Rashik Parmar to talk about something we all experience but rarely think about: how fragile our digital lives actually are.
Rashik puts a number on it. Around $2 trillion a year is wasted globally as a result of tech failures. And most of us don’t realise how dependent we are until the moment things break.
He shares a story that makes the point perfectly. During a live broadcast on Rangoli Radio, his power cut out mid-show. But because the team had built in resilience from day one, the handover to a backup presenter took 11 seconds. The audience never knew.
Compare that with the Vodafone outage, where hundreds of thousands of people were suddenly cut off with no workaround. Life just stopped.
Rashik’s message is straightforward. We’ve stopped designing for failure. We layer shiny new tools on top of decades of legacy infrastructure without asking what happens when it breaks.
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