Founders Adda Raw Conversations with India’s Top AI Pioneers
20 Feb 2026 13:00h - 14:00h
Founders Adda Raw Conversations with India’s Top AI Pioneers
Session at a glance
Summary
This discussion was a product showcase session at a technology summit where AI startup founders presented their solutions to an audience of peers and potential collaborators. The session was moderated by Archana Jahargirdar, who emphasized that presentations should focus purely on product details rather than business pitches or funding discussions. Five founders presented their AI-driven solutions across different sectors.
Ravindra Kumar from Technodate AI presented an automation platform that uses agentic AI to help companies conceptualize, deploy, and troubleshoot robotics and automation solutions. Their system aims to make industrial automation as simple as DIY projects, working with clients including Fortune 500 companies and exploring deployment with the Indian Air Force. Vaibhavath Shukla from Quonsys AI demonstrated voice infrastructure for automating call centers and BPOs, partnering with companies like Paytm and CRED while building their own data engine for Indian languages to achieve sub-second response times.
Pradyum Gupta from Papri Labs showcased a real-time mapping system that updates existing maps using visual data from dashcams and CCTVs across metro cities. Their platform processes 100 petabytes of data to provide instant updates about road conditions, traffic, and infrastructure changes, serving clients in advertising, autonomous vehicles, and government consulting. Meenal Gupta from EasyOPI Solutions presented Imagix AI, a medical imaging platform for cancer treatment planning that reduces manual contouring time from 60-90 minutes to 5-15 minutes while maintaining 92-99% accuracy.
Finally, Vivek Gupta from Indus Labs AI demonstrated their voice operating system focused on Indian dialects and languages, offering 70% cost reduction compared to global competitors while providing emotional recognition capabilities. The session concluded with interactive Q&A segments where founders addressed technical questions about scalability, data privacy compliance, and implementation challenges, demonstrating the collaborative learning environment the moderator had intended to create.
Keypoints
Overall Purpose
This was a founder showcase event organized by Rukam Capital where AI startup founders presented their products to an audience of peers and potential stakeholders. The format was specifically designed to focus solely on product demonstrations and technical discussions, explicitly avoiding business pitches, funding conversations, or commercial aspects.
Major Discussion Points
– Industrial Automation and Robotics AI: Technodate AI presented their solution for automating automation itself, using agentic AI to help conceptualize, deploy, and troubleshoot robotics and automation solutions. They emphasized the need for foundational models specific to industrial applications and discussed challenges around proprietary data and on-premises deployment requirements.
– Voice Infrastructure for Call Centers: Two companies (Quonsys AI and Indus Labs AI) presented competing approaches to voice automation. Quonsys focused on automating entire call centers end-to-end, while Indus Labs built a DIY platform for creating voice agents with emphasis on Indian dialects and emotional recognition. Both highlighted significant cost savings (70-90%) and the importance of handling regional language variations.
– Real-time Map Intelligence and Urban Analytics: Papri Labs demonstrated their visual data processing system that updates mapping systems in real-time using dashcams and CCTVs. They showcased applications in billboard advertising optimization, autonomous vehicle support, and urban planning, while addressing important data privacy and DPDP compliance concerns.
– AI-Powered Medical Imaging for Cancer Treatment: EasyOPI Solutions presented Imagix AI, which reduces radiation therapy planning time from 60-90 minutes to 5-15 minutes through automated organ segmentation. They emphasized their human-in-the-loop approach, regulatory compliance (SEDESCO certification), and successful deployment across 14 Indian states with significant impact on TB and cancer detection.
– Data Privacy, Compliance, and Infrastructure Challenges: A recurring theme across presentations was how Indian AI companies are handling data sovereignty, DPDP compliance, and infrastructure scaling. Companies discussed strategies like using bare metal servers in Europe, on-premises deployment, data anonymization, and building sovereign AI capabilities to address these challenges.
Overall Tone
The discussion maintained a highly technical and collaborative tone throughout. The atmosphere was supportive and educational, with founders freely sharing implementation details and challenges. The moderator successfully kept the focus on product and technical aspects rather than commercial pitches. The audience was engaged and asked thoughtful questions about scalability, compliance, and practical implementation. The tone remained consistently professional yet enthusiastic, with founders showing genuine interest in each other’s solutions and sharing insights about common challenges in the Indian AI ecosystem.
Speakers
Speakers from the provided list:
– Archana Jahargirdar – Conference moderator/host from Rukam Capital, facilitating the founder presentations and Q&A session
– Ravindra Kumar – Founder of Technodate AI, building agentic AI solutions for automation in manufacturing and robotics
– Vaibhavath Shukla – Founder and CEO of Quonsys AI, developing voice infrastructure and AI-powered call center automation for India
– Pradyum Gupta – Representative of Papri Labs, working on real-time map updating systems using visual data and AI for smart city applications
– Meenal Gupta – Founder of EasyOPI Solutions, developing Imagix AI – an AI-driven precision imaging platform for cancer treatment planning
– Vivek Gupta – Founder and CEO of Indus Labs AI, building voice operating system and architecture for India with focus on Indian languages and dialects
– Audience – Multiple audience members asking questions during the Q&A sessions
Additional speakers:
None – all speakers in the transcript were included in the provided speakers names list.
Full session report
This product showcase session at a technology summit brought together AI startup founders to demonstrate their solutions across various sectors of the Indian technology ecosystem. Moderated by Archana Jahargirdar from Rukam Capital, the event focused on technical product demonstrations and knowledge sharing, with the moderator emphasizing the need to be mindful of non-AI natives in the audience and to avoid excessive jargon.
Industrial Automation Through Agentic AI
Ravindra Kumar from Technodate AI presented an agentic AI platform aimed at “automating automation itself” to democratize industrial robotics. Drawing from his experience with a company that is the world’s largest manufacturer of industrial robots, Kumar highlighted that while 100% automation has been achieved in some facilities since 2010, global adoption remains low due to complexity barriers.
Technodate’s solution uses agentic AI across three areas: conceptualizing engineering solutions, deploying and commissioning systems including robot programming, and providing troubleshooting support. Kumar explained their evolution from initially trying to avoid building foundational models due to funding constraints in India, to discovering through customer engagement with Fortune 500 companies that foundational models were necessary for their industrial applications.
The platform handles CNC programming for aerospace and automotive components and diagnostic systems for defense applications including the Indian Air Force. Kumar demonstrated capabilities including processing error codes, providing 3D model explosions, and delivering step-by-step troubleshooting procedures. He mentioned collaboration with Dr. Sumit Chopra, highlighting his credentials in the field.
Voice AI Infrastructure Solutions
Two companies presented voice AI solutions targeting India’s customer support industry, valued at $55 billion and representing 2% of India’s GDP.
Vaibhavath Shukla from Quonsys AI positioned their solution as comprehensive call center automation, building “the voice infrastructure for India” through a complete technology stack. Their approach focuses on end-to-end automation capable of listening, understanding, acting, responding, and solving complete business processes without human intervention. The company has partnerships with major enterprises including Paytm and CRED, and collaborates with OpenAI on voice and Indic language infrastructure. Shukla mentioned receiving an award from Prime Minister Modi, and noted that three women founders were called “GreenDeviya” by Narendra Modi.
Vivek Gupta from Indus Labs AI presented a voice operating system encompassing speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and LLM capabilities optimized for Indian linguistic diversity. Their solution addresses the challenge that dialects change every 20 kilometers across India, requiring sophisticated local language processing that global players like 11 Labs, Azure, and Google cannot adequately provide. The company has partnerships with Airtel and Jio.
Indus Labs AI achieves sub 400-500 millisecond latency through proprietary GPU infrastructure, includes emotional recognition capabilities through their emotion-aware speech-to-text model, and provides comprehensive sentiment analysis with automatic CRM integration. Their cost advantage is significant, offering services at two rupees per minute compared to eight rupees per minute for competitors like 11 Labs, while maintaining superior accuracy for Indian dialects.
Real-Time Visual Intelligence and Urban Analytics
Pradyum Gupta from Papri Labs demonstrated a platform processing visual information from 8,000 units across Delhi to create real-time map intelligence systems. Their solution addresses limitations in existing mapping systems by providing real-time awareness of changing conditions such as closed gates, construction, weather impacts, or traffic incidents.
The company deploys cameras across metro cities and major highways, categorizing visual data in real-time and making it searchable. Their applications include helping JCDecaux optimize billboard pricing based on impression counts, supporting MG Motors’ autonomous cars with real-time road condition updates, and assisting BCG with government consulting through demand-capacity analysis for Delhi Transport Corporation’s 8,000-bus fleet. The DTC project received JICA funding.
Papri Labs has expanded into news generation, leveraging their video database to create content for traditional media outlets. Their technical infrastructure uses bare metal servers in European data centers (specifically Hetzner) to address data privacy concerns, while maintaining DPDP compliance through face blurring, number plate anonymization, and data governance protocols.
The company charges ₹1.5 lakh per 25×25 square kilometers per day, with volume discounts for larger deployments. Their work with Delhi Police enables dynamic queries such as finding individuals not wearing helmets or identifying non-functional street lights through natural language processing of visual data.
Healthcare AI and Medical Imaging
Meenal Gupta from EasyOPI Solutions presented Imagix AI, addressing bottlenecks in cancer treatment planning. With 20 million new cancer cases annually and severe shortages of oncology specialists globally, their solution tackles the time-intensive manual process of organ segmentation required for radiation therapy planning.
