Mr. Sirish Batchu is currently President – Product Engineering Services at Embitel Technologies, a CARIAD company, part of the Volkswagen group.

Prior to this, he was the Managing Director of Danlaw Technologies India Ltd. and responsible for the managing the group companies in India & Vice President – Digital Technology at Ather Energy Private Ltd, responsible for the Software and Intelligence solutions for the Electric Scooters.

He has vast experience with R&D in the Automotive, Electronics and Software domains – leading pioneering efforts in the ACE (Autnonomous, Connected & Electric) domains. He has worked with organizations like Mahindra & Mahindra, Bosch and Indian Space Research Organization in the past and has been instrumental in establishing several R&D initiatives from conceptualization to market scaling.

He is recognized as a Thought Leader in the industry and Distinguished speaker in various national and international forums and was conferred the ‘Digital Transformational Leader’ Award by CeBIT India in 2016. He has been a mentor through the AutoNebula Business Accelerator platform for several Indian Startups in Connected Transport.

He has to his credit, the creation of “Mahindra DiGiSENSE”, a first of its kind Connected Vehicles Platform for the entire Mobility Sector across Mahindra & Mahindra and had major contribution in the development of the first Driverless Tractor in India at M&M.