July 20 - 24, 2026 | Farnborough, UK
TCS at Farnborough International Airshow 2026
Future-Ready Skies
Industry
Manufacturing
Future-Ready Manufacturing: Partnering in your journey to a sustainable manufacturing enterprise
Travel and Logistics
Data and AI in Travel Industry for a Memorable Passenger Experience
Service
Industrial Autonomy & Engineering
Industrial Autonomy & Engineering: Building autonomous enterprises where intelligence is embedded directly into the value chain and operating models
Enterprise Solutions
Accelerate Enterprise Digital Transformation for Sustainable Change
What will it take to build an aerospace ecosystem that is intelligent, resilient, and sustainable by default?
The Farnborough International Airshow 2026 provided a global platform for industry leaders to shape the future of aerospace through innovation in digital technologies, sustainability, and advanced engineering. TCS leveraged the opportunity to showcase its ability to help organisations accelerate transformation with AI, digital engineering, smart manufacturing, and data-driven operations.
Future-ready skies
With future-ready skies being the vision, TCS presented a bold perspective on how digital transformation helped aerospace and defense enterprises move beyond incremental change towards adaptive, future-proof operations.
At Farnborough, TCS demonstrated how organisations harness AI, digital engineering, and intelligent ecosystems to improve agility, enhance safety, accelerate innovation, and drive sustainable performance—unlocking new possibilities for the next era of flight.
Meet our Leaders
Anupam Singhal
President - Manufacturing, TCS
Anupam Singhal, a seasoned leader in the technology sector, leads the Manufacturing business group at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). With more than thirty years of experience, he has consistently showcased his dedication to customer success through spearheading digital transformations and crafting impactful business strategies. His astute leadership has generated significant value for customers, resulting in multi-billion-dollar outcomes, and has also broadened TCS’ footprint across diverse domains. One of Anupam’s noteworthy achievements includes leading the digital transformation of a prominent customer’s legacy business, resulting in TCS being recognized as the 2016 Digital Innovator of the Year within the customer organization’s partner ecosystem. Additionally, he has played a role in enhancing TCS’ intellectual property by contributing to the development of the IDEA Framework for Contextualized Touch and Believe Point of Views©. Anupam champions diversity and social responsibility, spearheading initiatives such as Women in Technology Architecture (WITA) and Sadhana SamarpaN to inspire and empower associates. His efforts earned him the title of “The Equalizer” at the Weequity Awards 2022 and the Economic Times Human Capital Award for “Excellence in Social Initiatives” in 2023. Presently, he serves as a National Board Member for NPower, a prominent non-profit dedicated to promoting technological equity through philanthropic investments. He is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. He holds an MBA degree in marketing from Sydenham Institute of Management Studies, Research and Entrepreneurship Education, Mumbai, India, and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra, India.
Sudeep Mazumdar
Vice President and Business Unit Head - Manufacturing UK&I
Sudeep is Business Head for TCS Manufacturing UK & Ireland unit. He is responsible for driving the overall strategy, operations, and growth of the unit. Over a 28-year tenure at TCS, he has held diverse roles spanning Sales, Delivery, Operation, Strategy and Governance. Across his career, Sudeep has held many key positions in client delivery, relationship management, and strategy & governance. He has managed large transformation programs and consolidated outsourcing landscapes for many clients. He has advanced global delivery through standardized models, best‑practice adoption, as well as shaping long‑ and medium‑term IT strategies that are closely aligned with business outcomes. He has consistently positioned TCS as a strategic partner of choice for enterprise IT outsourcing.
Vinay Singhvi
Head – UK and Ireland, TCS
Vinay Singhvi is the Head of UK & Ireland at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a global leader in IT services, consulting, and business solutions. Appointed to this role in September 2025, Vinay leads TCS’s second-largest market worldwide, with responsibility for strategy, client partnerships, and operations across a diverse portfolio of industries. Since joining TCS in 1999, Vinay has held leadership roles across delivery, consulting, sales, and business management. Over his 25+ year career, he has consistently led long-term client partnerships and large-scale, mission-critical transformation programs, helping organisations adapt and thrive in a fast-changing business environment. Prior to his current role, Vinay was Vice President and Business Unit Head for Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) across the UK, Ireland, and Africa. Over more than a decade, he built deep relationships with leading global and UK-based financial institutions, helping them accelerate digital adoption, modernize operations, and strengthen customer engagement. His leadership was central to positioning TCS as a trusted strategic partner in the BFSI sector. In addition to his business leadership, Vinay is passionate about developing talent and supporting communities. He actively promotes STEM education initiatives and skills development programs that create opportunities for young people, reflecting TCS’s broader commitment to digital inclusion and social impact. Vinay holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Finance & General Management. Based in London, he continues to focus on strengthening TCS’s role as a trusted partner of choice for UK and Ireland businesses in an era of AI-driven transformation.
Naresh Mehta
Global Chief Technology Officer, Manufacturing, TCS
Naresh has close to 20 years of experience in the manufacturing industry. Naresh is responsible for defining an end-to-end transformation strategy, operating model, and Digital Solutions across subjects like AI, GenAI, CX, Design Thinking & UX, Cloud, Microservices & Application, Data & Analytics, Automation, IoT, Emerging Tech lines which includes Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Quantum Computing etc.
