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India is one of the biggest opportunities for infrastructure digitisation

Globally, industries are changing fast by adopting new age technologies like artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, 3D printing and other digital tools. Infrastructure companies are also catching up and adopting these for better execution, cost reduction, and improving quality and service, top sector executives said at the Business Today PwC Smart Infrastructure Roundtable in Mumbai organised on May 21, 2019.

The Roundtable was attended by Devidas Kulkarni, Business Head, Smart Infrastructure, Siemens India; Manish Agarwal, Leader, Capital Projects & Infrastructure, PwC India; R. Srinivasan, Executive Vice President & Head, Smart World & Communication Business Unit, Larsen & Toubro; Bhuwan Lodha, Vice President, Digital Group Strategy Office, Mahindra & Mahindra; Sanjiv Kumar Jha, Chief Data Scientist, Quantela; Nandakumar Somasundaram, CEO and Managing Director, NDOT Technologies; and Anand Prakasam: Country Manager India, EOS GmbH. The Roundtable was moderated by Prosenjit Datta, Editor, Business Today. Edited excerpts:

Prosenjit Datta: How far have we come in using smart technologies for our infrastructural needs?

In my opinion, we are going for digitisation in infrastructure and we can notice the evolution in the automotive

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