Speakers

Amarnath brings over 3 decades of Tire Industry experience, mainly developing Tires of various vehicle categories.

He is an Engineering Graduate and also completed both National & International Executive Management & Leadership programs Including IIM, Bangalore, Krauthammer, Netherlands, Executive leadership from USA

He played a vital role in bringing self-reliance in terms of technology through collaboration with national & International universities/Institutions and played a pivotal role in setting up Advanced Tire research and Engineering facilities within Apollo. Served 7 years in Apollo, Netherlands, to set up Global R&D for Passenger vehicle tires with local teams and currently serving at Global R&D, Asia at Chennai as Group –Head.

His newfound passion is electronics, sensors in tyres and attempting to make tyres to speak.

His interest is learning new cultures and building bridges between cultures.

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.

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 7 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.

He has worked in leading Automotive OEMs previously where he was responsible for Powertrain and Drivetrain Structures, Dynamic and Fluid simulations.

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 has been a part of SIMULIA, Dassault Systemes for the last 13 years. In her current role, she works predominantly with automotive customer both in four-wheeler and two-wheeler segments helping them establish best practices and new workflows. She manages a team of experts from multiple physics like structures, fatigue, and multibody dynamics. She also works closely with customers from various industries like civil construction & infrastructure. Her areas of interest are Electric Vehicles, nonlinear-mechanics, and optimization.

She holds a Master’s degree in Structural Engineering from IIT Kharagpur.

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.

Dhiraj NAHAR graduated in Mechanical Engineering and has been working with DASSAULT SYSTÈMES since 2003. He has 17 years of experience in CAD & CAE. At DASSAULT SYSTÈMES SIMULIA, Dhiraj has worked in multiple roles such as Customer Support Engineer, Quality Assurance, Software Development, Product Management. In all these years he has worked on developing CAD and simulation tools in our products and has worked with several key customers and strategic partnerships.Since the beginning of 2019, Dhiraj has been leading a WW team of design & simulation engineers who are responsible to create multi-physics industrial solutions using the DASSAULT SYSTÈMES 3DEXPERIENCE Platform. Along with his team, he works closely with our WW customers, understands their requirements and deploys our integrated modelling & simulation solutions in their environments, ultimately leading to substantial productivity gains for our customers.

Shigeto YASUHARA joined Honda R&D Co., Ltd. in 1996, beginning his career as an engineer specializing in collision safety testing. Over the years, he has contributed extensively to vehicle development, with a focus on collision safety performance and body weight reduction research.

In the past two years, he has been instrumental in laying the foundation for simulation-based vehicle development. He currently leads the development of body and exterior systems, as well as collision safety, within the BEV Development Center, part of the BEV Automobile Development Unit at Honda's BEV Development Division.

Vaibhav Adhikar has been working as an IPC at DS India, since 2023. He holds an M.Tech Degree in RF and Microwave Engineering from IIST Trivandrum and has over 5 years of industry experience in RF component design, including antenna design, radome integration, and EMI/EMC compliance. He interned at SCL, ISRO Chandigarh, contributing to waveguide-based passive devices for THz communication.

Mr Abdelhakim AISSAOUI is responsible for EMEAR and India in the deployment of Simulia's solutions for all industries. He joined Simulia and Dassault Systèmes with the acquisition of Exa, where he was Senior Director of PowerFLOW in India and Europe. Prior to that, he worked in the automotive industry at Jaguar Land-Rover in the UK for almost 6 years.

He has been involved in a number of vehicle programs including Evoque, Vogue and Jaguar models (XF, F-Type, and XJ). In these roles, he was involved in project development from the design phase through to detailed design and validation. He has contributed to some new projects in India, such as Mahindra Marazzo, XUV500 and TATA HARRIER, Nexon. Mr. Abdelhakim AISSAOUI obtained his MSc in fluid and solid mechanics at the Pierre Marie Curie University in association with ENS, Central Paris and IFP. In addition, he has participated in technical projects of excellence - from Warwick, Coventry and Grandfield University.

Dushyanth GALA holds a post-graduate degree in RF and Microwave Engineering (2022) and currently works as an Industry Process Consultant at Dassault Systèmes. With three years of experience, he has collaborated with clients across Transportation & Mobility and Aerospace & Defense sectors. His expertise spans applications such as antenna placement, EMI/EMC, and RCS analysis, enabling simulation-driven solutions to complex electromagnetic challenges.