Senior Scientist, CSIR – CSIO

Dr. Harry Garg is working as Principal Scientist in CSIR- CSIO Chandigarh, India. He received doctoral degree from PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh. His research interest includes Aerodynamic Design, Optical Design, Sun Light Guiding Systems, Mechanical Design, Development and calibration of opto-mechanical systems, micro scale heat transfer using nano-coolants and ferrofluid, CFD design and development for Aerodynamics.

Under strategic sector he is working on design & development of cockpit instrumentation since last 16 years and recently in civilian sector he has developed Fruit Lypholiser, Modular Honey harvesting & extraction system.He has developed Head Up Displays and working on futuristic and spin off technologies of the HUD. He has very vast experience of Aerodynamics, Optical design & fabrication, Mechanical Engineering & Integration and Calibration & harmomization of Aircraft Structures. Besides Head Up Display design, he designed Bore Sighting Equipment, LED based Aircraft Wing and Fin Navigation, Taxi and Landing Lights, Aiming Telescopes, Optical Gun Sights, Mounting Platforms, Optical Display, Harmonization and LED lights test platforms, etc. as per environmental test requirements as per various applicable military standards such as MIL-STD 810G, 704-D etc.

Currently, he is working on the next generation Head Up Display for National Aircrafts such as Intermediate Jet Trainer Aircraft named as Hindustan Jet Trainer (HJT-36), LCA Tejas-Air Force/Navy, Jaguar Darin-II up gradation, LCA Mk2 (AF), LCA MK2 (Navy), Hawki and SuKoi-MK-I. He has special interest in RPT modelling, fabrication, Assembly and Integration with optical instruments and their evaluation.

He has won various awards such as SIATI award-2011 by Aeronautical Society, Skotch merit and Gold awards-2017 by Skotch Foundation, CSIR Technology award-2018 etc.

He has guided more than 10 Ph.D, 35 Mtech Students, more than 100 Btech students. He has more than 50 publications in International journals.

Chief Executive Officer, Foundation for Innovation & Research at SASTRA Technology Business Incubator

Sridharan has over 21 years of global experience in the field of Manufacturing, Automotive, Engineering Consulting, Information Technology and associated domains. Worked with large corporates like Tata Motors, Timken & Wipro Technologies over past 2 decades including International assignments based out Chicago and Stockholm.

Sridharan is passionate about digital technologies such as Digital Product Simulation, 3D Printing, Internet of Things, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality so on and is a veteran in Industry 4.0 domain globally.

Sridharan has established world class, Industry grade 3D Printing setup at SASTRA Deemed University’s Technology Business Incubator with help of Department of Science & Technology, Govt of India.

He has integrated 3D Printing as part of SASTRA Deemed University’s engineering curriculum apart from conducting numerous certification courses and workshops on 3D Printing over past two years. He is playing pivotal role in bringing in digital technology education to Indian academic system and has collaborated with Facebook for Virtual Reality course, Freshworks for SaaS course and Google for Google’s Cloud Certification Program.

Sridharan holds M.Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering from prestigious Indian Institute of Kanpur.

Program Director, Wipro 3D

Dr. U. Chandrasekhar, is a researcher and an academician with extensive insights in
aero gas turbine engines and additive manufacturing. After his early education in NIT Suratkal and IIT, Madras he worked in DRDO in various capacities rising to the rank of Additional Director – GTRE & Scientist G

During his stint at DRDO (1986-2013), he led two national projects in the areas of rapid prototyping and thin film sensors as the Project Director. He set up India’s first-ever Additive Manufacturing Laboratory at GTRE in 1997 and carried out several projects related to rapid prototyping of aero systems. In 2011, he led a large group of scientists in flight testing of a turbojet engine at the Central Institute of Aviation Motors, Moscow.

For his contribution in the field of additive manufacturing, he received a commendation medal from the ministry of defence. He received a Gold Medal from Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam for his academic performance at IIT Madras.

During 2013-2015, he served the Institution of Engineers (India) as the Secretary & Director General and fostered several teaching-learning methods based on 3D printing. Subsequently he worked as a visiting professor in IIT Bombay. He completed an international collaboration project with Victoria University, Canada in structural health monitoring using drones.

He delivered keynote talks as the expert speaker in several international platforms and was invited by the Taiwan University President’s Forum to represent India in South Asian summit SATU-2018.

Currently he is the Program Director in Wipro 3D with overall focus on capacity building and enterprise-adoption of metal additive manufacturing.

He is on the editorial board of the Internal Journal of Rapid Prototyping and also the Springer Journal for Mechanical Engineering. He mentors a few startups in 3DP in a DST supported IEDC. He serves on the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) for promoting outcome based education.