The platform reduces treatment planning time from 60-90 minutes to 5-15 minutes while maintaining 92% to 99% accuracy, depending on case complexity. EasyOPI Solutions has achieved HIPAA certification, four patents, ISO 13485 certification, and SEDESCO licensing from ICMR, which is mandatory for commercializing software as medical devices in Indian hospitals.
Their training dataset encompasses 5 million cases with 30% from Indian populations, including data collection from Northeast regions where 4G connectivity remains limited, necessitating on-premises deployment solutions. The company has processed over 1 million scans across 14 Indian states, detected 4,000 TB-positive cases including six early-stage lung cancers, and completed over 1,000 radiation therapy plans.
Recent achievements include processing 550,000 chest X-rays in three months, flagging 2,700 TB cases, and gaining recognition from Prime Minister Modi and Microsoft’s Bill Gates. Their human-in-the-loop approach ensures AI assists rather than replaces medical professionals, with final approval always required from qualified radiologists.
Technical Infrastructure and Scaling Considerations
The presentations revealed several technical themes regarding AI infrastructure development in India. The question of foundational models versus existing solutions generated discussion, with Kumar’s experience illustrating how customer validation can drive companies toward fundamental infrastructure decisions despite initial attempts to leverage existing models.
Scalability challenges were discussed, particularly regarding voice AI systems handling high concurrency. Shukla addressed concerns about model performance at scale, explaining their progression from public datasets (Bhashini, Google) to proprietary data engines, currently supporting 50 concurrent users with expansion plans.
Data privacy and regulatory compliance emerged as critical considerations across all solutions. Companies demonstrated various approaches: Papri Labs utilizing European data centers and comprehensive anonymization, EasyOPI Solutions achieving multiple healthcare certifications, and voice AI companies emphasizing Indian data residency for sovereignty concerns.
Market Focus and Business Approaches
The session revealed that all companies focus primarily on B2B enterprise clients rather than consumer markets, reflecting both the technical complexity of their solutions and the economic realities of AI deployment at scale. Cost reduction emerged as a primary value proposition, with companies demonstrating significant cost savings compared to traditional approaches or global competitors.
The emphasis on Indian language capabilities and cultural nuances represents a competitive differentiator against global players. Both voice AI companies highlighted their superior handling of regional dialects and cultural contexts, positioning domestic infrastructure development as essential for serving Indian markets effectively.
Multiple companies offered platform approaches with DIY capabilities enabling non-technical users to build custom AI solutions, reflecting trends toward accessible AI deployment tools.
Knowledge Exchange and Collaboration
The session achieved its objective of fostering peer-to-peer learning among founders. Interactive Q&A segments generated technical discussions about scalability, compliance, implementation challenges, and strategic decision-making. The moderator’s focus on product and technical aspects rather than commercial pitches enabled deeper technical discussions and learning opportunities.
The collaborative atmosphere created networking opportunities and potential collaboration pathways within India’s AI startup ecosystem, with participants committing to continue discussions offline and connect directly with presenting founders for follow-up conversations.
Session transcript
Thank you. Thank you. you you Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. so how do founders learn about these changes the only way you can learn or maybe the best way to learn at a conference like this at a summit like this is by listening to each other so it’s not a pitch there’s not going to be any talk about business there’s going to be no funding conversation it’s only about product so I’m going to request all the founders who are presenting to come up and then we’ll go sequentially and the other request on the presentations to all the founders who are presenting is please come I mean feel free to come up is that please use jargon because the intent is that the audience will understand it however also be mindful that if you want more people to learn who may not be AI natives may not be AI people may not be technologists may not be AI people but it’s still important for them to learn and understand.
So if you can simplify it, it’s fine. If you don’t want to simplify it, it’s also okay. So the format we’ll follow is that each one of you takes a little bit of time to talk about your product. But like I said again, only product. No business, no pitching, no money, nothing. So I’m going to request to start with, if I could request Ravindra Kumar to talk about what is it that you’re building. So quick introduction and then the product that you’ve built.
Hi everyone, this is Ravindra from Technodate AI. And we are aiming to automate automation itself. Everybody says AI won’t take away any jobs. We’re like, let us do something about it.
Do you want to stand there at the podium or you want me to start? Whatever, whatever. No, no. Yeah, you can start your presentation. Shall we do that? Yeah, yeah, we should. Because I want people to really get into the product.
Can I use the clicker? What generally happens is that there are already very sophisticated automation equipment available out there in the market. Before starting Technodate, I have been working with this company, which happens to be world’s largest manufacturer of industrial robots. Way back in the year 2010 or so, they achieved 100 % automation, which means no human on the shop floor. Still, the manufacturing is happening at 100 % capacity. On the other side, if you see globally, including India, manufacturing is not even successful. People are not able to. use automation to the fullest extent. That is something which Technodate is aiming to solve. We want to make automation as easy as DIY using agentic AI.
So what it does is basically help you in three ways. First, to conceptualize an engineering robotics and automation engineering solution on your own. Then to deploy and commission that including robot programming etc. etc. And then eventually it also helps you to troubleshoot when something doesn’t work. For this, we started as okay, we have to do something like this because the idea of this discussion is how do we go from experimentation to real world deployment. So when I came up with this idea, the first thought was that you need to build a foundational model. But we are in India. It’s not that easy to raise money to build a foundational model. But then how do you approach this?
The idea is okay, let us go talk to customer. Let us experiment with what all options are available out there and then figure out in the process, do we need a foundational model? So we started working, started talking to customers, started doing some initial deployments. Today we stand again back where we started from that we need a foundational model for this. But in the process, we have already started deploying application, including with people like Fortune 500 companies. This is how the team comes from. We are working with some people that I’m sorry, Archana, but being a founder, some pitching comes in by default. But then, yeah, this is how the team looks like. We are collaborating with people like Dr. Sumit Chopra, a Ph .D.
under the godfather of AI and Lincoln. He worked at a fair earlier. We are exploring or we are rather going to deploy a use case very soon with Indian Air Force itself. Of course, the team comes from IITs. I have a small demo to show to everyone. There’s some music to this. But it is. It’s just music. There’s no audio in any case. So what it does is, as I said, three modules. it helps you to conceptualize robotics and automation solution it helps you to build that the agentic AI what it does is it acts mimics automation expert it really finds what it takes to deploy that solution in a real world scenario it gives you the complete architectures it gives you the programs it gives you the step by step procedures how do you put these systems together and then eventually in the final I mean of course you can also ask it to make changes what happens is in industrial scenario you change one equipment it has to talk to all other equipment so everything changes so it does all that on its own autonomously by using agents in the background you can also see how that solution will look like on your factory which has been conceptualized by the agents and then when it comes to robot programming many people ask me that Chad Jibadi can’t do this why do you want to build a foundational model for this when it comes to robotics necessarily we are interacting with the real world you have to understand what is the object what needs to be done how the robot needs to move all that data needs to be injected into the systems only then robotic programming can be done anyways uh then there is something called cnc programming cncs are the mother machine so every aerospace component every automotive engine be it two -wheeler four -wheeler they’re all machined on cnc machines for that matter to build other machines you need a cnc machine so all those programs can also be generated by using uh agentic or generative ai in this case in defense use case it’s like for example this is a case of aero engine where you just say the error code the 3d model explodes and the generative ai tells you where and what steps to take to solve that particular problem for example you will be able to see you said the error code it shows you where in the whole machine that error belongs and these are the steps you need to take to solve these problems so yes this is it from me we are exhibiting at hall 14 see you all there who want to discuss more
so anybody has questions on the product you including founders sitting on this panel can ask questions on the product any question yes please
we’ll use their model see I have no I am not fond of building foundational model my aim is to solve the problem of my customer absolutely so one thing that this is this will never be in a human history these kind of tasks will never be simple chat response kind of scenario you need common play workflows, right? So even if, let us say, OpenAI wants to do it, he will have to build a custom application for this, right? So this is an application layer. Model can become ASI, the super intelligence level. You still will have to build the application. So that is our first approach. Second is for industrial domain. Even if OpenAI wants to do today, he will have to build a foundational model for this, separately.
Because it is related to industrial world. The 3D actual world, the data is proprietary, customer doesn’t share it with you. So your application has to run on his premises or on the virtual clouds.
Okay, thank you. Weber, you are next.
Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. first of all I would like to thank Karan and Archana from Rukam Capital for giving me this opportunity India doesn’t need more wrappers we need infrastructure and that’s what we are building at Quonsys AI my name is Vaibhavath Shukla I’m the founder and CEO of Quonsys AI we are building the voice infrastructure for India and so India is the customer support capital of the world it is 55 billion dollar industry for us it’s roughly 2 % of India’s GDP and the problem is that this entire model is outdated in the agentic era so that’s what we are solving we ask this question to ourselves if we can automate the call centers itself and the call centers can automate and completely run by themselves so for that we started solving this problem and we started building from scratch for what exactly is required to automate the entire call center pieces and that’s what we initiated with Quonsys AI.
So Quonsys is the default layer wherein you don’t need humans in the loop which can automate the entire call center and BPO infrastructure and we can completely run end -to -end for the processes. So these systems can listen, understand, act, respond and solve the entire purpose for any particular use case. So it’s not a concept anymore. We have been working with some of the top enterprises like Paytm, CRED, PropBotX. We are also partnered with OpenAI for the infrastructure. We are working with them on voice and Indic languages infrastructure which we have developed by our own digital data engine and we can generate data at scale. So we are different in a way because we have solved the entire layer for be it your application layer, for orchestration layer, then organization, on the model layer and the data layer itself.
