Infopark focuses to be south India’s GCC hub

Kochi: As traditional tech capitals like Bengaluru and Hyderabad face talent saturation and soaring operational overheads, Infoparks Kerala is mounting a strategic campaign to position Kochi as south India’s alternative.Moving past the era of transactional IT service delivery, Infopark has restructured its long-term roadmap to establish itself as a primary regional destination for advanced global capability centres (GCCs), with a focus on research and development (R&D) facilities and innovation hubs.Unlike tier-1 cities where intense hiring competition triggers unsustainable wage inflation and delivery disruptions, Kochi offers global enterprise hubs a loyal engineering base and predictable scaling bands.

State’s aggressive draft GCC policy aims to triple Kerala’s total GCC footprint to 120 centres, leveraging Infopark as the primary launchpad.“As per state’s GCC policy, we aim to create an additional 1.6 lakh new employment opportunities in Kerala via GCC services in next five years,” said Sushant Kurunthil, Infopark CEO.“Today’s global companies seek stable, highly specialized ecosystems capable of housing complex platform operations, analytics and deep tech functions.

Infopark is meeting this demand by actively scaling its infrastructure, creating specialized environments tailored to artificial intelligence (AI), platform reliability engineering and advanced product R&D,” he said.“Around 20 GCCs are functioning from Infopark. We’re taking a series of initiatives to bring in offshore facilities of more international companies for specialised services like innovation, R&D, AI and advanced technology functions.

We’ve signed MoUs with several GCC consultants. Also, we’re conducting a GCC conclave in the Middle East now,” Kurunthil added.Infopark’s latest pact was with Inductus Group, a global GCC enabler and IT consulting firm. The partnership follows discussions led by state govt’s special secretary (electronics & IT) Seeram Sambasiva Rao, who is also chairman of executive council of Infoparks Kerala.Under the collaboration, the two organisations will promote Kerala’s strengths in talent availability, digital infrastructure, innovation capabilities and quality of life to multinational companies evaluating locations for global operations.“Kerala possesses many of the attributes that global organizations increasingly seek while evaluating locations for their GCCs, including a highly-skilled workforce, strong educational infrastructure and foundation, digital readiness and a supportive business environment,” said Alouk Kumar, founder and CEO of Inductus Group.