Mananging Director, Accreate Additive Labs

Ravi Shankar S N leads Accreate Labs as its Managing Director. Accreate Labs is a design innovation and 3D printing company focused on Aerospace and Life Sciences. Ravi has over three decades of experience and has worked in senior executive roles in companies such as Siemens and IBM. He is currently doing pioneering work, establishing collaborations that would broaden and make 3D Printing mainstream in the near future in Life Sciences. He has done a specialised course in 3D Printing(Additive Manufacturing) form Illinois University. He is trained on Mimics Innovations Suite by Materialise BV, Netherlands. He is known for his unique expertise in Bio Printing. He is leading many pathbreaking research engagements with a leading medical research centre of a deemed university. His familiarity in Global best practices pertaining to use of 3D printing in life sciences has helped kick off many engagements with hospitals and doctors in India.

Ravi Shankar is the lead inventor for the patent on 3D Printed Self actuating Expandable pressure based prosthetic arm. This is a futuristic product, now being tried out in the Indian market. He has also published many articles and research papers, including on ‘Role of Bio Printing in accelerating translational Research’. He is a certified Industry Thought Leader(Platinum) and has consulted to best in class clients globally.

In his previous roles, he also started up a successful business unit in Siemens Information Systems Limited(now Atos) on Aviation and build global delivery teams working on projects across Asia Pacific and Europe. He has contributed heavily in the modernizing of Indian private airports, by leading the IT and Automation systems and their integration at private airports such as Bangalore, Hyderabad and Delhi.

Professor, Coimbatore Institute of Technology

Dr. Rajesh Ranganathan is currently working Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India. Working at CIT, he heads the Advanced Integrated Manufacturing & Management Research Group (AIMMRG) at CIT, and Director for “Centre of Excellence in Manufacturing Sciences” only center in India funded by Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Government of India. Dr Rajesh holds various projects accounting close to 11.62 Crores. Dr Rajesh for his outstanding work on diabetic foot management, received an “Young Scientist Award” from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He is integrated with Loughborough University, Imperial College London, and University of Sheffield in UK.

His research interest includes developing novel body fitted custom products, surgical tools and decision analysis for healthcare industry using AM. Currently he holds 2 national level and 2 US patents on custom diabetic foot, 2 national level patents on bed ulcers.

He is guiding researchers in the area of AM and has about 42 journal publications, 2 international patents, 4 national level patents and authored a book “Rapid Manufacturing – as an enabling technology in supply chain improvements” VDM Verlag Dr. Müller e.K, publisher, Germany, ISBN 978-3-639-24820-3 © Amazon – US and Europe. Dr Rajesh obtained his doctoral degree in Additive Manufacturing, from Loughborough University, England, UK. During his PhD, he was with the World’s leading research group “Rapid Manufacturing Research Group”.

Sr. Application Specialist, Stratasys

Sathish Kumar is the Sr. Application Engineer for Stratasys India & SEA. He has more than 13 years of experience and specialized in Product optimization, Lightweight Design and Additive Manufacturing.

Prior to Stratasys he was worked with John Deere as an Enterprise Core Technical team member for Lightweight Materials and Additive Manufacturing. He received multiple awards which includes “Enterprise Innovation Award” and “Apex Award for India Innovation” for his contribution towards Intellectual Property and ICME (Integrated Computational Materials Engineering) approach for Cost reduction projects. He has 6 Invention Disclosures, 2 Patent filed, and 1 Patent granted. He has extensive experience in the manufacturing industry and in entire product development phase from concept design to production. Prior to John Deere, he worked with Satyam Venture and Rane Diecast Limited.

Sathish completed his M. Tech – Design Engineering degree from BITS, Pilani and Specialization in Tool Design from NTTF.

Director, CIIRC (Centre for Incubation, Innovation, Research and Consultancy)

Mr. Krishna Venkatesh a GATE scholar, Mechanical Engineer by profession and an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore holds a Ph.D. in Nanoengineering. He has over 25 years of Industrial, Research, Academic, Consultancy and Administrative experience. He is currently the Founder Director of CIIRC which is a joint initiative of the Sri Sharadha Peetham Sringeri and Jyothy Institute of Technology and has established research cum incubation labs in 18 different domains of Science & Technology alongside the Atal Incubation Centre from Niti Aayog, GoI and Woman Tech Business Incubator from GoK. He is also the Visvesvaraya Technological University Executive Council Member, Member, Karnataka Knowledge Commission (UAS) and Steering Committee Member TUV Rhineland, Germany.

