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Topic Discussed : Global Autonomous Driving (AD)Industry Outlook, 2019

Speaker: Ayan Biswas

Key takeaways:

The Autonomous industry is evolving at a rapid pace on various fronts such as advancements in technology as well as emergence of new business models. Traditionally, most major OEMs and tier 1 suppliers have strived to explore the benefits of developing applications focused on the convergence of the three technology pillars: Connected, Autonomous, and Electric. However, the true potential of each of these technology pillars can be tapped only by the marriage of technology and service sectors of the industry. Technology and service integration has picked up pace in the recent years with leading OEMs making investments and acquisitions in service based companies

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Topic Discussed : Global Transportation and Logistics Industry Outlook, 2019

Speaker: Suriya Anjumohan

Key takeaways:

1. Development of new trade corridors opened up new trade routes and alternate modes of transport, leading to higher demand for multimodal logistics and warehousing solutions
2. Regional hubs will be on a development spree owing to the growing demand for cross-border eCommerce operations, with Less Than Truckload (LTL) line haul shipments growing with emergence of online digital platforms
3. Asset digitalization, automated warehouses, cross-border logistics solutions, and digitalization of logistics processes are likely to be the key focus areas of transformation by the logistics services providers
4. Intelligent transportation systems, process automation, predictive solutions, and digital provenance will ease cost and operations pressure, facilitating industry participants to build customer-centric solutions

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Related Keywords: Frost & Sullivan, Infrastructure Modernization, Fleet Management, Freight Transportation, Freight Forwarding, Road Freight Transportation, Ocean Freight Transportation, Warehousing and Storage, Logistics Digital Transformation, Last Mile Delivery, Logistics Service Providers, Logistics Software Solution Providers, Internet of Things, Blockchain Technology, Industry 4.0, One Road One Belt (OBOR), Robotics Systems, Shipping Lines, Emission Regulations, Trade Regulations, Cross Border e-Commerce, Business Models, Last Mile Delivery, Multi Modal Logistics, Smart Logistics, Digital Platforms and Online Freight Services

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Topic Discussed : Global Company Car Leasing Market Outlook, 2019

Speaker: Raghav Koundinya V R

Key Takeaways:

In 2019, the global company car leasing market is projected to grow 3.9% to hit 7.9 million units. While 2018 had a faster growth, this slowdown is expected due to the emergence of new alternatives which are transforming the leasing industry. This study is focused on the outlook of the global fleet leasing industry in 2019. It starts with detailing the existing market scenario, followed by trends that are shaping the leasing industry in 2019. It details market size across the passenger vehicle (PV) and the light commercial vehicle (LCV) segments and provides sales/parc data for the total market and the fleet and the company car (true fleet) segments. The company car segment is discussed in detail, with a focus on actual development and growth potential of financial lease, operational lease, and outright purchase. The analysis takes into account historic data and current market conditions and insight and opinion from market participants to deliver a five-year outlook on growth opportunities (2018–2022). In addition to market data (PV and LCV) for new registrations and portfolio, the study details actual competitor data (portfolio) for the leading leasing providers worldwide.

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Topic Discussed : Understanding the eHailing Market Leader in India - Ola

Speaker: Bakar Sadik Agwan

Key Takeaways:

1. Ola is an online transport network company (TNC) incepted in India in 2011 and presently is the market leader in eHailing services across India marking its presence in over 169 cities. The company started as Olatrip.com – a small travel start-up in Mumbai, is now present across 4 countries including India, UK, Australia and New Zealand. The company works on a commission based model where it offers a technology platform to connect riders to third party driver partners in lieu of a commission on trip value. Ola’s service offering includes car taxi eHailing, bike taxi eHailing, ridesharing/carpooling, hourly rentals, outstation rental services, auto rickshaws and bicycle sharing services.
2. Ola has fleet of 900,000 vehicles and nearly 1 million driver partners that help company to cater over 2 million rides daily. The company claims to have customer base spanning over 150 million and completes over 1 billion rides annually across all services. The company is the next most valued unicorn in India after payment giant – Paytm, Ola touched valuation of US$ 6 Billion in March 2019 with Softbank as key shareholder accounting 26% stake in the company.
3. In terms of competition, Uber remains the only key competitor to Ola with very indifferent service offering, however Ola has a stronger regional outreach in India as compared to Uber. Ola competes in the food delivery market through its recently acquired Foodpanda – third party food delivery and in payment services through Ola Money.
4. Strong inflows of fund by investors, extensive partnerships with OEMs, tech companies and local governments remain key strengths for Ola. The company is seemed to be focus on expanding its revenue stream along with revolutionizing India’s shared mobility scenario in near-term. 

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Related Keywords: Frost & Sullivan, Shared Mobility, Ride Hailing, Taxi Services, India Share Mobility, Urban Mobility, eHailing, online-to-offline services, taxi apps, app based taxi services, cab aggregators, transport network companies, e-Auto Rickshaws, carpooling, ridesharing, bike taxi

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Topic Discussed : RFID opportunities in the Retail Industry

Speaker: Ram Ravi

Key Takeaways:

1. Growing smartphone volumes has resulted in changing consumer dynamics. Consumers are more tech-savvy and spoilt for choices.
2. Be it apparel, grocery or any essentials, customers seem to have moved on from the traditional “Go to the store & buy” way of shopping. Although we do not imply that the concept of brick & mortar is dying, customers are becoming increasingly comfortable with e-commerce and m-commerce.

