Speakers at Bharat Tex 2024
Experience the pulse of innovation at Bharat Tex 2024 - your gateway to dynamic
exchanges, interactive panels, and thought-provoking roundtables. Dive into engaging deliberations that
foster collaboration among governments, key decision-makers, and industry experts, all working together
to redefine the future of the textile industry.
Featured Speakers
Piyush Goyal
Hon’ble Minister of Textiles, Commerce and Industry and Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, - Government of India
Darshana Jardosh
Hon’ble Minister of State Textiles and Railways - Government of India
Rachna Shah
Secretary - Ministry of Textiles, Government of India
Rohit Kansal
Additional Secretary - Ministry of Textiles, Government of India
Shubhra
Trade Advisor - Ministry of Textiles
Prajakta L. Verma
Joint Secretary - Ministry of Textile
Rajeev Saxena
Joint Secretary - Ministry of Textiles, Govt of India
Anil Kumar
Director - Ministry of Textiles
Roop Rashi
Textile Commissioner - Ministry of Textiles
Speakers
Aanshul Ved Grover
Sourcing Head - Bestseller India
Abhijit Majumdar
Chair Professor for Decision Sciences (Operations Management) - Textile and Fibre Engineering department at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India (IIT Delhi)
Abhishek Bansal
Head of Sustainability - Arvind
Adam Kay
CEO - Cotton Australia
Ajai Singh Sirohi
Chief Development Officer – South Asia - Toray Industries India Pvt. Ltd.
Akhilesh Kumar
Deputy Director General - Ministry of Textiles, GOI
Akhilesh Prasad
President & Chief Executive Officer - Reliance Retail Ltd (Fashion & Lifestyle)
Alison Ward
CEO - Cotton Connect
Ambuj Narayan
CEO - Taneria
Amit Garg
Associate Partner - KOIS
Amit Gugnani
Senior Partner Fashion (Textile & Apparel) - Technopak
Amit Kavrie
Managing Director - Supreme Group
Amol Biniwale
Managing Director - Perennials and Sutherland
Amrit Raj
DC Handicrafts - Ministry of Textiles
Anavila Misra
Creative Director - Anavila
Anjani Kumar Prasad
Vice President - Archroma India
Anupreet Bhui
Content Expert - WGSN, London
Anurag Gupta
Managing Director - Usha Yarns
Arjun Puri
Chief Executive Officer - Anko Global
Arshiya Lal
Director of Corporate Development - Circ
Ashish Dixit
Managing Director - Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Limited
Ashroff Omar
Group Chief Executive Officer - Brandix Apparel Limited
Asker Laubjerg
Chief Operating Officer - Sourcing - KAS Group Asia
Avedis Seferian
President & CEO - WRAP
Avinash Mayekar
Managing Director - Suvin Expo LLP
Avinash Misar
Chairman - Indian Technical Textile Association (ITTA)
B S Nagesh
- - Shoppers Stop
Badrinath Mishra
VP, Textiles, Fashion and BPC - ONDC
BB Paul
Former Director, O/o DC Handlooms - Ministry of Textiles
Benny Pua
Managing Director - United Texmac PTE Ltd
Bess Neilsen
Khadi & Co - Paris
Bhadresh Dodhia
Head International Sales & Finance - Dodhia Group
Binoy Choudhury
Chairman - Control Union Certifications (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Bob Assenberg
Fund Director - Good Fashion Fund
Brenda K Walker
Global Head of Government - KPMG International
BVR Subrahmanyam
CEO - NITI Aayog
Carla Buzasi
President & CEO - WGSN
Carlo Centonze
Chief Executive Officer - HeiQ Systems
Chandra Bhushan
Founder & CEO - iForest
Chandrakant Kumbhani
Chief Operating Officer - Community Development - Ambuja Cement Foundation
Christian Dreszig
Regional Sales Director Asia - Benninger Group, Switzerland
Conrad Nana Kojo Asiedu
First Secretary/Trade, Culture & Tourism Officer - The Embassy of Ghana
Darpan Shukla
Group Head of Supply Chain - Brandix
David Michell
Executive Director and Owner - Michell Wool Pty Ltd
Debabrata Ghosh
Vice President - Sales & Marketing - Oerlikon Textile India Pvt. Ltd.
