Print business outlook conference on 15 March

NPES, ICC and BMPA will host the Print Business Outlook Conference 2016 on 15 March at The Westin Mumbai Garden City in Mumbai.

02 Mar 2016 | By Priya Raju

The day-long conference themed around the topic “Creating future print through technology and innovation”, will explore strategies for harnessing challenges and opportunities in a rapidly changing global print technology landscape. Top industry experts are set to engage participants in a lively discussion.
 
Speaking about the conference, Fred Poonawala of Comart said, “I wouldn’t miss this conference, in fact I suggest converters in the packaging space to attend and benefit from this.”
 
According to NPES, the association for suppliers of printing and converting technologies, designed to examine the advantages of digital printing and manufacturing in a changing industry.
 
NPES expects over 250 printers, publishers, manufacturers and suppliers to be in attendance.
 
BMPA’s president Faheem Agboatwala, said, print is evolving and the BMPA’s idea behind joining hands with NPES and ICC, is to promote awareness of current and impending changes 
 
Agboatwala added, "While not only giving our members insight into the future of print, we are also pleased to bring this carefully curated conference and sold-out event to the attention and benefit of the print fraternity worldwide."
 
One such session chaired by Agboatwala will revolve around ‘Packaging design and branding’. He said, “We have a strong mix of professionals from the packaging as well as design sphere. Apart from being informative, the session will be interesting and fun.”
 
The packaging design and branding panel
Abhimanyu Nohwar, founder and director of Kiba Design
Ashwini Deshpande, co-founder of Elephant Design
 
KM Lakshminarayanan, packaging and sourcing consultant at Galaxy Surfactants and Spectrum Scan
 
Chaired by Faheem Agboatwala
 
Other speakers of the session are Marco Boer, vice president, IT Strategies; William Li, ICC co-chair and color technology manager, Kodak; Steve Smiley, president, Smiley Color & Associates Global Brand Solutions; Juergen Seitz, senior technical advisor, GMG; Elie Khoury, president, Alwan Color Expertise; Phil Green, professor of colour imaging at the Colour and Visual Computing Laboratory, Gjøvik University College, Norway.
 
The conference is supported by the All Indian Federation of Master Printers Association (AIFMP), the Indian Printing, Packaging and Allied Machinery Manufacturers' Association (IPAMA) and PRIMIR, the print industries market information and research organisation, the research unit of NPES.
 
Agboatwala, added, "At the time of writing this article, there were only 20 seats left."