Mumbai: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has completed 50 editions of its TCS Tech Days initiative across 50 academic institutions in 27 cities, reaching more than 23,000 students and 912 faculty members.
The initiative aims to strengthen industry-academia collaboration and equip students with skills relevant to the rapidly evolving technology landscape.
Through TCS Tech Days, the IT services major is bringing industry practitioners, technology experts and business leaders directly to academic campuses, providing students with practical exposure to how emerging and enterprise technologies are being deployed to solve real-world business challenges.
The programme combines practitioner-led masterclasses, hackathons, hands-on technology challenges, leadership interactions and student project showcases.
By connecting academic learning with industry requirements, TCS Tech Days seeks to help students understand the practical applications of technology across different sectors.
TCS Tech Days Conducts 92 Masterclasses and 48 Hackathons
The first 50 TCS Tech Days events brought together more than 620 TCS leaders and technology experts, who conducted 92 masterclasses and 48 hackathons across participating institutions.
During these sessions, students worked under the mentorship of TCS leaders and technology experts to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to real-world industry challenges.
The exercises covered multiple sectors, allowing participants to explore how technology can address operational requirements and improve business processes.
In manufacturing, students worked on challenges involving production disruptions and maintenance planning. In retail, the focus included customer experience and inventory optimisation, while banking-related exercises covered branch services.
The challenges also extended to insurance, where students explored claims triage, and healthcare, where they worked on patient discharge planning. In the public services sector, the exercises focused on using AI to address citizen grievance resolution.
These activities enabled students to apply their classroom knowledge to practical industry problems and explore potential technology-driven solutions across manufacturing, retail, banking, insurance, healthcare and public services.
TCS Highlights Industry-Academia Collaboration
Sudeep Kunnumal, Chief Human Resources Officer, TCS, highlighted the importance of closer collaboration between industry and academic institutions in preparing young professionals for changing technology requirements.
“The skills that will define the future are evolving rapidly, and preparing young talent for this change requires industry and academia to work more closely than ever. At TCS, we believe our role goes beyond creating opportunities for talent within the organisation. It is also about strengthening the larger talent ecosystem.
Through TCS Tech Days, we are bringing industry perspectives, technology expertise and real-world problem-solving into campuses, helping students translate academic learning into skills that will prepare them for the workplace of tomorrow.”
The programme reflects TCS’s efforts to extend its engagement with academic institutions beyond conventional campus interactions by introducing students to industry-led technology learning and practical problem-solving opportunities.
TCS Tech Days: More Campuses by March 2027
Marking International STEM Day, TCS is building on the momentum generated by the first 50 TCS Tech Days events and plans to extend the initiative to more academic institutions by March 2027.
The planned expansion is expected to bring industry-led technology learning to a larger student community, giving more young people opportunities to interact with technology experts, participate in hands-on challenges and understand how emerging technologies are being applied to business and societal challenges.
