Registration and Networking
Lamp Lighting and Inauguration
Inaugural Keynote 1: Writing the EV Growth Story: The Tamil Nadu
Model and Beyond
- Tamil Nadu’s journey: anchored investments, supplier ecosystem and policy continuity.
- What other Indian states can realistically replicate by 2030.
- Linking manufacturing clusters to domestic demand and export corridors.
Inaugural Keynote 2: Capitalising the Moment: Making India the
Global Manufacturing Hub for Affordable EVs
- India’s positioning in small EVs, 2W/3W and cost-competitive components.
- Competing with China and Southeast Asia on cost, quality and reliability.
- Building India-to-Global export playbooks for EVs and parts.
Panel 1: EV Manufacturing for the World: Scale, Challenges and
India’s Edge
- Balancing affordability with performance and durability for Indian and global markets.
- EV platform standardisation and modular architectures for faster scaling.
- Managing battery and raw-material supply volatility with diversified sourcing.
- Demand forecasting for 2W/3W, PVs and commercial segments in India and abroad.
- Structuring global partnerships for technology transfer, co-development and JVs.
Panel 2: Scaling Charging Infra: Grid, Interoperability, Uptime
and ROI
- Charging density targets vs real EV adoption growth across cities and highways.
- Urban, highway and rural network design: prioritisation and corridor strategies.
- Fast, megawatt and depot charging: realistic tech mix for India to 2030.
- Grid readiness: connections, transformer constraints, demand charges and ToU tariffs.
- Smart charging, renewable integration and storage at high-utilisation sites.
- Interoperability, roaming and payments: towards “One India, One Plug, One App.
- Business models, tariff rationalisation and long-term site-level profitability.
- Uptime as the new KPI: SLAs, O&M playbooks and remote monitoring.
Keynote 3: The Next Inflection: Autonomous, Connected & Electric
– India’s Practical Path
- AI-powered driver assistance and safety features suited to Indian roads.
- Vehicles as programmable mobility and data platforms, not just hardware.
- AI-enabled energy forecasting for depots, bus fleets and logistics hubs.
- Swapping vs fixed-battery ecosystems in dense Indian cities and fleets.
- Frameworks for testing and deploying autonomous/assisted vehicles in controlled
environments (ports, yards, campuses).
Panel 3: From Gigafactories to Grid: Building an Integrated EV
Battery Ecosystem in India
- Scaling domestic Gigafactories with cost competitiveness and global-grade quality.
- Securing critical minerals via diversified sourcing, recycling and strategic
partnerships.
- Advancing cell chemistries: solid-state, sodium-ion and high-density tech relevant to
India.
- Standardising battery formats, safety norms and testing for interoperability and
trust.
- Integrating batteries with grid-scale storage and second-life use-cases in India.
Keynote 4: Start-Up to Scale-Up: Signals of a Profitable EV
Business in India
- Moving from subsidy-led demand to repeat, paying B2B customers.
- Gross margin improvement through localisation and supplier consolidation.
- Reducing CAC and increasing lifetime value in fleet and retail segments.
- Transitioning from pilot runs to stable, high-volume, high-yield manufacturing.
- Building robust after-sales and service networks to protect brand and residual values.
- New revenue streams: software, data, energy services and service contracts.
- Key financial metrics: payback periods, IRR, utilisation thresholds.
Panel 4: Software-Defined Vehicles & AI Mobility: New Drivers of
EV Growth
- Over-the-air updates as recurring revenue and customer retention tools.
- Predictive diagnostics and AI analytics for fleets, buses and shared mobility.
- Cybersecurity challenges for connected EVs and charging infra.
- Data ownership, monetisation and privacy: OEM, operator, or user?
- Integrating telematics and fleet intelligence into financing and insurance decisions.
Panel 5: EV Component Manufacturing: India’s Road to Global
Competitiveness
- Localisation of power electronics, motors, controllers and drivetrains.
- Scaling precision manufacturing with global automotive quality benchmarks.
- Transitioning traditional auto suppliers to EV-specific design and engineering.
- Tackling semiconductor and electronics constraints with resilient supply chains.
- Automation, robotics and Industry 4.0 for cost-efficient mass production.
- Managing raw-material volatility (magnets, copper, rare earths) with hedging and
contracts.
Panel 6: Governance Roundtable: Policy, Implementation and
Regulatory Stability
- Long-term policy predictability for manufacturing and infrastructure investors.
- Evolution of incentives and subsidies from volume push to value and localisation.
- State vs central coordination: approvals, enforcement and best-practice sharing.
- Charging, safety and recycling regulations: closing gaps between rules and ground
reality.
- Frameworks for continuous industry–government collaboration and grievance redressal.
