The Chairman, the President, members of the academy, and guests, it is a great privilege to address the finest engineering talent in the world. I thank this academy, the most prestigious engineering academy in the world, for electing me to be a foreign member.

I have benefitted immensely from globalization. In fact, my company, Infosys has leveraged the power of globalization for its growth. Therefore, I have decided to speak on “Engineering a Flat World, an example from the field of software engineering”. What is a flat world? Tom Friedman used the term ‘flat world’ to popularize the power of globalization. A flat world is a world that facilitates globalization to flourish. What is globalization? I will define it at two levels. At the macro level, it is about frictionless flow of capital, services, goods and labor across the globe. It is also about global sharing of ideas, knowledge and culture. It is about ... More