Head of Marketing & Communications Debjani Roy shares how AUMOVIO Engineering Solutions’ Sustainability Spotlight amplifies authentic stories, drives collaboration, and inspires lasting impact.
Debjani, how do you personally define the Sustainability Spotlight?
What does it represent for AUMOVIO Engineering Solutions and for you as its driving voice?
Sustainability Spotlight is more than a magazine — it connects the dots between the inspiring stories of the people who work at AUMOVIO Engineering Services and the innovations that define who we are and what we stand for as a responsible corporate entity. It’s about showing how technology and collaboration, when guided by purpose, can create ripples of positive change in the world around us.
What inspired me most when we started the magazine, is how sustainability comes alive through the right alliances. When we work hand in hand with our partners and customers, like The Future is Neutral or Land Life, we make a real, lasting impact. The magazine and the stories it tells, are testimony to my belief that meaningful change doesn’t always start with a grand gesture; sometimes, it begins in small, deliberate waves, when businesses like ours choose to do things differently.
Through Sustainability Spotlight, we want to celebrate those stories — the ingenuity, the collaboration, and the people behind it all.
Winning 2nd place at the Digital Communications Awards was such a proud moment for us. The 2024 Sustainability Spotlight stood out because it was created with a small budget but a big heart. It was built on authentic stories, genuine collaboration, and a shared passion for using engineering to make a difference in the world around us. That we won this award proves to me that purpose and effective storytelling can come together to make resonating impact.
The 2024 Spotlight edition won 2nd place at the Digital Communications Awards!
What do you think made that edition stand out, and how did your team achieve such recognition?
Debjani, how do you personally define the Sustainability Spotlight?
What does it represent for AUMOVIO Engineering Solutions and for you as its driving voice?
Sustainability Spotlight is more than a magazine — it connects the dots between the inspiring stories of the people who work at AUMOVIO Engineering Services and the innovations that define who we are and what we stand for as a responsible corporate entity. It’s about showing how technology and collaboration, when guided by purpose, can create ripples of positive change in the world around us.
What inspired me most when we started the magazine, is how sustainability comes alive through the right alliances. When we work hand in hand with our partners and customers, like The Future is Neutral or Land Life, we make a real, lasting impact. The magazine and the stories it tells, are testimony to my belief that meaningful change doesn’t always start with a grand gesture; sometimes, it begins in small, deliberate waves, when businesses like ours choose to do things differently.
Through Sustainability Spotlight, we want to celebrate those stories — the ingenuity, the collaboration, and the people behind it all.
The 2024 Spotlight edition won 2nd place at the Digital Communications Awards!
What do you think made that edition stand out, and how did your team achieve such recognition?
Winning 2nd place at the Digital Communications Awards was such a proud moment for us. The 2024 Sustainability Spotlight stood out because it was created with a small budget but a big heart. It was built on authentic stories, genuine collaboration, and a shared passion for using engineering to make a difference in the world around us. That we won this award proves to me that purpose and effective storytelling can come together to make resonating impact.
Looking ahead, what’s your vision for the Sustainability Spotlight in the next few years?
How do you want to expand or reshape its purpose and reach?
Making future editions of Sustainability Spotlight Magazine even more impactful means deepening our storytelling. I want to bring our readers even closer to the people and ideas that drive ethical innovation, not only at AUMOVIO Engineering Services but within the mobility industry, represented by our partners and customers. I’m especially eager to give our customers and partners a stronger voice in the magazine — a direction we’ve already begun exploring with our in-depth interview with Rafaël Tréguer, Managing Director of THE REMAKERS, and our feature on how we supported Audi’s internal experts in reducing both emissions and costs.
Another way would be to make the magazine even more accessible and dynamic — through more visual content, short videos, digital stories, and more engaging blog content that extends its reach and relevance, while inviting higher interaction.
Ultimately, Sustainability Spotlight will continue to be relevant as long as it remains true to its heart, as a platform that connects purpose, people, and progress.
Internally, how has the Spotlight influenced the company culture?
Do you see colleagues engaging differently with sustainability topics as a result?
The Sustainability Spotlight magazine has given our people a platform to share their stories and be heard. We see more colleagues stepping forward because of it. More importantly, because it keeps sustainability at the forefront of their minds, it also encourages them to rethink how they engineer solutions, the partnerships they pursue, and the decisions they make every day, at work and beyond.
Our goal was to publish a magazine that helps nurture a culture where sustainability isn’t just for reports or meetings, but a lens through which we approach our work, collaborate, and innovate – Sustainability Spotlight does achieve that.
Finally, what message would you like to take away from this year's Spotlight ?
What do you hope they feel after reading it?
I hope the Sustainability Spotlight this year provides our readers an immersive reading experience that not only informs but also empowers them, whether at the individual or organizational level to show curiosity, courage, and the willingness to rethink established ways of doing things.
For example, by uncovering hidden patterns in energy consumption, AUMOVIO Engineering Solutions assisted Audi to proactively turn their energy data into real savings, thus creating measurable environmental impact.
Our partnership with THE REMAKERS on the DC/DC remanufacturing project is another breathing example of this mindset coming to life – demonstrating how we can give automotive components a second life.
Similarly, in our collaboration with a US based self-driving vehicle technology company on the TCU project, our teams challenged convention by asking: instead of discarding non-conforming pieces, could these parts be reworked and reintegrated into the production flow?
Our partnership with FERNRIDE reflects another important step toward a better future. By optimizing radar perception systems for autonomous trucks, we support low-emission, efficient, and safe port operations, even in the most demanding environments.
In our pilot project addressing the EUDR, AUMOVIO Engineering Solutions is working on analyzing supply chains to bring more transparency into the process – from sourcing through to final production.
And sometimes, meaningful change begins with small, local actions. Inspired by a colleague’s Mobility Challenge in Toulouse—where employees embraced more sustainable modes of transport for a week—we see how collective enthusiasm can spark lasting habits and shared purpose.