Nadella urges developers to focus on ethical impact

“The impact that technology, digital technology and software had in the last decade is just stunning and what developers are going to build for the next 10 years is exciting. Developers need to be responsible, should focus on trust and inclusivity, said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday.

Addressing gathering at the ‘Future Decoded, Bengaluru Tech Summit’, Mr Nadella adviced developers to focus on ethics and building trust when developing solutions to ensure that the benefits of technology are available to health care, retail and agri tech. He adds, "I think inclusivity around the surplus that gets created by digital technology, is going to be important,"

“Technology is becoming so ubiquitous and pervasive in society in our lives. (It) also comes with responsibility. Every single choice of developer around design ethos, the ethics of the diverse team are going to matter in terms of are we going to create a more inclusive world?”, added Mr. Nadella.

According to Microsoft, there are about 4.2 million developers in India and is the number one developer pool on the plant. India has 650 million developers in under the age group of 25. He pointed out that platform developers are "first responders" and have to develop trust into technology, he added.

“Every bank that builds an app will have to deal with trust, and trust around AI and the AI models they deploy. Further, the core cybersecurity of their asset, their customers' data too matters. We are living in a time where sustainability of one finite resource we have this planet of our is super important,” he said.

According to Nadella, there will be 50B connected devices by 2030 and the total amount of data by 2025 is 175ZB. To tackle these, the tech giant has been developing the tech stack with various digital transformation, Microsoft has been working on HoloLens, how Azure cloud platform is striving to be a limitless data estate with variety, scale, cloud and edge.

He touched upon the new and largest machine learning model ever, known as Turing Natural Language Generation (TNLG). Talking about building a Power platform, Nadella said that it includes elements like Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automation tools and Power Virtual Agents.

He appreciated the efforts of some of the startups like Myntra and Udaan he said that it is fantastic to see unicorns coming out of India.