Panel: EV Components, BMS and Scaling Domestic Battery Manufacturing in India

Venkat is the Founder/CEO of Cygni Energy, a leading storage technology company with cutting-edge expertise in EV Batteries and Energy Storage Systems (Telecom, C&I etc.). Cygni has deployed over 125MWh of storage solutions and powered over 150,000 Electric Vehicles. Venkat has over 25 years of experience in Product Design and Engineering. Before moving to energy storage space, he was the Vice President of Engineering at Portal Player, a company that was acquired by NVIDIA Corp. He worked at Sun Microsystems, USA and has a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Jash Sheth is the CEO at Ayka Control Systems - which is pioneering R&D and manufacturing of Clean Energy Systems . With global presence in France , Germany and HK - ACS is engineering a cleaner, better and a more reliable tomorrow

Manan Pathak is an accomplished professional in Electrical Engineering, specializing in Smart Grid and Electric Vehicle (EV) Technologies. With extensive expertise in EV Safety, Smart Grid Integration and advanced simulation, he has published over six journal papers and presented 18+ papers at national and international conferences. He has also contributed to intellectual property development with five design patents. Holding a Master's in Electrical Power Systems and multiple postgraduate diplomas, he is currently pursuing Ph.D. research on renewable energy's impact on hybrid transmission line optimization. His work has been recognized with awards for best research papers and contributions to energy-efficient infrastructure.

Mr. Preetesh Singh works as a Specialist CASE and Alternate Powertrains for Nomura Research Institute Consulting and Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. He has been working on strategy and operational consulting projects for global automotive OEMs, suppliers, R&D organizations, and governments. He specializes in CASE and Alternate Powertrains and has spent over a decade on researching various topics related to Automotive Industry for the Indian and global markets. He has been instrumental in setting up the Policy Advocacy, ER&D and Alternate powertrain themes for NRI India Preetesh is a well-known thought leader in the Automotive industry, having written over 20 reports and articles in collaboration with associations and leading media outlets. He has also spoken at various webinars and conferences about Automotive industry, including Economic times, Assocham, PHD Chamber of Commerce, CVF, REI Expo, The Battery Show India, EV Reporter, Traffic Infra Expo, EMobility+, Battery India, The Smarter India, I-Tech Media, and others. Preetesh Singh has been actively spreading awareness of alternate fuel and powertrains and their role in future amongst the students by taking guest lectures on the alternate powertrains in different institutes such as NMIMS, Bits Pilani etc.