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.

Klaus KROHNE received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany in 2002 and his Doctor of Sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland in 2007. From 2007 to 2009 he was a Researcher with the A*Star Institute of High-Performance Computing in Singapore. His research interest is in the area of electromagnetic simulation and component optimization techniques. In 2009 he joined CST (Computer Simulation Technology) South East Asia Pte Ltd in Singapore, which was acquired by DASSAULT SYSTEMES in 2016. Today Klaus is responsible for the SIMULIA sales and technical sales in the Asia Pacific.

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.

Arnab GANGULY has a Masters degree in Automotive Engineering. He is associated with DASSAULT SYSTÈMES, SIMULIA India as an Industry Process Consultant Manager for the last 6 years where he has managed technical-sales and support initiatives for structural simulation solutions for Pan-India customers. He has an expertise in Linear and Non-linear stress, fatigue and optimization simulations in the Automotive, Industrial Equipment, Energy & Material and Aerospace & Defense industries with special focus on Composites, Fracture Mechanics, ICEs, EVs and Fuel Cells.

Geetha AVULA started her career with Dassault Systemes in 2004 and has been with the company since then. She started as an Applications Engineer and is now the Senior Technical Manager. As a support engineer, she has provided technical training and support for SIMULIA products primarily Abaqus. She has interacted with many customers giving them guidelines on the issues they are facing, suggestions on their workflows, etc.

In her current role, she’s responsible for driving initiatives such as Electric Vehicles, Additive Manufacturing, Cloud solutions, to be able to guide companies on the technology Dassault Systems has to offer. Interacting with many Electric Vehicles companies in India and working with the global team she is supporting quite a few clients in the EV space.

She holds a Masters's Degree in Computational Mechanics of Materials and Structures from the University of Stuttgart, Germany.

Jofeetha is a member of the Center for Simulation Excellence (CSE), working as a Technical Specialist for Dassault Systèmes, India. She has close to five years of experience in the simulation domain in the fields of solid and structural mechanics. She has a master’s degree in Structural Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur, and a Bachelor’s degree from PSG College of Technology. In her current role, she regularly interacts with customers providing them support on SIMULIA products. In addition to this, she is also involved in conducting trainings and executing benchmarks. Her focus areas are Geomechanics, Process Automation and Nonlinear Structural Analysis.