Arun Balakrishnan - Podcast Details

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Courage Talks Courage Talks S8E2 Rakesh Godhwani𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘀: 𝗥𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀𝗵 𝗚𝗼𝗱𝗵𝘄𝗮𝗻𝗶 (𝗖𝗧𝗦𝟴𝗘𝟮)Rakesh Godhwani, founder of the School of Meaningful Experiences (SoME), shares his journey from corporate roles at Wipro, Intel, and Qualcomm to a fulfilling career in teaching and writing. Tune in for insights on career reinvention and pursuing your true calling.𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀:𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗶𝘃𝗼𝘁: Transitioned from corporate roles in product marketing, sales, and business development to follow his passion for teaching and writing, living "a million times better" despite earning less.𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 (𝗦𝗼𝗠𝗘): Offers programs on confidence, communication, curiosity, creativity, collaboration, and competence for professionals, leaders, and entrepreneurs.𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀: Adjunct Faculty of Communication at IIM Bangalore and Ahmedabad University; has taught at IIM Trichy, IIM U...

2025-10-171h 10

WE-Matter How a Visionary Leader Transformed HMELWelcome to the official podcast of WE-Matter!We’re back with another insightful episode of the Leadership Series, where WE-Matter brings you conversations that spark ideas and drive change.🔑 Key Takeaways:How Mr. Arun drove a culture of efficiency and productivity in Hindustan Petroleum, a public sector companyHow he created value in a highly commoditized sector like petroleum by reigniting the spirit amongst his workforceThe leadership values that helped him bring about influential and positive changes in the workforceThe critical role of independent directors in the f...

2025-06-1737 min

Decoding Impact with Rathish Balakrishnan Powering Prosperity: Emerging Promise of DPIs in India's Energy Sector ft. Dr Nikit AbhyankarThe Indian energy sector is at a critical juncture. Electricity consumption, a key indicator of economic growth, has grown significantly over the past 50-60 years, and India is primed to leapfrog into a sustainably powered future. This transition calls for a robust policy foundation, technological advancements in demand-supply and storage mechanisms, and a keen study of economic incentives for users of green energy. In this episode of Decoding Impact, Rathish Balakrishnan is in conversation with scientist Dr. Nikit Abhyankar to unpack the unique opportunity India has, to transition to renewable energy, with economic viability...

2024-09-1959 min

Decoding Impact with Rathish Balakrishnan Green Roads Ahead: Decoding India’s EV and Digital Infrastructure ft. Akhil Jayaprakash & Arun VinayakWorldwide, roads are increasingly seeing the presence of electric vehicles (EV) and India is expected to take 30% of the EV market worldwide. However, these tailwinds are attracting many players to the EV ecosystem, from suppliers to customers, to make EVs a reality on the road. In order to ease the challenges that these stakeholders could face in coming together, Digitial Public Infrastructure could have a key role to play and could help: • Reduce frictions • Enable greater customer experience • Drive better adoption for electrical vehicles in India...

2024-06-291h 23

The Digital CX Podcast: Driving digital customer success and outcomes in the age of A.I.AI-Powered Customer Success & Predictive Analytics with Arun Balakrishnan and Preetam Jinka of FunnelStory | Episode 057Preetam Jinka and Arun Balakrishnan, co-founders of FunnelStory, join the podcast to discuss how we’re just scratching the surface with AI and machine learning. They chat with Alex about how FunnelStory is revolutionizing customer success strategies, enabling teams to predict churn, optimize user engagement, and drive revenue growth through data-driven insights.Additionally, Arun & Preetam share their own insights on A.I. and how Product teams best work with Customer Success.Chapters:04:35 - Arun's background in cybersecurity and product managemen05:25 - How Preetam got started in AI and data engineering14:00 - The dif...

2024-06-1851 min

AM Best Audio Navigating the Challenges of AIArun Balakrishnan, Chairman and CEO of Xceedance said just because you have data, it doesn't mean it is useful.

2024-04-1208 min

AM Best Audio Podcast Navigating the Challenges of AIArun Balakrishnan, Chairman and CEO of Xceedance said just because you have data, it doesn't mean it is useful.

