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HCLTech, Transport for NSW partner to explore AI-driven traffic insights in India

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:53:00 +0000

HCLTech has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW) to explore the advancement of artificial intelligence-powered analytics capabilities for the Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System (SCATS).

As part of the collaboration, HCLTech will explore the integration of Sarvam’s multilingual foundation models with SCATS. The initiative is aimed at enabling traffic operators, planners and engineers to query and analyse SCATS data in local Indian languages.

The partnership would also examine solutions to address data sovereignty requirements for smart-city infrastructure. This includes exploring the deployment of SCATS AI infrastructure on premises through private cloud environments, allowing cities greater control over their data and AI systems.

“The world’s major cities are expanding at an unprecedented pace, creating new opportunities to reimagine how technology can manage increasingly complex transport networks,” said Swapan Johri, President, Growth Markets, HCLTech.

NSW Premier Chris Minns said “this collaboration with HCLTech will explore how AI could make sophisticated traffic information more accessible to the people managing growing cities in India.” He added that the partnership was another example of the strong technology and economic ties between New South Wales and India.

SCATS currently allows users to interact with traffic, congestion and geospatial data through natural-language queries and compare insights across selected time periods.

Developed by the NSW Government in 1975, SCATS has since expanded globally and is now deployed in more than 200 cities across over 30 countries.

Published – September 03, 2026 07:22 pm IST

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HCLTech wins $1.14 billion deal with European firm

admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:53:00 +0000

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India’s HCLTech has won ‌a $1.14 billion deal with a major European firm, ⁠the software services exporter said on Friday. The announcement pushed HCLTech’s shares up ‌by as much as 6.3%, boosting gains on the ‌Nifty IT index, which ‌was ⁠up 2.7%.

The deal will help HCLTech establish an AI-driven operating model to transform and manage ‌the client’s global digital workplace and enterprise networks, the company said.

The deal will last ‌for five-and-a-half years and is extendable by another five years, it added, without ⁠providing further details about the European firm.

This is entirely new ‌business for the company, HCLTech said, and not from an existing client or a deal renewal.

This is the largest deal HCLTech has ‌announced since winning a $2.1 billion deal with Verizon in August 2023.

HCLTech, which will report ⁠its results for the first quarter of ⁠fiscal 2027 on July 13, has forecast revenue ‌growth of 1%-4% for the year.

Published – July 03, 2026 11:23 pm IST

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At Davos, HCL Tech Chief Makes Prediction On AI

admin — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 17:16:07 +0000

Davos/New Delhi:

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the focus points of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos. HCL Tech Chairperson Roshni Nadar Malhotra, recognising the role that AI plays and will play in the years to come, shared some insights on the matter in an interview to NDTV.

Ms Malhotra said AI is the “most democratised” technology compared to some of the tech that came before it.

“I think the operative word is 10 years because people don’t realise that even when tech revolutions come, they take a certain period of time before adoption. And what’s been great about AI is that perhaps in comparison to some of the tech innovations from before, it’s the most democratised at the moment,” the Chairperson of one of the most impressive firms that India has anywhere in the world told NDTV.

“If you look at young people today, everybody is already using this open source architecture and tech in their everyday lives for productivity. If I look 10 years from now, I think it will certainly become like how the internet is in the way people and companies use it,” Ms Malhotra said.

With generative AI seen to be a long-term growth driver, the HCL Tech Chairperson said it is a very competitive area, and it is all about how a tech firm couples generative AI with existing services while offering it to clients.

“For example, we have broken our AI offerings into four. We have the AI Force, which is our platform where we look at the software life cycle development and how you can actually shrink that, make it more productive.

“We have got the AI foundry, which is working on managed services, the cognitive infrastructure of companies, the data, and data is like the underlying platform for AI, which is absolutely integral. We have built a network of AI labs, and we have done this over the last 12 months,” Ms Malhotra said, adding they have labs in California, London, Munich, two in India and one in Singapore.

“We are able to leverage solutions globally. So sometimes, you’re working with let’s say an oil and gas company in the US and you’ve got certain AI solutions. We can apply that to let’s say customers in Singapore who are working in a similar industry and looking for a similar solution,” Ms Malhotra said.

She said the AI lab is the third and AI engineering is the fourth offering from HCL Tech.

The five-day meeting at Davos that began on Monday is exploring how to relaunch growth, harness new technologies and strengthen social and economic resilience, according to the World Economic Forum. The global meeting is seeing participation by nearly 3,000 leaders from over 130 countries, including 350 governmental leaders.

India’s participation at Davos aims to strengthen partnerships, attract investment, and position the country as a global leader in sustainable development and technological innovation. India sent five Union ministers, three chief ministers, and ministers from several other states to the WEF this time.

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