By- Atul Ahuja, Area Vice President and General Manager, Elastic:
As India marks National Technology Day with a focus on building a sustainable and self-reliant technology ecosystem, the country’s AI ambitions are beginning to move beyond experimentation and into enterprise-wide implementation. As per Deloitte’s report titled ‘The State of AI in the Enterprise’, nearly 40 percent of Indian organisations already report significant or full-scale AI adoption, while 94 percent expect AI investments to rise further over the next year. AI is now used in critical business functions, from strategic decision-making and cybersecurity to operations and customer engagement. At the same time, frontier and agentic AI models are expanding the scope of what enterprises expect from AI, pushing it beyond providing answers to being capable of reasoning, planning, and autonomous execution.
This year’s emphasis on responsible AI and digital technologies also brings into focus a critical enterprise challenge: ensuring that increasingly autonomous systems remain accurate, trustworthy, and resilient as they scale. At Elastic, we see context engineering as the critical layer that determines the success of agentic AI. Enterprise data today is spread across applications, workflows, operational systems, and security environments that rarely communicate with each other in meaningful ways. By unifying these disparate streams of structured and unstructured information in real time, organisations can provide the “ground truth” AI requires to operate.
For a self-reliant India, the goal is clear: building a technology ecosystem where AI is not just autonomous, but inherently dependable and deeply informed by the context of the business it serves.
By- Amit Agrawal, President, Techno Digital:
As India enters the next phase of its digital transformation journey, AI is fundamentally reshaping how digital infrastructure is designed, powered, and scaled. The challenge is no longer limited to expanding compute capacity alone. It is about building infrastructure capable of supporting unprecedented power densities, advanced cooling requirements, ultra-low latency processing, and sovereign data control at scale.
Responsible innovation cannot exist without responsible infrastructure. As AI adoption accelerates across enterprises, public services, financial systems, and emerging digital ecosystems, the focus must shift toward infrastructure that is resilient, energy-efficient, and engineered for long-term national scale.
At Techno Digital, we believe India’s AI future will be built on power-first, distributed digital infrastructure where compute, connectivity, and operational resilience are designed together from the ground up. The next era of inclusive digital growth will not be defined only by advancements in AI, but by the strength of the infrastructure powering it
