New tech not IT-driven... long-term tech spend intact: TCS CEO & MD

'We have not seen too many large deals compared to last quarter. But some of them will be large'

K Krithivasan, chief executive officer & managing director, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), calls himself an optimist. Though Q1FY24 has come out subdued on growth sequentially, he is confident that demand for tech services is on track in the long term. Edited excerpts of an interview with Shivani Shinde in Mumbai.

In Q4FY23 you had mentioned you would travel extensively to meet customers. What have been the key takeaways from those interactions?

My purpose in meeting clients within the TCS ecosystem was to understand their depth of interaction with us, their focus, expectations, and perspective on TCS, and how they are looking at