Father of Indian SW Industry

F.C. Kohli, father of the Indian IT industry and ex MD of TCS, spoke to us today. He narrated his experiences from his early days at TCS and then went on to make predictions about the future of the Indian IT industry. He placed a lot of stress on hardware and predicted that in ten years time India will have a hardware industry worth $100bn. Half of that amount would be generated by the local markets and the remaining half will be generated from exports. He stressed the importance of having more Microelectronic engineers in the country. He said that India only produces 250 microelectronic engineers now, and to have a robust hardware industry India needs 30000 engineers. All in all a very nice and enlightening talk. Sankha