Industry Experts Share Views on AI Appreciation Day
From classrooms to farms, Indian innovators say AI is quietly reshaping lives and unlocking human potential across sectors
As India marks AI Appreciation Day 2025, leaders across technology, education, and agriculture sectors have come together to spotlight the growing impact of artificial intelligence in everyday Indian life. From enhancing classroom engagement to revolutionising farming practices, AI is now more than a buzzword—it’s a catalyst for inclusive and transformative progress.
Karun Tadepalli, Co-founder & CEO of byteXL, says AI is forcing a fundamental rethink in India’s education system.
“A world dominated by AI will not care about your marks. It thrives on your ability to think differently, to ask better questions. That should terrify our rote-learning system—but it should also inspire us to rebuild it,” he said, adding that the AI revolution is a mirror to society’s values and imagination.
Sooraj Balakrishnan, Associate Director & Head of Marketing at Acer India, sees AI as deeply embedded in how India now learns, heals, and works. “Its value lies in amplifying human potential. At Acer, we focus on building AI-powered tools that are inclusive and adaptive—because a digital India must be accessible to all,” he said.
For Anji Maram, Founder & CEO of CriticalRiver, AI is the engine powering India’s shift to digitization and automation.
“From quality education to sustainable agriculture, AI can unlock smarter governance, better infrastructure, and tech-enabled consulting. The future belongs to businesses that adapt with intelligent tools and data-driven insights.”
Meanwhile, Prem Kumar Vislawath, CEO & Co-Founder of Marut Drones, highlights how AI is transforming India's agricultural and public safety landscapes.
“Drones equipped with AI are enabling autonomous decisions in agriculture, reducing costs, and improving sustainability. AI in drones is also bolstering law enforcement and disaster response, helping tackle India's real-world challenges.”
Across these voices runs a common thread: AI must be ethical, inclusive, and rooted in real Indian needs. As the nation’s 1.4 billion citizens stand at the edge of a tech-led future, AI Appreciation Day is not just about algorithms—it’s a celebration of India’s growing confidence in building and shaping that future together.
Adding his insights Dr Sunil Vuppala, VP – AI Labs, Aurigo, said, “The true value of AI does not only lie in its novelty but also in its ability to help us tackle real-world challenges. As we advance, the conversation around AI must shift from what it can do to what it should do to make our systems and environments more trustworthy, purpose-driven, and inclusive."
What is exciting to see is how India is uniquely positioned to lead this transformation. We are not merely participants in the global AI revolution; we are actively shaping it, with the talent, responsibility, and vision to develop solutions that serve billions around the world.
"Aurigo is harnessing the power of AI to make infrastructure smarter and more secure. By embedding AI across capital planning and construction management, we are enabling our customers to gain better insights, drive greater accountability, and ultimately, improve the quality of life for citizens. We are not only building task agents that improve efficiency but also decision agents that help our customers take data-driven actions autonomously. For instance, our Lumina search agents empower construction professionals to access information across documents or records via natural language, accelerate timely decision-making, and derive insights," he added.
Manish Jha, Chief Technology Officer at Addverb, said, "We see artificial intelligence not just as a tool, it’s a catalyst that brings intelligence, adaptability, and a human-centric focus to automation. AI is integrated into our everyday operations, whether in simplifying warehouse activities, enabling smarter route planning for our robots, or ensuring seamless collaboration between humans and machines. It guarantees that the human role stays central while enabling our systems to constantly learn, adjust, and grow more sensitive to real-world circumstances.
This AI Appreciation Day, we pause to recognize the revolutionary influence artificial intelligence has in determining our daily inventions. It is helping us to develop solutions that not only provide efficiency but also instil reliability and trust for those who work with our technologies. We remain committed to developing AI-powered automation that honours human agency and elevates the capabilities of people throughout sectors."
Mr Prashant Singh, CEO & Co-Founder of Blue Planet Environmental Solutions, said, " We are now at a pivotal moment in the adoption of artificial intelligence. Its role is much more than automation because it provides deep systems thinking. AI now helps industries transition from ‘hindsight’ to ‘foresight’, fragmentation to integration, and from responding to anticipating threats. It isn’t just improving efficiency; it is enabling a redesign of how we resolve complex, interconnected global problems."
"Today, we celebrate AI, for its power to reshape the world. At Blue Planet, we are leveraging AI to advanced material recovery, and predict circularity outcomes with greater accuracy. We can track the data, map the flows of waste, monitor and report impact in real-time, and provide stakeholder insights, which is unprecedented in the industry. Waste management goes far beyond disposal; it involves tracking the waste's journey, reuse, and proving value at every step which relies on AI. The entire process becomes seamless and intuitive. Without AI, the opposite is true. With AI, we automate sorting and optimization while transforming waste into intelligent resources that are transparent and traceable."
