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Layoffs! Nobody likes the word "layoffs," but why should we worry excessively? You might be wondering why I'm not stressed about layoffs, given they can shift you from earning to not earning. In my view, layoffs can be seen as an opportunity to shift gears and accelerate your career. Life is full of ups and downs—imagine how monotonous it would be without them. Prepare every day as if it were your last because nothing is permanent, except maybe PLASTIC! Jokes aside, here are some key traits to embrace: 1. Self-Belief: Trust in your capabilities. 2. Value Proposition: Organizations hire you for your skills and impact, not just their budget. 3. Skillset Over Dependency: You’re valuable for what you bring to the table, not just for the organization's current financial status. So, rather than lamenting over layoffs, focus on honing your skills and stay prepared to seize new opportunities. #CareerAdvice #ProfessionalGrowth #Networking #CareerDevelopment

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I have known Avni for almost ten years and I am super glad (and not surprised) that her customer-focused approach remains unchanged. We were fortunate to have Avni Savant speak to our teams at G2 India. The session was inspirational, and we learned a lot from her. Avni has a wealth of experience, and we are grateful for the valuable insights she shared with us. During the session brilliantly moderated by Aravind Raj, we discussed several topics and gained a few key takeaways: ⚡ Creating an environment that supports a "fail fast" mindset fosters innovation, and consistent leadership support is essential. Interestingly, this is something that Roger Valade aligns with strongly, and we are just in the middle of an innovation sprint. :) 🧠 We explored areas where AI can be implemented to solve product use cases. Avni stressed that we don't need to reinvent the wheel; instead, we should learn from companies that have successfully adopted AI. The most doable areas for AI implementation are to improve developer productivity and summarize insights and discoveries. 📊 We discussed how squad-specific goals (OKRs) can be integrated with the company's larger goals. For example, we can analyze if improving our product's onboarding experience impacts the adoption rate, and understand if the release was successful. Avni emphasized the importance of using data to make feature iterations and prioritization decisions. 💬 We discussed the significance of product development teams being close to the customers and leveraging customer interviews, and feedback from pre-sales, sales, and support teams. 💗 Lastly, Avni highlighted the importance of self-drivenness and having a clear point of view in one's career. She noted that this proactive approach is valued and appreciated. We are truly grateful to Avni for her time and lessons!

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Good News...this is not an NAA post :) 🌟 Exciting Read from Our CEO! 🌟 Our CEO has penned an insightful article on the critical role of human-in-the-loop (HILT) in AI systems. It emphasizes how human oversight is essential for maintaining accuracy, reducing bias, and ensuring safe AI implementation, particularly in security. This balance of AI automation with human judgment is key to responsible and effective AI deployment. Check out the full article for a deeper dive into this important topic: Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gdezBySv

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If you had invested $100 in Amazon stock at its IPO in 1997, you would be sitting on over $150,000 today! That’s an astonishing 1500x 🚀🚀 growth over 27 years, with an annual growth rate of about 29.85%! 📈 While the stock market can be unpredictable in the short term, holding onto quality stocks for the long haul can yield life-changing returns. Imagine turning a modest investment into a fortune just by staying invested and believing in the company’s growth. #Investment #StockMarket #Amazon #LongTermGrowth #FinancialSuccess #WealthManagement #SmartInvesting

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Thanks, Amnic team, for hosting me on your podcast. I enjoyed the conversation with Sathya narayanan Nagarajan. We have many things in common from our learnings from working on CD-based products where perfection was the expectation in the first iteration to today, when Amnic and Mindtickle are taking big bets on GenAI and Cloud to delight our customers. In this podcast, I shared my experiences of more than twenty years of building and deploying large-scale systems at Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Mindtickle. The podcast also covers my learnings from moving from large enterprises to a relatively smaller company where being agile and nimble is paramount. #Microsoft, #Meta, #Google #Mindtickle.

