New Delhi: Addressing young achievers, students, developers and entrepreneurs, India-born Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, on Monday, delivered a keynote at the company's 'Tech for Good, Ideas for India' event in New Delhi.
Outlining the importance of innovation in India and celebrating the technology that India creates, Nadella said young entrepreneurs and developers from India are playing a major role in driving innovation, and Microsoft wants to be the platform for creators in the country.
"It is so inspiring for me to come here, to see this broad spectrum of student developers, entrepreneurs, artists and even some big brands, e-commerce companies, who are all changing the landscape of India and thereby, the world, and it really is a privilege for me to be here and it's a real privilege to be a platform underneath this Indian success," said Nadella.
Imagining a possibility that what if we taught all the computers and computing around us human language, Nadella said that a world can be created where the work can be done just by speaking or texting.
"What if we took the power of human language and were able to translate that into computers. Think about the kinds of applications you could build, but more importantly, think about what it does to democratising the experience. Instead of us having the cognitive know as users of learning new shell constructs, downloading icon after icons, and screen after screens of apps, what if all you did was spoke or texted and you were able to get the work done. That's the world I think you can create," stated Nadella.
"In fact, you will build bots that have fundamental understanding of human language - just like how you built websites in the past, just like how you build mobile apps in the past. You are going to build these bot interfaces that understand human dialogue. And, it's going to be a pretty profound shift in how computing is experienced by everybody. It's probably going to be the most democratising force and make it accessible to anybody, who is 80 years old or an 8-year-old," he added.
Nadella also talked about the three platforms that Microsoft is creating, which the company will change the way we see the world. These include the intelligent cloud platform that gives every application cognition and computational resources so that you can do anything; the idea of reinventing productivity and business process so that how you interface with every institution and every process becomes much more natural to a conversation because of the bots you build; and lastly, the apps that you build, the experiences you build for mixed reality.
Emphasing Microsoft's mission, Nadella said that the company aims to empower every person and organisation on the planet to achieve more.
This was Nadella's third visit to India since he took over as Microsoft CEO in February 2014.
In December, Nadella had visited Mumbai and T-Hub in Hyderabad.
Apart from what the company's vision and roadmap, Nadella also shared a few life lessons at the event.
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