Why IT Grows Here

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Why IT Grows Here

• S Sadagopan, IIIT-B
• Siemens Conference
• Bangalore
• March 22, 2005

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Overview of the Talk

• IT in India over the years
• Education in India, IT Education in India
• Some names numbers
• Changing nature of IT in India
• Future of IT in India
• Summary

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IT in India over the years

• Zero, digits and position came from India
  Ramanujan in the last century
• TDC-12, LIC, Impress of Railways, Indian
  Airlines Auto-coder, Balaji Temple and AS 400
• IIT Undergraduate CS Programs
• Domestic IT Industry till 90s HCL Wipro,
  TVSE and Wipro, Softek

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Education in India

• Respect for the village School master is still
  there
• Even poor look at education as the gateway to
  social mobility
• Parents support children education even till they
  do their PhD!
• JEE, CAT, CET are national phenomenon
• 12 Years of Schooling, 3 and 4 years of UG, 2
  year PG, 4 year PhD
• Mostly public, private and Public-Private
  Partnerships just starting
• IITs, IIMs, IIITs, ISI, IISc, AIIMS, ICAR, NID,
  NIFT, IFT

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Some Numbers Names

• 320,000 Undergraduate Engineers graduate EVERY
  year! Plus another 300,000 (MCA, MSc, Diploma,
  ITI..)
• Jobs - 1 Million in IT today 1.5 Million in ITES
  today 5-8 Million expected by 2008 grown at 50
  compounded annual growth rate during 1995-2002
  still growing at 30
• Infosys, Wipro, TCS have 100,000 people and 5
  Billion business today
• Software Services alone is 27 Billion today
  expected to be 80 Billion by 2009
• Software services account for 3 of GDP today
  14 by 2008 33 of export by 2008

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Some Numbers Names

• AppleTalk Designer (Sidhu), Team of Six of the
  Pascal Compiler (Keshav Nori), Sun Microsystems
  Co-Founder (Vinod Khosla),Pentium Designer (Vinod
  Dham), Novell CTO (Kanwal Rekhi), Oracle CTO
  (Jnan Dash), Microsoft Chief Quality (Somasegar),
  HotMail Founder (Sabeer Bhatia), InstallShield
  (Bhatia), WebEx (Subra Iyer) key designers in
  Google, nVIDIA, Intel, SAP, AMD, IBM, HP..Indians
  Inside

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Changing Nature of IT in India

• Low cost entry strategy numbers (IT Pros) as
  growth strategy Quality as assertion strategy
  Innovation as leadership strategy
• Services, products, design, IP, technology
  licensing, full-blown product development,
  deployment, service, support..

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Changing Nature of IT in India - Services

• Moved beyond body shopping
• Moving beyond United States
• Moving beyond English Speaking countries
• 3 Billion Dollar Companies 15 companies in 100
  Million 150 in 10 5000 smaller companies
• Bigger companies do other things Infosys
  Foundation Premji Foundation

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Changing Nature of IT in India - Products

• At least one product that is Worlds No 1 (i-Flex
  Flexcube)
• Local product Tally expects 150 Million in 2007
• Niche products
• Many products developed here Adobe Pocket
  Reader, InDesign.. Product Development
  Outsourcing - Aditi

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Changing Nature of IT in India Product related
services

• Testing Wipro with 10,000 testers (largest in
  the world)
• EDA (Electronic Design), CAD (Mechanical Design),
  Drug Design, Molecular Modeling..

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Changing Nature of IT in India Hardware

• HiCal Magnetics
• Moser Baer
• Tandon
• VXL Instruments
• Wipro, HCL, Zenith Local brands PCs

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Changing Nature of IT in India IP

• Sasken
• Ittiam No 1 DSP Company in 3rd year
• Impulsesoft unwires Apple iPod
• Transversal Networks Borland University runs on
  Ten Acado
• Patent Culture CSIR Labs R A Mashelkar
• Patents coming out of India exceed 1,000 today
  (not necessarily from Indian companies) Ittiam
  has 50 within 3 years IIIT-B has applied for 5
  in 5 years

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India is starting to consume IT

• Banking Financial Services
• Automotive, Aerospace,..
• Healthcare
• Transportation
• Education
• Hospitality
• Government

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Future of IT and India

• Will help India get over its poverty
• Developing or Developed but for sure Developer
  Nation
• Drive Auto Think Germany Smell Perfume Think
  France Watch Time Think Swiss Admire Jumbo
  Think United States Use Software Think India

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IT Industry Educational Institutions

• Beyond Recruitment
• Endowed Chair, Major Investment
• Patron Members
• Funded Research Labs
• Joint Development
• Seeding PhD Research
• .

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Summary

• IT has deep roots in India
• IT in India is interesting
• IT in India is changing
• IT will change India
• IT will change the world India will have a part
• Thats IT!
• ANY QUESTIONS?