Our Own Devices with Nandagopal Rajan
Indian Express' Nandagopal Rajan hosts this new weekly podcast which goes beyond the trends so you can stay ahead of the curve. Our Own Devices discusses quirky gadgets, dissects trends and reflects on the world of tech in India.
Episodes
August 11, 2025 • 25 mins
In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Shekar Sivasubramanian, Head, Wadhwani AI. This conversation explores how AI can be put to use to solve problems faced by Indians and to make life less complicated for them. Mr. Sivasubramanian talks about Wadhwani AI and the work that they have been doing in the fields of health and education. He shares that using AI for solv...
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August 4, 2025 • 21 mins
In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Sanjay Menon, MD- India, Publicis Sapient. In this conversation they explore the concept of GCC and its relationship with AI. Sanjay explains how Gen AI is changing the game and the importance of context when it's comes to artificial intelligence. He talks about the evolving talent landscape with regards to AI and how some peo...
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July 28, 2025 • 19 mins
In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Mary Ellen Randall, President-Elect, IEEE. In this conversation they explore the ways in which technology can be put to you use for humanitarian causes. Mary shares how IEEE has been using tech to help out people who suffer during natural disasters and to educate young people and even school going children about what they can ...
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July 14, 2025 • 26 mins
In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Gazal Kalra and Shalabh Gupta, Co-founders, Nuuk. In this conversation they explore the impact of design innovation on products and the response it receives from customers. They share how they conceptualize their designs and what makes them out of the box. Shalabh and Gazal also share about the vacuum cleaners and mattress cle...
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July 7, 2025 • 23 mins
In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Sebastian Schrötel, Senior Vice President of Product Management, UiPath. Here Sabastian talks about AI agents and what their potential is when it comes to them becoming a part of a company's regular operations. He talks about the fact that AI agents can become companions in a situation where organizations want to solve certain...
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June 30, 2025 • 26 mins
In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Rakesh Verma, Co-founder of MapMyIndia. This conversation explores the importance that location and geotaging holds in today's world. Industry veteran Rakesh Verma touches upon the work that has been done by MapMyIndia in the field of digital location. The conversation also covers how locations identification using pins has be...
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June 23, 2025 • 19 mins
In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Ranga Jagannath, Senior Director-Growth, Agora. This conversation explores the soft, more human side of artificial intelligence. Ranga shares his insights on how AI and the human avatars it creates can be used for a larger good in the fields of education and health care. The conversation also touches upon the cultural sensitiv...
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June 16, 2025 • 24 mins
In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Subhathra Srinivasaraghavan, Vice President, India Systems Development Lab, IBM. This conversation explores the infrastructure that goes into making AI work the way its supposed to. Subhathra explains the importance of infrastructure, how it needs to updated according to Gen AI and how India Systems Development Lab is working ...
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June 9, 2025 • 22 mins
In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Steve Ledzian, CTO, Google Cloud Security (JAPAC) at Mandiant. Steve talks about cyber security in today's Gen AI scenario. He explains how Mandiant is helping corporations today stay a step ahead and make sure their data is safe as AI takes over everything. AI while can help organizations increase their safety, it can also pr...
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June 2, 2025 • 22 mins
In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Sandhya Devanathan, Vice President and Head, Meta India. She talks about Meta, how India is one of the leading users if the application and how Meta AI is growing to make life easier for it's users. With its flight of applications and Gen AI features along with Meta's open source AI model Llama, Sandhya shares how the company ...
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May 19, 2025 • 24 mins
In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Sooraj Nair, Head of Safety Operations – India and South Asia. As a part of this conversation, Sooraj talks about the features that make Uber a safe option to chose while commuting. He lists the features that Uber has come up with over the years like ride check, a 24×7 helpline number and a lot more. He shares how along with t...
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May 12, 2025 • 22 mins
In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Kalavathi GV, Executive Director & Head, Global Development Center, Siemens Healthineers. Our guest today, explores the connection between AI and Healthcare. She explains how artificial intelligence has the power to enable diagnosis during early onset of a disease and how it can empower the health care professionals and ph...
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May 5, 2025 • 19 mins
In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Neeraj Agarwal, Chair, Asia Pacific, BCG Group & Founder and Trustee of Plaksha University. Our guest today, explores the connection between education and artificial intelligence. He shares how he and his team at Plaksha University have been working towards creating an environment and courses where students can learn the p...
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April 28, 2025 • 19 mins
In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Baskar Subramanian, Founder and CEO, Amagi. Our guest today, explores the realm of content and streaming, he highlights the large scale at which content is available these days, from social media to streaming platforms to smart TVs. He shares how greater access to a large amount of content gives it a global and yet a local fla...
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April 21, 2025 • 25 mins
In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Dr. Ranjit Tinaikar, CEO, Ness Digital Engineering. In this conversation, Dr. Ranjit explores how India can utilise the AI opportunity. He speaks about the 4 pillars that will play a significant role in the establishment of Artificial intelligence in India. Our host and Dr. Ranjit also highlight what India can learn from DeepS...
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April 14, 2025 • 24 mins
In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Navin Dhananjaya, Chief Solutions Officer at Merkle and Global CXM Lead at Dentsu Global Services and Daniel Knauf, Chief Technology Officer at Merkle (a dentsu company). Our guests today, explore the concept of synthetic data, the need for it and how it is generated. They highlight that synthetic data can help understand huma...
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April 7, 2025 • 21 mins
In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Arnold Su, Vice President, Consumer and Gaming PC, System Business Group, ASUS India. In this conversation Arnold highlights how AI PCs are making their way into the market. He talks about the different levels of AI PCs that are being produced by ASUS, all the way from the basic to the advanced ones. He shares how AI personal ...
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March 31, 2025 • 22 mins
In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Shivam Ranjan, Head of Motorola Mobility, Asia Pacific. We are living in a time when the world exists on our smartphones. And one of the easiest way for us to access and use Generative AI is through our smartphones. In this conversation, Shivam explains how Motorola has been working to create a good artificial intelligence led...
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March 24, 2025 • 18 mins
In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Sanjay Poonen, CEO and President of Cohesity. With AI taking over every field in one way or the other and data becoming the most essential commodity, more and more importance is being given to keeping data secured. And one such organization that has been working towards protecting, securing and provide insights regarding data ...
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March 17, 2025 • 21 mins
In this episode of Our Own Devices, our host Nandagopal Rajan, COO, The Indian Express Online is joined by Yoel Roth, Vice President of Trust & Safety at Match Group - Tinder’s parent company. We are living in a time where everything can happen online from ordering food, groceries to networking and even dating! However, whether you have used the apps or not, there is always a question of safety and trust in mind when it comes t...
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