{"id":1035078,"date":"2026-09-14T08:17:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035078"},"modified":"2026-09-14T08:38:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T03:08:56","slug":"the-next-ai-phase-will-be-about-control-scale-sandip-patel-md-ibm-india-south-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/14\/the-next-ai-phase-will-be-about-control-scale-sandip-patel-md-ibm-india-south-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The next AI phase will be about control &amp; scale\u2019: Sandip Patel, MD, IBM India &amp; South Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Indian enterprises move from experimenting with AI to deploying it at scale, the focus is shifting to building the foundations needed for sustained adoption. Sandip Patel, managing director, IBM India &amp; South Asia, says the next phase will be driven by agentic AI embedded in core business processes, but scaling it will require stronger data foundations, greater control over technology and new skills. In an interview with Sudhir Chowdhary, Patel discusses digital sovereignty, open-source security risks and the challenges of building secure, resilient AI environments. Excerpts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Indian enterprises move from experimenting with AI to deploying it at scale, the focus is shifting to building the foundations needed for sustained adoption. Sandip Patel, managing director, IBM India &amp; South Asia, says the next phase will be driven by agentic AI embedded in core business processes, but scaling it will require stronger data foundations, greater control over technology and new skills. In an interview with Sudhir Chowdhary, Patel discusses digital sovereignty, open-source security risks and the challenges of building secure, resilient AI environments. 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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035078","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=1035078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035079,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035078\/revisions\/1035079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}