21/04/2026
Ms. Harpreet Kaur, Chief Engineer, Hughes Systique Corporation, was invited to represent HSC at nasscom’s Engineering R&D CXO Forum, where she shared her insights on how Engineering R&D is central to the way global enterprises build, scale, and sustain product innovation, with India playing a meaningful role in this evolution. Ms. Kaur also showcased a use case titled “5G Network Slicing: From Pilot to Profit,” explaining why 5G Network Slicing has become a CXO-level decision, particularly in the context of enterprise monetisation.
The forum brought together industry leaders shaping engineering R&D for global enterprises, with discussions spanning AI, quantum security, 5G, policy signals, and startup–enterprise collaboration, all centred around a common theme: how R&D can drive tangible product outcomes and business value. The event was held at The Leela Palace, Bengaluru.
During her presentation, Ms. Kaur highlighted a critical challenge at the heart of 5G commercialisation—the missing bridge between what enterprises demand in business terms (such as guaranteed latency, reliability, and throughput) and how network standards define these requirements (including S‑NSSAI, 5QI, and QoS flows). As she noted, “This mapping today is vendor-specific, operator-specific, and largely static, and that is exactly what blocks a repeatable and scalable slicing business model.”
Ms. Kaur further elaborated on how HSC has addressed this challenge through proprietary translation and automation modules, enabling a generalised orchestration framework that converts business-level service intent directly into 3GPP‑compliant slice configurations. This approach allows deployment on any live 5G network without the need for bespoke, one‑off integrations.
Sharing her reflections on the forum, Ms. Kaur said, “It was an energising forum. The audience was deeply engaged on the question of 5G monetisation, and the broader discussions reinforced what we at HSC firmly believe: innovation must move beyond pilots into large-scale enterprise adoption, and India is playing a central role in making that happen.”
