Gulzar Azad is the Country Head of Connectivity at Google India. he talks about his journey from his once retail and journalism career to executing one of the largest programs at Google in association with RailTel Corporation of India Limited.

Gulzar Azad is the Country Head of Connectivity at Google India. he talks about his journey from his once retail and journalism career to executing one of the largest programs at Google in association with RailTel Corporation of India Limited.  We discuss how can t rethink education in the digital age for personal and business growth. whether the current education makes sense in a fast-changing world, what is the real purpose of the classrooms, why the education system is broken, how to update the education system? We talk about his projects google stations and his next initiatives.  Gulzar also talks about how your education shapes careers and life events and what are important principles that require transformation to make more sense of the old education system in the currently fast-changing world.

The interview was recorded in a makeshift location at the rooftop of a hotel so there may be some background noise but I hope the content is useful for everyone who watches it.  This is the first episode on this channel.

SHOW TIMELINE

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00:26 Introduction 

02:30 Welcoming Gulzar on the show  

03:25 Gulzar talking about his education and how it helped him in his achievements  

05:22 Knowing more about different careers (candy supplier, reporter, editor) that Gulzar has taken over and how did he transition into technology at Google  

09:00 Talking about the Google Wi-Fi project at the Indian railway stations with RailTel Corporation of India Ltd 

13:03 Gulzar explaining Google's business model and interest in the free Wi-Fi and hundreds of millions of investment in the free wifi project at railway stations  

15:15 Talking about the Digital divide, Experience Divide, and the Knowledge divide and how it's been addressed  

17:56 next steps for the RailTel project to take it to rural India and a new product for Google - Google stations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Station 

19:38 On using technology in a sustainable way to impact lives  

20:26 Tech trends to look for in 2020 (e.g. combining distributed computing and robotics, machines learning and more)  

23:53 Sharing views about the currently broken education system and how does it impact the career you chose. How journalism helped him solving big problems in his technology career 

28:07 connecting the dots between the education and the career people eventually take on  

29:29  How can the classrooms be repurposed to make more sense of education 

31:24 Message to the budding entrepreneurs, students, people switching careers  

32:34 Final thoughts

Contacts:  

Ajay Mathur - https://www.linkedin.com/in/majay/ 

Gulzar Azad - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gulzarazad/