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Hari Charan Rao, Senior Vice President, shares his experience from Rakathon 2024, highlighting how innovation can drive impactful change. At Rakuten, forward-thinking leadership means empowering our teams to push boundaries, tackle challenges head-on, and continue evolving. Read more to find out how organisations can create value through technology and strategic growth. 🚀

Ready to see how AI can change everything for everyone? Join us at Rakuten Technology Conference 2024 for AI-nization 4.all – a day filled with inspiring talks and hands-on experiences that bring the future of tech closer to you. Secure your free spot now: https://lnkd.in/gyGuJtHt 📅 Nov 16, 2024 | 📍 Rakuten India Office, Bangalore

Archit S., our Associate Director of Engineering, has seen firsthand how Rakuten SixthSense is changing the game for SRE teams. It fits right in with the tools you already use, giving you real-time insights, automatic anomaly detection, and the ability to scale with ease—all in one place. Streamline your workflow, resolve issues faster, and focus on what matters most with Rakuten SixthSense. Ready to take your SRE operations to the next level? Find out more: https://bit.ly/49z7O2p 📈🔍

What can a tree teach us about leadership? Quite a lot, it turns out! In this episode of Lead In, Subbu Swaminathan, Senior Vice President at Rakuten India, shares a powerful story from his recent trip to Coorg, where a strangler fig tree inspired him to rethink leadership and personal growth. Are self-limiting beliefs silently holding you—and your team—back? Watch this video as Subbu explains how breaking free from these “stranglers” can unlock creativity, resilience, and growth. 🌱 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐈𝐧? Lead In is a video series by Rakuten India, designed to inspire, support, and nurture leaders on their journey to becoming more effective and compassionate. Each episode offers insights and reflections from leaders who have walked the path, sharing valuable lessons to help you lead with heart and vision.

Sowmya K S, Engineering Director and CSR Champion from Rakuten India, spoke on the panel, "Tech-CSR: Where Innovation Complements Responsibilities" at the Bharat CSR & Sustainability Summit 2024. Sowmya shared how Rakuten India uses technology to drive meaningful social impact with education and sustainability in focus, explaining that CSR can go beyond traditional efforts when we bring in innovative tools. 🙌🏻 The summit provided a wonderful opportunity for CSR leaders and sustainability experts to share insights and engage in meaningful conversations about best practices and industry challenges.

Throwback to the #Rakathon2024 night where creativity didn’t sleep, and neither did our coders! 🌙💻

We had an inspiring All Hands at Rakuten India, with our Japan and India leadership coming together to share their vision and connect with the team. The open Q&A was a great moment for Rakutenians to engage directly, ask questions, and feel heard. This is what makes Rakuten India truly special – ideas flow, and so do the conversations! 🙌

A huge thank you to everyone who made Rakathon 2024 an incredible success! 🙌✨ We are deeply grateful to our speakers and leadership team for sharing their valuable insights and inspiring the next generation of innovators. 🎤💡 A special shoutout to our jury members for taking the time to evaluate each project and providing constructive feedback. 🏅🌍

And that’s a wrap on Rakathon 2024! This year’s Rakathon brought together brilliant minds who share a common passion—building smart solutions for a better tomorrow. 👨💻 👩💻 🎉 A heartfelt congratulations to our winners who stood out with their creativity and dedication: 🥇 Osiris: Omkar, Aditya, Rupali, Archana Idea: Gesture-based shopping assistant with personalised recommendations. 🥈 Disrupter: Devansh, Anantha, Hemath, Nikhil Idea: Voxy, a voice AI for easy app navigation and accessibility. 🥉 Personalised AI Travel Planner: Sushant, Chiranjeevi, Utkarsh, Samyak Idea: AI travel planner for custom trips and bookings. 🥉 GenAIsys: Avneet, Gurleen, Siddharth, Snehanshu Idea: RakuMon, a Generative AI chat agent for personalised search. And our consolation prize winners: 🏅 Decadex: Aditya, Abhinav, Mayank, Aditya Idea: App for monitoring AI use and ensuring ethical practices. 🏅 WeByte: Raj and Team Idea: GenAI fashion assistant for product catalog queries. Kudos to very participant, every team, every idea as they contributed to making Rakathon a powerful showcase of what we can achieve together. Here is to dreaming big and building even bigger! 🚀

We’re excited to welcome Ram Prakash to Rakathon 2024 on August 30th! As an AI expert, educator, and serial entrepreneur, he’ll share insights on 'Unlocking LLM Potential: Key Principles and Techniques', helping you turn your AI-DEAS into reality. Know more: https://lnkd.in/gw5USCPA