Speakers

Ankur SHARMA is a Simulation Business Manager – in India, having 20+ years of experience in Assisting diverse-sized and scaled organizations in evangelizing the evolving technological landscapes and derive + driving the execution roadmap.
Energise the ecosystem towards the attainment of dynamic and ambitious goals. Strengthening and expanding opportunities in Blue as well as Red oceans. Understanding geographical diversities to design and adopt offerings and solutions appropriately. Translating the same into plans, Go To Market strategies, and implementation.

Sidharth Tiwary is a Senior Scientist at theSpacecraft Mechanisms Group, U R Rao Satellite Centre (URSC), ISRO, Bengaluru. He works across the full lifecycle of spacecraft deployment mechanisms — design, structural and dynamic analysis, hardware realization, qualification testing, and on-orbit mission support. His core expertise lies in structural and dynamic analysis of spacecraft deployment mechanisms — finite element modelling, multibody dynamics simulation, and Python-based engineering automation. Currently he is servingas Deputy Project Director for Cartosat series.He has worked in various prominent projects as well.

He has contributed in development of lander-leg, deployment simulations of various mechanisms and ground-test facility development for Robotics. In space robotics and on-orbit servicing, he developeda software suite for robotic arm kinematics, optical target tracking, and grasp path planning. His broader technical interests span topology optimization, ROS2-based path planning, and stereoscopic pose estimation for berthing applications. He has authored20+journal and conference papers and is also a recipient of Young Scientist Award form Indian National Society for Aerospace and related mechanisms.

Praveen T is the Co-Founder and leads the R&D and technical teams at Nautical Wings Aerospace, an Indian aerospace company developing indigenous electric propulsion technologies for UAVs, eVTOL aircraft, and future electric aviation platforms.

With a strong interest in structural integrity, aerodynamics, first-principles engineering, and root-cause-driven problem solving, he leads the company's propulsion development activities spanning propeller design, tooling and mold development, manufacturing process optimization, structural analysis, motor development, CFD, thermal management, and system-level integration.

Dr. Mrudula G. is working as Scientist ‘F’ at Centre for Electromagnetics, CSIR-NAL. She is currently involved in the development, testing and certification of indigenous Lightning Protection Schemes (LPS) fordefence and civilian airborne radomes and simulation, testing and validation for certification of HIRF, EMI/EMC, Direct lightning and Indirect lightning of LTA as part of projects sponsored by defense organizations and in-house programmes. Further, she is working on the development attenuation correction methods for radomes and radars operating at various frequencies and on development of better aviation nowcasts throughhybrid modelling using AI/ML and statistical techniques for India Meteorological Department (IMD). In the HAPS programme, she is involved in the analysis of weather parameters for launching decisions.

Dr. Mrudula was involved in Government of India’s Indo – UK Collaboration initiative towards betterment of Monsoon forecasts, in which she was associated with various research institutions in India and UK. As part of this project, algorithms for mesoscale convective systems (MCS) identification,cloud cluster development and tracking were developed. She was part of national monsoon mission aiming at an indigenous Indian monsoon model, for the indigenous development of a boundary layer module.

Dr. Mrudula worked with the Radar Development Group of ISRO, where she was involved in R&D of Doppler Weather Radar (DWR) products and making algorithms for primary and secondary DWR derived products. She was involved in first time development of the algorithms for retrieval of altitude profiles of temperature over the tropics using MST Radar and Lidar, along with the team at University of Kerala and SPL, VSSC.

Dr. Mrudula has published more than 200 publications which include books, book chapters, journal papers, conference papers, restricted documents etc. She had delivered lectures in many international/national conferences. Some of her papers were recognized as top cited papers, by the publishers. She was the recipient of the Best Woman Scientist Award from CSIR-NAL in the year 2019. She is recipient of National and state merit scholarships and university second rank holder for the P.G. programme.She is serving as a subject expert for Meteorology by Union Public Service Commission, Govt. of India. Dr. Mrudula is a reviewer for many journals, thesis examiner for various universities and also serves as technical expert in many review committees.