During his two-decade career he has worked with NAL, BEML, IISc, DRDO, Visvesvaraya Technological University and Jain University in different capacities. As Special Officer of VTU he was responsible for numerous trans-national initiatives to set up academic and research programmes with the likes of Honeywell for Avionics, FESTO for Mechatronics, Diamant for Tribology and others. At Jain University he was responsible in shaping numerous initiatives and held concurrent roles as the Dean and Director of Research and Engineering having been the Founder Director. He was also responsible for the Technology Business Incubator funded by DST and Alstom from France being its CEO and a FIST center from DST for an Advanced Instrument Facility. Additionally, he established the TUV Rheinland Energy programme.

He has also completed numerous research projects and has been instrumental in CIIRC getting projects funded by DRDO, DOS, DST, DBT, DAE, VGST, DIC, MOES, NCAOR and private bodies. Venkatesh has numerous research publications, citations, products, monographs, book chapters and patents (filed) to his credit and has been conferred with awards from Diamant of Germany, KSCST, Honeywell, Indian Institution of Engineers and others. Additionally, he also happens to be the Director of Drone Aerospace a company that is into the development of Micro Air Vehicles. Drone Aero represented India at The US Army technology demonstration for Micro Air Vehicles and Unmanned ground vehicles and finished in the top 10 from competitors competing worldwide in 2008 and Drone Aero won the 2014 edition of National Programme on Micro Air Vehicles (NP-MICAV) event in mission mode sponsored by DRDO and CSIR.

His research interest includes Tribology, Autonomous Systems and Energy. He is also a fellow of various professional bodies like IEI, TSI, ISAMPE, IIPE and others besides having been a delegate to various countries as part of FICCI, GoK etc. An avid sports person he also represented the State and University in his younger years as a swimmer and is the recipient of many awards. Besides he is also into white water rafting and spice farming.

Assistant Professor – Dept.of Design, IIT Hyderabad

Prasad S. Onkar is currently working as Assistant Professor in Department of Design at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad. Before joining IIT Hyderabad, he had also worked as Assistant Professor at IIT Guwahati and Visiting Researcher at Virtual Prototyping Lab at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. His bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree is in Mechanical Engineering from Karnatak University Dharwad, India and he has Masters (M. Tech.) in Product Design and Manufacturing from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, India. He did his Doctoral Research (Ph.D.) in the area of Computer-aided Conceptual Design and sketch based interfaces from Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing (CPDM), Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru, India. His research interests include Design theory and methodologies, Design for Additive Manufacturing, Design Cognition, Virtual Reality and Haptics. He teaches courses related to Digital Fabrication, 3D Printing, Product Design, Experience Design.

Vice-President, Electric Vehicles and eMobility Solutions, Ashok Leyland

Mr. Sundaresan has been an entrepreneur and a technology innovator. He finds the challenges of conceiving, nurturing and realizing products or processes or organizations fulfilling and enjoyable. A mechanical engineer by education – UG at IIT Madras and PG at Stanford University, past experiences range from developing hermetic compressors, sheet metal engineering, plant and business digitalization, systems engineering, digital twin, and embedded software development tools. Involved in two start-ups – one wilted, the other grafted into a mega MNC. Currently as the Vice-President, Electric Vehicles and eMobility Solutions at Ashok Leyland is responsible for developing electric vehicle aggregates, and related digital solutions and services.

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Accreate Additive Labs

Ravi Seshadri is Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Accreate Additive Labs. Accreate Labs provides design innovation and 3D printing services for Aerospace-Defence and Life Sciences industries. Ravi Seshadri has over two decades of experience and has worked in senior executive roles in companies such as IATA, IBM. He has deep expertise in airline operations and is a certified global fuel auditor for commercial airliners. Apart from obtaining an advanced certification in 3D Printing from Illinois University and training from Materialise BV, Netherlands, Ravi holds B.E. degree from NIT Trichy, PGDM from IIM Lucknow and MBA from INSEAD France/Singapore. Currently Ravi is leading pioneering work to push the envelope for 3D printing into new areas for application in aerospace such as nanosatellites, space suits, manned missions etc.

Ravi Seshadri has partnered or led several IP-generating activities in his previous and current roles. His latest patent is on 3D-printed fixed-wing UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) with modular, hybrid-propulsion, and rapid-assembling functionalities.

Scientist F, CAIR – DRDO

Dr. P. Murali Krishna has received B.Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Hyderabad in the year 1993, M.Tech degree in CAD/CAM from National Institute of Engineering (NIE), Mysore University in the year 1995 and received PhD in Quadruped Robots from IIT Hyderabad in Feb 2015. Since Jan1999 he is working in Robotics Group at CAIR, Bangalore. He has been involved in the mechanical design and realization of robotic arms and mobile robotic platforms. He has specifically designed and developed quadruped robot for logistics support. He has developed a mobile robot with hybrid legged-wheeled locomotion.

