ISA round table conference on "India's Role in Automotive Electronics" focused on emerging electronics in automobiles. The highlights of the conference were to address the growing need of sustaining new emission norms/better fuel efficiency and “going green”. This Round Table also focused on topics like safety/control/infotainment and on the role India is playing today in these respective areas. Delegates from prominent domestic design service companies and local auto component industries along with academic institutes discussed about the emerging trends and shortfalls the automotive electronics sector may pose. This Round Table concluded with a Q&A session that promised to provide possible solutions that would support and propel the Indian automobile industry to greater heights.

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SAP Summit 2008
Date: June 4-6, 2008
Venue: Grand Hyatt - Mumbai, India

SAP Summit 2008, was a unique cross-industry event that allowed networking with peers and offered learning opportunities from competitors. This was a launch pad event that facilitated management of customer, technology, people and business in an innovative way.

KPIT Cummins was a GOLD SPONSOR at this event and had a exhibite area showcasing our various service offerings at four different solution centers like (Chief Financial Officer center, Small & Medium Enterprise center, Automotive center and Industrial Machinery & Component/Hi-Tech center).

Featured speakers at SAP Summit ‘08

• Mr. Pravin Mulay (Vice President, Process Engineering and Six Sigma & Chief Risk Officer) along with Mr. Abdulgafur Mir. (Deputy General Manager - Corporate Finance, Watson Pharma) shared their thoughts on Governance, Risk and Compliance with SAP

Featured customers speak at SAP Summit ‘08

• Mr. Ramesh Shanmuganathan (Group Chief Information Officer, John Keells Holdings) shared his experience on a Successful BI implementation

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ISA Vision Summit, a flagship event garnered global interest as the key spot to network and gain, from industry ties. The theme of this years conference was ‘Evolving Domestic Market: Growth Driver for the Indian Electronics Industry’. Highlights of the Vision Summit included sessions addressing focused verticals like Telecom, IT & Office Automation and Networking platforms.

This Summit saw eminent speakers who are stalwarts in both design and manufacturing as also policy makers at the state and central level.

Featured speaker from KPIT Cummins at ISA Vision Summit ‘08 was none other than
Mr. Ravi Pandit (Chairman and Group CEO) who shared his insight on Incredible India - Creating New Growth Sectors for the Economy.

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Automotive Technology Days 2007 was organized by Nikkei BP, a leading publishing company for Automotive in Japan. The main theme of this event was “The latest Electronics Technology for bearing out the vehicle evolution” with focus on three different sub-themes; In-Vehicle Network, In-Vehicle Software and In-Vehicle ITS.

With several successful migrations of legacy code to model based designs done for world’s leading automotive OEMs, KPIT Cummins showcased its extensive capabilities in migration at the Automotive Technology Conference.

KPIT Cummins addressed following topics at the event:

• KPIT Cummins' Migration Capabilities
• Challenges faced in migration
• Relevance of this expertise for AUTOSAR migration
• Importance and challenges of Legacy code migration to AUTOSAR

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Three day conference and exhibition gathered more than 2000 design engineers, technical managers and vendors in an engaging, interactive environment that fostered learning and better understanding of embedded solutions.

It provided in-depth technical training for engineers relatively new to embedded design, all the way up to courses on cutting-edge technology applications and solutions for the most experienced designers.

KPIT Cummins showcased its creations in niche areas of automotive applications like driver safety, body electronics and engine management.

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SAE International Conference on Automotive Electronics & Intelligent Vehicles Initiative
Date: August 16 -18, 2007
Venue: Doddy's Rsort - Bangalore, India

This International Conference on Automotive Electronics and Intelligent Vehicle Initiative showcased some of the breakthroughs in automotive electronics and intelligent vehicles and highlighted the vast opportunities that existed in this sector. It was a forum of intellectual exchange through a series of lectures from eminent speakers and panelists who have made genuine contributions in this field.

This conference addressed latest applications such as Telematics, ITS, ETC, Engine Management, Power Train, Intelligent Transportation and steps to be taken for introducing Intelligent vehicles design initiative in India. Main focus was on development and introduction of ITS for effective implementation and embedded system components & modules.

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