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Influencing to get things done - is what we do consciously and subconsciously everyday- at work, in the family and with friends. A lovely article from #hbr breaking down this important aspect of our interactions with a few specific use-cases and practical takeaways. Remember - influencing is not the forte of leaders only - we all can influence to win in whatever we do ! Take a read and jot down your own thoughts (or experiences) in the comments section. #influencewithintent #gettingthingsdone

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Watch the final part of the series "Crafting Applications with Cosmos DB" where Saranya Sriram and Sandeep S Nair unpack how surprisingly simple it is to make your app on Cosmos DB resilient in the case of a Datacenter failure. They also refer to a new preview feature that is a steal: Dynamic Autoscaling: https://lnkd.in/e74PXE4V #Autoscale Azure Cosmos DB #HighAvailability #NoSQL #DistributedData https://lnkd.in/e8he9PCy

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From Astrologer's Whispers to Real Connections: Reclaiming Belonging in a Lonely Age Have you ever consulted an astrologer, their predictions swirling in your head, only to feel empty when your day takes a different turn? The emptiness might not be about the details themselves, but about seeking outside approval for your happiness. This same feeling can creep in even when you achieve success. Remember climbing the career ladder, landing that dream apartment, only to find yourself lost in a quiet emptiness? In India's bustling cities, it's a familiar, painful emotion. We're surrounded by people, yet there's a little loneliness at the edges of our lives. Thinking back to Mrs. Deshmukh, your friendly neighbour with the legendary Til Gur Barfi's, who brought the whole neighbourhood together with tea and friendly chats. Those evenings of shared stories and laughter, a web woven by simple human connection, feel like a distant memory in our super-connected yet broken world. We chase success with thumbs glued to screens, building online bridges that leave us feeling more alone than ever. The pressure to create a perfect online self-drowns out the whispers of our own desires. But here's the real deal, that shiny designation and fancy car can't fill the hole left by genuine connection. There's hope, though! We can rewrite this story. Let's ditch the small talk and chase deeper connections. Share your fears and worries, break free from feeling isolated in this sea of ambition. Remember the warmth of family gatherings, the joy of shared childhood games? Revive those small traditions. Pick up the phone for a real heart-to-heart conversation rather than What's Apping. Every act of connection, no matter how ordinary, how small, builds a more satisfying life. Imagine hearing back from an old friend, reliving an old laugh, and being surrounded by people who truly see us, where we belong. Isn't that what life is all about? Together, one conversation, one meal, and one act of kindness at a time, we can tear down the walls of loneliness. We can rewrite the narrative of modern society, where connection becomes the foundation of a life well lived. It's not too late, or is it? #HumanConnections #BelongingMatters #OvercomeLoneliness #RealConversations #MeaningfulRelationships #CommunityOverConnectivity #AuthenticLiving #SocialWellbeing #RedefiningSuccess #TraditionsRewoven #FightIsolation #VulnerableAndReal #KindnessRevolution #SmallActsBigImpact #ReconnectingHumanity #IndianSociety #UrbanLoneliness #DigitalDetox #QualityOverQuantity #ConnectionCures Photo by Tim Marshall on Unsplash

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Great meeting with the AWS ISV team at the AWS Summit! Engaged in insightful discussions with Jasjeet Singh , Sugandh Chaturvedi , Ravish Giri Ann Roberts and Leelavathi. We discussed key topics during the keynote and Gen AI tracks, focusing on the numerous improvements in AWS Bedrock. Exciting times ahead! 🚀 #AWSSummit #AWSISV #TechTalks

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🚀 Ramki, Prime Focus Technologies 🚀Excited to share the latest episode of 'The Vitrina Podcast', where I had the privilege of interviewing my good friend and industry visionary, Ramki Sankaranarayanan, CEO of Prime Focus Technologies. 🏆 Ramki and his team are true trailblazers in the media supply chain, driving profound and lasting changes that are shaping the future of the industry. Their work epitomizes innovation, efficiency, and the seamless integration of cutting-edge technologies and data to deliver their software solutions and services. 🌎 In our conversation, Ramki delves into the incredible journey of Prime Focus Technologies, a pivotal part of the Prime Focus and DNEG family. They are committed to ensuring premium content reaches every corner of the globe. Their end-to-end solutions span content localization, mastering, compliance, packaging, fulfillment, and marketing, all powered by their revolutionary CLEAR platform. 💡 CLEAR is a game-changer, offering a multi-vendor supply chain software that enhances task management, collaboration, and trackability along with their pioneering use of AI to streamline workflows, create content highlights, and automate video creation. 👉 We discussed their major bets and investments in AI, the necessity of productivity and efficiency tools, and the boundless potential of generative AI. Despite the challenges faced by the industry, Ramki’s optimism for the future is truly inspiring. ☢ Tune in to hear about these incredible innovations and gain insights from one of the industry's leading minds. #Leadership #Innovation #MediaTechnology #AI #Efficiency #Inspiration #globalsupplychains #filmproduction #tvproduction #postproduction #localization Listen here:

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At Clari our mission is to Run Revenue, ere are 5 unexpected learnings to help you capture more revenue this year. Context: Clari just passed $4 trillion in revenue under management. That’s how much revenue is flowing through the Clari Revenue Platform. Check our learnings below.

