1.Ganesh Narasimhadevara, Director of Solutions Consulting, New Relic India
National Tech Day is a powerful reminder of what India is capable of when ambition meets engineering excellence. This year’s theme, ‘Responsible Innovation for Inclusive Growth,’ sets an important benchmark that the true measure of tech progress isn’t speed of innovation alone, but the breadth of lives it improves and the trust it earns.
At New Relic, we work at the intersection of innovation and accountability. Our AI-strengthened intelligent observability platform gives engineering teams, be it global enterprises or Indian startups, real-time intelligence into how their systems behave, where they fail and how quickly they recover. In a country where a single digital outage can affect hundreds of millions of people using government portals, UPI payments, or healthcare platforms, reliability is a social responsibility.
For New Relic, responsible innovation means deploying AI that’s monitored, measurable and correctable so digital infrastructure performs under peak load on festival days, on exam result days, on election days and more. It means ensuring that the digital experience for users in Bengaluru and Bhagalpur, Kolkata and Kanpur is held to the same standard of quality.
India is powering everything from fintech to agritech, from smart cities to satellite-grade connectivity. Responsible innovation begins with visibility. When you can see exactly how your AI models behave in production, how your applications perform under the stress of millions of users, including first-time internet users in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, the guessing stops and guaranteeing inclusive growth begins. That is the difference between technology that serves a few and technology that truly scales for all.
The country is writing the playbook for inclusive digital growth that the world will study for decades. We are honoured to be part of the ecosystem that keeps those systems observable, resilient and trustworthy because growth that can’t be measured can’t be sustained, and innovation that can’t be trusted can’t truly be responsible.
2.Vinay Pradhan, Country Manager & Senior Director, India & South Asia, Udemy
National Technology Day is a motivating reminder to reflect on India’s remarkable journey with technology and look forward to the exciting possibilities ahead. India has made impressive strides in embracing new-age technologies like AI, securing its place among the top countries with AI skills and capabilities. That itself speaks about the nation’s zest for innovation. Even the government, through initiatives like the AI Mission, is equipping the workforce with essential AI skills.
Right now, the focus should narrow to maximizing the value AI brings. As AI evolves into new phases, India’s workforce must keep pace. While many are receiving learning opportunities, our Udemy-YouGov research reveals they’re still navigating their practical application in their specific roles. With technology advancing so rapidly, this gap is natural. To sustain the spirit of innovation and climb the AI ladder, Indian enterprises need a focused approach that drives inclusive growth.
Organizations should meet employees where they are and provide targeted learning experiences that drive their career journeys. No employee, regardless of background or current skill level, should feel detached from these technologies. Instead, learning should be charted so everyone becomes capable of building their own growth path. They can leverage the power of AI to diagnose employee function, goals, and skill gaps to curate personalized learning journeys. It enables businesses to seamlessly embed learning into the flow of work, continuously adapting based on progress to keep it practical, nimble and relevant to specific roles and business outcomes. It empowers employees to apply new capabilities in real time and grow alongside the business.
This well-thought-out plan also aligns with this year’s National Technology Day’s theme: “Responsible Innovation for Inclusive Growth.” By prioritizing accessible, role-specific AI upskilling, organizations will be able to ensure inclusive growth and ensure their adoption and innovation are responsible.
3. Praveer Kochhar, Co-Founder & CPO, KOGO AI
National Technology Day is a moment for the AI industry in India to ask itself one defining question, “Are we building AI that serves everyone or only those who can really afford to lead?”
While the world is busy focusing on frontier models and raw intelligence, at KOGO AI, we firmly believe that the future belongs to those building governed intelligence or systems that are private by design, accountable by architecture and inclusive by intent. Agentic AI is already automating entire departments, compressing decision cycles from weeks to seconds. But automation without equity is merely concentration of power dressed in the language of innovation.
India is in a unique position currently. We have the talent, the scale, and increasingly, the indigenous capability to not just adopt global AI but to define what responsible AI looks like for 1.4 billion people. That means building platforms that protect data sovereignty, empower enterprises, and function in regional contexts.
The question for this decade is not whether AI transformation will be broad or narrow, opaque or inclusive. Responsible innovation demands we choose broad and inclusive. Every time.
4. Ajay Kharbanda, CEO, Arinox AI
On National Technology Day, we must confront an uncomfortable truth. Technology that can’t be trusted can’t be scaled. And technology that cannot be deployed sovereignly cannot be called strategic.