Rajeev Kumar is working as Industry Process Consultant in Dassault System India, He is Supporting Aerospace & Defense cluster in Bangalore, GeneralMotors, Boeing, TCS and various other tech giants in their research activities.

He has past eight years of experience in FEA Domain from various companies like caterpillar, Vedanta and Dassault Systems. Rajeev is expert in virtual validation and correlation scenarios which is really important to build confidence while capturing Multiphysics in the simulation.

Rajeev is postgraduate from IIT Delhi where he was working on Cosserat rod and shell theory to be implemented in finite deformation application. He is graduate from NIT patna.

Veerababu Dharanalakota is an expert in acoustics and vibrations. He earned his master’s degree from IISc Bangalore and his Ph.D. from IIT Hyderabad. He worked on several noise and vibration control related projects in automotive, aerospace, and transportation sectors. He published 20+ research articles in the area of acoustics and has been honored with prestigious awards from the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), and the International Institute of Noise Control Engineering (I-INCE). He is an active member of the Acoustical Society of India, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV), ASA, and INCE-USA. Before joining Dassault Systemes, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at IISc Bangalore on physics-based machine learning for acoustic applications.

Sangam KUTE currently serves as an Industry Process Consultant (IPC) at SIMULIA, Dassault Systemes, leveraging his extensive background in Multibody dynamics simulations. He have studied Mechanical engineering and Specialization in Machine Design from IIT Madras, Chennai.

As an IPC, he contributes to tech-sales, training, capability development and support initiatives across various industries.

Prior to joining Dassault Systemes, He have worked for Global automotive OEM’s and gained valuable experience of 10 years in this this domain. His expertise spans in automotive applications such as Vehicles dynamics, Powertrain & Driveline Noise and Vibrations.

He is passionate about driving innovation in Multibody Dynamics simulations to advance technologies such as simulation & testing of mechatronics systems.

Dayanidhi PANDA has been a part of Dassault Systemes for the past 18 years. His technical expertise includes SIMULIA on 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, Cloud computing, Composites and Optimization. During the course of his career at Dassault Systemes he has worked for Transportation and Mobility, Aerospace and Defense and Marine and Offshore OEM’s & Suppliers.

He holds a Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Masters in Thermal Engineering and MBA in Finance.

Hobbies and interests: Traveling & Social work
Mantra of your Life: Never give up.

Siva Sai Krishna PURANAM is an Industry Process Consultant with Dassault Systems. He holds a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering with focus on Antenna Design from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis – USA. Prior to his PhD work, he worked as an Electrical Engineer with Seagate Technology in the analysis and validation of the electronic circuits used in Hard Disk Drives. His areas of interests are in the domains of Antenna Array Design - simulation and fabrication and in Electromagnetics.

Kiran KUMAR has over 23 years of industry experience and is currently Senior Sales Manager - Aerospace & Defense, Marine & Offshore. In this role, his responsibilities include:

• Handling Strategic Aerospace and Defense, Marine & Offshore accounts, to generate software and services revenue.
• Transformational engagement with large / Strategic accounts to create a sustainable value-driven customer ecosystem.
• Build and nurture a credible relationship with customer C-Level and A&D industry leaders.
• C- Level relationships to structure and build transformational initiatives.
• Work with value-added partners and SI’s for transformation deals.

Kiran KUMAR holds a degree Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bangalore University.

Sarang is an Industry Process Consultant at Dassault Systèmes India, where he supports the Transportation & Mobility cluster, partnering with Tata Motors, Mahindra, and other leading technology organizations in advancing their research and simulation capabilities.

With nine years of specialized experience in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Sarang has contributed to high-impact engineering programs at globally recognized organizations including Daimler Truck, BSH Home Appliances Group, and Faurecia Interior Systems. His core expertise lies in virtual validation and simulation correlation — enabling engineering teams to build verifiable, physics-faithful digital models that confidently capture complex Multiphysics phenomena.

Sarang holds a postgraduate degree from IIT Hyderabad, where his research focused on developing a semi-explicit finite volume solver for multiphase applications using OpenFOAM. He completed his undergraduate studies at Pune University