Experts To Converge In Chennai To Discuss About Automotive R&D Trends 2015 on February 27,2012
Online, February 25, 2012 (Newswire.com) - A single day conference on Automotive R&D Trends 2015 would be held on February 27, 2012 at 9.30 am at the Ball Room of Hotel Hilton, Guindy in Chennai.
The highlight of this summit is the fact that the Victorian Automotive Delegation led by John Conomos AO, Australian Automotive Industry Envoy will enlighten about that country's growth in the automotive segment and also brainstorm about the Automotive R&D Trends 2015 with other global experts.
Michael Carter, Consul-Commercial and Trade Commissioner for Australia to South India will also be speaking about the possible trade relations between India and Australia, especially in the automotive horizon.
Automotive Technology - 'Mobility as a System' is the theme of the conclave. The inaugural session will start off with a traditional welcome by Anjan Das, Executive Director - Technology, Confederation of Indian Industry followed by the theme address, delivered by Dr V Sumantran, Conference Chairman and Executive Vice Chairman of Hinduja Automotive Limited. Alejandro Vera Casso, Adviser - Investment and Technology Promotion for Asia Pacific, UNIDO will deliver the special address at 10.20 am. What is more, special address will be delivered by Carter and Conomos as well.
Dr R Chidambaram, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India will deliver the inaugural address, followed by the vote of thanks by Dr Sumantran. The first plenary session, titled 'Efficient Components and Systems for Automotives' will kick-start at 11.15 am, where Dr Arun Jaura, Head - EIEC and Vice President - Technology Eaton Corporation and also the session chairman will make the opening remarks.
Other speakers include Dr Hodgson, Director, Institute for Technology Research and Innovation, Deakin University, Australia; Surinder Choudhari, Chairman and Managing Director, Surin Automotive Private Limited; Prof Ajay Kapoor, Associate Dean - Research, Swinburne University; Sunil Kaul, President and COO, Behr India Limited and mark Trigg, Manager Major Projects Development, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia and another speaker from Simpson and Co.
The second plenary session will start post lunch. Titled 'Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS)' will kick-start. The session chariman, Ravi Pandit, Chairman and Group CEO of KPIT Cummins Info Systems will deliver the opening remarks, followed by addresses of Dr Prakash Bharati, Director - India Science Lab and Chief Scientist - India R&D, General Motors Global R&D and Rakesh Verma, Managing Director of Mapmyindia (tentative). This would be followed by discussion.
The third plenary session, named 'Modern Vehicle Controls - semi and full Autonomous vehicle control' will start at 3.00 pm. The session chairman, Dr Arvind S Bharadwaj, CEO of Automotive Infotronics Private Limited will make the opening remarks followed by addresses by Piyush Arora, Director - Technical, Mercedes-Benz India (tentative); Thomas Maler, Principal Engineer, UL International of Denmark and Shamprasad Ponkshe, Executive Vice President - R&D, Asia Motor Works Limited (tentative). For more details of the report, visit automotivehorizon.sulekha.com.