{"id":1042965,"date":"2026-10-14T08:17:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T02:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042965"},"modified":"2026-10-14T08:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T02:55:21","slug":"india-at-defining-moment-unique-opportunity-to-shape-exponential-tech-like-ai-ibm-india-south-asia-md","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/14\/india-at-defining-moment-unique-opportunity-to-shape-exponential-tech-like-ai-ibm-india-south-asia-md\/","title":{"rendered":"India at defining moment, unique opportunity to shape exponential tech like AI: IBM India &amp; South Asia MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is at a defining moment with a unique opportunity to shape exponential technologies like artificial intelligence, IBM India and South Asia Managing Director Sandip Patel said on Tuesday, noting that &#8220;when India builds, it builds for billions,&#8221; which allows impact to scale. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the IBM Think 2026 event in Mumbai, Patel said it is still &#8216;day zero&#8217; of the AI revolution. <\/p>\n<p>Most enterprises already run it, but only at the margins, a workflow here, a use case there, he said, and observed that this was valuable, but with &#8216;marginal gains.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is at a defining moment with a unique opportunity to shape exponential technologies like artificial intelligence, IBM India and South Asia Managing Director Sandip Patel said on Tuesday, noting that &#8220;when India builds, it builds for billions,&#8221; which allows impact to scale. Speaking at the IBM Think 2026 event in Mumbai, Patel said it is still &#8216;day zero&#8217; of the AI revolution. Most enterprises already run it, but only at the margins, a workflow here, a use case there, he said, and observed that this was valuable, but with &#8216;marginal gains.&#8221;<\/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-1042965","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\/1042965","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=1042965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042994,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042965\/revisions\/1042994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}