TAI Mumbai Finalises Speakers For Sustainability Conference
The Textile Association (India), Mumbai Unit which is organising an international conference on “Sustainability and Circularity – The New Challenges for the Textile Value Chain” on January 31, 2023 has finalised its list of speakers who would address the conference.
The Chief Guest is Virendra Singh, IAS, Secretary (Textiles), Cooperation, Marketing & Textile Dept., Govt. of Maharashtra, while the Guest of Honour is Roop Rashi (IA&AS), Textile Commissioner, Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India.
The Key note speaker is Dr. Naresh Tyagi, Chief Sustainability Officer, Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Limited and felicitations will be done by Dr. Sharad Kumar Saraf, CMD, Technocraft Group and Rajkumar Agarwal, MD, SVG Fashions Ltd.
Ullhas Nimkar, Chairman, NimkarTek Technical Services will be speaking on the topic of ‘Understanding Sustainability and Circularity in the Textile Value Chain.
The topic of ‘Sustainability in Textile Fibres’ will be addressed by Mayank Mody, Director, Mody Linen Fibre and Dr. GS Nadiger, General Secretary, Non Conventional Fibres Association.
Shiladitya Joshi, Dy. General Manager- Product & Marketing at Truetzschler India will address the delegates on ‘Truetzschler’s Approach towards Sustainability’.
Prashant Pote, Customer Relations Management Manager, India at bluesign technologies will speak on ‘Bluesign Solutions for Sustainability & Circularity’.
Umasankar Sinha Mahapatra, MD, Pulcra Chemicals India will address on ‘Sustainable Wet Processing of Textiles; while on the topic of ‘Nurturing the world of tomorrow’, the address would be given by Dr Ratnakar Mahajan, Maccaferri Environmental Solution.
Ranganathan NS, Vice President (Head of Customer Engagement) at Textile Genesis will speak on ‘Why traceability has become top-priority for fashion brands’.
Dr. Ajay Ranka, CMD, Zydex Group will give an address on ‘Farm & Forest Sustainability for Organic Fibre Production – Profitable one crop transition’.
There will be a panel discussion on ‘Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs)’ which will be moderated by Chandrima Chatterjee, Secretary General, Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI)
The panel members include Rahul Bhajekar, MD, Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) and Murugan Thenkondar, President & Global Head (Marketing and Business Development), Birla Cellulose.
Other panel members are Kapil Pathare, Director, VIP Clothing Ltd, M Gunasekaran, Technical Marketing & Development Manager (South Asia),Lenzing Fibers, Avik Banerjee, Material and Components, H&M Group and Srinivasan Krishnamurthy, Raw Material Specialist, IKEA Services (India).
