Mr. Dipesh Shah’s interview with India Newsroom team, published last week, has received good reviews from viewers. In the first part of the interview, Mr. Shah talked about his journey from being the first employee of Samsung R&D in India to becoming the Managing Director of Samsung R&D Institute –Bangalore (SRI-B), Samsung’s biggest R&D facility outside Korea.

He spoke about the fun he had over the last 22 years, working across projects and with different teams, the high points of his career and the immense amount of knowledge he has acquired at Samsung.

In this second and final part of the interview, Mr. Shah talks about the importance of SRI-B in the Samsung Universe. SRI-B is very strong in three key technologies- modem, multimedia and intelligence, Mr. Shah said, adding that these technologies play an important role in Samsung’s flagship products.

SRI-B is also making significant contributions to Samsung’s ‘Make for India’ initiative, which provides localised innovations for Indian consumers. Today, SRI-B’s local innovations are incorporated in Samsung Pay, Samsung’s flagship mobile payments platform, and My Galaxy, an app that provides amazing content, unparalleled convenience and expert care. SRI-B is also doing cutting edge work on Tizen, Samsung’s own operating system.

SRI-B’s engineers get to work on cutting edge technology and many different products and services, which helps them move from ‘how and when’ part of journey to ‘why and what’ part, Mr. Shah said.