Society for Smart E-Mobility (SSEM), Coimbatore organized its 3rd edition of EVCON – an highly impactful conference on electric vehicles and allied industries, here on Friday.
P.Kasiviswanathan, Managing Director, T.N.Auto Skills – Govt of Tamil Nadu took part as the Chief Guest of the inaugural session. S.Chandrasekar, Vice President, SSEM welcomed the gathering.
Ramesh Ananth Vijayan, Technology Director, BOSCH Global Software Technologies delivered the keynote address and Prof.C. Vasantharaj, Founder Trustee, SSEM delivered the closing remarks.
The Conference explored topic such as Emerging Trends in EV Industry, Role of Institutions in Advancing Electric Mobility, Future of Transportation etc. Several speakers from the industry and academia shared their ideas. More than 100 participants belonging to the EV ecosystem from various parts of the country attended.
Speaking at the event, P.Kasiviswanathan spoke about the ambitious Global Automotive Skill Grid project, that envisions to educate, train and skill up the youth of Tamil Nadu who are into the automotive sector, in a truly global way.
Kasiviswanathan asked the participants to imagine the possibility of a young student in Coimbatore learning EV battery diagnostics from experts in Germany, an MSME technician in Hosur collaborating with robotics experts in Japan, an automotive engineer in Chennai solving manufacturing challenges together with experts from Vietnam, Korea, US and Africa.
The Global Automotive Skill Grid Project aims to achieve that through local partnerships. It also aims to develop the curriculum that presents a clear image of what are the skill development works that are happening across the world in the sector.
“We want to create or we want to just collaborate or integrate this kind of curriculum and take this as a pilot project, and we are very happy to onboard any of the institutions here (in Coimbatore), any of the industries here who want to take this pilot project,” said Kasi who also stated that this could be run through the CSR funds from the automotive industries.
“We have got 5,000 automotive suppliers where everybody is ready to give their CSR fund to do some kind of a global activity in this futuristic landscape,” he added.
