AI is making adaptability the most valuable skill in technology: Vishwa Mohan, upGrad School of Technology

https://cdn1.expresscomputer.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/16021049/EC_Vishwa_Mohan_upGrad_750.jpg

The technology skills equation is changing faster than India’s traditional higher education system can adapt. As AI increasingly takes over routine coding, analysis and other execution-heavy tasks, the value of simply knowing a programming language or having an engineering degree is being questioned. What is emerging instead is a premium on problem-solving, critical thinking, adaptability and the ability to work effectively with AI.

For Vishwa Mohan, Founder & CEO, upGrad School of Technology, this shift is also exposing a longstanding disconnect between what students learn in engineering colleges and what industry expects from them when they enter the workforce.

In an exclusive interaction with Express Computer, Mohan discusses why the industry-academia gap is widening, how AI is changing the definition of employability, why technology education needs to evolve faster, and why cybersecurity and quantum computing need to become part of the next generation of engineering education.

From “show me...

Copyright of this story solely belongs to expresscomputer.in. To see the full text click HERE

Read more