From Software Complexity to Business Velocity
The shift to Software-Defined Vehicles (SDV) presents immense opportunity — but also introduces escalating complexity. Disconnected toolchains, fragmented data, evolving validation requirements and growing semiconductor dependencies are redefining how vehicles are engineered and brought to market.
At HCLTech, we help OEMs and Tier-1s cut through this complexity with speed and clarity. Our solutions enable silicon agility and upstream validation through a digital continuity approach that unifies engineering workflows across the product and application lifecycle. Powered by AI, this approach accelerates decision making, improves cost-efficiencies and ensures fully traceable end-to-end engineering decisions.
Engineering Showcase: Experience Our Featured Solutions
- Compress Time-to-market
- Drive Cost Agility
- Augment Engineering Throughput
Compress Time-to-market
XLM.AI
Enable AI‑driven lifecycle intelligence for software‑defined vehicles by automating requirements, validation and traceability across ALM and PLM ecosystems to improve quality, manage SDV complexity and accelerate chip‑to‑cloud delivery.
TestSphere
Simplify end‑to‑end validation for software‑defined vehicles by connecting requirements to automated test execution—supporting shift‑left testing, scalable execution and efficient validation across distributed engineering teams.
Progenix
Accelerate semiconductor innovation and time‑to‑market by applying GenAI across chip design and verification—cutting design cycles by up to 50–60% while improving quality, predictability and first‑time‑right execution at scale.
Silicon ATE (ASL)
A centralized, state‑of‑the‑art lab delivering post‑silicon validation, testing and qualification to accelerate time‑to‑market with reliability and quality.
Spec-to-Parts platform
Seamless, end‑to‑end platform‑driven silicon development from concept to high‑volume production, enabling faster design realization and first‑time‑right outcomes across design, validation, packaging and qualification.
Drive Cost Agility
Digital cockpit
Unlock Revenue through smarter monetization by enabling cloud-to-edge E-Cockpit, delivering subscription-based features via OTA updates and CI/CD workflows to enhance personalization and shorten development timelines through cloud-based engineering.
Digital Product Passport
Embed sustainability early in design , leveraging PLM-driven material data and sustainability data to validate decisions sooner—reducing lifecycle emissions, lowering development and change costs and ensuring end-to-end transparency and traceability across the product lifecycle.
Product Cost Management
Enable early cost savings by shifting cost control upstream into design, enabling cost transparency and design-to-cost decisions, extending savings into supply chain and sourcing through fact-based optimization and scaling margin improvement via repeatable, data-driven cost governance.
Augment Engineering Throughput
Agentic AI for ADAS
Deliver intelligent, cloud‑independent ADAS by deploying Agentic AI at the edge to interpret scenarios, detect hazards and improve decision accuracy with reduced data and training costs—scalable across Level 2+ ADAS and higher autonomy pathways.
Electrification
Enable efficient e‑mobility platforms through high‑performance in‑vehicle DC‑DC converter design and fast‑swappable battery testing systems—ensuring reliable power conversion, accelerated validation and scalable battery lifecycle management across vehicle programs.
AI based virtual environmental simulation
Accelerate ADAS and autonomy development by replacing physical testing with AI‑generated virtual environments—reducing data and training costs, shortening development cycles and enabling faster, more predictable AI deployment at scale.
Thought Leadership Sessions
Panel discussion with OEMs
Shaping the Future of Mobility – From Software-Enabled Powertrains to Software-Defined Trucks
Shaping the Future of Mobility – From Software-enabled powertrains to Software-defined Trucks
Overview
A deep dive into the shift from hardware-led engineering to software-defined mobility, viewed through the lens of a powertrain and a truck company as they share their unique journeys from mechanical systems to intelligent, continuously evolving platforms. The session highlights the rise of the Software Factory, the role of digital threads in lifecycle-wide optimization and how AI delivers real value only when powered by connected lifecycle intelligence.
Panelists:
Maverson Rosa, Enterprise Architecture & Tech – Digital Engineering, Volvo Group Digital Technology & Operations
Henrik Eigert, CIO, Aurobay
Deodatt Bawachkar, Head of Digital Design Practice, ERS, Europe, HCLTech
Technical session
Vehicle Innovation at a Crossroads: SDV and Architectural Changes
Vehicle Innovation at a Crossroads: SDV and Architectural Changes
Overview
The future of vehicles is no longer built—it’s engineered in silicon. This session explores how centralized, high-performance computing is reshaping automotive silicon and how custom silicon, chiplets and AI-driven workflows are enabling smarter, safer vehicles. It also highlights how full-stack chip-to-cloud co-design is accelerating and de-risking Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) programs.
Panelists:
Satish Premanathan, Vice President, Semiconductor Practice, ERS, HCLTech
Mattias Nyberg, Research manager for Systems Engineering and SW, TRATON and part-time Researcher and Supervisor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Martin Hiller, Solution Architect – Software & Electronics Platform, Volvo Cars
Specialist session
Redefining Risk: From Exposure to Intelligence-driven automotive cybersecurity
Redefining Risk: From Exposure to Intelligence-driven automotive cybersecurity
Overview
The real challenge in automotive cybersecurity is not visibility—it’s prioritization. The session explore how the SDV landscape is reshaping threats, why intelligence-led prioritization is critical and what it takes to move from reactive defense to an anticipatory, insight-driven security posture.
Speakers:
William Dalton, VP and Managing Director Europe and North America, VicOne, Ireland
Girish Warrier, Senior Solution Director, Software Defined Vehicle, HCLTech, U.S.A
Trends and Insights
Decoding the six critical transformation levers to navigate the complexities and transition to the SDV-led future without disrupting continuity.
True disruption in the automotive industry lies not in electrification or autonomy but in the invisible connection that binds them
This strategic blueprint for software-defined vehicle monetization shows how OEMs can turn connected vehicle data into intelligence, services and recurring revenue
As vehicles become software‑defined, centralized computing, edge intelligence and service‑oriented design enable real‑time decisions, continuous upgrades and scalable innovation across the lifecycle
As software becomes central to automotive, OEMs must evolve from ECU-based systems to scalable SDVs enabling continuous updates, AI features and new revenue streams with strong safety and security
As vehicles become software-defined platforms, OTA updates are shifting from basic maintenance to continuous value drivers that enhance scalability, security, intelligence and long‑term monetization