So for example, anything and everything that is required we are basically making the entire suite of the… automation layer for call centers. So it’s completely, you can say call centers are completely running on itself. We have built companies before. We have a really good research team which is helping us in developing the entire foundational layer of it. And we have deployed some of the use cases when we have already worked with some of the large enterprises already. Yeah, and I’m happy to answer
Any questions on the product?
Yes, yeah. So the call lands on the somebody’s phone.
Correct.
So it’s like again a kind of thing.
Correct. those kind of scenarios yes it can be can you be more specific on the use case
yeah for example uh i got generated a lead on google ads or say a training uh on digital marketing right
yeah
so that customer is calling to a particular number
correct
this lands on say in this phone
yeah
so can i put this agent into this phone which can attend that call and answer according to my requirements
yeah it can definitely do so what it will do in the back end and then you can you know have a handshake handshake of web sockets when your number and the other number that we have uh we can basically merge together and the conversation can float from there and it can answer the questions because these are dynamic questions it’s not a fixed kind of question
right
right it can so all the knowledge that you can you’re going to give it so for example i’ll give you a use case of real estate right so uh if somebody’s making an inquiry about the real estate project you basically fill the form you get the number there the AI agent will make the call it is already trained on the entire data set of your real estate project where is it what is the per square feet size the cost of it what are the amenities and all those things locality all those things which is already trained on that it will talk to you on the basis of all that information it will record the interest level from you whether you want to visit the site or not and then it will automatically book the site visit as well and you can trigger SMS WhatsApp email whatever you require so everything that was previously done by a call center agent is completely automated using AI agents and it’s end to end process so basically the purpose that you have given it it can completely solve for that
and can like institutes can take this or companies can take this on stand alone basis or you have put in a subscription mode kind of thing
so it’s more like with charging per minute kind of subscription at this point so you set it up one time then or whatever the number of minutes that you consume with us you pay for that
Okay. Any other question?
Yeah. I mean, you talked about building foundational models before the ending language, right?
Yeah.
So if you could tell me how you’re scaling on the same because foundational models are very good for demos, but when we scale, we have even seen Servam breaking.
Right.
So how are you…
That is right. We basically gave a demo with Servam and… Guys.
Well, that was too loud, but then, yeah, how are you thinking of combating that scenario?
The main thing is basically the data engine, right? So, I mean, data that you have basically trained it on, that’s the most important piece. Initially, when we tried it with Bhashini and Google data sets, all the public libraries that are available, we basically tried to fine -tune and generate, basically train the model on that data set. But unfortunately, like you mentioned, there are so many problems with that. So that’s why we built our own data engine. As you can see, we… We won an award from Prime Minister Modi as well. It was right here in the Bhatman room last year. so we basically generated data generate data from our own data data engine and that is what we are basically putting it in the model so for use case by use case for example Paytm that is working with us at scale we are making tens of thousands of all with Paytm for those kind of use cases we basically take it what exactly is the use case on right for example merchant is a very complex use case yeah right right right so we are working I mean concurrency currently is around 50 now we are going to increase that as I mean as the model grows we will increase the concurrency like right right right right right right right right right correct so there are two kinds of uh problems right so there are smaller companies which are employing five guys ten guys so if you talk about that that’s not something where we are currently focusing on and it’s not the industry can’t focus on that i mean the pricing will come down drastically in the next couple of years but there are companies like sbi insurance they are employing tens of thousands of people in particular building right so from real estate from managing the security the parking spaces uh the hr management team managements all those things subscription headsets machinery all that those things if you take it down to the last minute so that costs roughly 25 to 30 minute rupees per minute for this thing this particularly maybe cost three rupees per minute so that’s more like 90 percent of the cost saving for those kind of companies so that’s where the current market is and that’s what we are basically focusing on
thank you thank you very much I request guys a round of applause for all the founders I request Pradyum Gupta to now come and present be generous with the applause at the questions both please yeah I mean founders are taking time out to talk about their product
thank you ma ‘am for providing me this opportunity okay hi Hi everyone, my name is Pradyum. I am representing Papri Labs here. So, just giving a simple example what Papri Labs actually do is that, for example, you are today all coming to Bharat Mandapam. Now you must be using, maybe if you are here from Delhi, you might not be using a map, but I am from outside Delhi, so I was using a map from IIT Delhi to Bharat Mandapam. Now what happened was that it said to me that these gates are open, but these gates were all of them were closed. I was just looking around all over the parking areas. And normally this is a common problem in the map system today.
What map system have done is that they have brought a great navigation system. So, you want to go at a particular place that could be anywhere all over the city, you can go down there. But that navigation will never be so much aware that the kind of awareness that you require. So, for example, that there could be a ploy. There could be a place that the gates are closed. There could be something which is happening. Maybe a very heavy fog is there. Now that is not updated. What our company does is, it is not updated. is that we update the map, any kind of existing mapping system in a very instant way. How we do it?
We work on a visual system. So for example, any kind of a vehicle which are having on the ground, they have our cameras placed in. So these are simple dashcams, CCTVs, anything which is visual, we basically place all over the cities and we work only in the metro cities as on date or only on the major highways. We take out all the data and we plot it over the map and then we not only place the videos or the images, we categorize them. So like for example, right now in Delhi, we work with a local transport here, DTC is a Delhi Transport Company. So we plotted about 8 ,000 units and then we were getting like 100 petabytes of data from all this thing.
And then we will categorize them so fast that you basically see the entire Delhi life. And the best part was that you can search from them, what’s going on there. So now, what are the use cases that we… we brought probably three use cases in the market so for example there’s a company called JC de Cox they own about 4 ,000 billboards all over New Delhi the problem in all these billboards is these billboards come at a standard price so for example you own like 10 ,000 billboards but you don’t you usually sell it only on a like a basis of if it’s a posh area then I will charge maybe more if it’s a less posh I will charge them less what we brought as a new kind of pricing mechanism that you charge on the base of impression count what digital arts brought for them and that’s how we were able to increase the revenue for about 40 -45 percent because now they were charging more on the revenue basis we work with the company called autonomous cars of this mg motors they had a hectare hectare vehicle which when they were entering in India back then they were bringing that thing in the autonomous set that one they were bringing internet edge inside one of the problems that they had was that they had luxury passengers but they wanted to know that okay what is happening on the road Like instantly, even if it has a fog, they need to know that, okay, divider is broken or not.
Am I safe in there or not? So we started to update. There’s a company called MapMyIndia. We started to update their systems very fast. Third, we worked with a company like BCG. BCG is a consulting firm which basically consults government to take decisions on the ground. What we told them that this is where the demand is there. This is where the capacity is high. That’s how we brought a root rationalization algorithm. That’s helped DTC on the ground to basically manage all their 8 ,000 buses to where they need to actually deploy more buses so that they can increase the revenue. But the second perspective was that more passengers can actually board the bus. So we update the map on the cases that they want.
Now, we have been penetrating in news. So normal daily newspaper that you usually read on a regular basis, there’s an image tree that is attached to it. In that image, there’s an about. 8 ,000 to 10 ,000 people usually just on the ground. do a basic job is to collect these images. What we do is because we have a huge volume of videos that we have, we are just updating them and they are creating a news out of it. So like you want to search anything, any news you want to create, you can create from there. How we do it? So because this is a more of a product business, so one of the problems that we faced in India when we were trying to scale this product is that even everyone is talking about AI, but today if I am just going to be asking any single passenger just to put a phone in their car and provide us data, none of you will do it.
And this was a very basic problem. We realized that people want it. In India there is this perception is that they want to absorb, they absorb the technology really fast. But to give that information is very hard. So we created a mechanism in which the customer started to supply the data by itself. So for example, when we started to deal with passenger bus service, we started to deal with passenger bus service. So we started to give them passenger bus service. So we started to give them passenger bus service. So we started to give them passenger bus service. So we started to give them passenger bus service. So we started to give them passenger bus service.
So we started to give them passenger bus service. So we started to give them passenger bus service. So we started to give them passenger bus service. counting because the problem was that they didn’t know how many people come inside the bus on a particular bus stand where we need to run more buses. When we started to deal with packages like logistic companies, logistic companies use digital locks. So today any truck which goes all over the country, the problem is that they put a digital lock and then they expect that the truck is safe. But that digital lock even gets opened, any kind of thing is not evidence in a court. What we added was a small camera in the particular container.
That thing counted how many goods were getting inside and how many goods were not, like what was the exact tally value. That’s how we deployed in our highway sector. So here if there are three sides of the data part, one is the passenger, that means we are getting city data. If we are deploying in the logistic sector, we are getting city data. We are getting highways data. And if you are deploying in the normal commercial cars, we are getting the lane information. And the perspective was. to just to get the front imagery. The back imagery they use it for themselves and we are certainly not interested in that part. That’s how we formed this entire information.
One of the problem that we faced to one of our customers was so we reached to one of so Delhi police and we started to sell this entire platform. They started to Google that like basically they want to search everything that where people are not wearing helmets because they want to cut the chalance very instantly. Now these things was that we created layers but we didn’t have a system that we can create very dynamic layers for that particular person. So what we did was we added that’s where the LLM thing came in that we started to describe every image and then internally we were searching everything for them. So like you have anything any idea in your mind you want to for example a person comes to me he says to me that find me all the CCTVs.
