Company Visit Highlights India-Europe Collaboration on Technology and Inclusion

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I hadn’t visited our Indian teams in 3 years (🙈🙈🙈), and while travelling there last week, one point really struck me: hashtag#India and Europe have much more in common than we often think.Digital hashtag#sovereignty and reducing dependence on US tech giants is top of mind on both sides. The platform game is today outrageously dominated by China and the US, but both India and Europe have the size, talent and capital to grow champions. India is well positioned for business models tailored to emerging markets. I discovered platforms like Zepto, delivering daily groceries in under 10min (!!). And just like in Europe, these ultra-fast services are sparking debate about working conditions...hashtag#Fragmentation holds back ambition. Both India and Europe are incredibly diverse from a cultural and regulation standpoint, which makes real hashtag#scale difficult. I was amazed to learn there are 27 (!!) government-certified sovereign cloud providers in India 🤔 This fragmentation, as in the EU, limits the emergence of true global winners, although India is rapidly advancing its LLM ecoystem (Sarvam, Krutrim, BharatGPT, etc) supporting the great variety of Indian languages.hashtag#ESG stays on the agenda. While being deprioritized in many areas of the globe, I was glad to see CO2 emissions and diversity on the agenda with our Indian clients and partners—Tech Mahindra, for example, shares our goal of increasing hashtag#WomenInTech. I was also positively surprised to see LGBT+ hashtag#inclusion discussed more openly (big shoutout to our HR team for supporting LGBT+ staff during Pride for the 1rst time in 2025 — and just a reminder: this initiative is about protection, not promotion 😉).In a tense world, building bridges matters—across regions, companies, and people. That’s why our partnership with Tech Mahindra is so exciting. I truly believe the India-Europe axis will be one of the most dynamic alliances of the next decade (happy to collect feedback on this topic and where you see the greatest potential for collaboration 👋🤓)

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