Dr. Y Sreenivas Rao,
Scientist ‘H’, Outstanding Scientist & Project Director AD(FV-Exo)
Programme AD, RCI Lab – Hyderabad.
| Day 1 | 11-Oct-19 | 09:00 – 10:30 |
Inauguration and Keynote Address
Dr Y Sreenivas Rao graduated in Mechanical Engineering from JNTU, Hyderabad with distinction. Further he has done his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Osmania University. He started his initial career with BHEL, Ramachandrapuram, Hyderabad as expert in the areas of manufacturing of Steam turbine, Centrifugal Compressors, Gas turbines.
Mr. Aiyappan Ramamurthi
Technical director
Siemens Industry Software
| Day 1 | 11-Oct-19 | 14:00 -15:00 |
Plenary Session – 1
Aiyappan Ramamurthi – Technical director of Siemens Industry Software, a business unit of Siemens Digital Industries Division.25+ years’ experience in the field of Digitalization including Product Lifecycle Management, Digital Manufacturing and Manufacturing Operations Management. Responsibilities included consulting on strategy and deployment of digital solutions for manufacturing organization.
Dr. Shankar Venugopal
Vice President, Mahindra & Mahindra
| Day 1 | 11-Oct-19 | 17:30 – 19:00 |
Moderator – Panel Discussion
Dr Shankar leads technology innovation for the Automotive & Farm services business (AFS). He heads the intellectual property (Patents) and knowledge management functions. He is also the Dean of the Mahindra Technical Academy.Shankar is passionate about developing sustainable urban mobility solutions and his current interests span across electric vehicles, connected vehicles, autonomous vehicles and precision farming.
Mr. S A Sundaresan
Vice-President, EV &eMobility Solutions
Ashok Leyland Technical Center
| Day 1 | 11-Oct-19 | 17:30 – 19:00 |
Panel Speaker
Mr. Sundaresan has been an entrepreneur and a technology innovator. He finds the challenges of conceiving, nurturing and realizing products or processes or organizations fulfilling and enjoyable. A mechanical engineer by education, past experiences range from developing hermetic compressors, sheet metal engineering, plant and business digitalization…
Dr. R K Amit
Associate Professor
IIT Madras
| Day 1 | 11-Oct-19 | 17:30 – 19:00 |
Panel Speaker
Dr. R K Amit is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras. He completed his undergraduate studies at IIT Kanpur, and his doctoral studies at IISc, Bangalore. His research and teaching interests are game theory and decision theory, and their applications in operations management.
Mr. Kaushik Madhavan
Vice President
Mobility at Frost & Sullivan
| Day 1 | 11-Oct-19 | 17:30 – 19:00 |
Panel Speaker
Currently working with Frost & Sullivan, managing the Automotive & Transportation business unit for Middle East, North Africa and South Asia.Worked with Nissan Motor India Pvt. Ltd. [NMIPL] in Product Planning. Worked with a cross-functional team in charting out the passenger vehicle product / technology roadmap for Nissan and Datsun in India.
Dr Sankar Seetharaman
Senior Application Engineer, ANSYS
| Day 2 | 12-Oct-19 | 09:45- 10:30 |
Plenary Session -2
Dr Sankar Seetharaman is a Senior Application Engineer at ANSYS, focused on process simulation for metal additive manufacturing. He holds his Ph.D. in ‘Advanced Materials Processing & Characterization’ from the National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to joining ANSYS in 2018, Sankar has worked as a Scientist for three years in the field of metal…
Mr. Sadagopan Krishnan
Senior Vice-President [Engine Development], Ashok Leyland Limited
| Day 2 | 12-Oct-19 | 14:00 -15:00 |
Plenary Session -3
Graduated in M.I.T (Madras Institute of technology) , Anna University and studied PG in S.P. College, Mumbai and moving on his passion in IC Engines in major Automotive OEMS.Started his career with Bajaj Auto (1990) on Kawasaki 4S Motor Cycle Engine localization and later 4S Champion, exclusively for 87 kmpl, which turned Bajaj a big 2-wheeler motorcycle Company.
Mr. R Velusamy
Chief of Product Development,
Automotive Division,
Mahindra and Mahindra
| Day 2 | 12-Oct-19 | 15:30 -17:00 |
Valedictory and Keynote Address
Mr. R Velusamy is the Chief of Product Development at Mahindra’s Automotive Division and has more than 23 years of rich experience. He is responsible for the complete design, development and productionization of all new products of the Mahindra Automotive division including IC Engines, Hybrid and Electric vehicles. Under his leadership, Mahindra has recently launched the technically advanced, new-age and premium segment products like Marazzo and XUV 300.