Automotive Summit 2008 - Driving India's R & D Strategies Toward Becoming An Innovation Hub August 10, 2008

India has a well-established auto component manufacturing industry that supplies to leading global vehicle manufacturers and ancillaries and over the years, R&D has been one of the key drivers for enhancing the competitiveness of global economies. These global players are now involving Indian suppliers more closely in the design process, hoping that their design skills will improve and they'll eventually evolve into full service suppliers. These are responsible for designing and manufacturing of entire automotive systems.

In automobile industry this requires the combined efforts of researchers, technologists, business leaders, production engineers and above all the political systems. We need to get the much required attention from the global players to India as an Innovation hub. We need to approach the world in a more aggressive ways for outsourcing as India is the most appropriate place to do so economically and skilled manpower wise as well so that we can improve our standard worldwide.

Topics for discussion will include:

• New Trends in Technology and R&D in India
• Key driving forces in Indian Automotive
Industry
• Challenges Ahead for R&D in India
• Competitiveness of manufacturing globally
• Role and development of technology in the
auto industry of India and Worldwide
• R&D innovations in safety standards and
security
• Role of Biotechnology/alternate fuels in R&D
• Technology designing and software for
automotive industry
• Strengthening the domestic R&D capabilities
• New Product Development, Testing and
Validation
• Industry academia interactions and knowledge
exchange partnerships
• Investment in R & D (Private and Public)
• IT insights of Indian Auto Industry
• Government Initiatives, restrictions and
regulations
• Vehicular safety, emission & performance
standards
• Intellectual property rights
• Technology partnerships

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