Nischal Muchakani  is Global Ecosystem Business Development Lead for Automotive & Industrial verticals at Redhat & is responsible for driving new partnerships & Go-to-market alliances. Overall he has 20+ years of industry experience mainly in automotive software domain ,with a blend of technical consultancy-sales-business development expertise & international work  experience having worked in US, India & now based out of Munich ,Germany. With digital transformation, reshaping auto & manufacturing landscape, he is very excited to use his domain experience in shaping the next generation software defined vehicles and smart manufacturing.