Dr. Thuppil venkatesh is a professor Emeritus at St John’s Medical College Bangalore. He is CEO and the Director of the Foundation for Quality India (FQI) and the Director of the National Referral Centre for Lead Projects in India (NRCLPI). Dr Thuppil is the current National Chairman of the Indian Society for Lead Awareness and Research (InSLAR).
Topic: Source of Lead in Blood & Health Management in Developing Countries
Amlan Kanti Das has 29+ years of experience in Operation, Technology Management, Project & Engineering, Product Development & R&D. He has worked with multiple technology driven companies in India. In Luminous Power Technology Pvt. Limited (Schneider group company), he his taking care of Operations, R&D and EHS for Power storage business division as a Sr. Vice President. Amlan is passionate and curious on topics like Industry 4.0, Frugal Innovation approach for new product development, Sustainable supply chain, Role of power storage business in emerging Indian Economy, Emerging energy storage technologies & market.
Topic: Manufacture of Batteries in a Competitive market
Currently working as a Principal Scientist and heading Lead Acid Battery group & CSIR-Battery Performance Testing and Evaluation Centre (NABL Accredited) at CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI), a premier R&D institute in the field of electrochemistry under Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India.
Topic: Improving Lead Acid Technology to Suit E-Vehicle
As an experienced battery technologist, Achim has worked across the globe with major battery manufacturers and key suppliers to the battery industry. He received a Masters Degree in physics from the Technical University of Clausthal, Germany and an MBA from the University of North Carolina, USA. With battery product design and process design as his core skills, Achim has lead research and development efforts.
Topic: Additives for the Negative & Positive Active Material & Their Impact on Battery Performance
Having 30 years experience in Battery field (Design, process control, Spec evolution, Material control, Testing, Service, Market, project execution, Cost control and Manufacturing). 20years as an employee - (Manager to CEO) and 10years as a consultant in India and Abroad. Leading speaker in Academic Institutes, National and international Battery conferences.
Topic: Challenges and Opportunities in E-Rickshaw Batteries
Dr. Carter W. Abney earned B.S. degrees in chemistry and theoretical mathematics from the University of Wisconsin in 2005. In 2007, he graduated from the University of North Carolina with a M.S. degree in chemistry, before working as an Analytical R&D Scientist and ORISE Fellow at the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
Topic: An Overview of Vanisperse A as Organic Expander in the Negative Active Material of Lead Batteries
Rich 31 years experience in lead acid battery industry since 1991. His expertise are in design and development, manufacturing, quality control for raw material, components, Process control and final inspection for the following types of batteries with different technology for various applications.
Topic: Design aspects of VRLA AGM for ups applications and e bike applications.
Dr. Manne Venkateswarlu has two decades of experience in the field of materials science and battery technologies. He has done his PhD research on solid electrolytes for solid state batteries. He has worked both in academia as well as industry (Amara Raja Batteries, Electrotherm and Hyderabad Batteries Ltd.). Manne Venkateswarlu is co-author of hundred plus research papers (with H-index of 25), a book chapter, patents, and co-editor of proceedings on green energy storage technologies for smart cities.
Topic: Scope for the Improvement of the Lead Acid batteries for EVs(2W&3W) Applications
Clint Beutelschies joined ENTEK in 2017 as President of Global Sales, responsible for ENTEK’s lead-acid separator business. Prior to joining ENTEK Clint spent more than 11 years with ITW Corporation as a VP of Sales & Marketing and GM of a specialty films business unit. Before joining ITW, Clint worked in the specialty papers industry for 18 years in a variety of commercial leadership roles. He is a 1985 graduate of the University of Arkansas. Currently based in Singapore, Clint leads a global sales team that is committed to bringing value and innovation to customers around the world.
Topic: Pb-Acid Separators: The Impact of Raw Material Selection Upon Structure-Property Relationships
Ranabir Chakraborty, has been with Lead - Acid Battery Industry, for more than 40 years, starting with Exide Industries Limited for 26 years, having worked in its Shamnagar factory, heading Corporate Projects and then heading Manufacturing operations of all its plants as President Manufacturing. Post retirement he has been providing Consultancy to various battery companies.
Topic: Effect of Hydrogen on Battery Industry in Future
Product Development Engineer, Camel Group. Brought projects in on-time and in accordance with budget and quality standards, Created project APQP plans with established timelines for integral phases, assigned to appropriate teams, managed workflow and achieved submissions and completion deadlines on or before schedule, Enhanced development and drove continuous improvement of project delivery process by providing strong program leadership. Established strict standards and policies for testing, quality control, inspection and maintenance, ensuring thorough implementations.
Topic: Basic Introduction on Lead Acid Battery
Mr L.Pugazhenthy, Executive Director of India Lead Zinc Development Association (ILZDA) is also a Past President of The Indian Institute of Metals. He has over 45 years experience in non-ferrous as well as steel industry. He was a member of the MoEF Core Group that brought about the Battery (Management & Handling Rules) 2001, besides being a member of the MoEF Technical Committee for drafting Battery Waste Management Rules 2022. Mr Pug received the prestigious “International Lead Medal” at Macau, China in 2008 and the highest award “Platinum Medal” from the Indian Institute of Metals; Mr Pug is a Distinguished Alumnus of NIT, Trichy.
Topic: Battery Waste Management Rules 2022 - An Update
Arijit Dutta is a mechanical Engineer from Jadavpur University & MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur. He has a total experience of more than 30 years in the Automobile & Battery Industry. Formerly, he has worked as the CEO of Tata Green Batteries and also has led the battery Business of Uno Minda Group as the President. He is currently leading the Indian Operations of the Mesha Inc, USA which is into the business for providing technology solutions to the Energy Storage Industry, like Hybrid Ultra Capacitors (HUC), METATM Solutions for Lead Acid Batteries, Lithium Ion & Sodium Ion Batteries. Today on behalf of Mesha Inc he is going to present the unique “META TM Solution for the Lead Acid Battery” for which the company has been recently rewarded with two Patents from the Indian government.
Topic: META Solution for Lead Acid Battery
Presentation on - Problems of the Paper based Warranty Processing, Introduction of a Digital Warranty Solution, Synergy of with Digital India and Make In India, Usecase of Dealer Distributor onboarding with Warranty Solution, How are profits maximized by the Digital Warranty Solution?, Future perspective of how the Analytics could change the course of your business?, How quickly can the implementation be and how affordable the implementation is?
Topic: Digital Revolution by Paperless Warranty Solution
Eng. Gaurav deep Sharma is running battery manufacturing unit since 2005. He also run lead recycling plant in up. He also run institutions with the name of battery school since 2020 in up moradabad where he provides all kinds of battery manufacturing training for freshers and he design some machines for battery industry in very economical price and work regularly on RND for developing new products.
Topic: How to grow battery manufacturing process with the formula of 30 -30 -30-10