Lockton Introduces AI-Powered Employee Wellbeing Solution ‘LocktonThrive’ in Partnership with AdvantageClub.ai

Lockton, the world’s largest independent insurance brokerage, today announced the launch of ‘LocktonThrive’, its proprietary employee wellbeing solution powered by Lockton Services India Private Limited designed to help organisations deliver a unified, personalised, and digital-first wellbeing experience to their workforce.

Developed in partnership with AdvantageClub.ai, an AI-powered employee engagement, rewards and recognition platform enables employers to consolidate all corporate wellbeing services into a single, customisable interface.

Designed as a plug-and-play solution, the digital plaform simplifies wellbeing programme management for employers while improving employee participation. The platform brings together physical, mental, social, and financial wellbeing initiatives, supported by AdvantageClub’s technology-led engagement ecosystem, including rewards and recognition, flexible wellbeing solution, wellbeing challenges, and incentives.

Commenting on the partnership, Mr. Cedric Luah, Head of People Solutions, Lockton Asia, said, “Employee wellbeing has evolved into a true strategic priority for organisations, far beyond a traditional benefits conversation. As workforces face rising stress, shifting expectations, and increasingly diverse needs, wellbeing now plays a critical role in strengthening engagement, productivity, and long-term workforce strength. Our partnership with AdvantageClub.ai brings together advisory expertise and seamless digital integration to help employers build a more connected, data-driven wellbeing strategy – delivering measurable outcomes and supporting long-term workforce resilience.”

Sourabh Deorah, CEO and Co-Founder, AdvantageClub.ai, added, "I’ve always believed that employee wellness shouldn't feel like a complicated puzzle. Our vision at AdvantageClub.ai is to make workplaces healthier by integrating all the pieces and empowering users with choices. Partnering with Lockton allows us to do exactly that at scale! By powering LocktonThrive, we’re giving employees a single, easy-to-use platform to manage their health across physical, mental, financial, and family care. This will not only make it easy for employees but will also increase adoption by removing inefficiencies. We are essentially taking the 'work' out of wellness for HR teams, and I’m excited to see how this partnership helps the working population across India to be their best selves every day!"

This partnership underscores Lockton India’s focus on advancing how organisations approach employee wellbeing. By combining strategic consulting with digital enablement, the collaboration supports employers in responding to shifting workforce expectations and embedding wellbeing more meaningfully into their people strategies.

About Lockton

What makes Lockton stand apart is also what makes us better: independence. Lockton’s private ownership empowers its 13,100+ Associates doing business in 160+ countries to focus solely on clients’ risk and insurance needs. With expertise that reaches around the globe, Lockton delivers the deep understanding needed to accomplish remarkable results.

Founded in 1966 and headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, Lockton has a strong presence in Asia, operating in over 24 offices across 12 countries, including key markets such as China, Hong Kong, India, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand. Lockton consistently ranks among the top global insurance brokers and is celebrated for its best-in-class client service and industry leadership. For more information, visit www.lockton.com

About AdvantageClub.ai

AdvantageClub.ai is a global AI-powered employee engagement, rewards, and wellness platform with offerings like rewards & recognition, wellness solutions including OPD plans, Annual health checkup, wellness challenges, sales incentive automation, flexible wellbeing solution, surveys, moments that matter, and communities on a single platform. It provides end-to-end solutions to facilitate employee engagement by digitizing the company’s R&R policies, allowing them to drive better employee retention and happiness. AdvantageClub.ai has over 15 million users, with presence in over 100+ countries, 1200+ clients, and 10,000+ brand options. Established in 2016, AdvantageClub.ai is the brainchild of UCLA postgraduates, Sourabh Deorah and Smiti Bhatt Deorah, who identified employee engagement as a space to create disruption using AI, data mining, and analytics. Headquartered in San Francisco, AdvantageClub.ai has an impressive client portfolio featuring Air India, Biocon, Concentrix, HCL, Hexaware, L&T, Tech Mahindra, Tata Steel, Teleperformance, and many more.

Bain Capital-Backed Dhoot Transmission Merges Subsidiary with FourFront to Scale Automotive Electronics

Dhoot Transmission Limited (“Company”), one of India’s leading electrical and electronic companies, today announced a partnership, pursuant to which FourFront Limited (“FourFront”), a Tier-1 supplier of customized electro-mechanical and electronic solutions to Original Equipment Manufacturers (“OEMs”), headquartered in Pune, will merge with one of the Company’s subsidiaries.

