The Lineup

These speakers are already confirmed:

Rahul Mahajan
Sr. Deputy Director and HoD, Engineering Design and Simulation (EDS) and Passive Safety Lab (PSL)
The Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI)

Vita

Rahul S. Mahajan, Sr. Deputy Director, is working with ARAI since 2002. He is a post-graduate in Mechanical- Design Engineering from Govt. College of Engg., Pune (Maharashtra). His domain expertise includes Computer Aided Engineering (CAE), Crash/Impact/Drop Analysis of Automotive Structures and their validation, Linear, non-linear, contact, thermal, fatigue Analysis of Automotive Components, manufacturing process simulations etc. He is actively involved in initiation of CAE Based Certification at ARAI for commercial vehicles viz. buses and trucks. He is also responsible for components, subsystems, and vehicle level assessment for Passive Safety He is Chairman of BIS TED 29 Sectional Committee, Convenor for BNCAP 2.0, AISC Crash Panel Member and one of the India Representatives for GRSP meetings of WP-29. He is part of various standard formulation committees. He has successfully executed number of developmental projects in automotive as well as non-automotive fields. He is also involved in establishment of CAE (software and hardware) facilities, 3D Scanning and Benchmarking facility and Drop test facility at ARAI. He is involved in many test facilities viz. HyGe facility at FID, HEIT facility at Takwe, Airbag test facility and interior fitting test facility at HTC. He is handling a team of ~ 90 employees at EDS and ~ 150 employees at PSL (Kothrud and Chakan location). Mr. Mahajan has published and presented several papers in national / international forums.

Mohamad Mohd Amirudin
Research Officer, Active Safety Coordinator and Senior Crash Analyst
Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS)

Vita

Mohd Amirudin has served as a research officer and coordinator for active safety testing at the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS). Mohd Amirudin did numerous studies at MIROS while there, including on the active and passive safety of passenger vehicles as well as studies on the conspicuity of heavy vehicles. Additionally, he conducted and coordinated ASEAN NCAP's official activities and development, particularly for the active safety assessment of technologies such as autonomous emergency braking (AEB), blind spot detection technologies (BST), motorcycle safety, etc. Mohd Amirudin also actively participates in knowledge dissemination activities such as the provision of training and road safety talks, as well as presenting at conferences throughout the world and publishing journals.

Parthiv Shah
Senior Vice President
Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India Pvt. Ltd.

Vita

With more than 25 years of experience in the automotive industry, Parthiv Shah currently serves as Senior Vice President at MBRDI, leading key domains including Automated Driving, Platform Software and Wiring Harness. Since joining MBRDI in 2007, he has led several domains like Passive Safety, CAE, advance digital repair methodologies and diagnostics for Global Service and Parts. An alumnus of IIT Madras, with research experience at the University of Stuttgart as a DAAD scholar, he brings a strong academic foundation to his visionary leadership. Under his leadership, MBRDI has strengthened its intrapreneurship initiatives, empowering employees to transform ideas into emerging ventures.

Michiel vanRatingen
Secretary General
Euro NCAP

Vita

Michiel van Ratingen, PhD, PDEng, Msc (1966) studied at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Eindhoven and the Medical University of Maastricht. Michiel joined TNO Netherlands and completed his PhD at Eindhoven and the Medical University of Maastricht. Michiel joined TNO Automotive in 1995 where he first got involved in vehicle crash safety research and development. In 2005 he joined First Technology Safety Systems (now Humanetics Innovative Solutions) as Technical Director. At FTSS he was responsible for global engineering activities, including design and validation of crash test dummies, dummy sensors and computer models. Since 2007 Michiel is acting Secretary General of the European New Car Assessment Program Euro NCAP in Leuven, Belgium. He implemented the organisation’s recent rating scheme updates, including the introduction of crash avoidance technology testing. He is a technical advisor to the Global NCAP and Latin NCAP programmes.

Program and speaker lineup subject to changes.

The summit is structured across five dedicated sessions covering global regulations, occupant protection, physical and virtual validation, active safety, and battery technologies.

Session 1: Global Requirements, Regulatory Landscape

Harmonizing regulatory frameworks and regional NCAP protocols.

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Session 2: Occupant Protection – Technologies and Development

Structural crashworthiness, advanced restraint systems, interior safety, and injury mitigation.

Session 3: Safety Validation – Testing and Simulation

Modern physical testing protocols, virtual development methods, and computational engineering.

Highlights: Crash Testing Innovations, Virtual Testing, and CAE & Human Body Modeling.

Session 4: Active Safety, ADAS and Automated Driving

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, collision avoidance, and sensor validation.

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Session 5: EV and Battery Safety

Multi-physics safety challenges in electric vehicles, thermal runaway containment, highvoltage integrity, and structural battery protection.

Session 6: ARAI Site-Visit with Live Demonstrations

Exclusive access to ARAI’s state-of-the-art testing facility on the afternoon of January 22. Bus transfer is provided.

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