Tara Neal
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first heard Mar 2026
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Welcome to the FastMode podcast series.
I'm Tara Nil, and with me today is Sridhar Kupana, CEO of ST Engineering iDirect.
ST Engineering iDirect is the global leader in satellite communications, providing satellite technology and communications solutions.
In December last year, Sridhar Kupana was named the winner of the CTO of the Year title in the Global Solution Provider category at the FastMode Awards 2025.
Welcome, Sridhar.
Great to have you on today's episode.
Awesome.
Okay, so you know, last year, you won the 2025 CTO of the Year.
So how do you feel about that?
And what did that recognition mean to you professionally and personally?
Wow.
You know, like what you pointed out, the satellite is no longer a niche.
It's actually becoming, you know, a core portion of the connectivity, I guess, the ecosystem.
And, you know, we see a lot of talk about convergence and I guess, you know, it's such a timely win.
Wow, that sounds really, you know, exciting.
And, you know, coming back to intuition, right?
How can Telcos achieve a truly seamless integration between satellite and 5G terrestrial networks?
Wow.
So, you know, you mentioned and highlighted this very important point that satellites should be seen as a natural extension and not really like an additional element, you know, that needs to be developed from scratch or needs to be, you know, what we call it, scaled differently in a separate stream.
So it comes naturally.
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