Our Own Devices with Nandagopal Rajan

In this episode of The Indian Express weekly tech podcast – Our Own Devices, host Nandagopal Rajan is joined by Soniya Jobanputra, Director of Product Management, Google, to talk about the newly launched Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, it's features, and why Google is calling it the “first phone built for the generative AI era”. Edited and mixed by Suresh Pawar Introducing Soniya Jobanputra New features in the latest Pixel phones (00:52) New AI use cases (03:52) An AI phone (05:52) Google philosophy and AI (06:44) Can AI solve battery longevity issues? (09:19) Different models of Google products for smartphone (10:24) Is hardware losing its importance? (11:24) Technological limitations (13:04) Unique challenges in India (14:43)

In this episode of The Indian Express weekly tech podcast – Our Own Devices, host Nandagopal Rajan is joined by Kanishka Acharya, Founder & CEO, Welldercare Agetech, to discuss the realm of technology and artificial intelligence in the context of caregiving, how seniors can harness technology to manage their health and whether AI has the potential to supplement human caregiving. Edited and mixed by Suresh Pawar ----- Introducing Kanishka Acharya Defining agetech (00:44) Helping older people with technology (01:10) How Welldercare works (02:20) Launching Welldercare (07:43) Connecting software with a caregiver (08:44) Retrofitting hardware with product (10:18) Resistance to technology (11:11) Using AI in elder care (13:09) Importance of human care (15:45)

In this episode of The Indian Express weekly tech podcast – Our Own Devices, host Nandagopal Rajan is joined by Tarun Mehta, Co-founder and CEO of Ather Energy to talk about the dynamic and growing landscape of electric two-wheelers in India, Ather's pivotal role in shaping this industry, and what makes the Indian market a unique space for EV scooters. Edited and mixed by Suresh Pawar ------- Introducing Tarun Mehta India, a two-wheeler country (00:27) EV scooter space in India (01:48) Correlation between electric scooters and GDP (03:16) Indian 2 wheeler market (05:02) Innovating locally (07:28) Manufacturing challenges (09:48) Filling talent gap (11:36) Reaching out to customers (13:50) Ather's product roadmap (15:49) Battery technology (17:28) India as global leader (18:43)

In this episode of The Indian Express weekly tech podcast – Our Own Devices, host Nandagopal Rajan tells us about this year's Apple's keynote, the major launches, the updates, and how Apple had made mother nature the central character of its event and products. Edited and mixed by Suresh Pawar ---- Apple's new announcements Mother nature as the prominent character (00:53) Carbon neutral products (02:18) Setting industry standards (04:33) Underwhelming keynote (05:33) Primary changes in Iphone (07:20) Iphone pro and pro max (10:03) Gaming capabilities in Iphone (14:24) Indian release (16:48)

In this episode of The Indian Express weekly tech podcast – Our Own Devices, host Nandagopal Rajan is joined by Kapil Makhija, CEO at Unicommerce to discuss how technologies and data are used in e-commerce in order to craft a seamless customer experience and the challenges behind creating such experiences. Edited and mixed by Suresh Pawar ------ Introducing Kapil Makhija Backend of supply chain (00:39) Logistical challenges in a country like India (02:59) Evolution of ecommerce (04:56) Predicting customers' orders (08:11) Interesting trends from Indian markets (10:11) Bricks instead of IPhones (14:07) Implementing seamless return process (15:38)

In this episode of The Indian Express weekly tech podcast – Our Own Devices, host Nandagopal Rajan is joined by Manabu Yamazaki, President and CEO of Canon India, to discuss how Canon accommodates the demands of the creator economy and builds products tailored for diverse users, especially who are accustomed to smartphones. Edited and mixed by Abhishek Kumar ----- Introducing Manabu Yamazaki Learning and unlearning during pandemic (01:20) Japanese philosophy of transformation (03:20) Impact of the transformation on employees (06:17) New products for emerging users (07:42) Opportunities in the age of creator economy (11:05) Entering new markets (13:50) New marketing communication (16:10) Exciting new technologies (18:04) Challenges ahead (20:36)

In this episode of The Indian Express weekly tech podcast – Our Own Devices, host Nandagopal Rajan is joined by Ishan John Chatterjee, Managing Director, YouTube India to talk about YouTube's journey in India, its contribution to the creator economy and its ongoing efforts to forge innovative tools for content diversification. Edited by Abhishek Kumar --------- Introducing Ishan John Chatterjee YouTube's journey in India (00:31) Brand-driven to individual-driven content (03:25) Content based on demands from community (05:47) Creator economy in India (07:13) Making creators aware of different opportunities (10:34) Challenges in catering to diverse needs (12:20) Learnings from India (13:11) Future possibilities (14:49)

In this episode of The Indian Express weekly tech podcast – Our Own Devices, host Nandagopal Rajan is joined by Tushar Vashisht, Co-founder and CEO of HealthifyMe to talk about the rise of health tech in India and how AI can be used to help people make healthier choices. HealthifyMe is India’s largest health & fitness app with 30 million users. Edited and mixed by Abhishek Kumar ------- Introducing Tushar Vashisht Understanding HealthifyMe (00:25) Giving active choices (02:05) Using AI and human coaches (03:36) Data absence (04:45) Need for AI to compute data (07:48) Next steps for HealthifyMe (09:46) Changing course with AI (11:53) Balancing data with human conversation (12:58) Personalising recommendations (16:09) AI as the lever to change the world (17:21)

In this episode of The Indian Express weekly tech podcast – Our Own Devices, host Nandagopal Rajan is joined by Damyant Singh Khanoria, Chief Marketing Officer at OPPO India, to discuss the new innovations in the smartphone space, an increasing use of AI on smartphones and the pain points that need to be solved. Edited by Abhishek Kumar --------- Introducing Damyant Singh Khanoria Exciting part of smartphone industry (01:03) Processors, design, screens (05:27) Innovation for premium segment (08:40) Challenges for India market (12:43) Artificial Intelligence for smartphones (18:21) Pain point that needs to be solved (20:44)

In this episode of The Indian Express weekly tech podcast – Our Own Devices, host Nandagopal Rajan is joined by Mike Hanely to explore GitHub's role in the open-source developer community, how GitHub approaches cybersecurity concerns and potential ease of security with Passkeys. Edited by Abhishek Kumar -------- Introducing Mike Hanely GitHub in the technological ecosystem (00:36) Pandemic's effect on GitHub (01:30) Protecting remotely developed codes (02:22) Open source developer community (05:08) Threat landscape of software supply chain (06:11) Making GitHub secure by default (08:55) Zero trust strategies in cybersecurity (11:42) Ensuring cleaner safer codes (15:12) Making security easier through passkey (16:54)