Debdeep Sinha
Chief Business Officer - Raymonds
Deepak Rautela
Associate Vice President - Training & Organizational Development - Shahi Exports Pvt. Ltd
Dileep Baid
Chairman - Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts (EPCH)
Dr K V Srinivasan
President - ITMF
Dr Manoj Tiwari
Professor - -
Dr Noopur Anand
Professor & Principal Investigator - INDIAsize
Dr Shalini Sood Sehgal
Creative Director and Principal Investigator - NIFT VisioNxt
Dr Siddhartha Rajagopal
Executive Director - TEXPROCIL
Dr Tarun Panwar
Associate Dean of Fashion Enterprise, School of Fashion & Textiles College of Design & Social Context - RMIT University, Australia
Dr Thomas Gries
Director - ITA RWTH, Germany
Dr. Christian P. Schindler
Director General - International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF)
Dr. Kaustav Sen Gupta
Director Insights and Principal Investigator - NIFT VisioNxt
Dr. Susan La Rhea Pepper
Managing Director - Textile Exchange
Dr. Wolfgang Ernst
Head of Sales - Oerlikon Textile India Pvt. Ltd.
Eric Dorchies
Chief Executive Officer - CIEL Textile
Eva Benavidez Clayton
Director of Communications - BCI
Faruque Hassan
President, Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) - Managing Director, Giant Group
Franco Bonello
Managing Director - Vandewiele - Savio India Pvt Ltd
Ganesh Kasekar
Representative IN South Asia - Global Organic Textile Standard
Gauri Singh
Deputy Director-General - International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Gautam Nair
Managing Director - Matrix Clothing Pvt. Ltd
George
Chief Executive Officer - e-Dye
Gianluca Tanzi
Chairman and CEO - Chargeurs PCC
Girish Menon
Managing Director - Stride Partners
Giuseppe Della Cella Gherzi
Managing Partner - Gherzi Textil Organisation
H K Agarwal
Managing Director - Grasim Industries
Hans Hon Sang Chaney
Co-founder & CTO - Matoha
Hardeep Desai
Global Head- Farm Programmes - CottonConnect
Harish Ahuja
Managing Director - Shahi Export
Harminder Sahni
Founder & MD - Wazir Advisors
Hemang Agarwal
Designer & Creative Director - The Surekha Group
Hisahiro Koketsu
Managing Director - Kirloskar Toyota Textile Machinery Pvt Ltd
Ioana Dobrescu
Managing Director - Water Footprint Implementation
Jaime Pedroza Hernandez
President - CANAIVE (National Chamber of Textiles)
James Howard Phillips
Partner - Gherzi ASEAN
Janavi Papriwal
Associate Partner - Circulate Capital
Jasmer Dhingra
Director- Programs (India) - IDH
Jey John
President - True Light Brands Inc
Jo Hall
CEO - WoolProducers Australia
Joachim Hensch
, - Gherzi Textil Org
Jochen Adler
Head of R&D - Oerlikon Textile India Pvt. Ltd.