2024-04-1208 min

HFS PODCASTS Unfiltered Stories | P&C Insurance Carriers: Have you revisited your target operating model in the era of prompt engineering?In this HFS Videocast, HFS' Reetika Fleming has a candid conversation with Xceedence CEO Arun Balakrishnan on the market dynamics in P&C insurance, how to reframe target operating model considerations in light of GenAI and technology advancements, and the changing nature of service providers to support the journey.

2023-11-2823 min

AM Best Audio Technology RevolutionArun Balakrishnan, CEO and co-founder of Xceedance, advocates a transformative approach for insurers.

2023-10-1619 min

AM Best Audio Podcast Technology RevolutionArun Balakrishnan, CEO and co-founder of Xceedance, advocates a transformative approach for insurers.

2023-10-1619 min

The Voice of Insurance Special Ep Arun Balakrishnan CEO Xceedance: AI and Insurance - everything you need to knowToday’s guest is an insurance technology entrepreneur with a great story to tell. Arun Balakrishnan started his career at sea but went back to business school, became an internet entrepreneur and ended up captaining Berkshire Hathaway’s foray into the Indian insurance market. Ten years ago he founded Insurance technology firm Xceedance and the growth has been rapid. But that’s just a bit of background because the main purpose of today’s podcast is to talk about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and in particular the generative AI that has exploded onto the world’s...

2023-09-0143 min

The Spotlight Building the tech stack for insurance | Arun Balakrishnan @ XceedanceXceedance is building a unified suite of services and products for insurance companies, helping them in their digital transformation journey and creating cutting-edge products for the next-gen customer. Arun was recruited as a very young India CEO for Berkshire Hathaway Insurance, which paved the way for him to eventually start Xceedance.What you must not miss:- Building a 100 million dollar business without funding The Backend technology powering insurance businesses How tech will impact insurance

2023-03-161h 06

Grab the Top Full Audiobooks in Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore [Malayalam] - Nalante Damayanthi by Anand NeelakantanPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/832736to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Malayalam] - Nalante Damayanthi Author: Anand Neelakantan Narrator: Prashant Neelakantan, Dhanesh Kumar, Arun Balakrishnan, Rajeswary Rajkumar, Anand Neelakantan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 41 minutes Release date: March 14, 2022 Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore Publisher's Summary: ഒരൊറ്റ വിരൽ ഞാെടി കൊണ്ട്, ഒരു നിമിഷാർദ്ധത്തിൽ ഈ ലോകത്തെ മുഴുവനായും ഇല്ലായ്മ ചെയ്യാനാണ് സർവ്വ സൃഷ്ടാവായ ബ്രഹ്മാവിന് തോന്നിയത്. മനുഷ്യ കുലത്തെക്കൊണ്ട് അദ്ദേഹം അത്രമേൽ പൊറുതി മുട്ടിയിരുന്നു. തൻ്റെ തന്നെ സൃഷ്ടികളിൽ ഒന്നാണവർ; ഒരുപക്ഷേ, തനിയ്ക്കു സംഭവിച്ച ഏറ്റവും കഠിനമായ പിഴവ് എന്നു പറയാം. പക്ഷേ, ഹേമാംഗനാണെങ്കിലോ മനുഷ്യരോട് വല്ലാത്തൊരു ഇഷ്ടമാണുള്ളത്. മാനസസരോവരത്തിലെ സ്വർണ്ണ ഹംസമാണവൻ. ബ്രഹ്മാവ് മനുഷ്യ കുലത്തെ ഇല്ലായ്മ ചെയ്യാൻ ആലോചിയ്ക്കുന്നു എന്നത് അവനെ ഭയചകിതനാക്കുന്നുണ്ട്. അതു കൊണ്ടു തന്നെ, മനുഷ്യർക്കിടയിലും യഥാർത്ഥ സ്നേഹം നിലനിൽക്കുന്നുണ്ട് എന്നു തെളിയിയ്ക്കുവാൻ തനിയ്ക്ക് ഒരു അവസരം തരണം എന്ന് അവൻ ബ്രഹ്മാവിനോട് അപേക്ഷിയ്ക്കുന്നു. തുടർന്ന് ദേവലോകത്തെ ഏഷണിക്കാരൻ എന്നു പേർ കേട്ട നാരദൻ ഈ പക്ഷിയെ വിദർഭ രാജ്യത്തിലേയ്ക്ക് അയയ്ക്കുകയാണ്. അവിടെ ചെന്ന് ആ രാജ്യത്തെ രാജകുമാരിയായ ദമയന്തിയേയും നളനെന്ന രാജനേയും തമ്മിൽ ഒന്നു ചേർക്കുക എന്ന ദൗത്യമാണ് അദ്ദേഹം അവന് കൊടുക്കുന്നത്. പക്ഷേ, ദേവഗണങ്ങളിലെ തന്നെ ഏറ്റവും ശക്തനായ കലിയ്ക്ക് ദമയന്തിയുടെ മേൽ നേരത്തേ തന്നെ ഒരു നോട്ടമുണ്ട്. നളനേയും ദമയന്തിയേയും വേർപിരിയ്ക്കാൻ കഴിഞ്ഞാൽ, അതായത് ദമയന്തി നളനെ ഉപേക്ഷിയ്ക്കാൻ തയ്യാറായാൽ സ്ത്രീയുടെ ഹൃദയത്തിൽ യഥാർത്ഥ പ്രണയത്തിന് സ്ഥാനമില്ല എന്ന് ഉറപ്പിയ്ക്കാൻ കഴിയും. അങ്ങിനെയെങ്കിൽ ബ്രഹ്മാവ് മനുഷ്യകുലത്തെ തുടച്ചു നീക്കും. അതോടെ കലിയ്ക്ക് സ്വതന്ത്രനും ആവാം. Brahma, the creator, wants to press the reset button and finish off the world. He is fed up with humans, the gravest mistake he made in his creation. Hemanga, the golden swan of Manasarovar loves humans and is horrified that Brahma is going to erase them. He pleads with Brahma to give him a chance to prove true love exists among humans. Narada, the celestial trouble maker, sends the little bird to the kingdom of Vidarbha. He says Hemanga should unite Nala, the king of Nishadas with Damayanti, the princess of Vidharbha. But the most powerful among Gods, Kali has an eye on Damayanti.

