He is recognized as a Visionary and Thought Leader in guiding organizations in their digital journey by assisting them in setting transformation roadmaps to ensure competitive advantage and differentiation. He is very well versed in adopting technologies like Social, Mobile, Big Data, Analytics, Cloud and IoT into business solutions to accelerate Superior Customer Experiences or bring in new Revenue Generation opportunities to companies. He has built leading digital practices in multinational organizations Cognizant and Atos. Dileep along with his partners runs an Advisory company Powerfluence which helps organization to rapidly scale for success in their Digital journeys. He advises SME companies in meeting their transformation goals and positions them for success.

Samsung has unveiled its next-generation smartphone chip that will give its upcoming Galaxy S9 some iPhone X-like features, including face unlocking and animated emojis. The Exynos 9810 is built on its second-generation 10-nanometer fabrication tech, and will outperform the current flagship Exynos 8895 chip by up to 100 percent in single-core mode, Samsung said. The chip is likely to be sold in Asia, while US and European customers will get the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chip. Samsung emphasized that the new chip will be much better at AI, improving face detection, image recognition and other deep learning activities. That, in turn, will allow it to do real-time scanning of your face in 3D.

The Nintendo Wii is the best selling video game console of all time. But the Nintendo Switch, so far at least, is on an even faster sales pace. On Thursday, Nintendo announced that the Switch had become the fastest selling home video game system of all time in the U.S., selling over 4.8 million units in 10 months. That's 800,000 more than the Wii did in the same timeframe. "Whether this is a dedicate gamer who doesn't want to stop playing Mario or Zelda, or whether it's a child experiencing these franchises for the very first time, we believe the value proposition as well as the compelling content is what's fueling our momentum," Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America, told Fortune.

New robots designed to replace workers in airports, hotels and supermarkets have been announced by LG Electronics. The firm is showcasing a trio of robots designed to carry your suitcase, shopping and drinks at the global Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas next week. Tech companies are racing to create automated machines capable of carrying out service industry tasks, threatening the jobs of up to 800 million workers worldwide. Each of LG's three new robots is bin-shaped, shorter than a human, and moves via a hidden set of wheels at its base. One of the machines is designed to serve drinks and food (left), while another hauls luggage (centre).

Hyundai and Volkswagen are hoping Google's former driverless car boss will help them roll out self-driving vehicles on the roads by 2021. Chris Urmson, who now heads up start-up Aurora, will work with the two car manufacturers to develop the technology. The partnerships are the latest in a string of tie-ups between traditional auto companies and tech firms as they race to be first with self-driving vehicles. Hyundai will begin selling its first self-driving vehicles by 2021 in partnership with US based self-driving technology startup Aurora Innovation, which was founded by a former chief technology officer at Google's self-driving car unit Chris Urmson (pictured) Hyundai and Aurora, led by Chris Urmson, the former head of Google's autonomous car team, will bring autonomous vehicles to markets that can operate without human input in most conditions. The auto industry designates that as'level 4 autonomous driving,' just one stage short of fully autonomous driving.

We made it to the end of a tumultuous year of political turmoil, technological change and legislative upheaval. The fact we made it to New Year's Eve without starting a nuclear war with North Korea is all the more reason to celebrate. Many of this year's biggest events, like GDPR, developments in AI and the disjointed launch of the iPhone X, took place at the very epicentre of marketing, with repercussions that are still making headlines to this day. So with the start of a new year, it's time to look back as well as forwards and ask: what will the last twelve months mean for marketing in 2018? Nobody knows how last year's referendum will affect the UK, and as a result, uncertainty continues to hover over business, with some firms making the move to the continent.

Robotics is already changing how we live, shop, invest, travel, and soon, robo-caregivers will transform how we provide care. Advances in AI will deliver extraordinarily innovative services in support of our loved ones. However, the use of robots to care for our children, elderly and disabled will also give rise to some very human questions. Caregiving is social science jargon for providing unpaid support to a family member or friend who has physical, psychological or development needs. Most caregivers do not know what a caregiver is or even know that they are caregivers.

As computers gain speed and accomplish dazzling feats like defeating the world's masters at games of chess and Go, some of the planet's brightest minds -- Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking among them -- warn that we human beings may find ourselves obsolete. Further, a kind of artificial intelligence arms race may come to dominate geopolitics, rewarding the owners of the best AI mining the biggest pools of "big data" -- most likely, as a result of its sheer size, China. Or consider another dire consequence: As AI-driven robots replace more and more workers, from truck drivers to insurance adjusters, loan officers and any number of other white-collar occupations, unemployment will rise. Should we imagine a utopia filled with gratifying leisure activities or a feudal dystopia in which a wealthy elite hold the few precious jobs unsuitable for computers? But the terms of the debate thus far are confused. The recent advances in AI are impressive, and the future prospects for the technology are truly amazing.

If you are a frequent online shopper, chances are you searched for, say, a belt, and the website suggested you buy something unrelated, like a coffeemaker. This will become rarer as machine learning, a subset of artificial intelligence, improves substantially. And with advancements in technologies for image recognition and search -- Google has launched this feature on its Pixel 2 phones, though it is still in beta -- ecommerce will be more interactive and intuitive. According to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers, using different datasets to make predictions, including shopping recommendations, is the biggest area of focus in AI globally. Moreover, Amazon, Samsung and Google are training the voice assistants on their devices to get better at speaking in and understanding Indian English accents, saving us the effort of repeating our questions.

The world is being transformed through rapid breakthroughs in data and AI. Every day, we hear about more innovations -- from small startups to global economies. Nearly every job currently occupied by human labour–from farmers, offshore customer service representatives and even taxi drivers–could be given to a robot within the next few decades. As 2017 draws to a close, let's take a look at how AI is being developed around the globe and what artificial intelligence has in store for us in the coming year. Accenture predicts that by 2035, AI may boost U.S. labour productivity by 35 percent.