K D Sharma
Director Growth - Descatuk
K Srinivasan
Raw Material Developer - IKEA Supply Area South Asia
Kamal Oswal
Managing Director - Nahar Industries
Kapil Agrawal
Business Head, Textiles - Aditya Birla Group
Karan Kumar
Programme Manager - Laudes India
Kathleen Rademan
VP Corporate Development - Circ
Kenji Yamamoto
Managing Director - Teijin Frontier India Pvt. Ltd
Khushbu Maheshwari
Innovation Associate - Fashion for Good
Kinner Lakhani
Chief Operating Officer - Cotton Connect
Liza Amlani
Founder - Retail Strategy Group
Lt General Amardeep Singh Aujla
Master General Sustenance (MGS) - Indian Army
Madhu Sudan Dadu
Chairman - ColorJet India Limited
Manish Kapoor
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer - Pepe Jeans India Limited
Maniwanen Marimutu
Chairman - Busana Group
Manmohan Singh
Chief Marketing Officer, Birla Cellulose - Aditya Birla Group
Manu Veer Tyagi
President & CEO - MV Group New York
Marci Zaroff
Founder & CEO - ECOfashion Corp
Marie Emmanuelle Belzung
General Delegate - Alliance for European Flax-Linen & Hemp
Marinus (René) van der Sluijs
, - International Renowned Cotton Researcher
Mark Grave
CEO - Australian Wool Exchange
Matthew Rhodes
Head of Sourcing - Primark
Mausmi Ambastha
Founder - ZapScale
Max Easton
Global Innovation Director - Smartex
Mithileshwar Thakur
Secretary General - Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC)
Mohamed KASSEM
Vice President - ACTIF (African Cotton and Textile Industries Federation)
Mohammad Hateem
Executive President - MB Knit Fashion Ltd and NR Group
Mohit Bhasin
Partner & Global Co-Lead, Economic Growth Network - KPMG
Mustafa Cem Altan
President - International Apparel Federation
Narendra Dalmia
Director - Strata Geosystems (India)
Narendra Goenka
Chairman - Bharat Tex
Naresh Tyagi
Chief Sustainability Officer - Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail Limited
Navdeep Sodhi
Partner - Gherzi Textil Org
Naveen Singh
Business Development Manager - Control Union India
Neha Bhatnagar
Vice President of Partnerships - India Impact Investors Council
Nicholas McCaffrey
Australia's Deputy High Commissioner (DHOM) - .
Nigel Burnett
Chairman - Cotton Australia
Nishat Shahid Chowdhury
Program Manager, Partnership - Cleaner Textiles (PaCT), IFC (World Bank Group), Dhaka, Bangladesh
Nitin Bal Chauhan
Creative Director - Nitin Bal Chauhan
Nitin Pamnani
Co-Founder - iTokri
Nitin Prasad
MD - PVH Corp.
Omang Rai Narang
Country Manager - H&M India Production
P Gopalakrishnan
Chairman - HEPC
Pallak Seth
Executive Vice Chairman - PDS, United Kingdom & India
Paresh Shah
EVP Supply - PVH Corporation
Patricia Jurewicz
Founder and CEO - Responsible Sourcing Network
Patricia Sumod
Professor - NIFT Mumbai
Pooja Ratnakar
Co-founder - Potli
Pramit Chanda
Global Director Textiles and Manufacturing - IDH
Prashant Agarwal
Co-Founder & JMD - Wazir Advisors
Prashant Kapoor
Partner - KPMG
Pratik Tiwari
Founder - Groyyo
Priya Krishnamoorthy
Founder and CEO - 200 Million Artisans
Priyanka Modi
Creative Designer - Label AM:PM
Prof Alice Payne
PhD SFHEA Dean, School of Fashion & Textiles College of Design & Social Context - RMIT University, Australia
Pubudu De Silva
Chief Executive Officer - Teejay Lanka Plc
Puesh Ajmani
President & Global Chief Digital Officer - Welspun Living Limited
Puneet Dudeja
Director - Business Development - WGSN
Raghu Babu Nukala
Programme Director - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Rajesh Kumar
CEO - Laguna Clothing
Rajinder Gupta
Chairman Emeritus - Trident Group
Rajiv Malik
Executive Vice President, Global Sourcing and Product Services - Kohl’s Department Stores
Rajive Ranjan
Techno Design - GmBh
Rakesh Kumar
Export Promotion Council - for Handicrafts
Rakesh Mehra
Chairman - Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI)
Ram Sareen
Chairman-Founder - Tukatech
Ranjit Sasi
Director - Reverse Resources
Ravinder Verma
Managing Director - Ganga Acrowools Ltd
Regina BRÜCKNER
Managing Director - BRÜCKNER Trockentechnik GmbH & Co.
