The
office was inaugurated by TomTom’s Co-founder and CEO Harold Goddijn along with
members of its Executive Management Board, Alain De Taeye (Board member),
Corinne Vigreux (Co-founder and CMO), Eric Bowman (CTO), and Arne-Christian Van
Der Tang (CHRO).
TomTom’s
Pune centre is one of its largest centres worldwide and a strategic engineering
hub. This new futuristic office is specially designed for activity-based
working, with dedicated ergonomic spaces for collaboration, focus, learning,
and socialising. Employees can decide whether to work from home or office,
based on the activity at hand.
“I
am extremely proud of our teams in India that create top-notch mapping
technology used by drivers, carmakers, enterprises, and developers, globally.
With this new world-class facility, our goal is to empower our people with an
environment of freedom and flexibility to push the boundaries of technology
innovation even further than before. The strategic investment reaffirms our
confidence and commitment to India,” said Harold Goddijn.
“TomTom
has been in India for over 13 years and continues to attract top talent to
create leading mapmaking technologies. Our new workspace will help us further
in driving innovation, engineering excellence, and increasing employee
engagement. At the same time, we’ll continue to nurture the relationships that
we’ve built with customers, local communities of developers, students, and
non-profits,” said Werner Van Huyssteen, General Manager – India, TomTom.
At
TomTom’s Pune office, software engineers, data scientists and GIS experts,
innovate and work with peta bytes of data to continuously create and optimize
our maps. Machine learning, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and big
data stacks are some of the many technologies used to build highly automated
map-making processes and solve global mobility challenges.