Print Summit is an annual 'Knowledge Seminar' hosted by our Association for stake holders from the print-packaging and allied industries. This annual event is undertaken by the Association as a unique effort to commemorate: Printers' Day. We enable this colloquium as a tribute to Johannes Gutenberg – a German innovator whose invention, the movable type, revolutionised mass printing. The master's technique/invention ultimately proved to be the catalyst which brought about Renaissance that ultimately Reformed Europe. Incidentally, Johannes Gutenberg was felicitated by the Time magazine as “Man of the Millennium” at the dawn of this millennia.
We are thrilled to announce that BMPA’s Print Summit turns 10 at the upcoming edition of the show. On Jan 29th 2016, Tata Theatre, NCPA, Mumbai.
Our collective goal is to make this 10th anniversary a Grand Event.
The BMPA is steadfast in its goal to construct an agenda that consolidates the progress made over every past Print Summit edition rendered since 2005 (when we held the first multi-day edition) and turn it into a celebration of Print and Communication. We desire to make the Key Note address more conspicuous and build content that resonates and heralds the changes that are shaping our industry - challenging it and redefining its relevance.
Some of the speakers at bygone Print Summits
Ajay Piramal, Kishore Biyani, Yoshiharu Komori, Ashish Hemrajani, Arnab Goswami, B S Nagesh, Vir Sanghvi, Pranav Parikh, Prof. Boman Moradian, Prof. V K Murti, Prof. Parimal Merchant, Prof Samsih Dalal, (Lt) Prof Rooshikumar Pandya, Radhakrishna Pillai, Steven Schnoll, Anthony Stanton, Prof. Dr. Rajendrakumar Anayath, P Narendra, Prof. Dr Eduard Neufeld, Santosh Nair and more.
Audience at Print Summit
Businesses from commercial printing, package printing, labels, POP-POS, wide format printing, on-demand printing, corrugation, creative industry and ad agency. Personalities attending the conference are largely owners, decision makers, technologists, shop floor personnel, marketeers, designers and IT & admin folks.
Print Summit Event Specs
Friday, Jan 29th 2016
Tata Theatre, NCPA Complex, Nariman Point, Mumbai – 400021
Auditorium size – 1000
Last year’s head count 820
About The Bombay Master Printers' Association
BMPA’s Mission:
- BMPA is committed to improve the quality of life for the print community
- To be a pre-eminent organization in developing co-operation amongst print industry stake holders
- To provide know-how on state-of-art print technology, education and related matters
- To develop business leaders, technocrats and entrepreneurs
- To encourage and recognize excellence in printing
In this era of cross-technology solutions and a communication cycle that is ultra dynamic; one that is continuously pushing the limits and reinventing the means; the BMPA acknowledges the growing inter-dependence amidst the printing technologies and allied media processes. As a result our membership is broad-based, comprising of firms who are engaged as: print providers, pre-press, pre-media specialists, post-press and converting, packaging printing, agencies; And printers’ suppliers i.e. manufacturers and traders.
We have been serving to the cause of the Print Industry for the last 60 and are a proud family of over 500 members from and around Mumbai.
On a national level, The BMPA is well networked with other regional printers' trade associations from all over India; All of whom assemble under the fulcrum organisation: All India Federation of Master Printers - a New Delhi based nodal rep of the printing industry. Presently there are over 55 regional associations from all over India come under the AIFMPs umbrella. Several nominees of the BMPA have served the Federation as its President over the last six decades. At the state (provincial) level the BMPA is similarly affiliated with the Maharashtra Mudran Parishad, which functions as a state level Federation of printers’ association. The President of the BMPA is a permanent member to the Development Council for Printing under the Ministry of Commerce & Industry (Dept. of Industrial Policy & Promotion), Central Government of India.
The Association has also laid down the standard terms and conditions for the printing industry. This has served as a stabilizing influence on the industry, and has resolved many a dispute between a client and a printer. The Association strives continuously to assist its members to solve their problems. It is fortunate to have obtained assistance of such expert consultants who are authorities in their respective fields. At present the association has a battery of consultants on VAT (earlier known as Sales Tax), Excise & Service Tax and Company Affairs to efficiently handle these issues. The BMPA is constantly endeavouring to arrive upon a uniform and scientific method of costing for the print industry and implementing of standards for business operations and conduct.