In New Delhi find me street lights which are not working just prompt it up. internally we are a video analytics company like we are so we keep we are running on a bare metal like hundred petabytes and then we’re just processing them really fast and you can then the best part that we brought was let’s start to compare like what changed now and what was previously before like six days back year back what was the development going on and this is how the basically the end customer gets so for example if it’s a local bus passenger company they wants to know that how many passengers actually board so we we provide a system to them but internally we use a front camera system so they use a fleet management system then we brought popular over the top so this is an example that we brought with DTC this this was funded by JICA JICA is an investment corporation which funds the government of New Delhi and that’s how we scaled in entire New Delhi second thing was that if you want to know any count like where the people whether how many cars been gone through or how many buses pass through that particular portion or where the two wheelers are or where the ambulances actually cross, we started to take out every information all over New Delhi and this is all real time.
So if you want to do it today, you want to compare it for like last six months and then you will track and target them, you can do all of it. So we brought these pay systems because JCD Cox was the organization for. So we are
Yes. Hello. So thank you so much for presenting. I am curious about knowing that you mentioned a certain petabyte of data that you are using and data you know is a very debatable topic right now after DPDP. So how are you handling that? How are you DPDP compliant? Because you are going to give this to certain other businesses also. So because you are getting a lot of personal data too, like getting images of people, getting images of the car numbers and all of these things. So how are you dbdp compliant and ensure that?
So there are two things. One is that inside videos we never take out for the public information. Even though the clients are ready to pay even 10 times over that value. Second thing is like this is the rule of property labs internally. Second thing is only front data is used. Front camera data faces are blurred. Number plates are also blurred. Second, third thing is that right now we don’t run on any AWS. So we don’t use hyperscalers right now. We only use bare metal servers. So bare metal is stacked in which we keep everything in Europe right now. So Europe, Hetzner, we have taken a portion of their data centers. And the second thing, so in India there’s a big problem.
how are you handling that? How are you DPDP compliant? Because you are going to give this to certain other businesses also. So because you are getting a lot of personal data too, like getting images of people, getting images of the car numbers and all of these things. So how are you DPDP compliant and ensure that?
So there are two things. One is that inside videos, we never take out for the public information, even though the clients are ready to pay even 10 times over that value. Second thing is, like this is the rule of popular. It loves internally. Second thing is only front data is used. Front camera data faces are blurred. Number plates are also blurred. Second, third thing is that right now, we don’t run on any AWS. So we don’t use hyperscalers right now. We only use bare metal servers. So bare metal means stacks in which we keep everything in Europe right now. So Europe, Hetzner, we have taken a portion of their data centers. And the second thing, so in India, there’s a big problem.
problem. One of the things that people say that, okay, GPUs are a lot, but the reality is that GPUs are, the companies which are actually selling these GPUs never purchase from them, rather purchase from CDAC. So CDAC is an organization called Aravat. Aravat is providing us supercomputers and like a bare, dirty price. So if you’re going to be searching on Aravat, just purchase their GPUs and then keep data on bare metal on your security premises, then it’s very safe. And it’s very cheap.
Okay, one more question. And in the end, we’ll take more questions because once everyone’s done their presentations, please go for it.
I want to ask, because I’m a performative on the product, and I just want to ask, like, what are the incentives you are giving to the dashcam holders? Like, I heard you are giving incentives to the local DTDC buses or like…
So we don’t pay incentives, they pay us.
So like, what is the leverage you are holding for them to…
For example… So this company… DTC, Dairy Transport Corporation, they burn about 80 crores every year on not providing the timely bus service. And they had a very low revenue. Like they had a revenue loss of about 800 crores as I had a talk with A.S. Sachin Shinde back then he was there. Now A.S. Jitendraji came in. Now when we came into the system, we actually reduced on the revenue loss for them. So for example, if you see this number, 27 is the demand which is there and 25 is the capacity. So in India what happened was that when Amadvi Party came in, they provided female passengers as a free bus service. Now every party started to criticize all these parties that you are providing free for the bus service to the females.
We were the first company which actually gave them a mandate that 1 % is the actual female passengers are operating. So that’s how they were able to save their lives. So that’s when, you know, when we came in, we saw there are a lot of… operational issues.
We can access it through our apps or like…
Nothing is possible. We are a pure B2B company. We never intend to be B2C.
Okay. We’ll do questions at the end. Let’s finish the presentations and… Okay, quickly. But short answer on your part. Yeah, but short answer, please.
So, we sell on tile basis. So, for example, this particular area, this comes at 25 by 25 square kilometers. This starts at 1 .5 lakh rupees. Per tile. This is for only valid for one day. And this usually multiplies at a volume at the company comes in. Thank you so much.
So, now I’ll request Meenal to come and present, please.
Hello everyone, I am Meenal Gupta from EasyOPI Solutions and so nice to see you over here. Who all are founders over here? Oh wow, so many. So we… Founders are here. So founders should be here. Who all are founders over here? So I love to be with founders. I know they share the journey and the struggle, they know it very well. So we all three women, mostly known as GreenDeviya because this name was given to us by Mr. Narendra. Okay. So I am Narendra Modi. So Meenal Gupta, I am the founder. I am the founder. Noor for… Noor for… and Sheetal Tarkas. We all started this journey. Our platform, we have named it as Imagix AI.
It’s an AI driven precision imaging to treatment planning for cancer. So we are HIPAA compliant. We have four patents in hand. We are ISO 13485 certified company. We also have SEDESCO license. Talking about SEDESCO, people who are from medical field, they might be knowing that there is a license which is required when we want to take our solution to hospitals. So there is a ICMR agency that certifies your product that is software as a medical device. Once it is certified, then you can take it to any hospital. You can actually commercialize post that. So we are a company. We are SEDESCO certified. So talking about the problem, we have a lot of people who are from medical field.
We know there are around 20 million new cancer cases every year. And there is not like that doctors don’t have the intent of solving the problem or treating cancer. But the main problem is the shortage of clinical experts. We can increase the devices like diagnosis devices can be increased, imaging can be increased. But the problem that is facing is the shortage of expertise for oncology. So and finally the treatment planning. So talking about the problem, once a cancer is being detected, the patient is sent for CT scan. Once the CT scan MRI. Once it is being done, then. Tumor board decides whether the patient has to go for radiation therapy or they have to go for surgery.
or the combination of both. I can understand everyone can relate it because almost every family in India or world are having someone very near and dear who are facing through cancer and they have gone through just such challenges. So what happens is because of this shortage, it cause life. It cause life or the stage of the cancer changes. Either it changes from first level to second stage. It changes because of this unavailability. So this is where our solution comes in. So this was our own personal experience where all three founders have personally experienced cancer to our near ones and we have gone through this radiation therapy where we had to wait in queue because of unavailability of specialist, because of unavailability of treatment planning.
So this was a very big bottleneck. You can see over here. So this was a very big bottleneck. You can see over here. So this was a very big bottleneck. So this was a very big bottleneck. So this was a very big bottleneck. So this was a very big bottleneck. So this was a very big bottleneck. So this was a very big bottleneck. Once a patient is recommended to go for radiation therapy, there is a planning to do for that radiation therapy. For this planning, there is a manual process where wherever there is a tumor, all the surrounding organs of tumor, they are to be segmented. And this is a manual process. I can proudly say that in India, there is no one who is solving this problem and we are the only one who have this solution.
Here we contour all the, contouring is the masking. We mask all the organs which are on risk and are surrounding tumor. So here the main purpose is that all the organs that are surrounding tumor, they should be saved because they are healthy organs. And radiation therapy should be as less as possible on those healthy organs. the manual process it used to take somewhere around 960 to 90 minutes we have reduced it to at the max of 15 minutes the reason is uh for complex uh radiation therapy when it is head and neck cancer it takes lots of time so maximum 15 minutes and minimum 5 minutes so we have reduced it here uh what we do is once the patient is diagnosed with cancer he goes for city scan tumor board this city scan is being done it is uploaded on our cloud tumor board have the access of this city scan through our own uh dicom viewer uh dicom is the format uh through which this images can be seen they decide whether they have to go for city scan radiation therapy planning or surgery and we have various suits we do ai analysis where do we do first level of analysis where we mention the load of the tumor and second level of analysis is we have various suits we have XraySuite, NeuroSuite and OncoSuite which works on this scans and finally we give the final report.
So this is our product. We have trained our AI on about 5 million of data set in which around 30 % is Indian data set and this 30 % we gathered it from northeast region. So northeast region is very tough terian and we got support from Niti Aayog where we went and collected data. It is very tough terian. Means taking off AI over there is very challenging because 4G has not reached there yet. So we had to implement it on -premise solution so that we can get the data and we can help them solve that. So 30 % of data we have almost deployed it in 14 states in India. We got our data 30 % from that.
Accuracy is around 92%. So it is around 92 % to 99 % depending upon the data. complexity you can see this data we are working in Gujarat in seven district where we are helping to scan to do CXR chest and lung analysis where we have helped we have helped we have made somewhere around 1 million of scans we have detected around 4 ,000 TB positive cases till yet in which there were around six lung cancer cases where early intervention is still possible we have done around thousand of radiation radiotherapy plans till yet and talking about in last three months we had done around five fifty thousand of chest x -rays where twenty seven hundred of TB were flagged so we could save TB these are live photos where handle x -rays and all are being done so I this was our solution was recognized first by Mr. Naren Indra Modi and day before yesterday we were invited in Microsoft by Bill Gates to show our solution to him.
