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Chennai

Chennai, the ‘Detroit of Asia’, contributes a whopping 35% of India’s auto components sector and is home to many of the global auto majors such as Ford, Hyundai, BMW, Renault Nissan, Yamaha, Mitsubishi, Daimler Benz, to name a few. Beyond auto its vast manufacturing base spreads across several verticals including aerospace, defence, electronics, oil & gas, heavy industrials etc. representing a huge market for startups building disruptive Digital and AI solutions for industrial applications.

On the other hand, Chennai with several top ranked technical institutions outputs the highest number of technically skilled manpower. Yet, the innovation capacity of this talent pool remains both underdeveloped and therefore under utilised. Forge aims to create an ecosystem to nourish and flourish industrial open innovations, bringing small to big companies access to future ready talent capable of exploiting futuristic technologies.

Driving transformation of Chennai’s manufacturing sector from components suppliers to tech majors in mobility and aerospace, to make it the undisputed Industrial-Tech capital of Asia.

Centres of Excellence

Located in the heart of South Asia's largest auto manufacturing hub this station puts stronger thrust to supporting the development of breakthrough technologies in the mobility domain. Startups building disruptive technology in future mobility into core-product designs that have the widest applicability in multiple end-product segments, are the next big ventures to nurture and accelerate.

The battles for technology supremacy are going to be fought in the areas of Powertrains – electric, hybrid, and low speed vehicles, Vehicle Computing – driver analytics, predictive maintenance, Assisted/Autonomous Driving and Electric Charging –swappable batteries, Charge-as-a-Service etc. In addition, the station shall support technology development in defence & aerospace, offering technical infra in Communications – RF, RADAR, SatCom, Industrial Sensors – MEMS, Mil-Grade Electronics, and Systems Characterisation & Analysis.

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