Express IT Awards 2019: It’s time to celebrate

On an exciting and memorable evening in Mumbai last week, India’s IT world celebrated the seventh edition of the Express IT Awards. The proceedings began with a panel discussion on whether technology would take away jobs or help India leapfrog into the future, moderated by Sunil Jain, managing editor, Financial Express. Jatin Singh, MD, Skymet, provided several examples of how his company was using drones to monitor agriculture production and give inputs to farmers on the crop. He spoke of how this was easily scalable and, when linked with various experts and details of soil conditions, could boost farmer incomes significantly.