CEO Sikka's driverless cart gives glimpse of Infy's future agenda

BENGALURU/CHENNAI:Cruising his way to the quarterly financial briefing in a self-driven car, Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka set the tone for the IT gaint's future on Friday. Artificial Intelligence and automation -- two crucial technologies behind the driverless car technology -- were the points Sikka stressed on during the briefing as the'future of the company', internally and in the market. On the one hand, increasing automation inside the company is already freeing up immense effort in terms of manpower. In just one quarter (April - June, 2017) automation freed up the effort of more than 3,600 people. Just a few weeks earlier, Infosys had announced that automation had freed up effort worth 11,000 employees in FY17.