2022-03-145h 41

The Insurance Coffee House with Nick Hoadley Powering the next generation of insurance businesses with Arun Balakrishnan, CEO, Xceedance“It’s not a cookie cutter process”, says Arun, the Boston-based CEO & Chairman of Xceedance as he talks about the value proposition the business offers its clients.Launched in 2013, the business has grown to a team of 2200 spread across its offices in India, North America, Europe and Australia with clients relying on Xceedance to launch new products, drive operations, implement cutting-edge technology, deploy advanced analytics, and achieve process efficiencies.“We help improve the productivity of underwriters and brokers. It’s a balance between people process and technology.”Arun believes, “The way data analytics and technology...

2021-10-1227 min

Baroque Amplifying Dreams: A Lateral View of FundraisingListening, the singular experience on which this podcast is anchored, is taken for granted until we no longer have the ability to hear. Unlike other forms of disability, deafness the disability is invisible, what is visible are the related educational and social widening gaps. Arun Shah, the Director, Development of the All India Federation of the Deaf, shares with Baroque his engagement with visibilising the invisible disability. He has been supporting non-profits, in marketing, communications raising resources, both material and human for nearly four decades. In the course of the conversation, he discusses growing up as...

2021-01-2854 min

The Indian Dream Founder Journey: Building a Global Insurance Products & Services Business - Arun BalakrishnanOur guest today is an ex- Merchant Navy Officer who, through an interesting sequence of events, became an Insurance Executive and eventually an Entrepreneur. He currently runs a Global Products & Services business in the Insurance Domain with a team 1900 people spread across 9 countries. This journey began little over 7 years ago when Arun Balakrishnan was heading the Berkshire Hathway's Indian Insurance Business. When Berkshire decided to wind up the India business, Arun spotted an interesting opportunity that would eventually lead to his company, Xceedance. And he's used the bootstrapped entrepreneur playbook of starting with services and then building products very e...

2021-01-1453 min

Sources and Sinks Coffee And TeaA lot has been discussed about economy, remote work, startups, technology and what not of these COVID times,In this episode of Sources and Sinks, we will discuss a peculiarity of silicon valley lifestyle - Coffee and Tea. To discuss that, I have invited two special guests - A Coffee snob and A Tea Snob.Manish Gupta, CEO of ShiftLeft is our Coffee Snob and We have Arun Balakrishnan, Director of Products at ShiftLeft is our Tea Snob.In this episode, I attempt to learn from their knowledge of Coffee and Tea and ma...

2020-04-1114 min