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Hotel Leaders#22 - Oberoi Amarvilas, AgraNamaste. Today we travel to the most populous country on earth, India and to the city of Agra, famous for the Taj Mahal. Our hotel, The Oberoi Amarvilas is set just 600 metres from the Taj Mahal and close enough that marble domes and minarets feel like they rise from your balcony. This is a bucket list hotel for me and I can’t wait to share this episode with you. Here we go!I'm your podcast host, Peter DeMoor. I have a fascination for the hotel industry and over the last quarter-of-a-century I have studied it, been a...
2025-08-2927 min
Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots558: Using AI to Bring Transparency to City Government with Vikram OberoiChad talks with NYC local Vikram Oberoi about how he used AI to breakdown local city meetings into accessible bitesize chunks.
Learn how Vikram tamed New York’s public records with AI, the lengthy review process involved to make it all and why his model is so well suited to NYC council proceedings in particular.
Vikram also discusses the project’s path to sustainability and the difficulties of expanding his passion project further afield.
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If you’re a NY resident wanting to learn more about your local community, or just curious about th...
2025-01-2345 min
Value Driven Data Science: Boost your impact. Earn what you’re worth. Rewrite your career algorithm.Episode 46: Empowering Democracy with LLMsWith all the reports about the spread of misinformation and disinformation on social media, sometimes it feels like one of the biggest threats to democracy is technology. But no technology is inherently good or bad. It’s how you use it that matters. And just as technology has the potential to harm democracy, it also has the potential to enhance it.In this episode, Vikram Oberoi joins Dr Genevieve Hayes to discuss how he has been using generative AI and large language models (LLMs) to enhance people’s access to NYC council meetings through his work on city...
2024-09-2648 min
The Skift Travel PodcastOberoi CEO on Redefining Luxury for the Affluent ConsumerVikram Oberoi, The Oberoi Group CEO and Managing Director, speaks with Skift Senior Hospitality Editor Sean O'Neill. This discussion took place on stage at the inaugural Skift India Summit this month in New Delhi, India. on stage at Skift India Summit in New Delhi, India on March 20, 2024.To join the travel industry's best events in person, visit https://live.skift.com
2024-04-0521 min
Skift Daily BriefingIndia’s Booming Travel MarketAir India has major goals. CEO Campbell Wilson is looking to turn the company into a “top-tier and world-class airline” after decades of underinvestment by Indian officials, writes Airlines Reporter Meghna Maharishi. Wilson discussed Air India’s strategy during a discussion with Asia Editor Peden Doma Bhutia at the Skift India Summit today. The company has undergone a major overhaul in recent months that includes new business class cabins and a new logo. In addition to going on a major hiring spree, Air India has also recently placed an order for 470 aircraft — one of the largest orders in commerc...
2024-03-2002 min
IVM PopDeewane Huye Paagal | Has It Aged Well?This week on ‘Has It Aged Well?’ Abbas and Urjita are joined by stand up comedian Andy Reghu to discuss the 2005 (supposed) comedy ‘Deewane Huye Pagal’ directed by Vikram Bhatt and starring Shahid Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty, Paresh Rawal Rimi Sen and a host of comedic actors. Topics discussed include: the most bizarre opening 15 minutes of a film, the wave of success Akshay, Suniel and Paresh Rawal enjoyed in the 2000s, our opinions on Vivek Oberoi, the famous scene from ‘There’s Something About Mary’ that this film did not emulate and a lot more. Listen till the end for a hist...
2023-11-061h 11
Data Is PluralS1E5: Atari EmailsThis episode’s guest is Vikram Oberoi, whose atariemailarchive.org was featured in the Sept. 21, 2022 edition of the Data Is Plural newsletter. Vikram explains how he discovered the emails (originally published by former Atari engineer Jed Margolin), their backstory, how they became a yearslong obsession for him, how he processed them into structured data, how organized them into threads, and what he learned along the way.Relevant and mentioned links:atariemailarchive.orgSpecific threads:On CC’ingOn building a spellcheckerOn royaltiesJed venting about inventory dataVikram’s structured dataset of the emailsVikram’s blog post describing how he built th...
2023-03-2915 min
Mumbai Crime2.7 Undercover City "One Last Sacrifice"Investigating massive election fraud, Police inspector Alia Khan must put her life on the line by taking on the most powerful people in government.
Undercover City is written by Ayeesha Menon and executive produced by John Scott Dryden and Nadir Khan. Sound design was by Steve Bond and music by Sacha Puttnam.
Cast: Inspector Alia Khan - Prerna Chawla, Nakul - Anand Tiwari, Inspector Desai - Rajit Kapur, Mrs Gomes - Radhika Mittal, Popo - Rohit Malkani, Alia’s father - Zafar Karachiwala, Vikram Naresh – Darius Shroff, Commissioner Kripalani - Jayant Kripalani. Other parts: Karan Pand...
