President’s address: Suresh Gupta, President, IFCA
Keynote Address: C K Ranganathan - Founder & CMD, Cavinkare Pvt Ltd

• S Sunil Kumar – Business Director South Asia, Henkel Adhesive Technologies Pvt Ltd
• Kevin Davies - Australian Project Manager, Nextek Ltd
• Ajith Kumar – Director, Tata Starbucks Pvt Ltd
• Dr. Ajay Kumar Nema – Head Competence Center, Constantia India
• Shubhi Sachan – Senior Manager, Sustainability, Uflex Ltd
• Sunil Bhagwat – VP, CI Flexo & Tube Lamination Business, Huhtamaki-Ppl Ltd
• Pravin Nadgoundi – Manager, Quality & Regulatory, Brilliant Polymers (P) Ltd
• Jatin Takkar – Head Product Safty & Regulatory, Siegwerk India Pvt Ltd
• Rahul Podar – Managing Director, Shakti Plastic Industries
• Meenakshi Sapru, – Head- Sales, Digital Printing, Huhtamaki-PPL

Eminent panelists will discuss the market and technological impact on the food processing sector in these developing times of looking inwards. What it means for product launches, technology know-how in the recent trend of several countries wanting to go back to economic and trade policies that put their national interests first.

Moderator – Sagar Kurade – MD – Suman Project Consultants

• Market impact on food Processing industry in the era of De-Globalization
  Samana Tejani – Director, GITS Food Products Pvt Ltd
  Hemant Naik - VP – Business Strategy & Supply Chain, Natural Ice Cream
• Technology impact on food Processing industry in the era of De-Globalization
  Manoj Paul – GM – India & South Asia, Heat & Control South Asia Pvt Ltd
  Jayesh Gosrani, JMD-Process Technology & Equipment, Goma Engineering

Moderator – Prof PV Narayanan, Chairman, SIES School of Packaging

• Packaging & branding- an effective communication
  Deepti Kshirsagar,Co-Founder & Director, Tricycle Tribe Creative Ventures
• Enhancing brands - update cost effective technologies
  Andrew Hewitson, Partner-UK, Reproflex 3 / P. Sethunath, MD-Asia Pacific R3 Flexo India
• E-commerce challenges with packaging
  Shailendra Jaiswar, General Manager-Quality Assurance(Food), More Retail

Moderator – Prof PV Narayanan, Chairman, SIES School of Packaging

• Newer concepts & value added packaging systems
  Vijay V. Bhujle, Director & Senior VP-Technical, GVS Cibatech
• Product packaging & safety regulations
  Mukund Bhave,Head-Packaging Development, Maverix Platforms
• Industrial product packaging - evolving concepts
  Ravindra Shenoy, MD, Nefab India Pvt Ltd

Moderator – Prof PV Narayanan, Chairman, SIES School of Packaging

• Packaging Machinery and Systems – updated technology for better productivity
  Glenn Rebello, Manager Technical Support - Mespack India Pvt. Ltd
  Trupti Nistane, Executive-Technical Support, Mespack India
• Pharma focus - Packaging machinery & systems
  Ravindra B Alve,General Manager-Sales, IMA-PG India

Speakers

• Use of technology to fight with counterfeits in Packaging
  Dewakar Mahendru, Associate Vice President & Certified Blockchain Expert, Holostik India Ltd
• Security & Specialty Ink in Packaging
  Gaurav Sathaye, CEO, United Specialty Ink
• Create consumer connect with the use of technology
  Anshul Gupta, Country Head, Sproxil India

Moderator: Dr. Deepa Bhajekar – Director, d Technology

Speakers

• Asha Sridhar - Head: Food Safety Services, TUV India
• Deepa Naik - Head - Packaging Innovation, Hershey India
• Mrunal Joshi - Vice-Chairperson & CEO, Nichrome India
• Meenakshi Sapru - Head - Sales, Huhtamaki PPL
• Bhavana Shah- Regional Head, India / Sri Lanka, MPOC

Speaker

• Christopher Victor - Director of Beverages and Packaging Analysis, GlobalData