Events

It was a stimulating and insightful MInT Monthly Round Table, for the month of December 2025, bringing together varied perspectives from the industry, startups, academia and public institutions, around the data-driven mobility and infrastructure.

🔹 MInT Monthly Update
We began with the update on MInT-a-thon partnerships, with Bosch and Airawat Research Foundation, strengthening our collaborative ecosystem for the mobility innovation.

🔹 Commercial Driver Rating System (CDRS) – MInT × Daimler
As part of our collaboration with Daimler, we discussed the development of Commercial Driver Rating System (CDRS)—envisioned as a DPI-like framework for commercial driving, like the Aadhaar for drivers. The initiative aims to enable accreditation of driving capability, benefiting drivers (recognition of skills), companies (validated driver pools), society (enhanced road safety).

🔹 The MInT Collaborative is pleased to collaborate with PKF SRIDHAR & SANTHANAM LLP, in developing the DPI framework.

🔹 Infrastructure-led Road Safety – Mr. Giovanni Pintor, Co-founder, ADESSOBASTA

A compelling presentation highlighted that 30% of road deaths in Italy are linked to infrastructure and road design, pointing to nearly 12,000 lives that could potentially be saved each year.

ADESSOBASTA’s approach combines a safety-first navigator, crowdsourced road hazard reporting, and advocacy for funded fixes, with an estimated $4.5B annual reduction in insurance claims in Italy.

🔹 Data Normalization for DPI – Mr. Venkat Vedam (BM³S)
The session on BM³S modular architecture covered key layers including the Semantic Layer, Device Layer, Visualization Engine, Geospatial Foundation, Simulation & Interchange Layers. This was followed by an engaging Q&A on architectural choices, stack selection, implementations.

🔹 Energy Data at Scale – Mr. Ram Narayanamurthy, U.S. Department of Energy
The round table concluded with insights into California’s management of 15-minute interval energy data from ~15 million homes and businesses, supporting use cases such as an automated energy reporting, EV charging pattern detection, verification of new construction compliance.

Overall, the discussion reinforced the role of data, digital public infrastructure, cross-sector collaboration in enabling safer, smarter, more sustainable systems.