List of Participating Speakers - The Machinist MES 2015
October 30, 2015, The LaLit Ashok Bangalore

CEO Panel Discussion: #Vision2020 - Indian Manufacturing Industry

ü  Anders Grundströmer, MD, Scania India and Senior VP, Scania Group
ü  Chandru Kalro, MD, TTK Prestige
ü  Thimmaiah NP, MD & CEO, Meritor India
ü  Kamal Bali, Board Member & MD, Volvo India Pvt. Ltd.
ü  Gopal Subramanyam, Executive Director, Ajax Fiori Engineering (I) Pvt. Ltd.

Moderated by Niranjan Mudholkar, Editor, The Machinist

Panel Discussion on Quality Management - Can a customer focused approach be taken to quality in production?

ü  Harald Friedrich, Plant Manager Bangalore & Head of Operations India, Continental Automotive Components (India) Pvt. Ltd.
ü  Ankur Gupta, Chief General Manager, Quality Assurance, Escorts Limited
ü  Chintala Maheshwar Reddy, VP - Operations, Toshiba Transmission & Distribution Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd.
ü  Suranjan Chatterjee, Plant Head, Hampson Industries
ü  Jiten Goswami, Chairman, Atlantic Lubricants & Specialities Pvt. Ltd.

Moderated by Shripad Ranade, Senior Principal - Automotive, Engineering & Infrastructure, TATA Strategic Management Group

Case Study on Green Manufacturing - Why Green is good for business.

ü  Hussain Shariyarr, Sr. VP - Operations, Godrej Appliances, Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd.

Case Study - ‘What it takes to create a Global & Innovative Product?

ü  Vice Admiral (Retd.) NN Kumar, Executive Director (Production), BrahMos Aerospace

Panel Discussion in IT in Manufacturing - Are we ready for Industry 4.0?

ü  Satish PV, Senior General Manager - Hyundai Autoever India
ü  Prakash Hegde, DGM IT, L&T India
ü  Jacob John, Director, Ajax Fiori Engineering
ü  Angadi VC, IT Head, Ashirvad Pipes Pvt Ltd.

Moderated by Shripad Ranade, Senior Principal - Automotive, Engineering & Infrastructure, TATA Strategic Management Group