He authored and co-authored more than 25 technical papers in International Journals/International Conferences. He is the member of Robotics Society of India (RSI), Additive Manufacturing Society of India (AMSI), IEEE and Special Interest Group on Micro Air Vehicles (SIGMA).

Received two awards, Best Techno Managerial Services/ Popular science communication and Technology Group Award.

Panel member for PGD-18 sectional committee on Robotics of BIS and Panel member for the program on 3D printing organized by NAFEMS.

His research interests include analysis and design of autonomous robots. He is currently working on quadruped robot, multi agent robotics system and additive manufacturing.

President of South Asia, Stratasys

Based in Shanghai, Michael Agam is the President of South Asia of Stratasys, where he leads the team in Greater China, South East Asia, India, Australia and New Zealand to drive the industry application of 3D printing technology.

He has over 15 years of relevant working experience in diverse businesses, with management and technical expertise in the IT space. He also has a strong track record in a fast-growing international business environment.

As an Industry 4.0 expert, Michael has successfully designed and delivered smart manufacturing, big data, and AI solutions for various legacy industries. He is recognized by his peers as a change agent and a problem solver.

Before joining Stratasys, Michael served in management positions in leading companies such as New Hope Data and MNC Solutions. With duties covering the full scope of P & L, finance, sales, HR, operations, and IR, he successfully communicated a strong vision, mission, and strategy, defined focused goals, and managed the planning and execution, demonstrating his strong executive leadership.

He graduated from The College of Management of Academic Studies (The COLLMAN), and was awarded a Bachelor of Laws degree and then a Master’s degree in Business Administration. He speaks English, Hebrew, Spanish, and Chinese.

Scientist/Engineer-D, Biomedical Technology Wing, SCTIMST,Govt of India

Mr. Sarath S Nair is a Scientist/Engineer-D at Biomedical Technology Wing, SCTIMST an R&D organization under Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. He is engaged in the research and development of artificial organs and lifesaving medical devices such as Artificial Heart, LVAD, Blood flow meters, Wireless energy transfer, Patient warmers, Point of Care diagnostic devices. He has a post-graduation in Electrical & Electronics Engineering with First rank gold medal from National Institute of Technology Calicut and has more than 10 years of experience in the field of medical device development. He has previously worked with multinational companies such as GE Healthcare, L&T. He has filed 10 patents and transferred 4 indigenously developed technologies to Industries for commercialization which include, Vein viewer, Transportable infant warmers etc.

Vice President Global Customer Support, Stratasys

Gal Manor-Peleg has over 20 years’ experience in leading diverse global support and field operations with multi-disciplinary teams. Extensive international experience in commercial and diplomatic sectors in EMEA, APAC and USA including establishing and maintaining positive relations between Israeli companies and Asian, European and North American organizations. Highly proficient in crisis and escalation management with proven track record in designing, building and implementing innovative organizational and service-based solutions.

He holds a EMBA from Troy State University (Hong Kong).

President & Chief Technology Officer of Ashok Leyland Ltd.

Dr N Saravanan, President & Chief Technology Officer of Ashok Leyland Ltd. He heads the R&D for Ashok Leyland.  In this role, he heads a team of over 1500 engineers in the Ashok Leyland Technical Centre. He has over 25 years of experience in the automotive industry. Prior to joining Ashok Leyland, he worked in Ford Motor Company and Intel Corporation. He has a Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from University of Florida and MBA from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Dr Saravanan serves on a number of SIAM (Society of Indian Automotive Manufactures), CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) & Government Panels related to the Automotive Industry, Innovation and Skill Development and was co-chair of the CMVR & Safety Regulations group that is responsible for formulating the new safety regulations for the Automotive Industry in India.

He is passionate about skill development and mentoring and enjoys running and cycling.

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Accreate Additive Labs

Ravi Seshadri is Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Accreate Additive Labs. Accreate Labs provides design innovation and 3D printing services for Aerospace-Defence and Life Sciences industries. Ravi Seshadri has over two decades of experience and has worked in senior executive roles in companies such as IATA, IBM. He has deep expertise in airline operations and is a certified global fuel auditor for commercial airliners. Apart from obtaining an advanced certification in 3D Printing from Illinois University and training from Materialise BV, Netherlands, Ravi holds B.E. degree from NIT Trichy, PGDM from IIM Lucknow and MBA from INSEAD France/Singapore. Currently Ravi is leading pioneering work to push the envelope for 3D printing into new areas for application in aerospace such as nanosatellites, space suits, manned missions etc.

