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HCLTech MetaLabs: Pioneering enterprise metaverse experiences
The Rise of AI, Multi-Cloud and Quantum Computing
Dissecting the IT Service Industry with HCLTech
Exploring the latest trends in quantum computing
3 ways to disrupt education and help bridge the skills gap
7 technology trends set to define the next decade
Harnessing the power of AI in sports
Virtual is real or real is virtual?
HCLTech CTO Kalyan Kumar on Metaverse
Fostering Technology. Creating value. Accelerating Innovation.
Being one of the primary movers of value creation at HCLTech, the Enterprise Technology Office (ETO) challenges the status quo by constantly analyzing, innovating and incubating avant-garde technology and striving to achieve sustainable competitive advantage through thought leadership and pioneer thinking. To achieve this unparalleled feat, the ETO continuously aims to acquire advantages in areas related to information, operation, business technologies and their convergence.
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Tech Trends
Tech Trends is an annual research exercise undertaken to analyze how emerging technologies and cutting-edge innovations are going to impact the modern enterprise in the next 12 to 24 months. Through hundreds of hours of research, we are putting the spotlight on some of the biggest tech trends that your business can make the most of in 2024 and beyond.
eSTiP™
eSTiP™, acronym for Startup Ecosystem Innovation Platform & Program, is HCLTech flagship open innovation framework to explore startup ecosystem and initiate various opportunities with startups and academia to enter strategic pilots, NPIs, commercial partnerships and potential inves™ents with customer’s business lines globally.
Q-Labs
Q-Labs is the flagship quantum business unit stationed on four strategic pillars viz. academy, R&D, industry offerings and ecosystem. The vision is to future-proof enterprises on their quantum journey by accelerating exploration and enabling industry leaders to gain the ‘quantum advantage’.
MetaLabs
MetaLabs is formed to incubate and ideate on establishing enterprise and industrial metaverse experiences encompassing frameworks, platforms, interconnected sandbox experiences, creator networks, academies and fluidic CoEs. We aim to drive the enterprise metaverse maturity curve to achieve secure, interoperable and accessible metaverse.
CxO Advisory Council
Our global tech community of leading CxOs, VCs, entrepreneurs and academicians to collaborate on present-day challenges and on technologies of the future to stay resilient and agile in a rapidly changing world. Our virtual roundtables and panel discussions are invite-only events that bring together a select group of stakeholders from the open innovation ecosystem for topic-driven, intimate, dialog on current trends and topics.
SportsTech
SportsTech has been our area of focus since last few years with a vision of "Unlocking unprecedented opportunities by using innovative ideas for growth in the sports industry, thus satisfying the consumer’s needs." We constantly work to innovate, integrate and scale the SportsTech Ecosystem across the globe by working in partnership with our open innovation ecosystem partners to explore SportsTech trends and adoption opportunities in domains such as – Fan Engagement, Athlete Performance, Wearables, Data Analytics, Grassroot development, Sustainability etc.
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Kalyan Kumar, Global CTO and Head, Ecosystems, HCLTech shared his views on “Decoding the Impact of Generative AI on IT Services,” hosted by Citi, on June 13, 2023
HCLTech and Microsoft expand collaboration to boost innovation and adoption of generative AI with Microsoft's Azure OpenAI service
HCLTech and Google Cloud expand partnership to boost innovation and adoption of Generative AI
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Mobile World Congress 2023 | HCL Tech focuses on new 5G products: Kalyan Kumar, Global CTO - HCLTech
Davos 2023: Watch Swati Khandelwal's Exclusive Conversation With Kalyan Kumar, Global CTO, HCLTech
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Proximus
Director Cloud Service Center & Quantum Technology Lead
HCLTech Q-Labs provided quantum consulting services for Proximus, defining the strategic roadmap of a dedicated innovation lab and kick-starting their quantum journey.
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Global Chief Technology Officer and Head of Ecosystems, HCLTech
Kalyan Kumar serves as the Global Chief Technology Officer and Head of Ecosystems at HCLTech and the Chief Product Officer of HCLSoftware. Over the past two decades, he has performed various roles across the company's solutions, business development, and alliance management domains. In his current role, he oversees all product and technology strategies, technology incubations, and the overall cloud offering CloudSMART. He is a member of the Wall Street Journal CIO Network and the CNBC Technology Executive Council. In addition, he is a fellow of the British Computer Society and part of the WEF Global Future Council. He has co-authored eight books on business technology and service management. In 2021 and 2022, he was nominated as one of the global top 100 technology leaders by Technology Magazine.