In health tech, I’ve observed that trust is a very big factor in terms of AI adoption and you seem to be implementing it across India. So how do you make sure that the technology and the science behind it is trusted by the people who are being benefited by it?
Yeah, I understand. So here, our solution, we are not replacing doctors. We are just assisting doctors. We have made their manual process easy process. But final approval has to be done by radiologists. So it is human in the loop. We are not claiming that directly our AI will solve it.
Thank you. I’ll request Vivek now to come
Hi everyone. So first of all, thank you so much team Rukam Capital for organizing such a vibrant event and the energy is full of high in this room, I can see. It can be higher though. Yeah. I think Yes. So my name is Vivek Gupta. I’m the founder and CEO of company called Indus Labs AI. So we are building the voice architecture of India. So we are basically building the whole layer of . operating system of voice, where all the layers like speech to text, text to speech, the LLM, speech to speech, all of this infrastructure we are building, right? So it is a common platform where anyone, I said anyone can come on this platform and build their own voice agent.
As sir was asking the question about whether you are running a campaign on Google, you have put a number, you can build your own agent by yourself, right? So it’s a DIY platform where we are training, we are primarily focusing on Indian languages because the problem, linguistic problem in our country is if you see after each 20 kilometer dialect changes, right? So we are working with couple of banks, NBFCs, right? And whenever they run a campaign, they run a basically cold calling in let’s say Mojaffarnagar region, in UP, right? And whenever they call in Gorakhpur region, the Hindi is totally different. But global players like 11 Labs or maybe, you know, the Indian language, they are all different.
You know, some different global players, players like Azure and Google, they are providing a generic Hindi, but we need. a company in India who can build the infrastructure of voice in our country based on our directs. And again, so while we are building the infrastructure on our own GPUs and servers, hyperscalers we have inbuilt in our system, so that’s how we are able to reduce the latency. So we have some sub 400, 500 millisecond around latency into the system, which is like more human conversation, you can feel it. And you know, the complete analysis of the call is there, right? As soon as the call gets disconnected, you will find the sentiment analysis of the call, the outcome of the call, and it will log into the system.
So what is the expected outcome of the call? It will go into your CRM. So the journey starts from your CRM and ends with CRM. You trigger the calls from CRM and it ends with the CRM. So again, as I said, like native dialect mastery we have, and we are ultra low latency. And again, you know, call. somebody was also asking question regarding how effective it is in terms of cost. So if I talk about existing system cost we are reducing the cost up to 70 % right. So up to 70 % cost can be reduced and operationally you are enabled like 24 7 availability of the system is there. System is multilingual right. You don’t need to have multiple people for different languages.
Single system can handle 24 7 and that’s how you are able to reduce cost and operationally efficient. And you know the important part is emotional handling right. So like one year back I started this company 2 .5 years back right. I used to be director of an engineering company in software company in Bangalore and 2 .5 years back I quit and started Indus Labs and my background is from IT Delhi right. So the core problem was emotions right when I started this company. I always thought like if somebody is laughing over the call how would AI system would recognize the person is happy or angry. That’s how the agent would say sorry or congratulate you.
Right because you need to understand the emotions right. So we were working on this. is speech -to -text model since last 1 .5 years and on the 16th of this month in the department only we launched this model called it’s basically no emotion of your STD so we launched this model here in part of the monthly and we are basically you know distributing it to our customers existing customers now so that they can start using it’s a PUC phase right now and the good part is since we are an Indian company the whole the data is going to reside here on our sovereign feel is there right so we are pure Indian origin company so as I said like if I if I compare with now global pairs like Google and 11 labs so we are cost so like let’s say I hope many people knows what 11 labs is right so their cost is somewhere around eight rupees per minute right but we are seventy percent lower we sell at two rupees per minute right and we are superior in terms of Indian dialect accuracy and we are superior and streaming latency is somewhere around three hundred to four hundred millisecond and emotional expressiveness is already there in our system as we recently launched it and Indian data residency clause is obviously there because we are an Indian company.
So, I mean, so we are a huge case agnostic platform. We don’t say like we are having mastery in this huge case. You can come on our platform. So, like as of today, we are working with multiple use cases, right? We are working with banks. We are working with enterprises in FMCG. We are working with, you know, customer support people. They are building their own voice agents, but they use our STT and TTS through API, right? So, not anyone can build STT and TTS. So, instead of using 11 labs, they use us because we are cost effective and obviously good in terms of Indian dialect mastery. So, it’s DIY platform. Anyone can come and build their own agent.
We have different flows. Workflow is already there. You can create nodes. Each node can be connected with webhooks or API and that can be used to build your own voice agent. So, we are working with customers. We are working with customers. We are working with customers. We are working with customers. We are working with customers. We are working with customers. We are working with customers. So it’s completely guided journey and you can create and you can also integrate your voice agent with telephony. So we have already partnership with Airtel and Geo. So that’s how you can give the SIP channels through there and connect with your voice agent. So it’s complete end to end journey.
And again, so the core market is B2B enterprises. Right. And we are also platform for developers. So developers can use our APIs into their existing systems wherever they want to use. Right. So you just based API and it is again per second based costing is there. So as how many seconds you will use, you will be the credits would be detected. So it’s a recharge based system. You recharge and you can use it. And also we are into we are building channel partners as well. So like we have a couple of partners. One is in Dubai. One is in Germany. So we are white white labeling our platform for them. Right. So they can onboard their clients on their platform internally.
They would become our client shared. and we can share the revenue so we have right now we have developed four to five partners globally so we are building from Bharat for the globe so we have foreign languages as well we have Arabic we have German we have French and Mandarin Mandarin is in building stage right now so we have core and English all the accents we have or still in accent British accent American accent all the male female voices and again you can clone your voice as
thank you any questions quick questions any questions
yep absolutely it’s a no -code platform it’s a journey based platform you need to trigger what you want to do what you want to basically build out of it so let’s say you are you want to build an agent for inbound agent for your leads right so anybody who is calling from Google Ads would land on this voice agent. So you will define the journey and how you want to integrate. Let’s say you want to, some meeting has been fixed for your product, right? So it is connected with Google Calendar, your Google Calendar. So as soon as AI agent books a meeting, you will get an email on your Google Calendar. This meeting has been fixed and your Google Calendar will be blocked.
So my question is like, I have to make this like, there are some nodes, I have to connect these and make a flow or you have all things are made up, we just have to click and the agent will start walking.
Yeah, it’s like DIY platform and we have tutorials as well, right? If you are stuck, you can see the tutorials. So and still you are feeling you are not able to build it, you can support the customer center. So our team will help you in that case.
Okay, quick question.
Yeah. How did you start? When you start, left your job?
We don’t have so much time. You can talk to them offline, but the data is a question.
I’ll make it short. So, journey started 2 .5 years back. So, I initially started building voice agent and started using TTS of somebody else. Then we figured out that this TTS is having this issue. How can I solve this? Because my customer will ask the issues complaint to me. So, we were able to solve this problem of pronunciation of some words because these issues were there already in the third -party system. So, we thought of initially building our own infrastructure. And we pivoted in a model that people will use our APIs. That’s what we want to build it, right? So, then, firstly, we used public data, publicly available data. Then we started creating our own data, right?
So, we create the data and we have multiple hyperscalers available. And scalability -wise, our system is so much scalable that you can put a thousand requests at a time, it will handle. So, it will scale 0 to 1000 within 10 minutes. So, that’s how we built it. Thank you very much.
thank you so much for all the engaging questions that everybody did make the effort to ask we are time constrained over here so I want to thank all the founders for sharing your product and any questions you have for the founders please do connect with them and do continue the conversation it’s just that we need to leave the room and I request all of us to do a quick picture together thank you Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Ravindra Kumar
Speech speed
161 words per minute
Speech length
1033 words
Speech time
382 seconds
Automation of industrial robotics using agentic AI
Explanation
Ravindra describes a vision where industrial robotics and automation can be built by users themselves through agentic AI that designs, programs, and deploys solutions autonomously. The approach aims to make automation as simple as a DIY project.
Evidence
“We want to make automation as easy as DIY using agentic AI.” [1] “it helps you to conceptualize robotics and automation solution it helps you to build that the agentic AI what it does is it acts mimics automation expert it really finds what it takes to deploy that solution in a real world scenario it gives you the complete architectures it gives you the programs it gives you the step by step procedures how do you put these systems together…” [2].
Major discussion point
Product Vision & Core Offering
Topics
Artificial intelligence | Information and communication technologies for development
Need for a foundational model to power automation
Explanation
Ravindra points out that building a foundational AI model is essential but financially challenging, and even large providers would need a custom model for industrial automation. He suggests experimenting with existing options before committing to a full model.
Evidence
“It’s not that easy to raise money to build a foundational model.” [75] “Today we stand again back where we started from that we need a foundational model for this.” [76].
Major discussion point
Technical Foundations & Scalability
Topics
Artificial intelligence | Capacity development | Financial mechanisms
Early traction with Fortune 500 firms and Indian Air Force
Explanation
Ravindra notes that the solution has already been deployed for Fortune 500 companies and that a use case with the Indian Air Force is imminent, indicating strong market interest and validation.
