacturing, finance, life sciences, supply chains and professional services. \u201cThat\u2019s where countries like India can become frontrunners,\u201d SAP chief executive Christian Klein told Surabhi Agarwal and Shristi Achar in a video interview. <\/p>\n<p>The risk to India or the global IT and software services companies is only \u201cif you are not transforming your workforce\u201d to make it AI aligned, said Klein, 46, during his annual visit to India. Edited excerpts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial Intelligence models are becoming commoditised, so the bigger opportunity lies in applying AI in industries \u2014 manufacturing, finance, life sciences, supply chains and professional services. \u201cThat\u2019s where countries like India can become frontrunners,\u201d SAP chief executive Christian Klein told Surabhi Agarwal and Shristi Achar in a video interview. The risk to India or the global IT and software services companies is only \u201cif you are not transforming your workforce\u201d to make it AI aligned, said Klein, 46, during his annual visit to India. Edited excerpts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013374,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013346\/revisions\/1013374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}