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Rojer C. Lanctot

Roger is Associate Director at Strategy Analytics. He excels at brining in new business from existing clients and acquiring new customers for business intelligence, consulting, content and services. Roger is a member of the International Motor Press & Washington Automotive Press Associations. He specializes in Consumer Electronics, Automotive, IT, Telematics.

Rojer C. Lanctot

Scott McCormick

Scott is President of the Connected Vehicle Trade Association (CVTA). He previously worked at General Electric’s Factory as a Future Program Manager within their Aircraft Engine and Transportation Business Systems Divisions. Scott is a member of Advisory Board of University of California, Berkeley’s Transportation Sustainability Research Center & chairs its Security Subcommittee.

Scott McCormick

Sirish Batchu

Sirish is Head of Infotronics Technology and Mobility Solutions at Mahendra & Mahendra. He leads the Connected Vehicle Program across the Mahindra Group, moving toward the creation of a common connectivity platform. Prior to joining Mahindra, Sirish was Head of Engineering for Bosch Car Multimedia.

Sirish Batchu

SBD Automotive

Rapidly advancing technologies and a maze of new risks are creating unprecedented challenges for vehicle manufacturers and their partners.

SBD Automotive’s independent market research and consultancy are helping to create smarter, more secure, better connected, and increasingly autonomous cars.

SBD Automotive has offices in Europe, North America, Japan, India, Germany and China. Founded in 1997, the company has established a unique position in the automotive industry through its large team of specialists in connected car technologies, advanced driver assistance, and automotive anti-theft and cyber security. Their unrivaled knowledge and experience is trusted by the majority of the world’s leading vehicle manufacturers and suppliers.

Find out more at sbdautomotive.com

SBD Automotive

Anupam Malhotra

Anupam (Pom) is General Manager for the connected vehicle for Audi of America. He’s responsible for the operations of Audi Connect Infotainment System, developing and delivering the company’s connected vehicle strategy with Audi AG. Pom led a global team at the Automotive Multimedia Interface Collaboration, a consortium that standardized interfaces such that consumer electronic devices could communicate within a vehicle and others.

Anupam Malhotra

Jill Stelfox

Jill joined Zebra Location Solutions as Vice-President and General Manager, directing its strategy to enhance innovative solutions, market-leading applications and value offered by the company. She has a national reputation being a successful entrepreneur and founder of venture capital-backed companies raising $50 million while returning over a $1 billion to investors

Jill Stelfox

Dan Waldschmidt

Dan is a popular speaker, business strategist and avid runner. Using his experience as a technology CEO and knowledge of neuroscience, he helps companies use extreme behavior and radical conversations to leapfrog competition then dominate within their respective industry.

Dan Waldschmidt

Gaurav Bansal

Gaurav works as a Senior Researcher at Toyota Info Technology Center USA, conducting research in areas of vehicular wireless communications and automated driving technologies. He represents Toyota in industrial and standardization forums and serves as Editor for IEEE Communication Surveys and Tutorials Journal.

Gaurav Bansal

Kailash Katkar

Kailash is the Founder and CEO of Quick Heal Technologies Private Limited. This security solutions firm has a presence in over 100 countries globally with a network of 15,000 channel partners. He’s recipient of the Brands Academy ‘Entrepreneurship Excellence Award’ and ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ from IT Security.

Kailash Katkar

Alexander Draganov

Over 25 years of experience in research and development in multiple fields, including navigation, signal processing, telecommunications, space engineering, plasma physics, and oceanography. Authored winning proposals and served as the Principal Investigator for multimillion-dollar research and development programs. Published numerous papers, and presented at dozens of conferences. Received five U.S. patents. A mentor and teacher for others.

Alexander Draganov

Rajiv Vij

Rajiv is CEO and MD of CarznRent, the market leader in Personal Ground Transportation Industry. He is credited with contributing to the growth and expanded reach of global car rental concepts across India. This consolidated the industry to attract global players and marquee investors. He is the President of Confederation of All India Car Rental Service Providers. He can be credited for redefining the meaning of taxi service industry in India.

Rajiv Vij

Ravi Puvvala

Ravi is CEO of Savari Inc. and actively involved with connected vehicle activities over the past 10 years. He’s worked with several automotive research labs, universities, U.S. DOT and various industry partners to promote the proliferation of 5.9 Ghz DSRC support in vehicular communications.

Ravi Puvvala

Manish Jain

Manish is an entrepreneur and passionate car enthusiast. Since 2005 he’s been based in India focusing on technology-driven ventures. Currently Manish is co-founder of MProfit, a portfolio management software company. He also advises startups on their technology vision. These include MotorExpert, MyGlamm, Pureblu and Refreshed. As a pioneer in the consumer Internet space, Manish co-founded shared.com, a matrimonial portal.

Manish Jain

Parth Goswami

Partha is Technology Intelligence Specialist at General Motors. He develops strategy and solutions in infotainment and telematics. This requires integration of technology, market trends, value chain and automotive produce development. His primary focus is to understand technology trends and diversity of connectivity solutions that correlate to respective business models then implement accordingly.

Parth Goswami

Pramod Chaudhari

Pramod is Executive Chairman of Praj Industries Limited. He established Praj in 1984 and since then he has built Praj into a global company. Pramod’s intensifying the company’s activities into the domain of biotech processes and systems. He’s been been selected for ‘Globally Top 100 People’ in BioEnergy by Biofuels Digest. Pramod’s currently Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry’s National Committee on bio-energy.

Pramod Chaudhari

Santosh SirdeshmukhAdviser –International Business /Angel Investor

Santosh is an Electronics Engineer, with MBA in International Business and a Certified Global Business Professional (CGBP) from NASBITE, USA. He has over 25 years of extensive experience in international business development, global recruitment, international trade, new market penetration, business tie-ups /associations, strategic partnership/ relationship management, technology transfer, merger & acquisition (M&A) and program management.

Santosh has strong experience in wide range of business cultures from US, Canada, India, UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Singapore, Hong Kong, China and many other countries, with a passion of international business development and global trade.

Santosh has worked with many US, Canadian & Indian companies and is also experienced in offering ‘soft landing’ in India to many US & Canadian organizations. He is also an active angel investor.