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Principal Engineer Siddartha Khastgir, represented WMG at the Your Innovative Future event at Solihull College attended by around 500 school students (aged 11-18) from local schools.

Siddartha took part in a special Dragon鈥檚 Den style workshop at the event on 8 March. Various businesses went head-to-head pitching sustainable initiatives and products to groups of students. The students were the 鈥楧ragons鈥� and had up to 拢1 million (per team) to invest in the company that they believed delivered the pitch with the most sustainable ethos.

Siddartha pitched the concept of 鈥淭he Driverless Future鈥� and won an investment worth 拢7 million! Other businesses pitching included Jaguar Land Rover, Network Rail and Highways England.

Overall, students gained a greater understanding of the benefits and challenges faced by a 鈥榙riverless future鈥� and how engineering is helping to overcome these challenges.

Siddartha said: 鈥淚t was a unique experience and I was intrigued by the intelligent and thoughtful questions asked by the students. The dragons gave me a hard time for the 拢7million!鈥