Ajay Advani
Head, Manufacturing Solutions, Autodesk India Pvt Ltd
Ajay moved to Delhi from Singapore earlier this year to head Autodesk’s Manufacturing Solutions Division in India & SAARC. Autodesk serves a large number of companies in the Manufacturing, Building and Infrastructure industries. It is at the cutting edge in design concepts like Digital Prototyping, Building Information Modelling and Sustainable Design.
Ajay holds an LLB (Hons) from Nottingham University and is a Barrister-at-Law (Middle Temple). He spent a term at Harvard University studying Capital Markets and Managerial Finance. Ajay began his career as a litigation lawyer with a leading Singapore law firm, M/s Drew & Napier, before moving to Autodesk, where he has worked for the last 5 years in various Regional roles.
Married with a 20 month old baby, Ajay enjoys tennis, Tae-Kwon Do and travelling.
Day 1: December 12th, 2007
Plenary Session 1
Leadership through innovation
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Design imperatives
He will provide insights into two or three global trends and the challenges and opportunities that these issues throw open to designers. According to Ajay…“Design is all about solving people’s problems. One of the key qualities of a good designer is to empathize with the needs of the consumer. Arguably this is the most difficult aspect of good design.
In order to anticipate what a consumer will need in the future, one must understand what going on in the world today. These realities will dictate a consumer’s requirements even before the consumer himself is aware of them. The ability to foresee such needs is a game changer in design….”.
