Every AI deployment must deliver clear economic value, operational execution: Managing Director, Google Cloud India

Amit Kumar, Managing Director, Digital Natives Business, Google Cloud India. Photo credit: LinkedIn As Indian organisations move beyond pilots to rethink how work gets done, they need sovereign flexibility alongside trusted models and enterprise-grade platforms, said Amit Kumar, Managing Director, Digital Natives Business, Google Cloud India, at Ananda, the company’s office in the outskirts of Bengaluru on Thursday.“Our customers across verticals, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, government, regulatory, regulatory industries, and of course, digital companies and startups are embracing AI at an unprecedented pace,’’ he said while delivering a keynote at ‘Let’s Talk AI’ media tour, organised by Google Cloud, which brought together industry leaders, founders, and developers to outline the technology foundations required for India’s shift from AI experimentation to full enterprise execution.“Not just embracing AI, they are also developing AI, adopting it, and also building using AI for the first time. We are in the agentic era, where every AI deployment must deliver clear economic value and operational execution,’’ Mr. Kumar added.According to him, this momentum is anchored by a new wave of ecosystem collaborations that bring Google Cloud’s agentic platforms and Gemini models into everyday consumer and business touchpoints.The event highlighted a fundamental evolution in how Indian organisations deploy AI, moving beyond assistive tools to autonomous agentic workflows that reason, act, and execute complex business operations. To power this transition, Google Cloud said it was delivering an integrated AI stack combining secure by design infrastructure, local processing for its latest Gemini models, and a unified Gemini Enterprise experience.Pack of industry leaders including Prakhyath Hegde, Chief Technology and Product Officer at Cropin; Shyam Vedantam, Chief Product Officer at boAt, and Vijeth Pandit, Chief Product Office at Pine Labs, spoke about how they are reshaping and rethinking their businesses with AI. From wearable devices to digital payment terminals and global agriculture, these partnerships with Google Cloud demonstrated how agentic AI was being deployed at population scale across India, they explained.For instance, Imagine Marketing, parent company of boAt, is integrating Gemini Live into its next-generation ‘Crest AI’ audio lineup, enabling hands-free, natural conversational interactions on everyday consumer devices; fin-tech firm Pine Labs announced its collaboration with Google Cloud to extend AI-driven commerce capabilities to India’s 60 million small and medium businesses, ensuring local merchants participate directly in autonomous digital trade while Agri-Tech venture Cropin has launched Cropin Sage, a real-time, generative AI agri-intelligence engine built on Gemini that builds a grid-based map of global farmland to deliver predictive climate and supply chain insights.As organisations transition from pilots to full production, managing the economics and predictability of running complex AI workloads becomes a critical differentiator, Mr. Kumar further said. Published - September 25, 2026 05:21 pm IST