Mahindra Satyam was the Platinum Sponsor of NASSCOM’s first annual Global Engineering Leadership Summit 2009

Mahindra Satyam was the Platinum Sponsor for NASSCOM‘s first annual Global Engineering Leadership Summit 2009 held from 17 – 18 November 2009 at Hyatt Regency, Mumbai.

The Global Engineering Leadership Summit 2009 provided a platform for the delegates to get ‘real world’ information about the industry directly from top industry professionals. It also provided an excellent platform to build synergies and share some best practices. The event was structured to ensure that the topics are concurrent with the present day needs of the global user industry and will forecast the trends and expectations.

This thought-provoking and extensive two-day international summit had distinguished leaders across the spectrum of industries— Aerospace, Automotive, Telecom, Industrial Equipment and others—that are pioneering outsourcing of engineering services.

At the summit, Karthikeyan Natarajan, Vice President and Head, Integrated Engineering Solutions, Mahindra Satyam, spoke on “ Global & Local Insights - Enablers & Inhibitors.”

Observations from the event:

• NASSCOM-Booz report on ESO has estimated business to India to be USD 50Bn by 2020 from an earlier estimate of USD 40Bn. For the current year, it is in the range of USD 9-9.5 Bn.
• Key drivers are:
• Access to growing Indian market for products
• Demand for low cost platform forcing significant product R&D activity to take place in countries like India
• Regulations towards greener products: Energy efficiency, emission norms, alternate fuels
• Focus on world-class education programs, state-of-the-art prototyping & testing infrastructure
• Leveraging public sector testing infrastructure and Public-Private Partnership opportunities
• Policy accelerators in key industries like Healthcare, Infrastructure and Energy
• ESO leads to more pervasive growth in the eco-system.
• What customers are looking for:
• Capability & Market access as opposed to Capacity or Cost
• Ability to scale & support their global engineering initiatives across multiple geographies
• Product localization & Homologation, entry into emerging markets
• Outcome based business models
• Key messages:
• “Design to Build” capability is critical for accelerated growth.
• Focus on world-class engineering education, training including industry domain knowledge, is important
• Strengthening with state-of-the-art prototyping, testing and production facilities

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