Have been with Maruti Suzuki for the last 36 years, in different roles and positions in Product Development, Engineering and Production Engineering functions.

Mr. Dharmarajan is Executive Vice President & Managing Director - Manufacturing Intelligence India. In this role, Mr. Dharmarajan is responsible for the India sales operations for the Metrology and Production Software portfolios, as well as MSC Software and Q-DAS. He also oversees the MSC Software Indo-Pacific regional business operations across India, ASEAN, Australia, and New Zealand. He joined MSC in 2007 establishing the company’s first sales office in the region. Before MSC Software Corporation, Mr. Dharmarajan was responsible for successfully setting up the MatrixOne operations in India. Prior to MatrixOne, he worked with Wipro and SDRC (now Siemens PLM). At SDRC he was the recipient of numerous technical & sales excellence awards and played a vital role in the success of SDRC in the country.  Mr. Dharmarajan completed his MS in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. He is based in Bangalore and calls the garden city his home.

Patrick currently serves as the Director of Global Business Development for Hexagon Platform Solutions, helping to build a global delivery network to implement innovative technology in the world's largest industrial companies. Patrick has spent the last six years partnering with industrial clients to create and deliver digital transformation initiatives through cloud computing and enterprise mobility. Patrick believes it is paramount to leverage modern technologies, from all industries, to help reimagine existing manufacturing processes. Patrick has worked with Hexagon Platform Solutions largest customers to deliver successful outcomes and brings that experience into Hexagon MI to help fuel the next generation of innovation. 

Dr. David Curry is Principal Engineer and Head of the Business Development team at EDEM. He joined after completing his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Edinburgh in 2006. David works across a range of industries to support the use of granular material simulation and help engineers address challenges for process and equipment design. In his current role, David and his team are responsible for defining the future direction of EDEM technology.

Shivakumar currently serves as the Technical Support Manager at BETA CAE Systems India Private Limited. Prior to this, he was with Xitadel Group as Product Manager, establishing strategies and processes to create a competitive advantage for BETA products in India. During his tenure as Senior Application Engineer at EASi, he supported to do benchmarks on methodology development using ANSA tool for Renault Nissan, GM and FORD and trained 100+ Engineers on CAE domain on ANSA (pre-processor). He has extensive experience in Sheet metal, 3D modeling, Wireframe modeling, Surface modeling, Hybrid modeling, Assembly, Rendering, 2D to 3D conversion, Hull Creation, Reverse Engineering, CADENAS part solution plug-in. He has pursued B.E - Automotive from PES College of Engineering, Bengaluru.

Dupuis holds a degree as "Diplom" engineer in aerospace from Stuttgart University. He began his professional career in 1995 at Eurocopter, Germany in the field of flight simulation for engineering purposes. Dupuis co-founded VIRES in late 1996 and began working full-time as General Manager of VIRES in 1998. He has been with VIRES ever-since and is fully dedicated to participating in the development of VIRES software.

Mr. Stefan Zimmer is the Vice President EMEA and APAC Operations at Simufact Engineering. Stefan Zimmer holds a degree in physics and brings with him several years of experience as Sales Manager for simulation and testing solutions. In his previous employment, Stefan Zimmer was responsible for software and measurement systems sales. This experience demonstrates his knowledge of virtual and physical development stages in various industries. He has been closely working with various Indian organizations and has strong relationships with various manufacturing institutes in India as well.

Masayuki Kuba is the global technical leader for Cradle CFD Software. He also manages the development software. Kuba-san started his career Asahi Kasei Corporation, (formerly Asahi Chemical Industry Co., Ltd) as CAE engineer and worked on plant design and residential environment. Kuba-san has over 25 years CFD experience and holds Masters’ Degree from Kyoto University, Japan

Roger holds a Ph.D. and MS in Aerospace Engineering with a strong focus on nonlinear computational mechanics where he totals more than 20 years of experience. Roger complemented his engineering education with an MBA in International Business and several advanced technologies, business and entrepreneurship courses from prestigious universities such as MIT. In parallel to growing e-Xstream to be the world leader in advanced composite modeling, Roger is the Vice Chairman of NAFEMS Composite Working Group and an active member of other technical material associations such as SPE and SAMPE.

Forming Technologies is the world's leading software solutions provider for formability, simulation, monitoring Body-In-White costs and light-weighting of body-in-white sheet metal components. Mr. Marinac is FTI’s Executive Director Project Engineering at Automotive OEM’s worldwide, including Tata Motors and Jaguar Land Rover. Dan works within the unique culture of the BIW teams to embrace these strategies as components mature to drive improvement.

He brings more than thirty-five years of industry experience to FTI, most recently as President and VP Marketing for Cimatron Technologies, Director Manufacturing at Rand Technologies and National Engineering Manager at General Electric-Calma. Dan received his mechanical engineering degree from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1982 and is a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario.

Diego d’Udekem leads Free Field Technologies, the MSC Software company focused on acoustic, vibro-acoustic and aero-acoustic CAE. During his 12 years tenure at FFT Diego has occupied various management positions including head of customer support, application engineering and global business development. Diego holds a master in electromechanical engineering from the Free University of Brussels (2004) and an International MBA from the Vlerick Business School (2012).

Vidya Shankar has over 30 years of experience in CAE, most of which is focused on providing CAE services in Automotive Engineering.

He has been providing CAE services in the area of NVH, Crash, Durability, Chassis & Powertrain CAE to global automotive OEMs and their Tier 1 & 2 suppliers. He also provides custom CAE services by automating their CAE best practices through Process Automation Technology. Vidya Shankar holds a BS degree in Civil Engineering from University of Mysore, India and an MS degree from Michigan State University in Engineering Mechanics. He has been working in metro Detroit since 1982.

Dr. Shivakumar Padmanaban is an expert in non-linear mechanics and, for over two decades, has been actively involved in setting up the architecture and the development of MSC.Marc MSC.Nastran (SOL400 module) and MSC.Apex. With a BTech from IIT-Madras and a Ph.D. from Rice University, Houston in Computational Mechanics, Shiva has been serving MSC Software in various capacities including Project Manager for Manufacturing, Program Manager and Director. He worked with MSC Software in the USA till 2004 after which he shifted to India and has continued to work with MSC Software, India. Shiva currently heads the Solver Development team at MSC India – a computational mechanics group which contributes to the development of elements, materials, HPC and contact for Marc, Nastran and Apex. He also leads the Mentat team at MSC India – an applications group for the development of the Mentat Graphical User Interface for MSC.Marc.

Syam possesses an exceptional track record in management, product development and sales of solutions & software for the Engineering and Simulation domain. He is experienced in CAD, CAM, CAE, and PLM, and has been recognized for being a competent, diligent and persistent advocate when interacting with technical and non-technical internal and external business users and customers.
 

An industry veteran with over 30 years of experience in the digital product conceptualization to realization technologies.

Arpit Sahu is a graduate in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He founded Objectify Technologies at IIT Kanpur’s SIIC Incubation Centre in 2013. His experience in 3D printing / AM sector, has propelled Objectify Technologies into a known name within the Indian AM industry.