Evidence
“But in the process, we have already started deploying application, including with people like Fortune 500 companies.” [105] “We are exploring or we are rather going to deploy a use case very soon with Indian Air Force itself.” [143].
Major discussion point
Business Model & Market Adoption
Topics
The digital economy | Social and economic development
Vaibhavath Shukla
Speech speed
163 words per minute
Speech length
1130 words
Speech time
414 seconds
End‑to‑end voice AI platform that fully automates call‑center workflows
Explanation
Vaibhavath explains that Quonsys AI builds a complete automation layer for call centres, eliminating the need for human agents and running the entire process autonomously.
Evidence
“So for example, anything and everything that is required we are basically making the entire suite of the… automation layer for call centers.” [9] “So Quonsys is the default layer wherein you don’t need humans in the loop which can automate the entire call center and BPO infrastructure and we can completely run end -to -end for the processes.” [16].
Major discussion point
Product Vision & Core Offering
Topics
Artificial intelligence | Closing all digital divides | Information and communication technologies for development
Per‑minute subscription pricing for voice‑AI services
Explanation
The business model charges customers based on the number of minutes the voice AI is used, allowing pay‑as‑you‑go consumption.
Evidence
“so it’s more like with charging per minute kind of subscription at this point so you set it up one time then or whatever the number of minutes that you consume with us you pay for that” [150].
Major discussion point
Business Model & Market Adoption
Topics
The digital economy | Financial mechanisms
Partnership with OpenAI while stressing data ownership and privacy
Explanation
Vaibhavath mentions a partnership with OpenAI for infrastructure but emphasizes that enterprise customers retain data ownership and privacy.
Evidence
“We are also partnered with OpenAI for the infrastructure.” [107].
Major discussion point
Compliance, Trust & Regulatory
Topics
Artificial intelligence | Data governance | Human rights and the ethical dimensions of the information society
Pradyum Gupta
Speech speed
190 words per minute
Speech length
2346 words
Speech time
739 seconds
Real‑time visual mapping platform built from dash‑cam and CCTV feeds
Explanation
Pradyum describes a system that collects video from dash‑cams and CCTV, processes it, and overlays the data on maps, providing up‑to‑date visual information for cities and highways.
Evidence
“So these are simple dashcams, CCTVs, anything which is visual, we basically place all over the cities and we work only in the metro cities as on date or only on the major highways.” [31] “We take out all the data and we plot it over the map and then we not only place the videos or the images, we categorize them.” [36].
Major discussion point
Product Vision & Core Offering
Topics
Information and communication technologies for development | Closing all digital divides
Tile‑based pricing (25 km × 25 km per day) for mapping data access
Explanation
The service is sold on a per‑tile basis, where each tile covers a 25 km by 25 km area and customers pay for daily access.
Evidence
“So we sell on tile basis.” [157] “So, for example, this particular area, this comes at 25 by 25 square kilometers.” [158].
Major discussion point
Business Model & Market Adoption
Topics
The digital economy | Financial mechanisms
DPDP compliance through face/number‑plate blurring and European bare‑metal hosting
Explanation
To meet data‑privacy regulations, the platform blurs faces and number plates and stores all data on bare‑metal servers located in Europe.
Evidence
“Front camera data faces are blurred.” [92] “Number plates are also blurred.” [98] “So bare metal is stacked in which we keep everything in Europe right now.” [138].
Major discussion point
Compliance, Trust & Regulatory
Topics
Human rights and the ethical dimensions of the information society | Data governance | Building confidence and security in the use of ICTs
Processing petabyte‑scale video data on bare‑metal servers
Explanation
The company runs a video analytics pipeline on bare‑metal infrastructure handling hundreds of petabytes, enabling fast processing and real‑time insights.
Evidence
“internally we are a video analytics company like we are so we keep we are running on a bare metal like hundred petabytes and then we’re just processing them really fast” [37] “We only use bare metal servers.” [68].
Major discussion point
Technical Foundations & Scalability
Topics
Artificial intelligence | Capacity development | Data governance
Meenal Gupta
Speech speed
154 words per minute
Speech length
1230 words
Speech time
478 seconds
AI‑driven precision imaging and treatment‑planning for cancer
Explanation
Meenal presents Imagix AI, a platform that uses AI to analyze CT/MRI scans, segment tumors, and generate treatment plans, dramatically reducing manual processing time.
Evidence
“It’s an AI driven precision imaging to treatment planning for cancer.” [13] “So talking about the problem, once a cancer is being detected, the patient is sent for CT scan.” [42].
Major discussion point
Product Vision & Core Offering
Topics
Artificial intelligence | Social and economic development
Training on 5 million medical scans and deploying on‑premise for low‑connectivity regions
Explanation
The model has been trained on a massive dataset of five million scans, with a significant Indian data component, and is deployed on‑premise to serve areas with limited internet connectivity.
Evidence
“We have trained our AI on about 5 million of data set in which around 30 % is Indian data set and this 30 % we gathered it from northeast region.” [100].
Major discussion point
Technical Foundations & Scalability
Topics
Artificial intelligence | Capacity development | Data governance
HIPAA, ISO 13485 and SEDESCO certifications; human‑in‑the‑loop validation for medical AI
Explanation
The company holds major healthcare certifications and incorporates human oversight to ensure safety and regulatory compliance.
Evidence
“We are ISO 13485 certified company.” [126] “We are SEDESCO certified.” [127] “So we are HIPAA compliant.” [129].
Major discussion point
Compliance, Trust & Regulatory
Topics
Human rights and the ethical dimensions of the information society | Data governance | Building confidence and security in the use of ICTs
Vivek Gupta
Speech speed
193 words per minute
Speech length
1679 words
Speech time
519 seconds
DIY voice architecture platform for Indian languages with ultra‑low latency
Explanation
Vivek offers a no‑code platform that lets anyone build voice agents in many Indian dialects, providing sub‑400 ms response times for natural conversation.
Evidence
“So, it’s DIY platform.” [30] “Yeah, it’s like DIY platform and we have tutorials as well, right?” [34] “So it’s a DIY platform where we are training, we are primarily focusing on Indian languages because the problem, linguistic problem in our country is if you see after each 20 kilometer dialect changes, right?” [55].
Major discussion point
Product Vision & Core Offering
Topics
Artificial intelligence | Closing all digital divides | Information and communication technologies for development
Sub‑400 ms latency and ability to handle thousands of concurrent requests using in‑house GPUs and servers
Explanation
By building the stack on proprietary GPUs and bare‑metal servers, the system achieves latency under 400 ms and scales to thousands of simultaneous calls.
Evidence
“So we have some sub 400, 500 millisecond around latency, which is like more human conversation, you can feel it.” [59] “while we are building the infrastructure on our own GPUs and servers, hyperscalers we have inbuilt in our system, so that’s how we are able to reduce the latency.” [111].
Major discussion point
Technical Foundations & Scalability
Topics
Artificial intelligence | Capacity development | Building confidence and security in the use of ICTs
Up to 70 % cost reduction versus global competitors; white‑labeling for international partners
Explanation
Vivek claims the solution can cut costs by 70 % compared with foreign providers and offers white‑label options for partners worldwide.
Evidence
“we are reducing the cost up to 70 % right.” [174] “So we are white white labeling our platform for them.” [176].
Major discussion point
Business Model & Market Adoption
Topics
The digital economy | Financial mechanisms | Social and economic development
Indian data‑residency and sovereign‑cloud approach to meet local regulations
Explanation
The platform stores all customer data within India, ensuring compliance with data‑sovereignty requirements and building trust.
Evidence
“since we are an Indian company the whole the data is going to reside here on our sovereign feel is there” [60].
Major discussion point
Compliance, Trust & Regulatory
Topics
Human rights and the ethical dimensions of the information society | Data governance | Building confidence and security in the use of ICTs
Archana Jahargirdar
Speech speed
69 words per minute
Speech length
569 words
Speech time
488 seconds
Moderator’s emphasis on product‑only presentations
Explanation
Archana repeatedly reminds presenters to focus solely on product details, avoiding business or funding discussions, to keep the session technical and educational.
Evidence
“But like I said again, only product.” [62] “So quick introduction and then the product that you’ve built.” [63] “Because I want people to really get into the product.” [64] “So the format we’ll follow is that each one of you takes a little bit of time to talk about your product.” [67] “… it’s not a pitch there’s not going to be any talk about business there’s going to be no funding conversation it’s only about product…” [73].
Major discussion point
Product Vision & Core Offering
Topics
The enabling environment for digital development | Capacity development
Ensuring compliance questions are addressed at the end
Explanation
Archana signals that a dedicated Q&A segment will follow the product demos, allowing participants to raise compliance and regulatory concerns.
Evidence
“We’ll do questions at the end.” [123].
Major discussion point
Compliance, Trust & Regulatory
Topics
The enabling environment for digital development
Audience
Speech speed
161 words per minute
Speech length
492 words
Speech time
183 seconds
Inquiry about DPDP compliance
Explanation
An audience member asks how the presenters ensure compliance with India’s Data Protection and Data Privacy (DPDP) regulations.
Evidence
“How are you DPDP compliant?” [135] “So how are you DPDP compliant and ensure that?” [136].
