Capgemini building up India team to ride 5G, Edge wave

Mumbai: Capgemini SE is strategically building out its India team to serve the next wave of demand for skills in technologies like 5G and edge computing, said Ashwin Yardi, chief executive of Capgemini in India.

As more global enterprises experiment and co-develop use cases surrounding both technologies, the company’s India unit intends to position itself increasingly as a hub for such projects and has also been skilling Indian executives in this direction.

Yardi said that from autonomous cloud to cars, increasingly more products and services are becoming embedded with software and that Capgemini has been capitalising on this trend through its “intelligent industry” offering, which includes work on cloud, Artificial Intelligence,