FourFront will become part of Dhoot Transmission’s automotive electronics and electrical platform, enabling the Company and its team to continue serving its existing customer base while moving towards the next phase of growth. The combined platform brings together complementary product capabilities, manufacturing depth, and long-standing OEM relationships to support the increasing electronics content and electrification requirements of the automotive industry.

FourFront is a trusted supplier to leading Passenger Vehicle (“PV”) and Commercial Vehicle (“CV”) OEMs in India, with a strong portfolio spanning electromechanical switches, power electronics products and electric vehicle (“EV”) products. With the rapid evolution of vehicle architectures and rising adoption of electric vehicles, FourFront is well poised to benefit from EV tailwinds, supported by its capabilities in power electronics, engineering depth, and focus on quality and reliability.

The merger represents an important step in the Company’s journey to build a scaled, integrated automotive electronics and electrical platform, offering end-to-end solutions to OEM customers across conventional and electric vehicle programs.

Bain Capital will continue to support Dhoot Transmissions and FourFront through its global automotive experience and value-creation capabilities, as it scales its automotive electronics and electrical platform and pursues its next phase of growth. This support is expected to further strengthen the combined platform’s ability to deepen OEM partnerships, expand product offerings, and drive operational excellence in line with evolving customer requirements.

Commenting on the transaction, Rahul Dhoot, Managing Director, Dhoot Transmission Group, said, “This partnership is closely aligned with our strategy of building a differentiated automotive platform with strong capabilities in electronics and electrical systems. FourFront has developed trusted relationships with OEM customers and built meaningful expertise in power electronics. As part of the Dhoot platform, FourFront and its team will be well positioned to continue delivering the same level of quality and service levels to customers while benefiting from our scale, manufacturing depth, and long-term investment approach.”

Saahil Bhatia, Partner at Bain Capital, said, “India continues to be an economy with a strong long-term growth trajectory, supported by favourable demographics, rising domestic consumption, and sustained investment in manufacturing and infrastructure. Against this backdrop, we see a compelling opportunity to support platforms like Dhoot, and now FourFront, as they scale capabilities, deepen OEM partnerships, and build high-quality automotive solutions aligned with evolving technologies such as ADAS and increasing electronics content across vehicle segments.”

“Over the last 15+ years, FourFront has built very a strong foundation and is recognized for innovative solutions, superior design capabilities, and responsiveness towards customer demands,” said Shrikant Neurgaonkar, Chairperson and Managing Director at FourFront. “The partnership with Dhoot Transmission and Bain Capital will put us in a strong position to further enhance our product offerings and continue to invest in manufacturing facilities, R&D and people for the next phase of growth. We’re very excited to partner with Dhoot Transmission to create an electronics platform focused on technical and operational excellence.”

The partnership is expected to support growth by enabling broader product offerings, deeper customer engagement, and operational efficiencies through a shared manufacturing and supply-chain ecosystem. It also strengthens the Company’s presence across PV and CV segments, aligned with long-term industry trends, including electrification and increasing electronics penetration.

KPMG and PwC served as financial advisors, and Trilegal served as legal advisors to Dhoot Transmission. KPMG Corporate Finance and Desai & Diwanji served as advisors to FourFront

Dhoot Transmission is one of India’s leading electrical and electronics companies. They are engaged in design, engineering, manufacturing and supply of critical wiring harnesses, electronic sensors and controllers, switches, other electronic products, delivering robust, application-specific architectures across platforms. The company has a significant presence in the automotive industry, supplying to major OEMs, and has recently expanded into the EV sector. The company has 20+ manufacturing facilities globally.

Incorporated in 2007, FourFront Limited is a Tier 1 supplier of customized electro-mechanical and electronic solutions to leading OEMs in the automotive industry, with a strategic focus on the EV segment. They are engaged in the designing and manufacturing of electromechanical and power electronics products, primarily serving the automotive industry.

