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