SAEINDIA AUTOMOTIVE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT - PROGRAM

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Day 1: Tuesday, April 8

Presentation Stage - Hall 1 Inaugural session: Keynote and future technologies
10:00 - 11:30

Dr G Nagarajan
President
SAE India
India

C V Raman
Member of the executive committee
Maruti Suzuki / past president, SAE India
India

Dr Saurabh Dalela
Director
ICAT
India

Dr N Saravanan
President and chief technology officer
Ashok Leyland
India

11:30 - 11:50

Break

Presentation Stage - Hall 1 Plenary sessions: Decarbonization, energy, sustainability, skills development
11:50 - 12:50

Alok Jaitley
Executive vice president
Maruti Suzuki India Limited
India

Dr Arindam Lahiri
CEO
Automotive Skills Development Council
India

Dr N Karuppaiah
Senior project advisor
Centre for Advanced Automotive Research (CAAR)
India

Dr N Rajalakshmi
Former senior scientist & team leader, Centre for Fuel Cell Technology
International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI)
India

12:50 - 13:50

Lunch

Presentation Stage - Hall 1 Panel discussion: EV Test Ecosystem: Policy, Infrastructure, Industry
13:50 - 14:50

Dr Reji Mathai
Director
Automotive Research Association of India ARAI
India
Dr S Jabez Dhinagar
Senior vice president
OLA Electric
India
Dr K Subramanian
Senior vice president of product development
Ashok Leyland
India
Moderator:
Nilesh Wadhwa, assistant editor, Motoring Trends and Tire Trends, PIN 365

14:50 - 15:10

Break

Presentation Stage - Hall 1 Plenary sessions: Design in India for the world
15:10 - 16:10

N Balasubramanian
Vice president - product engineering
Renault Nissan Technology & Business Centre RNTBCI
India

Dora Karedla
Associate vice president and chief engineer – new product development
TVS Motor Company Limited
India

Damodaran Subramanian
CEO
ChipEdge Technologies
India

Day 2: Wednesday, April 9

Presentation Stage - Hall 1 Plenary sessions: Safe and connected vehicles for the future
10:00 - 11:15

Shrikant Satyanarayan
Associate vice president, technical
LDRA Technology Pvt Ltd
India

Prof P Rajalakshmi
Professor
Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
India

Dr Madhusudan Joshi
Automotive cybersecurity specialist and head of technology and business
International Centre for Automotive Technology ICAT
India

Dr Latha Chembrakalam
Vice president and head of Technical Center India
Continental
India

D Suresh
Group CTO
Minda Corporation Limited (Spark Minda)
India

11:15 - 11:45

Break

Presentation Stage - Hall 1 Panel discussion: SDV, ADAS, V2X, AI
11:45 - 13:00

Dr Manish Jaiswal
Director
NATRAX
India
Ujjwala Karle
Senior deputy director and head – technology group
ARAI
India
Dr Shankar Venugopal
Vice president
Mahindra & Mahindra
India
Ramanathan Srinivasan
Managing director
Automotive Test Systems
India
Moderator:
Nilesh Wadhwa, assistant editor, Motoring Trends and Tire Trends, PIN 365

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

Presentation Stage - Hall 1 Plenary Sessions: Disruptions in mobility (emerging tech in ground mobility, EV, hydrogen, drones, hyperloop, aerospace)
14:00 - 16:00

Dr Bala Bharadvaj
VP engineering, Quintrans; former Boeing executive; former president, SAE India
Quintrans
India

Dr Arumugam Sakunthalai Ramadhas
Director
Global Automotive Research Centre (GARC)
India

Peter Langford
CEO
Avironix Private Limited
India

Nikhil Rao
Executive director and site leader
Boeing
India

Presentation Stage - Hall 1 Valedictory & closing remarks
16:00 - 16:20

Dr G Nagarajan
President
SAE India
India

Presentation Stage - Hall 1 Vote of thanks
16:20 - 16:30

M Dhananjayan
Founder and CEO - Focus Group
Focus Engineering & Secretary, SAEINDIA
India