Fireside Chat: Manikandan Thangarathnam, Senior Director, Platform Engineering, Uber

In this video:
Fireside Chat: Manikandan Thangarathnam, Senior Director, Platform Engineering, Uber & Sayantan Mondal, Correspondent, Express Computer

Topic: Driving Innovation from the Top: How CIOs Can Foster a Culture of Digital-First Thinking

Key Highlights:
[1] Platform-led architecture enables companies to pivot rapidly and launch entirely new businesses within months.

[2] Modernisation succeeds only when every platform investment is directly linked to tangible business and customer value.

[3] By building reusable, configurable components, teams can roll out new product variants without needing fresh code.

[4] AI now reduces complex debugging from days to minutes, becoming a key driver of reliability and uptime at a massive scale.

[5] Sustainable innovation comes from deeply understanding the underlying technology, not simply adopting the latest trend.