The dichotomy/mixed signals in the commentary between Indian IT (cautiously optimistic) and Global Tech (cautious) reconciles with the growth outperformance of Indian IT. Yet, despite the pivot to digital, there will be first among equals' within Indian IT as the global macros continue to be challenging (BFS, Retail). The investments in localisation, re-skilling, platform & partnerships and M&A to align with changing business and addressable market have supported growth, despite tight enterprise budgets. We hosted IT and New Age Business Investor Forum in Mumbai with 27 corporates/experts participating in the event. The participating corporates/experts were across the spectrum of (1) Largecap IT services (TCS, HCL Tech, Tech Mahindra), (2) IT/ER&D; midcaps & smallcaps (Mphasis, L&T; Tech, Mindtree, Tata Elxsi, Sonata, KPIT Tech, Intellect, Birlasoft, Mastek), (3) Exchanges & Staffing (MCX, CDSL, NSE, Quess, Teamlease) and (4) Tech experts (IBM, Capgemini, ex-Cognizant, Top-3 Cloud vendor, CRM/BPM, UiPath, Infor).