Just to update our readers, supporters, and participants, the Second FoodTekPack conference in collaboration with the IndusFood Exhibition, is being jointly organized with the Trade Promotion Council of India in Gandhinagar on 25 July. The full-day event will take place in a structured, partitioned, and separate space with industry sponsorship and paying delegates.
Although organized by IndiFoodBev, Packaging South Asia, and IPPStar in a short period of time, the program is strong on content and direction. It reflects the strength and leadership of Gujarat and the entire country in food production and the reduction of food loss and food waste by improving the supply chain and exporting, with the use of innovations in food processing and sustainable packaging.
We have solid sessions on food processing innovation with speakers from leading brand owners such as Arshad Khambatta of Rasna and Dr Prem Garg of the Indian Rice Exporter Association. Many of the national food and beverage brand owners are panellists such as Adani Food Products, Ganesh Gruh Udyog, Tata Consumer Products, and several others. Innovation experts from Buhler India, Raas Intellisolutions, and On2Cook will speak about innovations and efficiencies in food processing, preparation, packaging, filling and sealing, and customer engagement.
The packaging innovation sessions for food exports are also excellent, with discussion of new structures and technologies that are creating the path for gravure and flexography for flexible packaging standardization, safety, and cost efficiency.
An extremely important session will be addressed by Dr Azam Pasha of Maalexi, who has set up a global Real World Asset platform for food trade and risk management. This promises to be an insightful window to streamlining and scaling up agriculture and food exports from India.
There are sessions discussing the latest food safety and circular packaging Extended User Responsibility compliances of the Indian government and the EU waste management regulations coming into force in August 2026. Apart from an update on FSSAI compliance, there will be a session on brand protection and authentication of food and beverage products. The use of condition-monitoring sensors for derisking and tracking the export of sensitive cold chain food products will also be presented.
The final session of the day is about infusing and attracting capital and investment for modernization, innovation, and new projects in the areas of the food supply chain, processing, packaging, and related technologies. This session will include a panel of innovators, private equity investors, and bankers.
All the sessions at our conference are knowledge, technology, and business. There is plenty of time and room for questions and interaction with the speakers and panellists. Registration, which is nominal at Rs. 2,000 plus GST for the full day including lunch and teas, are already coming in. Check out the FoodTekPack website www.foodtekpack.com for the detailed program and list of speakers and panelists, and please register. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact the conference team or me as given on the website.
We are expecting around 100 to 120 participants, including brand owners, food processors, experts, importers, exporters, and packaging converters and experts. This is not a conference of sales talks. It is one conversation after another with take-home value, which comes as much from the knowledge and experience of our delegates as from our speakers and panelists. We hope to see a strong and meaningful turnout for this industry leadership event!
