Ankush Sabharwal: Proudly Leading the Chatbot Sphere with Strategical Innovations and Implementations

CoRover is on a mission to enable users to talk to any systems in the way they talk to an intelligent person, in the language, channel, and format of users' choice (AI VideoBot, VoiceBot, ChatBot). Being the Founder and CEO, Ankush is all set to drive the mission and vision of the company.

A Transformational Leader Spearheading Winning Teams

With over 16 years of experience in building SaaS products, Ankush has built and spearheaded the global winning teams to design scalable and secure enterprise platforms. As a technology leader, Ankush has led many start-ups and large MNCs across Asia, North America, and Europe, and has generated multi-million dollars in revenue with pay per use, subscriptions, and license fees. The peak team size Ankush managed/led is 1200 and peak software license fees from one customer is US$5 million per year.

Honouring his technical, business, and leadership acumen, many national and international level honors have been awarded to Ankush. He pursued his MS (Software Engineering) from BITS, Pilani, MBA from ICFAI, Executive Management Program from IIM-C, and Entrepreneurship 101 from MIT.

Exhibiting Excellence with Human Centric Conversational AI

CoRover, the VC  backed company, is the brainchild of Ankush. It is the world's first and the highest ROI delivering Human Centric Conversational AI Platform, powered with proprietary cognitive AI framework that is offering managed Chatbot-as-a-Service(with self-onboarding option) to help enterprises generate revenue, save cost, improve customer experience, and achieve greater operational efficiency. Currently, the innovative and patent-pending platform is being used by over 500 million+ users.

Besides steering business operations, Ankush also oversees the key aspects behind CoRover's success namely customer satisfaction, operational excellence, and revenue drivers. Ankush leads by defining the Strategy and Vision of the company and strongly believes in collaboration, teamwork, and leadership through involvement as the ethos defining success.

Ankush is a Keynote speaker and a panelist in many national and international conferences, and a guest faculty in the top colleges and universities.

Sticking to the Basics to Channelize Success

Ankush always goes deep in understanding a given problem. He believes that understanding the problem means 50%win in the battle! He launched the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) to get real feedback from real users. Ankush says he tries to stick to the basics as far as possible. He adds that CoRover used Cos θ (Cosine Theta) for its first product, which he studied in9th standard mathematics.

"Data science is simple if people consider it so," implies Ankush.

Data Science at the Forefront of Innovation

Ankush opines that innovation happens with a blend of science (Data Science) and art to solve real problems with the available sample data model! According to him, the uniqueness of idea and product, execution, team, and funds are the most important things for an innovation.

Promoting Technology to the Unexplored Audience, a Must for Executives

Ankush asks future executives to just understand the problems of the audience. "The useful innovation is solving the real problem(s) well, where the solution can be implemented at scale, possibly with the help of technology," he adds.

Ankush further states that one should not just think of giving improved tech to the people who are already using tech, instead, he requests to give tech to people who are not using tech. The company still has more than 500 million users in India who are away from tech.

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence at Any Possible Field

Ankush articulates that people need to see the emerging technologies in harmony, but not in isolation. And he stresses that one needs to see how he or she can leverage AI in any possible field.

"While implementing solutions in AI, one should first think of the whole world or to the minimum whole nation. As more users would get more data to help people, it will help to build better algorithms and better products with high accuracy. Data Flywheel!" adds Ankush.

Towards New Horizons

Ankush says that according to Markets-and-Markets prediction, the global artificial intelligence (AI) market size will go from US$58.3 billion in 2021 to US$309.6 billion by 2026, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 39.7% during the forecast period."The Chatbot market alone is projected to reach USD 102.29 billion by 2026. The company has the huge opportunity!" he adds.

A chatbot is the low hanging fruit of AI, so Ankush quotes, "Let's go ahead and implement Chatbots first." he adds that using human-centric conversational AI platform (VideoBot, VoiceBot, ChatBot), people should be able to talk to any system as if they are talking to an expert/person. He demands to let the users talk in the language of their choice, the format of their choice, and even the channel of their choice. "One should go to people wherever they are, instead of asking them to download the app. This will increase the adoption of any system!" Concludes Ankush.