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Rohit Agarwal joins Accenture as managing director
MUMBAI: Accenture has appointed Rohit Agarwal as managing director, tapping a leader shaped by more than a decade of building and scaling digital education and technology-led organisations.
Agarwal joins with over 13 years of experience forged largely at TalentSprint, where his rise from instructor roles to senior leadership mirrored the company’s own growth. As chief delivery officer and vice-president – operations, he helped turn ambition into execution, blending learning, technology and scale.
At TalentSprint, Agarwal played a central role in launching digital learning platforms, expanding delivery and operations, and building and mentoring high-performing teams. His work strengthened the company’s position at the crossroads of deep-tech education and industry-aligned capability building.
At Accenture, his grounding in digital transformation, operational excellence and people leadership is expected to translate into sharper execution across large, technology-led programmes.
From classrooms to boardrooms, Agarwal’s mandate is clear: build at scale, and make it work.
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MakeMyTrip partners with OpenAI to boost AI-powered travel planning
Conversational AI now guides travellers from inspiration straight to booking
GURUGRAM: MakeMyTrip, India’s leading online travel company, has teamed up with OpenAI to bring a fresh twist to AI-driven travel planning. The collaboration integrates OpenAI’s APIs into MakeMyTrip’s app, making it easier than ever for travellers to move from chatting about dream trips to booking them.
The move centres around MakeMyTrip’s Myra interface, a GenAI trip planning assistant that now handles over 50,000 conversations a day in languages ranging from English and Hindi to Tamil, Telugu and Bengali. Myra helps travellers explore options, create itineraries and book flights, hotels and extras without the usual hassle of searching and filtering.
MakeMyTrip co-founder and group CEO Rajesh Magow said, “With OpenAI, we turn curiosity into confident decisions. When travellers start their journey through conversation, MakeMyTrip becomes a seamless extension of that discovery process. AI combined with our travel data makes it possible to deliver personalised, bookable options at scale.”
OpenAI managing director- international Oliver Jay added, “MakeMyTrip is showing how AI can make travel planning feel more like a conversation than a chore. Advanced AI isn’t just about back-end efficiencies, it’s about transforming the way travellers experience and engage with the platform.”
MakeMyTrip has long invested in AI across the travel lifecycle, from inspiration and discovery to booking and post-sales support. Nearly half of Myra’s queries now come from tier-2 and smaller cities, and voice interactions are booming outside metros, making AI travel assistance more accessible than ever.
With this partnership, MakeMyTrip is not just keeping up with AI trends, it’s aiming to lead the way, turning every traveller’s whim into a smooth, bookable adventure.
