{"id":994581,"date":"2026-02-25T11:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994581"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:50:16","slug":"ai-to-bring-a-painful-transition-says-hcltech-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/25\/ai-to-bring-a-painful-transition-says-hcltech-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"AI to bring a \u2018painful transition\u2019, says HCLTech CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As artificial intelligence (AI) stirs fresh doubts about the future of information technology services, HCL Technologies Ltd\u2019s chief executive officer C. Vijayakumar said the industry is indeed at its biggest inflection point yet, and it faces a painful, people-led transition. He, however, pushed back against fears of sweeping disruption, arguing that enterprise adoption will take time and is \u201cnot as dramatic\u201d as being portrayed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I think I would say this: this transition is different\u2026 it&#8217;s going to be painful because it really involves people,\u201d said Vijayakumar during a fireside chat at the Nasscom Technology and Leadership Forum 2026 in Mumbai on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As artificial intelligence (AI) stirs fresh doubts about the future of information technology services, HCL Technologies Ltd\u2019s chief executive officer C. Vijayakumar said the industry is indeed at its biggest inflection point yet, and it faces a painful, people-led transition. He, however, pushed back against fears of sweeping disruption, arguing that enterprise adoption will take time and is \u201cnot as dramatic\u201d as being portrayed. \u201cSo I think I would say this: this transition is different\u2026 it&#8217;s going to be painful because it really involves people,\u201d said Vijayakumar during a fireside chat at the Nasscom Technology and Leadership Forum 2026 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994581","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}