Capgemini Joins Forces with OpenAI to Launch Frontier Platform for Enterprise AI Transformation

Capgemini today announced a new strategic partnership with OpenAI to accelerate the next era of enterprise AI transformation with Frontier, OpenAI’s new platform for building, deploying, and managing AI coworkers that can do real work across the enterprise. As a founding member of the OpenAI Frontier Alliance, Capgemini will work to address the AI opportunity gap by focusing on the business, data, organizational, and systems integration challenges faced by clients, to deploy AI enterprise-wide. By combining deep industry and domain-specific process expertise, data and governance capabilities, and ready-to-deploy digital and AI transformation assets, Capgemini is well placed to help businesses redefine how agents are built and run in their organizations, so AI can be deployed securely, operated reliably, and scaled across the business.
Capgemini brings deep sector and domain experience, strategy and transformation capabilities, and advanced AI, data and cloud assets to deliver integrated, end-to-end business transformation for clients globally. Backed by OpenAI research and product expertise across enterprise AI Cloud, agents, APIs, and ChatGPT Enterprise, Capgemini will build next-gen enterprise AI operating processes and reshape multi-agent workflows that will enable clients to accelerate time-to-value throughout the business.

With 2026 identified as the “year of truth for AI,”[1] with more than half of organizations committing to sustained, multi-year investment horizons[2], there is a shift underway from AI experimentation to long-term value creation. At the same time, leaders recognize that the primary barrier to scaling AI is no longer the technology itself, but the readiness of their data, operating models, technology and digital enablement, as well as industry, function and domain knowledge and expertise.

"Our multi-year partnership with Capgemini will help bring AI coworkers to enterprises," said Brad Lightcap, Chief Operating Officer at OpenAI. "Capgemini's transformation and global delivery expertise alongside OpenAI’s research and product leadership will help close the gap between what frontier AI can do and what businesses can actually deploy with agents.”

“Our strategic partnership with OpenAI on the Frontier platform strengthens our position at the forefront of AI-powered enterprise transformation,” said Aiman Ezzat, CEO of Capgemini. “By combining our domain expertise and assets with OpenAI’s cutting-edge models and platform, we move faster, build smarter, and create solutions that weren’t possible before. We see this as a long-term strategic collaboration that will shape the future of our industry.”

As an OpenAI Frontier Alliance partner, Capgemini will establish a flagship OpenAI Enterprise Frontier delivery function at scale comprised of AI experts from across its global ecosystem that will work alongside OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team. This dedicated team of OpenAI certified professionals will support clients to move from AI experimentation to scaled operations across business units, markets, and geographies, all whilst maintaining consistent high quality and the right level of governance to deliver measurable impact. Together, the partners will co-develop bespoke industry solutions focused on sectors, for example consumer products & retail, financial services, life sciences and energy and utilities.

With most organizations recognizing that they must scale AI or risk missing strategic opportunities and losing competitive edge2, this partnership represents a pivotal moment for enterprises. Together, Capgemini and OpenAI intend to offer clients the combined enterprise-grade AI products and implementation capabilities needed to deliver measurable business outcomes across their organization.

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organizations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of over 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2025 global revenues of €22.5 billion.

India Joins Global Automotive Semiconductor Supply Chain with Qualcomm–Tata Partnership

Qualcomm Technologies and Tata Electronics have announced a strategic partnership to manufacture Qualcomm Automotive Modules in India. Qualcomm Automotive Modules are system-in-package solutions designed to power next-generation vehicles with advanced digital and connected features.

With Qualcomm partnering Tata Electronics to manufacture these modules in Assam, India is stepping into the global automotive semiconductor supply chain, strengthening local capabilities and aligning with the “Make in India” initiative. This collaboration is significant for several reasons:

Key Highlights

• Manufacturing Location: Production will take place at Tata Electronics’ upcoming outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) facility in Jagiroad, Assam.
• Scope of Modules: These modules will support advanced automotive technologies such as digital cockpits, infotainment systems, connectivity solutions, and intelligent vehicle systems.
• Global Integration: Tata Electronics will join Qualcomm’s global network of module manufacturing partners, strengthening India’s role in the global semiconductor supply chain.
• Economic Impact: The partnership aligns with India’s “Make in India” initiative, boosting domestic semiconductor capabilities and enhancing supply chain resilience.
• Investment Scale: Tata’s Assam facility is a $3 billion project, designed for high-volume production to serve both Indian and international automakers.

Why It Matters

• For India: This marks a major step in building a local semiconductor ecosystem, reducing reliance on imports, and positioning India as a hub for automotive electronics.
• For Automakers: Local production means faster supply, reduced costs, and greater resilience against global disruptions.
• For Qualcomm: Expanding manufacturing partnerships diversifies its supply chain and strengthens its presence in emerging markets.