Ravi Seshadri has partnered or led several IP-generating activities in his previous and current roles. His latest patent is on 3D-printed fixed-wing UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) with modular, hybrid-propulsion, and rapid-assembling functionalities.

Project Design Leader – Prototyping, Schneider Electric

Total 12+ years of experience in Product design and development . Leading a team of engineers dedicated for Prototyping.

Director General, Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College

Dr R.K. Agarwal, Director General, Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College has an exceptionally brilliant academic background with B.Tech from IIT Kanpur, M.S. from CIT, Cranfield, UK and PhD from IISc Bangalore. During his illustrious career of nearly three decades in the Indian Air Force and Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO), he has held various key appointments including Chief Engineering Officer of an Operational Base, Director (Engg) at Air HQ and Project Director at Centre for Airborne Systems. His vast managerial, administrative, research and academic experience includes teaching assignments at Air Force Technical College and nine years of pioneering R&D work on the prestigious AWACS project in DRDO. He has also been a member of the Aeronautical Research & Development Board (ARDB) panel for approval and review of sponsored research projects at various centres of Excellence established at IITs and CSIR Laboratories.

He is the recipient of the coveted Royal Aeronautical Society (UK) award for academic excellence at CIT and a citation with cash award by DRDO for his contribution to the design and development of Airborne Early Warning aircraft, culminating in its maiden flight.

After taking voluntary retirement in 2004, he decided to contribute in the field of technical education and is associated with Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College (AKGEC), Ghaziabad since then. He has been persistently working towards setting new benchmarks in academic excellence as well as innovation and industry–academia interface to make the students globally competitive and self-employable.

Under the guidance of Dr. Agarwal, the college has not only been consistently maintaining exceptional results and placements but has also made significant progress in research, innovation and industry relevant consultancy projects. A number of initiatives and collaborative ventures with eminent multi-national companies have lead to establishment of many multi-disciplinary, high technology industry relevant facilities.

He has been working towards promoting industry academia collaborations in the region through deep involvement with various industrial associations and organizations like the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) and Ghaziabad Management Association (GMA).

He has been the President of GMA (2015-17), Member of CII western UP zonal council since 2012 and is also member of the CII Northern Region Committee on Startup & Entrepreneurship (2017-18).

Marketing Director of Global Education & Design, Stratasys

Gina Scala is Stratasys’ director of worldwide education where she works to listen to the voice of the education customer and translate that into meaningful marketing messages and product solutions that match their needs across the Stratasys portfolio. She co-authored the Stratasys Additive Manufacturing Certification and works to advocate for learning by making with 3D printing. Prior to this role, she served as VP of Education at the DMA. Scala holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from Pennsylvania State University, an MA in special education from The College of New Jersey and she is a credentialed teacher in the state of NJ.

Head of COC – Mechanical Engineering at CREAT, UNO Minda Group

Post Diploma in Tool Design with distinction from NTTF ,Dharwad.
Tool Engineering with distinction from CTTC, an Indo-Danish Institute, Bhubaneswar
18+ years of product design & development experience with leading automotive Tier-1s – Minda Industries Ltd. , BEHR (I) Ltd., Visteon –India & Germany.

Has been associated with UNO-Minda group from 2017 as head of Center of competencies – Mechanical Design Engineering at Technology Center in Pune .Is responsible for Product Design & Development , New product Incubation, Technology research ,CAD/CAE & PLM for the Advance Electronics Domain of the company .
His earlier association was with Leading Tier-1s like BEHR(I) Ltd. and Visteon Corporation-India and Germany where he has worked in different capacities for design and development of Automotive Comfort and Thermal Management systems .
Has broader experience in Business development, Program Management, Operational Excellence, Engineering Services ,Business Transition ,Customer value creation and Team Building.

DGM Design Studio, Maruti Suzuki Design Studio

Alumni of IISc- Bangalore, Saurabh completed his Masters in Product Design in the year 1999. From the beginning itself, he was passionate and had a strong inclination towards transportation design. After working on tractors, commercial buses & special purpose vehicles at Swaraj group, in early 2003 he joined India’s leading automobile company Maruti Suzuki India Pvt Ltd as a creative designer. This fuelled his love for car design that is going stronger by each passing year. In last 16 years with Maruti Saurabh played a key role in designing cars such as Esteem, Omni, Estilo, WagonR and Alto facelifts. In the year 2008 he worked as a lead exterior designer for Maruti’s first ever Concept car: A-Star and was awarded “Young achiever of the Year” – by Auto Monitor for the same. In the year 2012 all New Alto 800 was launched under his guidance as a Project lead.