Reisuke Aratani
Director - YKK Group
RK Dhiman
AVSM, VSM - Additional Director General Border Roads
Robert P Antoshak
Partner - Gherzi Textil
Robert Sinclair
Independent Director and Strategy Advisor - Busana Group, Indonesia
Ru Yi Ong
Managing Director - Primax Corp
Salman Nishtar
Group Chief Financial Officer - Teejay Group
Sanjay Jain
Chairman - TT Group
Sanjay jayavarthanavelu
Chairman and Managing Director - Lakshmi Machine Works
Sanjay Vakharia
Co-founder and CEO - Spykar
Sarita Ganeriwala
Business Partner - Karomi Crafts n textiles
Satyaki Ghosh
CEO Domestic Textiles - Aditya Birla Group
Seshu Anne
Senior Vice President, Sourcing & Quality - Target
Shefalee Vasudev
Editor in Chief - The Voice of Fashion - Rise Worldwide Limited
Shikha Shah
Founder & CEO - Altmat, India
Shireesh Joshi
Chief Business Officer and President - Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC)
Shivananda Shetty
Partner, ESG-Management - KPMG
Shobha Raghavan
Director/Chief Operating Officer - Saahas Zero Waste
Shobhit Agarwal
Partner, KPMG in India, - Corridor Leader – Africa, MESAC & Nepal
Shreyaskar Chaudhary
Managing Director - Pratibha Syntex Ltd
Sibichan Mathew
Professor of Fashion Management Studies and Head of Research Unit - NIFT
Sivakumar Narayanan
Executive VP Marketing and Business Development - Uster
Sivaramakrishnan Ganapathi
Executive Vice-Chairman & Managing Director - Gokaldas Exports Limited
Stefano Loro
President & Executive Director - Aquafil
Stephan Sielaff
CEO - Lenzing
Suchira Surendranath
Director – Strategy and Investments - Brandix India Apparel City
Suchita Jain
Vice Chairman & Joint MD - Vardhman Textile
Sudhir Sekhri
Chairman - AEPC, India
Sugam Asani
Chief Brand Officer - Bestseller India
Sumit Roy
Head Agriculture Production Initiative - WWF
Sundar Senthilnathan
Head of Public Affairs - H&M
Sunil Kumar Patwari
Chairman - TEXPROCIL
Sunil Shewakramani
CEO - Busana Group
Surjit Singh Mahajan
Managing Director - Stäubli India Pvt Ltd
Susan Thomas
IRS - Government of India
Swati Nathani
Founder - Team Pumpkin
Tejas Sampat
Senior Director- Corporate Responsibility South Asia and Global Sustainability - PVH Corp
Thorsten Bauer
Vice President Asia & Managing Director - OBI, GmbH
Todd Kahn
President & Chief Administrative Officer - Coach
Toolika Gupta
Director - IICD (Indian Institute of Crafts and Design), Jaipur
Tricia Carey
Chief Commercial Officer - Renewcell
Udita Bansal
Founder - TrueBrowns
V Sunil
Co-Founder - Motherland Joint Ventures
Vasco Sousa
Sales - PICVISA
Victor Pimentel - MSc.
BRAZIL, CEO - Geo Soluções- Strata Brazil - Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering (São Paulo-Brazil)
Vijay Kumar Mathur
DG & CEO - ATDC India
Vijay Kumar Saraswat
Member NITI Aayog and Chancellor, - Jawaharlal Nehru University Co-Chair
Vikas Bhudhiraja
Vice President-Marketing Textiles & Apparel - Arise IIP Group, Africa
Vineet Gautam
CEO & Country Head - Bestsellers, India
Vipin Tiwari
Senior Managing Director - Target Sourcing Services
Vivek Bansal
DDG, CPWD, - Government of India
Yatin Kirori
Global Supply Chain - Bestseller
Session Agenda Overview