India’s AI ambitions particularly in defense, critical infrastructure, and governance demand more than imported intelligence running on foreign clouds. They demand AI that is sovereign in deployment, secure for enterprise processes and intellectual property, and accountable in operation. The era of black-box AI handed down from third-party vendors running on the cloud must give way to systems that government agencies and defense establishments can own, audit, and adapt.
The shift is already underway. AI-in-a-box sovereign deployments, multilingual voice interfaces that bridge the urban-rural gap, real-time decision intelligence at the edge, are operational realities, and India is building them.
But technology alone will not deliver inclusive growth. It requires deliberate policy, procurement reform, and an industry that prioritizes sovereignty. As AI becomes central to national security and public service delivery, the responsibility on builders grows exponentially.
This year’s theme, “Responsible Innovation for Inclusive Growth” is a strategic imperative that signals the need for sovereign AI that is accessible to organizations across the board. Sovereign AI capability is not just a nice-to-have technology. It is the foundation of a self-reliant, resilient, and equitable digital India.
5. Anand Sampath, India Head & CEO of BPS, Visionet Systems
Indian enterprises are rapidly moving from the experimental stage to enterprise-wide AI adoption. Organizations that succeed in this evolution will be those that integrate governance, security, and human oversight at the core of their AI and cloud strategies. And those who fail at AI will not do so due to a lack of technology, but rather a disregard for “accountability.”
In a rapidly changing geopolitical environment, where data sovereignty, cyber risk, and supply chain resilience are critical, trust is what determines competitive advantage. Therefore, enterprises will need technologies that are stable, secure, and locally adaptable. From a resilience standpoint, AI-augmented operations help reduce risk in global delivery models, reducing location dependency, enabling distributed intelligence, and ensuring continuity amid uncertainty.
This National Technology Day is an opportunity for organizations to recognize that the future of enterprise technology lies in responsible, human-centric AI that boosts productivity, builds trust, and enables inclusive economic participation especially in an uncertain global environment.
6. Vishal Rajani, Founder & CEO, Synergos
For years, technology in marketing was largely about efficiency. Better targeting, faster execution, and refined analytics kept the wheels turning. But AI is changing the role technology plays altogether. We are now living in the era of intelligent marketing, where brands can move beyond broad audience assumptions and understand customer needs in far greater depth, not over weeks or months, but in real time. Campaign cycles have become shorter, sharper, and more targeted.
In a market as diverse as India, where audiences differ across language, region, culture, and consumption behavior, traditional marketing models often struggled to create relevance at an individual level. AI changes that equation, enabling brands to dynamically adapt communication for different consumer journeys without losing authenticity. National Technology Day’s theme, “Responsible Innovation for Inclusive Growth,” also reflects the direction marketing is heading toward. In the coming years, marketing will become far more personal and intuitive, shaped around individual needs, preferences, and pain points. Consumers will not just engage with brands more frequently; they will feel more heard.
What makes this moment even more exciting is that AI is still evolving. Yet, it is already redefining how businesses communicate and connect. By the next National Technology Day, we will likely be discussing advancements that may seem unimaginable today. That is the pace at which technology is evolving and influencing every facet of business. The future will belong to those willing to evolve alongside it. But at its core, its real value will always lie in how meaningfully it helps businesses connect with people. That is the future marketing is moving toward, and it is only getting started.
7. Rohit Badri, Group Associate Director of Risk & Compliance, Neokred
On National Technology Day, India celebrates technological breakthroughs and also the invisible architecture that makes them enduring. At Neokred, we see trust and compliance as the bedrock of the digital infrastructure we provide. The nation itself stands as a perfect example of how trust drives both technological leaps and public reception. World-renowned innovations like UPI brilliantly showcase its power. What began as a digital payments revolution has scaled to 19 billion monthly transactions because trust was engineered from day one.
As digital infrastructure providers, we at Neokred imbibe these same time-tested principles that have propelled India forward. We view compliance frameworks like DPDP not as hurdles, but as powerful enablers of large-scale adoption of technology like ours. This approach has worked exceptionally well for us, fostering deep trust in the Neokred brand and our products.
This year’s National Technology Day theme,” responsible innovation for inclusive growth,” perfectly captures this stand. It reminds us that while innovation grabs headlines, trust is what builds empires. And it is paramount that every enterprise, building a digital infrastructure, remains fully committed to this vision. Every day, it’s all about strengthening our digital infrastructure, embedding governance, trust, and compliance as inseparable pillars of our technology stack.
This National Technology Day, let’s celebrate the digital architects driving responsible innovation: regulators who create clear pathways, innovators who build with integrity, and users who embrace secure technology. Together, we’re rowing towards a Bharat where responsible digital infrastructure improves every citizen’s life, in one way or another.
