Ananthanarayanan sees alignment between Cognite’s strategic direction and India’s AI priorities
India is rapidly emerging as a global hub for industrial innovation and is playing a transformative role in accelerating the adoption of AI,” according to Cognite Managing Director for India Guru Ananthanarayanan.
“We see a powerful alignment between Cognite’s strategic direction and India’s AI priorities. By solving the fundamental data problems that typically stall digital transformations, we are empowering India’s industrial heroes to scale intelligently and bring the ‘Make in India’ vision to life,” he said on 16 June.
He shared prospects in India as Cognite, the global leader in Industrial AI, announced a commercial expansion focusing on India’s manufacturing sector – directly helping advance the nation’s ambitious “Make in India,” “Digital India,” and “INDIAai” initiatives. This builds on Cognite’s previous 2025 India Centre of Excellence investment and reinforces the commitment to this dynamic, tech-forward market.
By bridging critical gaps between legacy industrial systems and scalable artificial intelligence, Cognite will transform traditional manufacturing sites in India into intelligent, data-driven ecosystems.
Transforming Industrial Data and AI into Economic Value Across India
Supporting India’s vision to become a global leader in AI, digital innovation, and advanced manufacturing, Cognite’s expansion further empowers operations and domain experts with ready-to-use industrial data and AI, driving measurable impact across several key pillars:
Scaling “Make in India”: Establishing a unified, contextualized AI and data foundation that allows domestic manufacturers to optimize production workflows, increase throughput, and compete on a global stage
Accelerating Decision Making: Providing cross-system insights that empower engineers and operators to make optimal, more informed, real-time decisions, can help them reduce downtime and prevent value leaks before they happen
Ecosystem Collaboration: Engaging with key government bodies, industry leaders, and established customers to build a sustainable, tech-forward workforce and share proven frameworks for successful industrial AI adoption
To showcase this ecosystem in action and share best practices for scaling industrial AI across the Indian manufacturing sector, Cognite is hosting an exclusive executive summit in Mumbai on June 24, 2026. The event will gather top industry leaders and manufacturing heads, and will feature Sandeep Gupta, CDIO from Vedanta Oil & Gas, as a speaker to share firsthand insights on how applied AI is driving measurable value today. Other key sessions will include speakers from Sun Pharma, JSW Steel, and more, representing the diverse industrial manufacturing sector in India.
Cognite makes AI work for industry. Leading energy, manufacturing, and power & renewables enterprises choose Cognite to deliver secure, trustworthy, and real-time data to transform their asset-heavy operations to be safer, more sustainable, and profitable. Cognite provides a user-friendly, secure, and scalable industrial AI & data platform that makes it easy for all decision-makers, from the field to remote operations centres, to access and understand complex industrial data, collaborate in real-time, and build a better tomorrow. Fiinews.com