After serving important positions in various functions of Design, he was appointed as head of MSIL Design Studio in 2014. Under his creative guidance, design team has matured well and have been designing award winning products like Maruti’s first ever Urban SUV Vitara Brezza and recently launched S-Presso, which are in-house productions. He has always shown a strong committed towards increasing the design capability in the country and chairs SIAM’s Styling & Design group for various initiatives for design students and professionals.
Saurabh’s love for mobility goes beyond 4 wheels as he actively pursue his passion for mountain & road cycling during his spare time. And has also won many accolades for the same.

Senior Operations Manager, Flash Orthodontics

Dr. Sadaf Shaikh has been associated with Flash Orthodontics as Senior Operations Manager from the last two years. Previously she was Operations Manager at HealthSaverz, an online pharmacy which was taken over by Pharmeasy at a very early stage. She has always been associated with the healthcare sector starting from Parakh Hospitals Pvt. Ltd. where she was the Chief Operating Officer. She had also started Parakh institute of Health Sciences in the hospital where she taught students who were studying nursing. She has a total of 9 years of professional work experience. Se holds a bachelor’s degree in Dental Surgery from Terna Dental College and post graduate diploma from ICRI, Mumbai in Healthcare Management. She also has a post graduate certificate in Business Analytics and Business Intelligence from Great Lakes Institute of Management in association with Stuart School of Business, Illinois.

Manager – Business Excellence, Honda Cars India Ltd. [HICL]

Mr. Bhushan Chandna has rich experience of 22 years in the domain of automotive manufacturing. He has been working with Honda cars India from last 12 Years. He has Worked as Maintenance & safety Head Of Department of Plastic object Department where he was responsible for heading the Facility installation of Plastic object department, Maturation of Safety & Maintenance management systems at the department, Successful implementation of low cost TFM system. Since 2008 Mr. Chandna is working as Manager in business Excellence where his core objectives are Introduction of “low cost automation”, Introduction of IOT based projects, Innovation & improvements in the existing processes, successful implementation of PM Pillar at Greater Noida unit

Engineering Manager – Manufacturing Engineering, GM Technical Centre India

Saravanakumar Shanmugam is having 20 years of experience in Production, Assembly Simulation, Body Simulation, CAE and Ergonomics etc. In his current capacity, he is working as Engineering Manager – Manufacturing Engineering in GM Technical Centre India, Bangalore responsible for Additive Manufacturing and Virtual Engineering. He is holding a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Govt. College of Technology, Coimbatore and Master’s degree in Product Design from PSG College of Technology, Coimba-tore. His areas of interest include Future Technologies, Industry 4.0, Additive Manufacturing etc

Senior Manager – Product Design, PSG TIFAC CORE

E.Sreedhar Kumar is Senior Manager in PSG TIFAC CORE in Product Design, PSG College of Technology. He is basically Post graduate in Industrial Chemistry from Bharathidhasan University, Trichi. He is having more than 28 years of service in various industries and academic institutions. His area of interest is product design. He started his career with MRF Tyre division, Chennai as R&D Executive for four years and later he was in architectural designing.

He was in charge for designing and production in a 100% Export Oriented Jewelry production unit M/s. Alapatt Exports, Kochi for 8 years. He was heading the Department of Jewellery Design & Technology (a collaborative project of JSS Mahavidyapeetha, Mysore & World Gold Council, UK) at JSS Mahavidyapeetha, Mysore and he was CEO for JSS Advanced Design & Technology Centre (a project developed under ASIDE Scheme of Govt of India) located at JSS Academy of Technical Education, Bangalore.

He is in engineering product development for last 12 years.  He also strongly involved in Technical Signs preparation (for teaching) for hearing impaired diploma level engineering students. He also involved in many research and development projects sponsored by various Govt organization to the level of Principal Investigator and also conducted many design oriented workshops for various crafts like Jewelry, wood carving, etc., in association with different organization.  He was strongly involved in rehabilitation project of silver craft artisans in Belgaum region of Karnataka in association with Centre for Entrepreneurship Development of Karnataka (CEDOK), Govt of Karnataka during the year 2006.   At present he is working with PSG Institutions as Senior Manager at PSG TIFAC CORE in Product Design.

