S4 Episode 18: Sanjay Srivastava Chief Digital Officer at Genpact on their partnership with the Envision Racing Team and the future of electric vehicles

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High-growth, high-performance companies need to do extraordinary things to remain competitive. I recently had the opportunity to see how leading professional services firm Genpact is leveraging their sponsorship of the Envision Formula E Racing team in ways beyond what they imagined when they teamed up in 2018.

I was invited to Silverstone, the home of British Racing to view first-hand the Envision Racing cars, as well as speak to one of the team drivers, Robin Frijns as well as Team principal, Sylvain Fillipi, and understand how Genpact’s partnership is giving the team a competitive advantage.

Owned by leading digital energy company Envision Group, Envision Racing is one of the founding and leading outfits in the FIA Formula E World Championship

As we will hear in my 2-part podcast series, the championship is more than just a racing series, it's a battle for the future. Formula E cars, powered by pure electricity, are paving the way for the cars of tomorrow.

Genpact is a principal partner of the team, and as we will hear from Genpact’s Chief Digital Officer, Sanjay Srivastava, their partnership goes way beyond their logo on the cars.

Genpact powers many of the solutions to analyse the reams of data from the car after each race and provide actionable insights to tune the car for peak performance under race conditions.

Sanjay explains in the first podcast: “Not only have we helped deliver performance on the racetrack, not only have we helped with the race against climate change, we've actually taken these learnings and applied it to a real business.”

My discussion with Sanjay was wide-ranging and covered many topics around data, analytics, and how the learnings from the racetrack are making it into their customer engagements in a meaningful way.

This podcast is timely, ahead of the London 2022 E-Prix to be held this weekend at ExCeL London – home of the world's first indoor/outdoor circuit where I will be a guest of Genpact to record a second podcast with Shibu Nambiar, their Chief Operating Officer.

Resources mentioned on the show
Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

More on Sanjay
Sanjay on LinkedIn
Sanjay on Twitter
Genpact Website
More on Sylvain
Sylvian's Bio
Envision Racing Website
London 2022 E-Prix
Disclaimer: This podcast was a paid partnership with Genpact. I was solely responsible for the content of the podcast.

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1. S4 Episode 18: Sanjay Srivastava Chief Digital Officer at Genpact on their partnership with the Envision Racing Team and the future of electric vehicles (00:00:00)

2. Introducing the Formula E World Championship (00:00:08)

3. How Genpact has evolved (00:02:33)

4. The Genpact partnership with the Envision Racing Team (00:03:48)

5. How data and analytics drives performance (00:04:20)

6. The future of transportation & e-mobility (00:04:44)

7. How Formula E is helping with climate change (00:05:22)

8. Operating at scale and at speed - cycle times of 1 hour not 1 year (00:06:12)

9. Formula E is a race with software (00:08:35)

10. The surprises from the partnership (00:09:29)

11. Applying lessons from the racetrack in the boardroom (00:10:39)

12. How Genpact is leveraging the learnings internally (00:12:11)

13. Processing race data at speed and scale (00:14:07)

14. Using driver radio audio for competitive advantage (00:15:50)

15. How the Radio Analytics Engine works (00:16:48)

16. The real-world uses of "ambient voice" (00:19:46)

17. Educating the next generation on climate change (00:23:38)

18. What clients need to consider before they embark on a digital transformation project (00:25:51)

19. Surprises from the last 10 years and what will we see in the next 10? (00:28:34)

20. The pace of change will be slower than ever before (00:29:11)

21. Why Genpact is hiring for attitude not skill (00:29:44)

22. Quickfire round (00:30:12)

23. Three actionable items for using high-performace data for clients (00:31:15)

24. More on Sanjay (00:32:25)

25. How Envision Racing got started (00:33:01)

26. The next generation of Formula E cars: Gen 3 (00:34:08)

27. How Formula E innovations help the development of Electric Vehicles (00:38:19)

28. How the Genpact partnership makes the Envision team more competitive (00:40:23)

29. Beyond the car design - data is the competitive element (00:41:12)

30. Measuring the carbon footprint to stay carbon-neutral (00:43:15)

31. The most exciting part about managing a Formula E racing team (00:44:06)

32. More on Sylvian and the team (00:45:14)

33. Part 2 of the podcast coming from the London 2022 E-Prix (00:45:56)