March 18 – 19, 2025 | Gothenburg, Sweden
TCS at Vehicle Electronics and Connected Services (VECS) 2025
Engineering a smarter, greener tomorrow
Industry
Manufacturing
Future-Ready Manufacturing: Partnering in your journey to a sustainable manufacturing enterprise
Future-ready mobility
Future of mobility: Sustainable, smart, and AI-driven
One of the largest automotive events in Northern Europe, Vehicle Electronics and Connected Services (VECS) gathers delegates and experts from around the world to explore the latest trends shaping the future of mobility. From autonomous and electric vehicles to connected services, VECS is where the global automotive community comes together to share insights and drive innovation.
VECS 2025 will be held at the Swedish Exhibition Centre in Gothenburg, Sweden, on March 18-19. TCS is proud to be a bronze sponsor at the event, where the attendees will participate in keynote sessions as well as in-depth specialist sessions.
At this year’s event, TCS will explore how generative and agentic AI drive smart and sustainable mobility through intelligent mobility assistants, optimized EV performance, vehicle hypercare, and end-to-end battery sustainability. TCS will also showcase demos featuring autonomous driving, vehicle middleware, and GenAI solutions.
Nithin Thomas, Director, Smart Mobility, TCS, will deliver a keynote session on how mobility ecosystems should adapt to be smart and sustainable, how GenAI can enable collaborative networks, and the importance of cross-industry partnerships.
The event will also feature a panel discussion on ‘Navigating the Future of Electrification: Overcoming Engineering Challenges in Batteries, Powertrains, and Charging Infrastructure’. Rajendra Chougule, Head, Automotive CoE – IoT & Digital Engineering, TCS, will be one of the esteemed panelists.
Join us at booth C01:55 to find out how TCS is helping its customers to be future-ready in the fast-changing world of automotive technology.
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Featured speakers
Nithin Thomas
Director, Smart Mobility , TCS
Nithin Thomas is the director of smart mobility at TCS. He oversees mobility initiatives across the United Kingdom and Europe. Nithin brings extensive experience in the automotive industry, leading business transformation initiatives in marketing, product management, business development, and strategy. His expertise lies in shaping smart and sustainable mobility ecosystems, with a focus on developing innovative propositions in connected vehicle services. As a trusted industry advisor on mobility engagements, Nithin has worked with organizations across various sectors, driving innovation through data-driven insights and advocating for new business models enabled by emerging technologies.
Rajendra Chougule
Head, Automotive CoE–IoT & Digital Engineering, TCS
With more than 28 years of experience, Rajendra Chougule heads strategic initiatives to develop next-gen automotive solutions. He is also responsible for business development and driving innovation in enabling partner ecosystems. Rajendra’s core expertise lies in identifying key market trends and building futuristic solutions in segments such as autonomous driving, electrification, and connected and software-defined vehicle platforms. He is experienced in managing client relationships from different geographies, such as North America, Japan, Europe, and India, contributing significantly to the growth of key automotive accounts. Rajendra has played a pivotal role in formulating TCS’ automotive electronics growth strategy. Rajendra holds Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering.
Meet us at the show
- Date and time: March 19 at 10:20-10:45 CET
- Presenter: Nithin Thomas, Director, Smart Mobility, TCS
- Subject: Mobility Ecosystems that Grow
- Storyline:
- How does the convergence of mobility journey enable the creation of new business models?
- How can generative and agentic AI enable collaborative networks?
- How can cross-industry partnerships help scale mobility ecosystems?
- How should mobility ecosystems adapt to the consumer’s needs to be smart and sustainable?
- Date and time: March 19, 14:50-15:30 CET
- Panelist: Rajendra Chougule, Head, Automotive CoE – IoT & Digital Engineering, TCS
- Topic: Navigating the Future of Electrification: Overcoming Engineering
- Sentinel AI: A GenAI-based vehicle hypercare solution aimed to upkeep vehicle health, vehicle performance, and passenger safety and security
- Mobility AI: A GenAI-powered, intelligent in-vehicle conversational assistant built to provide an engaging and hyper-personalized driving experience
- Sustainable vehicle ownership: Circular battery models leveraging AI and ML to optimize EV performance, extend lifespan, and create value in second-life applications
- Battery passport: A sustainability-focused solution providing end-to-end traceability of EV batteries, ESG reporting, and advanced analytics for better decision-making in automotive sustainability
- BESS control tower: A BESS control tower provides real-time monitoring, analytics, and remote management, leveraging IoT and AI to optimize performance, detect failures, and ensure reliability, efficiency, and compliance with energy regulations
- TCS AI-based autonomous vehicle platform: A cloud-based, one-stop solution to accelerate the development of autonomous vehicle features using AI and deep learning technologies. Showcase of innovation in the field of autonomous driving, demonstrating occupant detection and gesture recognition, and virtual testing of autonomous vehicles using GenAI
- Electric vehicle solutions: Scalable and configurable integrated 3-in-1 EV components (on-board charger, DC-DC converter, and power distribution unit) with silicon carbide technology for passenger vehicles
- TCS Connected Vehicle Services: TCS has been a strategic partner in connected mobility and ecosystem for multiple OEMs and tier-1s. We are working on cutting-edge data driven connected vehicle offboard solutions, which enable a wide range of connected vehicle services.
- TCS Digital Cockpit Services: Digital cockpit solutions and key features including virtual personal assistant, internet radio, hand gesture, GenAI integration into virtual personal assistant, connected navigation, HMI modality, and car IoT framework
- TCS automotive GenAI solutions: Provides solution accelerators to automotive OEMs and tier 1 suppliers to speed up the development of software-defined vehicles. It furnishes customizable environment with proprietary frameworks and patented algorithms, which can be used at different stages of end-to-end automotive product development lifecycle. Demonstration of two live demo use cases, one in an edge scenario and one in a development environment:
- Autonomous vehicle: Demonstrating object detection, future scenario prediction, and a driver recommendation system for safe driving using VLMs on NVIDIA Orin board
- Acceleration of software development: Showcasing use cases such as automatic test case generation from specifications, ISO26262 failure mode safety analysis using TCS fine-tuned model (with domain specific datasets), leveraging NVIDIA’s platform stack, including NVIDIA NeMo, and NIM
- Platform solutions enabling SDV: Solutions in areas of vehicle diagnostics, systems engineering, functional safety, cybersecurity, and vehicle middleware
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