Tata - India's oldest indstrial group, while still under British group.

Tata - family, 1500 years ago came from Iran to India (Parsi community)

Originally: cotton, textile, steele, took over Cores, top 5 producers.

1920 motor company - world's cheapest car Nano, also taking over Jaguar, Landrover

Chemicals.

Telecommunications.

Hospitality, hotel. Tetley brand of Tea.

TCS - Software Services Part. 40 years old.

112000 employees.

In South America 5000 employees

3000 Hungray, Switzerland, … - Europe (more than US)

More than 100K Indian, over 20K international, 80K in India.

Puna biggest research center. Centers in Delhi, Bangalore, Calcutta

Business in 8 types of business, all broadly in software & services.

3 advantages:

• high focus on quality
• large scale: numbers global reach - many countries
• effective cost: not the lowest cost (Vitnam, Ukraine, east Europe, Africa), but balance it with quality and scale

Write software and support its evolution. Services

Automobile manufactures, phone companies. Started in 90ies. E.g. GE does aircraft engines, TCS does design.

A banking platform for Swiss and global market (w/ Technosoft)

for banks, financial institutions, insurance companies

Running data centers and networks.

Not in the business of call center outsourcing.

But: credit processing, risk assesment, customer data analytics

A team of 2 people supports the SBB ticketing sales office.

11th world's software company, growing 20% a year.

Reasonably good connection to US.

Mission to become visible in Europe.

You must be interested for a good reason. We have 800 Silicon Valey companies partnering.

3 levels: derivative (existing groups), platform (research & business units interact), breakthrough

Ask 2 questions about idea:

• does it help sell to customers, create new markets (is it baseline or new technology)

Look at 70% at breakthrough side, some 25% at the green side.

Advisory board (Jeffrey Ullman)

Software Engineering research.

Optimization and Supply Chain Research

Hardware design.

Data privacy.

Arun G Bahulkar: formal methods, tools, etc.

King's college London.

Stanford, MIT Sloan, Wisconsin, Maryland, Columbia, U Mass, Waterloo, UC Riverside

John Mitchell and team at Stanford, 5 year.

Sloan school similar 5 year.