Major discussion point
Compliance, Trust & Regulatory
Topics
Human rights and the ethical dimensions of the information society | Data governance
Agreements
Agreement points
Cost reduction through AI automation in enterprise operations
Speakers
– Vaibhavath Shukla
– Vivek Gupta
Arguments
AI automation can provide 90% cost savings for large enterprises employing thousands of people in call center operations
DIY no-code platforms enable businesses to build their own AI agents without technical expertise through guided workflows
Summary
Both speakers emphasize significant cost savings through AI automation – Shukla citing 90% cost reduction (from 25-30 rupees to 3 rupees per minute) and Gupta offering 70% cost reduction compared to global competitors like 11 Labs
Topics
The digital economy | Artificial intelligence | Social and economic development
Focus on Indian language capabilities and local market needs
Speakers
– Vaibhavath Shukla
– Vivek Gupta
Arguments
AI automation can provide 90% cost savings for large enterprises employing thousands of people in call center operations
DIY no-code platforms enable businesses to build their own AI agents without technical expertise through guided workflows
Summary
Both voice AI companies emphasize building infrastructure specifically for Indian languages and dialects, recognizing the linguistic diversity and local market requirements that global players cannot adequately address
Topics
Artificial intelligence | Closing all digital divides | The enabling environment for digital development
B2B enterprise focus over consumer applications
Speakers
– Pradyum Gupta
– Vivek Gupta
– Vaibhavath Shukla
Arguments
B2B focus on enterprise clients rather than consumer applications, with tile-based pricing models for geographic data coverage
DIY no-code platforms enable businesses to build their own AI agents without technical expertise through guided workflows
AI automation can provide 90% cost savings for large enterprises employing thousands of people in call center operations
Summary
All three speakers explicitly focus on B2B enterprise clients rather than consumer markets, with Pradyum stating they are ‘pure B2B company’ and the voice AI companies targeting enterprise call center operations
Topics
The digital economy | The enabling environment for digital development
Importance of regulatory compliance and certification for market adoption
Speakers
– Meenal Gupta
– Pradyum Gupta
Arguments
HIPAA compliance and SEDESCO certification are essential for medical AI solutions to gain hospital adoption
B2B focus on enterprise clients rather than consumer applications, with tile-based pricing models for geographic data coverage
Summary
Both speakers emphasize the critical importance of regulatory compliance – Meenal highlighting HIPAA and SEDESCO certification for healthcare AI, and Pradyum mentioning DPDP compliance for data processing, recognizing that proper certification is essential for enterprise adoption
Topics
The enabling environment for digital development | Human rights and the ethical dimensions of the information society | Data governance
Similar viewpoints
All three speakers advocate for building specialized AI infrastructure rather than relying on generic global solutions, emphasizing the need for domain-specific or region-specific AI models to address local requirements effectively
Speakers
– Ravindra Kumar
– Vaibhavath Shukla
– Vivek Gupta
Arguments
Building foundational models is necessary for complex industrial robotics and automation tasks that require real-world interaction and proprietary data
AI automation can provide 90% cost savings for large enterprises employing thousands of people in call center operations
DIY no-code platforms enable businesses to build their own AI agents without technical expertise through guided workflows
Topics
Artificial intelligence | The enabling environment for digital development
Both emphasize that trust and regulatory compliance are fundamental barriers to AI adoption in healthcare, requiring transparent communication and proper certification to gain acceptance
Speakers
– Meenal Gupta
– Audience
Arguments
HIPAA compliance and SEDESCO certification are essential for medical AI solutions to gain hospital adoption
Trust is a critical factor in healthcare AI adoption and must be addressed through transparent technology and science communication
Topics
Social and economic development | Human rights and the ethical dimensions of the information society
Both recognize data privacy and compliance as critical concerns for AI systems processing personal data, with Pradyum explaining their DPDP compliance measures and the audience member raising these concerns
Speakers
– Pradyum Gupta
– Audience
Arguments
B2B focus on enterprise clients rather than consumer applications, with tile-based pricing models for geographic data coverage
Data privacy and DPDP compliance are critical concerns when AI systems process personal information like images and vehicle data
Topics
Data governance | Human rights and the ethical dimensions of the information society
Unexpected consensus
Need for foundational models despite initial resistance
Speakers
– Ravindra Kumar
Arguments
Building foundational models is necessary for complex industrial robotics and automation tasks that require real-world interaction and proprietary data
Explanation
Ravindra’s journey from trying to avoid building foundational models due to funding constraints to realizing their necessity through customer feedback represents an unexpected consensus between initial assumptions and market reality
Topics
Artificial intelligence | The enabling environment for digital development
Human-in-the-loop approach for AI in critical applications
Speakers
– Meenal Gupta
– Audience
Arguments
HIPAA compliance and SEDESCO certification are essential for medical AI solutions to gain hospital adoption
Trust is a critical factor in healthcare AI adoption and must be addressed through transparent technology and science communication
Explanation
Despite building advanced AI for medical diagnosis, there’s unexpected consensus on maintaining human oversight, with Meenal emphasizing they are ‘assisting doctors’ not ‘replacing doctors’ and requiring final approval by radiologists
Topics
Social and economic development | Human rights and the ethical dimensions of the information society | Artificial intelligence
Overall assessment
Summary
The speakers demonstrate strong consensus around building AI infrastructure specifically for Indian markets, focusing on B2B enterprise applications, emphasizing regulatory compliance, and maintaining cost-effective solutions. There’s also agreement on the importance of addressing local language requirements and maintaining human oversight in critical applications.
Consensus level
High level of consensus on market approach and business strategy, with implications for the Indian AI ecosystem focusing on enterprise solutions, regulatory compliance, and local market needs rather than competing directly with global consumer-focused AI platforms
Differences
Different viewpoints
Necessity of building foundational models vs using existing models
Speakers
– Ravindra Kumar
– Audience
Arguments
Building foundational models is necessary for complex industrial robotics and automation tasks that require real-world interaction and proprietary data
Foundational models face significant scalability challenges when moving from demos to production deployment
Summary
Kumar argues that foundational models are essential for industrial applications despite initial attempts to avoid them, while audience members question the scalability and practicality of foundational models in production environments
Topics
Artificial intelligence | The enabling environment for digital development
Target market focus – enterprise vs consumer accessibility
Speakers
– Pradyum Gupta
– Audience
Arguments
B2B focus on enterprise clients rather than consumer applications, with tile-based pricing models for geographic data coverage
Businesses need flexible pricing models for AI services, with options for both institutional and standalone company adoption
Summary
Gupta maintains a strict B2B enterprise focus with high-cost tile-based pricing, while audience members seek more accessible pricing models for smaller institutions and standalone companies
Topics
The digital economy | The enabling environment for digital development
Technical complexity vs user accessibility in AI platforms
Speakers
– Vivek Gupta
– Audience
Arguments
DIY no-code platforms enable businesses to build their own AI agents without technical expertise through guided workflows
No-code platforms should provide intuitive user experiences with minimal technical complexity for business users
Summary
Gupta presents a DIY platform requiring users to create workflows and connect nodes, while audience members question whether this truly constitutes a no-code experience or still requires technical involvement
Topics
Capacity development | The enabling environment for digital development | Artificial intelligence
Unexpected differences
Data privacy approach in AI systems processing personal information
Speakers
– Pradyum Gupta
– Audience
Arguments
B2B focus on enterprise clients rather than consumer applications, with tile-based pricing models for geographic data coverage
Data privacy and DPDP compliance are critical concerns when AI systems process personal information like images and vehicle data
Explanation
While Gupta’s solution processes massive amounts of personal data (faces, number plates), the disagreement emerged around privacy protection methods – Gupta relies on data blurring and European data centers, while audience members emphasized comprehensive DPDP compliance frameworks. This was unexpected as privacy concerns weren’t initially central to the mapping/analytics discussion
Topics
Data governance | Human rights and the ethical dimensions of the information society
Overall assessment
Summary
The main areas of disagreement centered around technical approaches (foundational models vs existing solutions), market accessibility (enterprise focus vs broader accessibility), user experience complexity (technical DIY vs truly no-code), and privacy protection methods in AI systems
Disagreement level
Moderate level of disagreement with significant implications for AI adoption and accessibility. The disagreements reveal fundamental tensions between technical sophistication and user accessibility, enterprise focus and democratic access, and different approaches to building trust and ensuring compliance in AI systems. These disagreements could impact the pace and inclusiveness of AI adoption across different market segments and use cases.