Health Tech, Symbiosis Centre for Entrepreneurship & Innovation (SCEI)

Dr. Nishant Tikekar is Head – Health Tech at Symbiosis Centre for Entrepreneurship & Innovation (SCEI), where he heads the DST funded Technology Business Incubator to enable formation of start-ups & provide guidance to the point of commercialization. This includes directing bright innovators of diverse backgrounds to generate revue from novel customer-centric products & solutions. He graduated in Metallurgical Engineering from VNIT Nagpur in 1999; followed by Masters & PhD from the University of Utah, USA in 2007. His thesis was published as a book by Lambert, and also led to a commercial product – dual-layered boride coated titanium orthopedic implant – licensed to a US company (Ortho Development Corporation). After that, he worked at Ohio State University on a joint project with University of Iowa to determine the root causes of failures of explanted hip joints, funded by NIH (National Institute of Health, USA) during 2009-2014. Dr. Nishant also has five years’ experience in the medical industry in the USA (Amedica and DuPont), where he was involved in product, process and business development. In particular, silicone-nitride based spinal implants developed by him have received FDA approvals, launched in market, and generated millions of dollars savings & revenue. At BETiC, IIT Bombay; Dr. Nishant was leading an inter-disciplinary group of innovators developing the technology and business model to design, fabricate and deliver customer-specific orthopaedic implants. This included anatomy models, surgery jigs and bio-compatible implants for the maxillofacial, hip and knee joints. He is an expert in lean manufacturing, especially for medical sector, and is a Six Sigma Green Belt certified professional. He has also been a member of several professional societies, published more than 20 peer-reviewed articles in internationally acclaimed journals, and won awards for presentations in conferences.

Medical Models Product Manager, Stratasys

Ben Klein serves as the product manager of medical modeling in Stratasys, leading both product development and go to market in this segment.He leads a team dedicated to tailoring solutions and workflows that enable the use of high end 3D printing solutions in hospitals and medical device companies.Mr. Klein joined Objet Geometires in 2011, initially serving as a senior applications engineer to enable adoption of 3D printing in various industries. Previously he served as clinical engineer for a leading medical visualization company.

He holds a Bsc. In Biomedical engineering from Ben Gurion university in Israel.

Scientist, Department of Neurosurgery, AIIMS (All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences)

Dr. Ramandeep Singh has been awarded Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi in 2018. He is currently working as Scientist-B at Department of Neurosurgery, All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. Dr. Raman is working in the area of Surgical Instrumentation, Surgical Simulation and Surgical Skills Evaluation. He has published 4 patent applications, 10 papers in international peer reviewed journals and 15 papers in conference proceedings.

He has been awarded the Pfizer IIT Delhi Innovation and IP Program with incubation at Biotechnology Business Incubation Facility (BBIF), IIT Delhi. He is presently working on the development of physical simulation models for training of minimally invasive surgical procedures and sensor-based evaluation of surgical skills. Besides that, he is actively engaged in projects related to the development of biomedical instrumentation for rehabilitation, geriatrics and physiology.

Research Interests: Medical Image Segmentation, Computer Aided Modeling, 3D Scanning and Printing, Digital Signal Processing and Embedded Systems.

Associate Consultant Dept. of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Medanta-The Medicity

M.D.S – K.L.E Belgaum
Fellowship in Microvascular Surgery- Ganga Hospital Coimbatore
Fellowship in Craniofacial Surgery – Medanta The Medicity Haryana

Areas of Interest:
Reconstructive Microsurgery
Maxillofacial surgery
Facial plastic surgery

Achievements:
Designing and execution of the first 3d printed vertebrae in India
Extensive work in 3D planning and printing in cranio-maxillofacial surgery
Various publications in peer reviewed journals

President and Patron-in-Chief – Ganpat University

Shri Ganpat Iswarbhai Patel is the President and Patron-in-Chief of Ganpat University, a higher education university located in the Mehsana district of North Gujarat. Shri Patel is globally recognized
professionally for his contributions in the field of electrical engineering and personally for his philanthropy, especially relating to his endeavors in higher education. He firmly believes in “विद्याया समाजोत्कर्ष”.

Ganpatbhai Patel is the son of Shri Iswarbhai Patel and Smt Menaben Patel from the Patidar community. He was born in the village of Bhunav in North Gujarat on 12th January, 1945. After completing his primary education in Government School in Bhunav, Shri Patel moved to Junagadh and completed his post matric from M.G. Science College of Ahmedabad. In 1965, at the age of 20, Shri Patel moved to the United States of America to pursue his dreams of higher education leaving behind his wife Smt Manjuben Patel and unborn daughter, Rita. He was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from California Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Head of Innovation labs and CSR Operation, Stratasys

He is the Head of innovation labs and CSR operation at Stratasys, Inc. at his previous position as the director for academic research he shaped and manage products, created the first global 3D printing curriculum that is implemented in universities worldwide and the first Certification for additive manufacturing. He is presently a lecturer at IDC Media School focused on tangible UX, UI with digital fabrication and programming. Ohad is also the CTO of IdeaHub that focus on learning by making by developing deep learning skills in China. Establish and run the Israeli FabLab network and an instructor since 2011 at the global Fab Academy Diploma course for Digital Fabrication where you can learn how to make almost anything. His research projects include exploring the relationship between digital fabrication, education and its social impact, and check how those new technologies can shape our daily life and the way we manufacture today. And the relation between personal fabrication and collective composition.