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If you are attending DEVCON24 - Please connect with Adithya K. to understand how Skyserve can help deliver spatial intelligence for your application!

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Here’s an excerpt from my latest article on trends in the data management world: “At Komprise, we actively collaborate with a range of storage vendors to enhance the impact and effectiveness of our offerings. Our partnerships extend to major cloud providers such as AWS and Azure, where we work closely not only on their storage services but also in creating joint solutions that integrate with AI workloads.” https://lnkd.in/gFFc2Fc3

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Very excited to unveil our ASR benchmarks that testifies extensive coverage and accuracy for all Indic languages, this is no less than a #Chandrayaan moment for #Reverie and here is why. In 2018, Reverie Language Technologies announced its Speech to text tech and soon after we partnered with enterprises to power their usecases around Voice Search. From then on, we improved the AI models to support more partners with newer usecases including Voice typing in content tools, Voice Bots on IVR, WhatsApp & web and most recently call center transcription. During this time, the models also gained deeper domain understanding especially in Banking, Financial services, e-commerce, automotive and Government. With limited labeled data in the public domain, a significant part of our R&D effort has been to get the best out of the available/created data. When AI companies were boasting the number of hours of data they used as input, the Reverie team focused on how to get better outputs and more importantly outcomes. Thus, #ASR now not only offers better coverage but also at a much much cheaper cost and this is why it is a proud #Chandrayaan moment for us. This in turn allows us to extend the cost benefit to our partners! A big thanks to our partners who believed in us, a huge round of Kudos to the Reverie #Speech and data team (we are #hiring!) A special thanks to AI4Bhārat for their benchmarking tools. and ofcourse, ISRO - Indian Space Research Organization for the inspiration Try out our APIs today! https://lnkd.in/gKbZvwHe It’s been a long but fruitful journey, and yet there are so many more use cases to cover… Vivekanand Pani Pranjal Nayak Chintan Parikh Prantik Nayak Soham Bhattacharya Swati Shukla Bhaskar Vivek Raghavan #speechrecognition #indiclanguagecomputing #languageonclusion #speechtotext #benchmark #voice #artificialintelligence

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The push of AI in software development and increasing complexity of integration layer demand a paradigm shift on software testing side. EBITDA can be improved if testing is done right. Listen to our podcast for more insights.

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In the "I Know You Think You Know What I Said But That Wasn't What I Said" category comes news from Intuit that it's laying off 1,800 people. What caught my eye were comments from the company's CEO, published on the firm's blog. After a discussion of the need for the layoffs, in a section titled "Taking care of our people" came this statement: "It is never easy to say goodbye to our colleagues and friends and we are committed to treating everyone who has been impacted by these changes with the compassion and respect they deserve." Pretty standard for the 20th century, no? But that was followed by some bullet points including this one: "We’ve significantly raised the bar on our expectations of employee performance, resulting in approximately 1,050 employees leaving the company who are not meeting expectations and who we believe will be more successful outside of Intuit." HUH? So much for "treating everyone...with the compassion and respect they deserve." Truly feel sorry for a lot of the people impacted. I'm sure that, out of the 1,800 people impacted, there were some "underperformers." But calling them out in public like that? Not only was this the wrong thing to do, it actually demonstrates the shortcomings of the executive team for a # of reasons: 1️⃣ Did no one (other than the CEO) have any sense to proof read the blog post before it was published and maybe suggest a lighter tone regarding the people who are "not meeting expectations"? 2️⃣ More importantly, check out the phrase "we’ve significantly raised the bar on our expectations of employee performance." This implies that management has been operating with sub-par expectations of performance. So whose fault is it if 10% of the people in the organization are suddenly found to be "not meeting expectations"? Answer: Management's. Then, a section titled "Moving forward together" started with this: "By 9:00 AM PT today, all employees impacted by these changes will receive a calendar invitation from their manager titled “Leaving Intuit Discussion”. Those who do not receive an Outlook invitation by 9:00 AM PT can assume they are not impacted and we ask that you support your colleagues as they process this news." Never mind that this isn't exactly "moving forward together." Can you imagine the # of emails and phone calls that this must have kicked off with everyone at Intuit calling and emailing their colleagues to find if they were impacted, and if not, who was? I'm no HR expert, but there had to be a better way to announce this.

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