Nikhil Malhotra

With over 23 years of experience under his belt, Nikhil Malhotra serves as the chief innovation officer and global head of AI and emerging technologies at Tech Mahindra. He is also a World Economic Forum AI fellow, actively contributing to conversations on responsible AI and quantum ethics. A researcher at heart, Malhotra leads both the research direction and the business growth of AI and quantum computing within Tech Mahindra.

Malhotra has received numerous accolades, including the Innovation Congress Award for India’s Most Innovative Leader in 2020, 2021 and 2023. He is also a TEDx speaker and the author of the bestselling book ‘Courage: The Journey of an Innovator’. One of his standout contributions is Project Indus, Tech Mahindra’s Indic language LLM launched in 2021.

Malhotra holds a Master’s degree in computing with a specialisation in distributed computing from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. A passionate physicist, Malhotra lives in Pune with his wife Shalini and their sons, Angad and Rudra.