Sr. Application Specialist, Stratasys

Prashant Sinha is the Pre-Sales & Sr. Application Engineer for Stratasys India. He holds a B.S Engg. degree from BITS, PILANI and Specialization in Tool Design from YMCA Institute of Engineering. He has more than 20+ years of experience in Mechanical Product Design , Tool Design and Manufacturing.

Prior to Stratasys he was worked with Hitech Gears as Head- Manufacturing Services, Poonam Spark Pvt Ltd as Technical Director.

He has expertise in Product design, Manufacturing –Expertise in setting up Tool-Room, CNC machine shop, Injection Moulding, Press Tooling , Project Management, Project Coordination, Engineering Change Management, Value-addition, Prototyping, Testing & Validation of new products. He is well versed in rationalization of materials, Manufacturing Techniques and its Parameters. Spearheading need analysis for new products development focusing on large and global customer.

Designing competitive strategy, giving customer a better value proposition and forming strategic alliances for new product Development across globe. Drive NPI, Product / Process improvement, Six Sigma & Value Engineering and contribute significantly for development of industrial scenarios, with a global overview of the inputs (Supply chain, Plants Location, Local suppliers), New Product Introduction & Development – from concept to Market. Few of the projects developed under his leadership were Special purpose vehicle for European market, Cost Benchmark software, and Mobile Case Flow System for ware house management system.

Director of Products, Applications and Technology, Stratasyss

Fred Fischer is the Director of Products, Applications and Technology at Stratasys AP Ltd., overseeing applications engineering, product management and market development in the South Asia region.

With more than 20 years’ experience in additive manufacturing industry, Fred has led global initiatives in application training, education and channel partner enablement, promoting various 3D printing solutions and contributing to the development of new applications across different segments worldwide and in Asia.

Fred has served in different roles at Stratasys, both in the United States and in Asia, including applications and materials product director, business development director, sales channel manager, marketing manager and product manager, making him an all-rounded 3D printing solutions expert in addition to being an experienced engineer.

Fred holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Stout. He is a frequent trainer and speaker at domestic and international events related to rapid prototyping and digital manufacturing.

Vice President, EMEA and APJ Head of Materials Business, Stratasys

Zehavit Reisin is Vice President, EMEA and APJ Head of Materials Business.

Head of Rapid Prototyping Solution Business Unit between 2016 and September 2018.

Stratasys Vice President, Materials Business Unit between 2012 – 2016. Brings over 20 years of the project, product and business management experience in the printing industry (Scitex, Creo, Kodak), including over 11 years’ experience in 3D printing for Stratasys. Holds a MA and BA in Physics from Tel Aviv University and is a graduate of the Senior Business Management course at Recanati Graduate School for Business Administration at Tel Aviv University.

Executive Vice President EMEA & APJ, Stratasys

An industry veteran with nearly two decades of senior leadership experience, Guy Yair serves as Executive Vice President of EMEA and Asia Pacific and Japan. Appointed to this position in 2017, Yair is currently responsible for driving company strategy and go-to-market across these key regions. Prior to Stratasys, he acted as Chief Executive Officer at Jacada. Yair was also part of the senior leadership team at WiMAX technology leader Alvarion, Ltd. and championed enterprise sales at Bynet Data Communications as the company’s Executive Vice President of Sales.

Yair earned an MBA from Recanati Business School, Tel Aviv University.

Managing Director, India & SEA, Stratasys

Rajiv Bajaj is the Managing Director of Stratasys India and SEA. With over 18 years of experience in the technology industry, Rajiv leads Stratasys India team to drive sustainable growth of the 3D printing business in the region.

Prior to this, Rajiv was the Country Manager at Autodesk India and SAARC, heading the Manufacturing Solutions business unit and managing the growth strategy across different industry segments. Under his leadership, Autodesk redefined its strategy for the automotive industry and backed by niche solutions and focused partners, significantly expanded business and thought leadership with the automotive OEM and component supplier verticals. Rajiv has also held positions with leading Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) companies including Dassault Systemes and PTC, playing an instrumental role in sales and channel management.

Rajiv has extensive experience in the manufacturing industry, serving as an expert speaker at industry forums across India, such as the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers’ Association (IMTMA) and the Global Manufacturing Cluster Vision (GMCV) 2020, driving thought leadership and promoting efficient factory design for manufacturing excellence.

Rajiv completed his Leadership and Strategy program from the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow and holds a Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering.