Harpreet Kaur

I would say it's my dad, and why is because he found out that I love technology. He saw me opening computers in my childhood and seeing me doing all that, so he found that out. He's the one who always keeps giving me goals and is always encouraging. There are times that we all feel low, so in my low times, he always gave me encouragement, saying that you can do it, I know you can do it. Even though I am a single child, and usually in India, especially a single child and a woman, at that time, having a single child, people want them to keep at their home based on Indian culture, but my parents gave me a chance to fly. So I just say it's my parents who are the ones, and because of them, I'm here today. And also my mentors, because all this time I have one or the other mentors, they all gave me a hand, always holding my hand whenever I feel like I'm probably gonna go somewhere or drown or something, they always pulled me out. Whether it's my current mentor, my manager as well, she's my manager and she's my mentor, and my previous managers and my previous mentors, at every organization, I feel like I had somebody holding my hand, and that's what I want to do for others too, and I'm doing it for a few.

In this technology industry, things change so fast, so try to keep learning. I say three C's to people. One is collaboration, one is communication, and third one is keep learning. I used to call it as more of career - look into your career learnings, where you would like to head it to.

There are a lot of opportunities for people because it just started and it's gonna expand a lot. It's the same way how when computers started, people were scared - some of the people were scared that our jobs will go away, but some of the people were happy that something new jobs are coming up. It's a very similar state at the moment. Whenever something new comes, it's unpredictable, and that's why people get into both mindsets. I think this is a situation where a lot of people can learn new things who have never worked in the IT industry, but they can start learning AI directly. A lot of new openings are gonna be there, like people who want help to use AI. So there's gonna be people who can make them learn or who can do their work using AI and all those. It's also gonna help open this way - this is giving human time back. A lot of work will be done because if we see that a lot of industry people are working 24 across 7, a lot of things are not gonna be reduced from there. So it's both ways. It's gonna be reducing some work, but it's gonna increase some work as well.