Surat: Two day exhibition organized by BNI
BNI organized a two day exhibition “Surat Biz Fest” at Sarsana followed by India Startup session at Amor. The event saw the participation of over 10,000 business owners, over 500 business entities, over 45 speakers, over 130 keynote exhibitors, over 200 startup founders and over 40 participants from the BNI India region.
BNI Greater Surat is one of the top performing sectors in the world. On whose behalf “Surat Biz Fest” was organized for the first time in Surat by BNI in collaboration with Tryam Realty and CRMON. On 24th March, dedicated to India Startups, an event was organized at Amor. This was followed by a two-day exhibition and special speaker sessions on various themes at the Platinum Hall of the Sarsana Convention Centre.
Gaurav Singhvi, Executive Director, BNI Greater Surat said that the two-day event held at Sarsana will bring together over 10,000 business owners, over 500 professional organizations, over 45 speakers, over 130 key exhibitors, over 200 startup founders and BNI India More than 40 participants from the region participated. The two-day biz fest featured renowned keynote speakers and master classes presented by industry leaders. The theme of the event was ‘Innovate, Impact, Inspire’.
Vijay Agarwal, Ex-CTO of Bharat Pay, Pranay Gupta, Co-Founder of 91 Springboard and Co-Founder of 91Ventures, and Sandeep Dinodiya CPTO and Ex-CTO Peekkar of Imazha spoke on ‘Transforming Traditional Business through Technology’. Whereas, Apoorva Agarwal, Founder, Universal Legal & Angel Investor and Chintan Ojha, Founder, Anantam Ecosystem spoke on ‘Beyond: The Real World Application of Web Blockchain Technology’.
Similarly, on the topic “How D2C Are Leveraging Social Media and Influencer Marketing”, Siddhant Agarwal, Co-Founder of Avimi Herbal, Sule Lavi, Founder of Bummer, Forbes Top 100 Digital Star and Content Creator Vinkel Jain and Ayanara Kaur, Co- The founder of Belora Paris shares his thoughts.
Panel speakers included Sanjay Saraogi of Lakshmipati Group, Girish Luthra of Luthra Group (Environment), Ashwin Desai of Ather Industries Limited (Chemicals), Ketan Zota of Zota Pharma Limited (Chemicals), Milan Parikh of Jainam Securities Limited (Equity Investments), Abbas Hazuri from Socio Beverages Limited (Food & Beverages) shared his experiences.
The session was moderated by Gaurav VK Singhvi (We Founder Sercel Startup Investors). Amazing master classes were also conducted on Architecture, Textiles, Exports, Marketing and Vastu by eminent personalities like Gagan Kapoor, Sandeep Kaushik, Bindu Khurana, Ankit Mehta and other stalwarts of the industry.
Anna Otto and 7 time TeDX speaker from Chennai Anna Durai, one of the most renowned doctors at Medanta, Gurgaon Dr. Neelam Mohan, renowned author and eminent speaker Prof. Ramesh Arora and Chairman and Editor-in-Group of Business World Media Group were also present as keynote speakers.
Gaurav Singhvi pointed out that “Surat will become the financial capital of India by 2030 and Surat Biz Fest was an initiative to take forward this vision.
