Rishad Premji reveals how Wipro leverages AI to reskill its employees Mint

Rishad Premji, executive chairman of IT-major Wipro Ltd, in an interview with the news portal ndtv At Davos 2025, it highlighted how it is leveraging artificial intelligence to retool the workforce to be relevant in a world of automation.
“Skilling is critical to be able to source talent that is ready, to be able to deploy and leverage technology. It is also important to refocus people in jobs that may become redundant or less relevant in an AI world, the IT firm head told The News Portal.
According to the chairman, “the success and adoption of AI” will be tightly aligned with the revitalization agenda of the companies and the country.
Wipro’s AI integration
Premji highlighted that the company has made AI “all-pervasive” in the IT firm over the last year, attributing the growth to training employees to become AI-ready.
“We have 235,000 people go through a general AI 101 (training),” he said.
“We have about 50,000 people who have gone through higher levels of skilling and certification on generative AI, 5,000 people at the next level, 500 people at the highest level in the organization. So we are completely driving this within the company to drive a very strong AI mindset, skillset and toolset inside the organization,” Premji told The News Portal.
Rishad Premji’s three AI use cases for Wipro
The chairman cited three things: how to operate the company better with AI integration, how to deliver better results, and, finally, how to change the game.
“One, how do we work better as a company? How do we leverage this technology (AI) to disrupt ourselves? And we have implemented it across all our functions, be it HR, finance, legal, sales, skilling, recruitment, etc.,” Premji told the news portal, giving the example of an AI tool that helps 400- in a nutshell. Leverages technology – Page Master Service Agreement to make clear actions for people.
On how to deliver better results, Premji said the company is looking at AI use to make its work faster, more impactful and autonomous.
“Two is how do we deliver better? How do we do the work we are doing inside the organization more effectively, faster, more autonomously, etc.? And that’s a big focus. And we are seeing a lot of impact on that, especially fixed price projects,” he told The News Portal.
And finally on the topic of changing the game, Premji said, “So how do we come up with very context-specific, domain-specific use cases for customers? Operate better, manage better, deliver better, and change the game,” he said in an interview with the news portal at the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2025 meeting in Davos.
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