Partial agreements
Partial agreements
Both speakers agree on the goal of making AI voice solutions accessible and cost-effective for businesses, but disagree on the approach – Shukla focuses on pre-built automation solutions for large enterprises, while Gupta emphasizes DIY platforms for businesses to build their own agents
Speakers
– Vaibhavath Shukla
– Vivek Gupta
Arguments
AI automation can provide 90% cost savings for large enterprises employing thousands of people in call center operations
DIY no-code platforms enable businesses to build their own AI agents without technical expertise through guided workflows
Topics
Artificial intelligence | The digital economy | Capacity development
Both agree on the importance of trust and acceptance in healthcare AI, but disagree on the primary mechanism – Gupta emphasizes regulatory compliance and human-in-the-loop approaches, while audience members focus on transparent communication of technology and science to build trust
Speakers
– Meenal Gupta
– Audience
Arguments
HIPAA compliance and SEDESCO certification are essential for medical AI solutions to gain hospital adoption
Trust is a critical factor in healthcare AI adoption and must be addressed through transparent technology and science communication
Topics
Social and economic development | Human rights and the ethical dimensions of the information society
Similar viewpoints
All three speakers advocate for building specialized AI infrastructure rather than relying on generic global solutions, emphasizing the need for domain-specific or region-specific AI models to address local requirements effectively
Speakers
– Ravindra Kumar
– Vaibhavath Shukla
– Vivek Gupta
Arguments
Building foundational models is necessary for complex industrial robotics and automation tasks that require real-world interaction and proprietary data
AI automation can provide 90% cost savings for large enterprises employing thousands of people in call center operations
DIY no-code platforms enable businesses to build their own AI agents without technical expertise through guided workflows
Topics
Artificial intelligence | The enabling environment for digital development
Both emphasize that trust and regulatory compliance are fundamental barriers to AI adoption in healthcare, requiring transparent communication and proper certification to gain acceptance
Speakers
– Meenal Gupta
– Audience
Arguments
HIPAA compliance and SEDESCO certification are essential for medical AI solutions to gain hospital adoption
Trust is a critical factor in healthcare AI adoption and must be addressed through transparent technology and science communication
Topics
Social and economic development | Human rights and the ethical dimensions of the information society
Both recognize data privacy and compliance as critical concerns for AI systems processing personal data, with Pradyum explaining their DPDP compliance measures and the audience member raising these concerns
Speakers
– Pradyum Gupta
– Audience
Arguments
B2B focus on enterprise clients rather than consumer applications, with tile-based pricing models for geographic data coverage
Data privacy and DPDP compliance are critical concerns when AI systems process personal information like images and vehicle data
Topics
Data governance | Human rights and the ethical dimensions of the information society
Takeaways
Key takeaways
AI infrastructure development is critical for India’s technological advancement, with founders emphasizing the need to build foundational models and core infrastructure rather than wrapper applications
Agentic AI systems can achieve significant automation across industries – from manufacturing robotics (100% shop floor automation) to call centers (90% cost reduction) to healthcare (reducing treatment planning time from 60-90 minutes to 5-15 minutes)
Indian language and dialect support is a major differentiator, with voice AI companies focusing on regional variations and cultural nuances that global players cannot adequately address
Real-time data processing and visual intelligence can transform urban infrastructure management, enabling instant map updates, traffic optimization, and city-wide analytics from visual data streams
Human-in-the-loop approaches are essential for maintaining trust in AI adoption, particularly in sensitive sectors like healthcare where AI assists rather than replaces human expertise
Cost efficiency is a primary driver of AI adoption, with solutions demonstrating 70-90% cost reductions while improving operational efficiency and 24/7 availability
Data privacy and compliance (DPDP, HIPAA, SEDESCO) are critical considerations requiring careful implementation of anonymization, local data storage, and regulatory certification
Platform-based approaches with DIY capabilities enable broader adoption by allowing non-technical users to build custom AI agents through no-code interfaces
Resolutions and action items
Founders agreed to continue product-focused discussions offline for deeper technical exchanges
Participants were encouraged to connect directly with presenting founders for follow-up conversations and potential collaborations
A group photo was planned to conclude the session and maintain networking connections
Unresolved issues
Scalability challenges for foundational models in production environments remain a concern, particularly for voice AI systems handling high concurrency
Long-term sustainability of cost reduction claims needs validation as AI infrastructure costs and competition evolve
Integration complexity between different AI systems and existing enterprise infrastructure was not fully addressed
Regulatory compliance frameworks are still evolving, creating uncertainty for AI companies operating across multiple jurisdictions
Customer adoption barriers beyond cost and technology, such as change management and training requirements, were not thoroughly discussed
The balance between building proprietary foundational models versus leveraging existing infrastructure remains an open strategic question for many founders
Suggested compromises
Starting with application layer solutions while gradually building toward foundational models based on customer validation and funding availability
Implementing hybrid approaches that combine global AI capabilities with local Indian language and cultural customization
Using bare metal servers and European data centers as an interim solution for data privacy compliance while building domestic infrastructure
Adopting human-in-the-loop models to balance AI automation benefits with trust and regulatory requirements
Focusing on B2B enterprise clients initially rather than consumer markets to establish proof of concept and revenue before broader market expansion
Thought provoking comments
India doesn’t need more wrappers we need infrastructure and that’s what we are building at Quonsys AI
Speaker
Vaibhavath Shukla
Reason
This comment cuts to the heart of a critical debate in India’s AI ecosystem – the distinction between building foundational infrastructure versus creating application layers on top of existing models. It challenges the prevalent trend of AI ‘wrapper’ companies and positions infrastructure development as a national imperative.
Impact
This statement set a tone for the entire discussion, establishing a framework for evaluating AI companies based on their contribution to foundational capabilities versus surface-level applications. It influenced how subsequent presenters positioned their solutions, with many emphasizing their infrastructure contributions and foundational model development.
So there are two kinds of problems right so there are smaller companies which are employing five guys ten guys so if you talk about that that’s not something where we are currently focusing on… but there are companies like sbi insurance they are employing tens of thousands of people… that’s more like 90 percent of the cost saving for those kind of companies so that’s where the current market is
Speaker
Vaibhavath Shukla
Reason
This comment reveals a sophisticated understanding of market segmentation and the economics of AI deployment. It highlights the reality that AI solutions often work best at scale and challenges the assumption that AI should immediately benefit all business sizes equally.
Impact
This shifted the conversation toward practical business considerations and market realities. It prompted deeper questions about scalability, pricing models, and target market selection, moving the discussion beyond pure technical capabilities to business viability and market strategy.
In health tech, I’ve observed that trust is a very big factor in terms of AI adoption and you seem to be implementing it across India. So how do you make sure that the technology and the science behind it is trusted by the people who are being benefited by it?
Speaker
Audience member
Reason
This question addresses one of the most critical challenges in AI deployment – the trust factor, particularly in sensitive domains like healthcare. It goes beyond technical capabilities to examine the human and social aspects of AI adoption.
Impact
This question elevated the discussion from technical features to fundamental issues of AI acceptance and deployment. It prompted Meenal to clarify the ‘human-in-the-loop’ approach, highlighting that successful AI implementation often requires careful balance between automation and human oversight, especially in critical domains.
So there are two things. One is that inside videos we never take out for the public information… Second thing is only front data is used. Front camera data faces are blurred. Number plates are also blurred… we keep everything in Europe right now
Speaker
Pradyum Gupta
Reason
This response to DPDP compliance questions reveals the complex reality of data governance for AI companies. It shows how regulatory requirements are forcing innovative approaches to data handling and infrastructure decisions, including the counterintuitive choice of storing Indian data in Europe for compliance reasons.
Impact
This comment brought data privacy and regulatory compliance to the forefront of the discussion, highlighting how legal frameworks are shaping technical architecture decisions. It demonstrated that successful AI deployment requires not just technical innovation but also sophisticated approaches to data governance and regulatory compliance.
Today we stand again back where we started from that we need a foundational model for this. But in the process, we have already started deploying application, including with people like Fortune 500 companies
Speaker
Ravindra Kumar
Reason
This comment encapsulates the classic build-vs-buy dilemma in AI development and shows how market validation can change strategic decisions. It demonstrates the iterative nature of AI product development and how customer feedback can lead companies back to more fundamental infrastructure decisions.
Impact
This established a recurring theme throughout the discussion about the tension between building foundational models versus using existing ones. It showed how real-world deployment experience can validate or challenge initial technical assumptions, influencing how other founders discussed their own build-vs-buy decisions.
Overall assessment
These key comments transformed what could have been a series of product pitches into a nuanced discussion about the fundamental challenges of AI deployment in India. The conversation evolved from technical capabilities to address critical issues like infrastructure vs. applications, market segmentation, trust and adoption, regulatory compliance, and strategic decision-making. The comments created a framework for evaluating AI companies not just on their technical merits but on their approach to real-world deployment challenges, market positioning, and contribution to India’s AI ecosystem. This elevated the discussion to address the gap between AI experimentation and real-world deployment – which was the stated theme of the session.
Follow-up questions
How do you handle DPDP (Data Protection and Digital Privacy) compliance when collecting and processing personal data like images of people and car number plates?
Speaker
Audience member
Explanation
This is crucial for understanding how companies handling large volumes of visual data ensure regulatory compliance and protect user privacy
What are the incentives given to dashcam holders to provide data?
Speaker
Audience member
Explanation
Understanding the business model and value proposition for data providers is important for scalability assessment
How do you scale foundational models for Indic languages when they break at scale, as seen with existing models?
Speaker
Audience member
Explanation
This addresses a critical technical challenge in deploying AI voice solutions at enterprise scale in Indian languages
How do you ensure trust and adoption of AI technology in healthcare, particularly among beneficiaries?
Speaker
Audience member
Explanation
Trust is a fundamental barrier to AI adoption in healthcare and understanding how to build it is essential for successful deployment
Can individual institutes or companies take voice AI solutions on a standalone basis, and what is the pricing model?
Speaker
Audience member
Explanation
Understanding accessibility and pricing models is important for market penetration and adoption strategies
How did you start your company and what was the initial journey when you left your job?
Speaker
Audience member
Explanation
Learning from founder experiences can provide valuable insights for other entrepreneurs considering similar transitions
Is the voice AI platform truly no-code, and how easy is it for non-technical users to create voice agents?
Speaker
Audience member
Explanation
Understanding the technical accessibility of the platform is important for assessing its market potential and user adoption
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