Subhash Sakorikar
Global Head, Industry Excellence, Manufacturing, TCS
Subhash is the Global Head, Industry Excellence & Advisory, Manufacturing, Tata Consultancy Services. Subhash oversees global business and technology transformation programs across the value chain of manufacturing business domains such as – new product Introductions, supply chain, manufacturing operations, and customer experience management. Over the last decade he has heavily focused on digital transformation and evolving new business models for its clients and technology driven transformation. At TCS, he has advised many leading clients in manufacturing and has contributed to various thought leadership journals, published a number of white papers on digital transformation. With over 30 years with TATA group companies, prior to TCS he has played various leadership roles at automotive business and as National Product Manager for Excavators & Backhoe Loaders managing new product launches. He has been deeply involved in product management, marketing, dealer selection and development, Sales and Service force development. Subhash is Graduate in Production Engineering, holds Post Graduate Diploma in Finance and Marketing Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur, and an advanced diploma Indo-German Production engineering. He is trained at Leadership Development program at Harvard Business School and serves on advisory council of George Washington University. He lives in Troy, MI with his wife and two daughters.
Prem Vijoy
Head of Aerospace and Defense, TCS
Prem Vijoy leads Global Aerospace and Defense Business at Tata Consultancy Services Limited, focusing on governance, regulatory compliance, and emerging technologies in a highly regulated industry. Based in Washington, DC, USA, he helps clients navigate complex global supply chains and sourcing challenges. With more than 25 years of leadership experience across manufacturing, energy, BFSI, and Oil & Gas, Prem specializes in business strategy, operational transformation, large-scale delivery, and P&L management. He holds postgraduate degrees from the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode and a Bachelor of Technology from the National Institute of Technology, Calicut.
Lakshminarayanan Parthasarathy
Global Head- AI for Business and Physical AI
Laksh is the Global Business Head for Smart Mobility Group at TCS focusing on the Cross-Industry trends that are impacting the mobility ecosystem. With over 25 years of global experience as a thought leader in the automotive mobility industry, Laksh focuses on driving TCS Smart Mobility solutions in the Automotive CASE (Connected, Autonomous, Shared and Electric) and multi-modal mobility domains, to address the major challenges faced by the industry.
Dr Swati Murthy
Director and Global Head of Sustainability, TCS
Dr Swati anchors customer-facing solutions that address sustainability challenges across the business value chain. She works across multiple industry segments in hard-to-abate sectors including energy, utilities, resource-intensive manufacturing, retail, consumer goods, transportation and public sector customers. She has won several awards and recognized with multiple industry accolades such as Digital Transformation Leader of the Year 2023 UK and Top 250 Leaders in Sustainability 2025 for vision, influence, integrity and impact as well as Top 100 women in sustainability globally. She advises companies on energy, carbon management, responsible sourcing, net-zero, decarbonisation and supply chain sustainability, and published patents and white papers on cognitive frameworks for industrial sustainability. She is an advocate of circular economy principles and has contributed to thought leadership forums such as United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as the lead coordinator for the Green Economy report and World economic Forum (WEF) as the lead fellow for industrial decarbonisation as a growth strategy.
TCS sessions and more
This interactive session explored how aerospace leaders reimagined engineering, technology, and operations to accelerate innovation, strengthen resilience, and shape the future of flight.
This edition of TCS Forum delved into the executive decisions that enabled organisations to achieve enterprise-wide impact—ranging from building scalable architectures and ensuring data quality to empowering frontline teams and securing trust.
This executive panel discussion featured leaders from Sensata Technologies, Microsoft, QAD, and TCS. They explored how organisations connected engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and service operations to build intelligent, future-ready aerospace enterprises that delivered measurable business outcomes.
Leaders from Rolls-Royce, Microsoft, AVEVA, and TCS participated in this panel discussion, exploring how organizations built next-generation sustainable aerospace networks through intelligent operations, stronger ecosystem collaboration, innovative operating models, and alignment with long-term net-zero goals.
The TCS manufacturing analyst meet brought together industry analysts and leaders to explore the latest trends, innovations, and opportunities across aerospace, defense, and manufacturing. The session featured insights on digital transformation, sustainability, advanced engineering, and emerging technologies shaping the future of the industry.
SENSE: AI-driven aircraft structure inspection
An autonomous quadruped robot equipped with vision, LiDAR, thermal, and acoustic sensors used Vision AI, vision language models, and agentic workflows to detect debris, missing fasteners, cracks, and structural anomalies, enabling faster, more accurate, and intelligent aircraft inspections.
THINK: Meta glass-enabled technician co-pilot
Meta Glass Gen 2 and an OpenClaw-based AI agent provided real-time assembly guidance, component identification, troubleshooting support, and damage assessment through a custom aerospace knowledge base, delivering expert assistance exactly when needed.
OPTIMIZE: Agentic root cause analysis
An Agentic AI framework autonomously investigated defects and assembly deviations using root-cause analysis techniques, including Fishbone analysis, 5 Whys, and knowledge graphs, accelerating issue identification and resolution.
ACT: Humanoid-assisted precision fastener selection
A humanoid robot used computer vision, spatial reasoning, conversational AI, and dexterous manipulation to identify, retrieve, and prepare fasteners, improving consistency and efficiency in repetitive manufacturing tasks.
The Farnborough International Airshow 2026 featured the launch of the TCS Physical AI Readiness Report 2026. The report explored how AI-powered autonomy, intelligent robotics, digital engineering, and autonomous decision-making helped reshape the aerospace and defence industry.
The report also evaluated industry readiness as organisations moved from pilots and proof-of-concepts to enterprise-scale deployment. It provided aerospace organisations with a practical roadmap to enhance production efficiency, supply chain resilience, operational performance, and the development of next-generation aircraft and defence systems, enabling the transition from experimentation to measurable business impact.