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Related Keywords: Frost & Sullivan, Omni-channel retail, RFID, merchandise visibility, inventory management, item-level tagging, source tagging, RAIN RFID

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Topic Discussed : Market Insights on Kitchen Appliances in India

Speaker: Satya Manikanta

Key Takeaways:

1. India will have the world’s youngest population by 2020, where 850 Mn people will be in the age group of 35 years or below. Young population with disposable incomes and higher tendency towards spending will make India the 5th largest consumer durables market by 2025. Higher internet penetration, growing awareness about products and large youth population will enable Tier II and III cities to be centers with high-disposable incomes in the near future. 
2. The demand for kitchen appliances in the country is expected to continue growing on account of expanding base of middle class and affluent consumers, increasing working population and improving consumer lifestyle. India has a large base of young consumers who form majority of the workforce and hardly find time for traditional cooking due to their busy schedules, thereby creating huge demand for western kitchen appliances that facilitate easy and quick cooking.
3. Rising per capita disposable income of consumers, especially upper and lower middle income groups, continues to drive India’s kitchen appliances market. However, majority of Indian consumers are price conscious, which poses a challenge for the manufacturers and suppliers as even a small price variation hugely affects the consumer preference for a specific brand or product. Consequently, the kitchen appliance companies are constantly focused on offering high-quality kitchen appliances at lowest possible prices.

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Related Keywords: Frost & Sullivan, India, Kitchen appliances, Large cooking appliances, small cooking appliances, Cooker Hoods, Cooktops, Free Standing Hobs, Mixer, Blender, Juice extractor, Coffee maker, Pressure cooker

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Topic Discussed : Emerging Opportunities in Synthetic Biology Platforms

Speaker: Cecilia Van Cauwenberghe

Key Takeaways:

1. Synthetic biology constitutes an evolving field of research that holds the potential to heavily impact on future innovations and technologies hence representing one of the potentially most beneficial areas for overall economy and society
2. Obtained by merging life sciences, bioengineering, chemistry, and bioinformatics, synthetic biology is defined as the engineering of biology
3. Synthetic biology introduces a rationale and systematic approach to the design and creation of living systems by transferring engineering principles to biology and living organisms
4. Critical applications based on climate action and consumer experience constitute the most straightforward strategies to reach the market. Government grants and private funding is evidenced to be mostly devoted to this promising takeaway
5. Large hardware manufacturing companies are focused on innovative companies fully engaged in synthetic biology and genome editing innovations for partnership collaborations, acquisitions, alliances
6. Large biotechnology development companies and well-renowned research institutions are starting to launch spin-off companies to advance the synthetic biology market penetration in parallel with adjacent technology innovations
7. Financial risk must be reduced not only by enhancing technology and performance, but also by encompassing developments in the synthetic biology space with areas calling the attention of the industry
8. Technology radar is crucial to leverage synergy and convergence of innovative scenarios. AI, machine learning, nanotech, advanced materials, smart manufacturing should be explored for effectively utilizing quantum computing’s opportunities

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Related Keywords: Frost & Sullivan, synthetic biology, bioengineering, lifesciences, bioinformatics, strategies, AI, nanotech, living organisms, restructure, precision medicine, nucleic acid, biofuels

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Topic Discussed : Digitalisation in Defence

Speaker: Alix Leboulanger

Key Takeaways:

1. The digital transformation brings a multi-dimensional change into the military domain that is crucial not to miss
2. The defence market is shaken by the rapid market progression of digital players
3. This is due to easily deployable digital solutions and attractive business models, meeting cautious budget holders’ requirements
4. Digital providers are not yet in a position to provide combat proven and ruggedized solutions to the military
5. The limited number of digital technologies providers is a source of concerns in the military environment
6. It is crucial that defence companies adopt a relevant digital transformation strategy to remain at the top of their game and explore new routes to market

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Related Keywords: Frost & Sullivan, Digitalisation, Digital Transformation, Internet of Things, IoT, Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, AI, Blockchain, Situational Awareness

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Topic Discussed : Opportunities for Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) industry in India

Speaker: Manu Tiwari

Key Takeaways:

1. Electronics demand in India in increasing because of demand side factors like increased use of electronics in most segments. There is growing domestic demand for mobile phones, personal computers, consumer, medical, strategic and automotive electronics among others. Also, the prospects of exports further push the case of local manufacturing
2. Other factors like favorable Government policies, Make-in-India initiative and rising costs in China are the key factors making India as facvourable destination for manufacturing
3. Large OEMs have their manufacturing units but medium and small OEMs prefer to outsource manufacturing to Electronics Manufacturing Service (EMS) providers. The lucrativeness of the EMS is also due to factors like frequent changes in designs, advanced features, advantages offered through scale of operations by EMS providers, and cost effectiveness
4. EMS market in India is expected to grow at a CAGR of 38.1% till FY23 from the current market value of INR 56,000 Crore. Mobile phones, Telecom, and Consumer electronics and appliances were the sectors that contributed to EMS growth in the previous years and will continue to do so in the future
5. Incentives for local manufacturing, demand side support through Government procurement, import barriers via duties and favorable steps like GST that reduced complexity of operations, are pull factors for MNCs to invest in India. Growing investment and increasing local value addition levels will also see a manifold jump as more OEMs look toward localization of their products from India

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Related Keywords: Frost & Sullivan, Electronics System Design and Manufacturing, ESDM, Electronics Manufacturing Services, EMS, Original Equipment Manufacturer, OEM, Original Design Manufacturer, ODM, Automobile, CEA, Mobile, Telecom, Industrial, Manufacturing, Local production, Domestic production, localization, Value addition

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Topic Discussed : North American Fall Protection Market, Forecast to 2023

Speaker: Hrishikesh Dhatrak

Key Takeaways:

1. Product innovations to focus on increased comfort, enhanced ease of use, and low cost of ownership
2. Hard goods segment to witness the fastest growth owing to a shift in demand from harnesses to SRLs
3. Training to remain an integral part of the services offered, with market participants establishing training centers to raise awareness on the use of fall protection equipment

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