… popular among investors, are expected to continue creating a huge impact in areas like AI (artificial intelligence), ML (machine learning), …

Let us go through some of the ways AI is changing the cybersecurity landscape.

Cyber threat detection. Machine Learning (ML), a subset of Artificial Intelligence, enables real-time detection of cyber threats based on analysis of …

In 2016, there were more than 100 conversational AI companies in India. But today, only a handful of companies are there. Everyone believes that automating a few queries for customers on an app is conversational AI. However, the industry is now redefining a CRM from being just a store of customer data to manage interaction, to making software the central point to handling every detail about the customer. Speaking about conversational AI at YourStory's flagship event TechSparks 2020, Raghavendra Kumar Ravinutala, Co-founder of Yellow Messenger, said: According to MarketsandMarkets, the global conversational AI market size is expected to grow from $4.8 billion in 2020 to $13.9 billion by 2025 at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 21.9 percent during the forecast period.

This year marks the tenth edition of TechSparks - YourStory's flagship event that brings together the who's who of the industry under one roof. It's also the time when we reveal our tenth batch of Tech30 companies. Every year, we proudly present a carefully chosen list of 30 young and promising startups that we believe have the potential to be major disruptors. The theme for TechSparks 2019 is'India 2025: Inclusive, Future-ready, and Intelligence-led', and we believe that this year's Tech30 companies will enable India to move closer to becoming ready for the future and intelligence-led. Harnessing technologies such as AI, machine learning, data analytics, and blockchain, these 30 companies are looking to solve problems across sectors and disrupt the market with new, innovative ideas.

Deep tech is the newest catchphrase in the Indian startup ecosystem. A bunch of homegrown companies are using new-age technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics, cloud, and the internet-of-things (IoT) to solve real-world problems, and essentially, alter the way humans lead daily lives. On Day One of TechSparks 2019, YourStory's flagship annual conference, a panel of founders, investors, and technical heads gathered to take stock of the evolution of the local deep tech startups ecosystem. Swapan Rajdev, Co-Founder and CTO, Haptik (maker of AI chatbots, recently acquired by Reliance Jio) elaborated on how the growth of AI has spurred new jobs and roles. Gone are the days when Indian companies failed to make a mark in hardware.

The eleventh edition of the annual Mobile India conference displayed a wide range of insights on the impacts of AI and emerging tech. When was the last time startups got to engage a room full of PHDs and technical domain experts? Well, the Mobile India conference offered them just that and much more - including more papers, demos, posters, and Graduate Student forum presentations. The discussions and deliberations during this year's Mobile India conference revolved around core issues surrounding artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and allied technological advancements, especially in the mobile services space and setting the agenda for mobile disruption in India for 2019. Leading Indian startup leaders like Dr Pravin Bhagwat from Mojo Networks, Dr Manish Gupta, Founder of VideoKen, and Sourabh Issar, CEO of CloudSE were there to share their insights, along with corporate leaders like Dr Gautham Shroff of TCS Research, Jan Holler of Ericsson Research, Bhairav Acharya from Facebook, Shubhashis Sengupta from Accenture Labs and Vinutha BM from Wipro, as well as several students and researchers from the country's premier technological institutions.

On 9th March 2018, Friday, YourStory is organizing SheSparks Awards to celebrate women trailblazers, disruptors, motivators, and change makers. Click here to get your invite now. If you are someone who left behind a regular career to earn a living from what you really love doing, you could win a chance to be featured on YourStory.

AI is touted to change the world in the same way electricity did. But are we moving too fast? While AI has created impact in some sectors, there are some documented instances of enterprises claiming to have automated systems, but actually relying on humans behind the scenes. For our future to stay bright, the real AI startups will need to stand up. On March 22, 2017, Andrew NG, who had been heading Artificial Intelligence (AI) efforts at Chinese tech giant Baidu, announced that he was resigning from the company.

Venture capital firm IvyCap Ventures has raised the first tranche of Rs 300 crore in its Rs 600-crore IvyCap Fund 2, which was launched last October. The fund saw the participation of five of the 15 existing institutional investors of IvyCap. As a part of the IvyCap Ventures Initiative, we will invest in 25-30 startups in the next two years, in sectors like healthtech, IoT, machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, edtech and agritech." Last December, IvyCamp had partnered with Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE), a business incubator of IIT Bombay. The objective was to leverage the IvyCamp Platform to connect and create value for entrepreneurs and innovators across the student and alumni community.