Amit Sharma, MD & CEO, Tata Consulting Engineers

May I now request our Managing Director and CEO, Mr. Amit Sharma, to please share his perspective on engineering a better tomorrow.

Good evening, Group Chairman Mr. Chandrashekhar. My warm welcome to our distinguished guests, Dr. Rajiv Kumar, Dr. Kakodkar, Dr. Saraswat, Professor Rangarajan, Professor Chaudhary. Thanks to all of you for being here with us on this momentous occasion. Welcome to all the leaders from Tata Sons and managing directors and leaders of our group companies, our chairman Mr. Sethi, former chairman Mr. Menon, Mr. Padmanabhan, and our current and former board members. Welcome, Mr. Banmali, as well. I also welcome our esteemed customers and their leadership, senior government officials, council generals, partners, and the TC team watching this event live across all our offices. Group Chairman, thanks for your inaugural speech, and may I please convey my gratitude and thanks to you for your encouragement, guidance, and support. On behalf of TC, many thanks to all the visionaries who have shaped the journey of Tata Consulting Engineers and enabled it to achieve amazing milestones during the last 60 years. We are indeed privileged to have inherited a great legacy and we promise to continue to build on its strong foundation. We are indeed among— amidst tremendous changes globally, from rapidly changing global macroeconomics, socio-political dynamics, realignment of industry value chain, the need for resilient supply chains, and increasing focus on sustainability. We are witnessing transformation across all sectors Though the economic cycles are shrinking, which means even more important is the need to be profitable, having pathways towards sustainability and industry transformation. While India continues its growth trajectory, the recent commitments at COP27 and the focus on milestone-based net-zero commitments are going to be the key drivers of growth, planning actions in coming years, both at policymaking and corporate level. We see the future with tremendous opportunities for growth, invention, and innovation, with focus on sustainable infrastructure, energy transition, increased electrification across all industries, shift to green chemicals, circular economy, new modes of energy pathways, and re-emergence of nuclear. The focus on decarbonization, low-carbon solutions, is driving renewed focus on R&D, IP creation, research, and related future investments and growth strategies. By 2030, India will be doubling its electricity generation, tripling its steel production, tripling its cement production. We'll surely have a strong semiconductor, energy storage, and chemical domestic market, and alongside that, world-class infrastructure. We're in active involvement on all these areas. We're also enabling the creation of sustainable infrastructure, smart factories, smart plant, smart cities, and smart transportation and mobility. Our vision is to be the leading player in shaping sustainable infrastructure and towards shaping the net-zero journey, working with our customers, partnering with leading academic institutes, industry process and technology leaders, and closely with policymakers. We will leverage deeper collaboration with our group companies and group thought leaders. As the world discovers new solutions and technologies, we will focus on differentiated benchmark and value-engineered solutions for our customers to ensure their sustainability efforts and transformation reach desired outcomes. Aligned to our vision and its execution, our key assets our people, and we will continue to invest in providing them with safe, happy, and learning environment to create innovative and industry benchmark solutions. Continuing our legacy of being the engineers to the nation, and as the co-creators of many first-time projects across industry sector, we will continue to keep our pioneering spirit energized. We commit towards engineering a sustainable and a better tomorrow, and I seek your partnership and trust. Thank you very much.