Qualcomm Automotive Modules vs Traditional Automotive Electronics

Below is a clear comparison table showing how Qualcomm Automotive Modules stack up against traditional automotive electronics (ECUs and standalone chips):

Feature / Aspect	Qualcomm Automotive Modules	Traditional Automotive Electronics (ECUs / Standalone Chips)
Integration	Highly integrated system-in-package combining compute, connectivity, and software	Separate ECUs and chips for each function (engine, infotainment, safety, etc.)
Scalability	Scalable across multiple vehicle models and segments	Limited scalability; each ECU is often custom-designed for a specific function
Connectivity	Built-in support for 5G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and V2X	Connectivity requires additional modules or separate chips
Software Updates	Supports over-the-air (OTA) updates for new features and security	Updates often require physical servicing or firmware reflashing
Development Speed	Faster time-to-market with turnkey modular solutions	Longer development cycles due to fragmented hardware and software integration
Cost Efficiency	Reduces overall system cost by consolidating functions	Higher costs from multiple ECUs and redundant hardware
User Experience	Enables advanced digital cockpits, immersive infotainment, and seamless connectivity	Limited to basic infotainment and control functions
Global Supply Chain Role	Part of Qualcomm’s global manufacturing network (e.g., Tata Electronics in India)	Traditionally localized or fragmented supply chains

Key Takeaway

Qualcomm Automotive Modules represent a next-gen, software-defined vehicle approach, consolidating multiple functions into a single scalable platform. Traditional ECUs and standalone chips remain functional but are less efficient, slower to update, and more costly to integrate across modern vehicles.

Amazon Opens Its Second Largest Office in Asia in Bengaluru

• Campus officially inaugurated by Dr. MB Patil, Minister for Large & Medium Industries and Infrastructure Development, Government of Karnataka.

Amazon today announced the opening of its second largest office in Asia in Bengaluru. The 1.1 million square feet, 12-storey campus will support over 7,000 employees across ecommerce, operations, payments, technology, and seller services in India. Built on a five-acre site approximately 15 kilometres from Kempegowda International Airport, the corporate building was officially inaugurated by Dr. M.B. Patil, Minister for Large & Medium Industries and Infrastructure Development, Government of Karnataka.

The new corporate building has been thoughtfully designed to bring teams together at scale and enable collaboration, flexibility, learning, and wellbeing. The launch of this new campus is part of Amazon’s continued investments in India. The company has already invested over $40 billion in India and has committed to invest an additional $35 billion in India by 2030.

According to Dr. M.B. Patil, Minister for Large & Medium Industries and Infrastructure Development, Government of Karnataka, “Amazon’s continued investment in Bengaluru reflects India's growing role as a global technology and innovation hub. Large-scale campuses like Amazon’s new campus create high-quality jobs, strengthen local ecosystem, and support India's digital economy. We welcome investments that build long-term capability and create opportunity for our workforce.”

According to Samir Kumar, Country Manager Amazon India, "India continues to be a long-term priority for Amazon, and Bengaluru has played a central role in our journey here. Over the years, the city has been home to some of our earliest technology and business teams, and today it remains a key hub for innovation and talent. We are grateful to Dr. M.B. Patil for joining us to inaugurate this campus and for Government of Karnataka’s continued support. As we build for customers in India and around the world, we remain committed to investing in infrastructure, technology, and talent for the long term."

The campus brings together adaptable workspaces and collaborative zones organised into self-sustaining neighbourhoods with meeting rooms, huddle spaces, breakout areas, and event spaces that can host more than 200 people. Employees have access to dedicated recreation facilities including basketball and pickleball courts, an amphitheater, landscaped lawns, and outdoor community spaces. Cafeterias across two floors serve a range of global cuisines.

Amazon’s new campus represents progress in our effort to reduce carbon across our corporate office portfolio, aligned with Amazon’s goal of reaching net-zero carbon by 2040 under The Climate Pledge. The project incorporates strategies such as responsible material sourcing, reuse of office assets, and high-efficiency systems that are intended to reduce embodied and operational carbon.

Amazon in Karnataka

Amazon has significant presence in Karnataka with ten corporate offices, seven fulfillment centers, three sort centers, over 130 last mile delivery stations, and a robust network of micro-FCs for Amazon Now across Bengaluru. Additionally, over 80,000 sellers from Karnataka are already selling on Amazon.in.

About Amazon

Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Amazon strives to be Earth’s Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth’s Best Employer, and Earth’s Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.aboutamazon.in