2023-01-0227 min
Mumbai Crime2.6 Undercover City "The Secret Pact"As India’s general elections draw near, and the world’s largest democracy decides its future, A murder and a political scandal leads Police Inspector Alia Khan to unravelling the truth about her policeman father’s death.
Undercover City is written by Ayeesha Menon and executive produced by John Scott Dryden and Nadir Khan. Sound design was by Steve Bond and music by Sacha Puttnam.
Cast: Inspector Alia Khan - Prerna Chawla, Nakul - Anand Tiwari, Inspector Desai - Rajit Kapur, Mrs Gomes - Radhika Mittal, Popo - Rohit Malkani, Alia’s father - Zafar Karachiw...
2022-12-2635 min
Mumbai Crime2.5 Undercover City "A Five-Star Death"A dead glamour model in a five-star hotel leads Police inspector Alia Khan on the trail of Bollywood’s leading heart-throb.
Undercover City is written by Ayeesha Menon and executive produced by John Scott Dryden and Nadir Khan. Sound design was by Steve Bond and music by Sacha Puttnam.
Cast: Inspector Alia Khan - Prerna Chawla, Nakul - Anand Tiwari, Inspector Desai - Rajit Kapur, Mrs Gomes - Radhika Mittal, Popo - Rohit Malkani, Alia’s father - Zafar Karachiwala, Vikram Naresh – Darius Shroff, Commissioner Kripalani - Jayant Kripalani. Other parts: Karan Pandit, Faezeh Jalali, Anahit...
2022-12-1914 min
Mumbai Crime2.4 Undercover City "Mad Women"Police Inspector Alia Khan investigates a psychiatric hospital where women are admitted but never seem to come out.
Undercover City is written by Ayeesha Menon and executive produced by John Scott Dryden and Nadir Khan. Sound design was by Steve Bond and music by Sacha Puttnam.
Cast: Inspector Alia Khan - Prerna Chawla, Nakul - Anand Tiwari, Inspector Desai - Rajit Kapur, Mrs Gomes - Radhika Mittal, Popo - Rohit Malkani, Alia’s father - Zafar Karachiwala, Vikram Naresh – Darius Shroff, Commissioner Kripalani - Jayant Kripalani. Other parts: Karan Pandit, Faezeh Jalali, Anahita Oberoi, Devika Shah...
2022-12-1214 min
Mumbai Crime2.2 Undercover City "What's Cooking?"The search for a missing husband leads Police Inspector Alia Khan to the Tandoori restaurant where he was last seen.
Undercover City is written by Ayeesha Menon and executive produced by John Scott Dryden and Nadir Khan. Sound design was by Steve Bond and music by Sacha Puttnam.
Cast: Inspector Alia Khan - Prerna Chawla, Nakul - Anand Tiwari, Inspector Desai - Rajit Kapur, Mrs Gomes - Radhika Mittal, Popo - Rohit Malkani, Alia’s father - Zafar Karachiwala, Vikram Naresh – Darius Shroff, Commissioner Kripalani - Jayant Kripalani. Other parts: Karan Pandit, Faezeh Jalali, Anahita Ober...
2022-11-2814 min
Mumbai Crime2.1 Undercover City "Gutter Baby"A new police detective series that shines a light on the real victims of political corruption. When an abandoned baby is rescued from a gutter, it falls on the only female police officer on hand, Alia Khan to look after it. It leads her on an investigation into the dark heart of Indian politics.
Undercover City is written by Ayeesha Menon and executive produced by John Scott Dryden and Nadir Khan. Sound design was by Steve Bond and music by Sacha Puttnam.
Cast: Inspector Alia Khan - Prerna Chawla, Nakul - Anand Tiwari, Inspector Desai...
2022-11-2114 min
The Indian DreamBuilding Kama Ayurveda with Vivek Sahni, Co-founder & CEOWelcome to a really exciting episode of the Indian Dream - we've wanted to talk to this founder for the past 1 year at least. In this episode, we speak to Vivek Sahni, co-founder and CEO of Kama Ayurveda. For the few listeners who haven't heard of Kama, they are an Ayurveda based Hair & Beauty brand that now has 59 retail stores across the country.Join our No-Spam WhatsApp GroupThe reason we love Kama Ayurveda so much is that they started in 2002 at a time when nobody spoke about Ayurveda or even cared about...
2021-11-0832 min
Naan Curry with Sadaf and ArchitMango- Nothing Aam About This FruitIn this episode, our 2Gs, the Gourmands & Geeks, Sadaf and Archit talk about mangoes, the king of all fruits in India and the subcontinent. They are covering: The etymology of the word mango in English and Hindi.The connection between political diplomacy and mangoes.How the Mughal kings and Ghalib were obsessed with mangoes.What Unani and Ayurveda say about mangoes.Why some mangoes are more expensive than others.What decides our preferences for a particular type of mango?So sit back, relax and get ready to bite into your favorite mango with our 2Gs.Important links to...
2021-06-161h 06