The Indian food industry, including its cold chain logistics, processing, exports, food service, and retail, is the driver of the brick-and-mortar economy, increasingly benefitting from its digital backbone and other infrastructure improvements. Regenerative agriculture, modern logistics, and processing point to the circular food economy. Innovations in food ingredients and products require sustainable innovations in processing and packaging, including the use of data collection, track-and-trace, and artificial intelligence at every step of the supply chain.
New products, added value, and efficiency can decrease food waste in India, estimated to be as high as 75 million tons or 55 kilograms per capita (UNEP’s Food Waste Report 2024). The FoodTekPack Conference on 11 and 12 December 2025 in Noida will knowledgeably discuss the opportunity to decrease waste and bring more food to market.
Speakers from the food brands, producers, processing and technology suppliers who are investing in every aspect of the food supply chain will make this a unique face-to-face event. Tech innovations in agriculture, sorting, processing, cold chain, filling, sealing, packaging, energy saving, and recycling will be discussed. Practitioners, experts, and growth-oriented entrepreneurs and professionals, global and Indian food brand owners, processors, cold chain, packaging, filling and sealing, and material providers will interact in each session, sharing experience and insights, and answer participants’ questions.
Confirmed speakers so far include Dr Sudhanshu, secretary APEDA, Swarn Singh Grover, director R&D Kellogg’s India, keynote speaker Sandeep Ghosh, business head DS Spices, Swapnil Bhardwaj, central quality and regulatory affairs manager, Haldiram Snacks, Vaibhav Vijay Dugar, founder Vaarya Foods, Prabhod Halde, head global regulatory, public policy and advocacy, Marico Group, Aditi Jhala, CEO The Misfits, Nayandeep Banerjee, head packaging, Pernod Ricard, Pranav Bhalara Balaji Multiflex, Amit Kher, head sales and technology food business, Buhler India, Mani Vajipey, co-founder & CEO of Banyan Nation, Ritesh Dhingra, MD of Multivac Laraon India, Barun Banerjee, CTO Jupiter Laminators, Srikanth Ramamurthy, liquid packaging division, Parksons Packaging, BN Yengade, founder Binder Technology, Dr Keshav Kumar, anti-counterfeiting expert, associate professor paper and packaging technology, IIT Roorkee, KK Gaikwad, Achintya Lahiri, technical sales director of Sidel, and Sushil Sharma, India food cluster, Sealed Air. Several more food and beverage brand owners, processors, cold chain, food marketing, packaging, and recycling experts are expected to join.
The IPP Group’s FoodTekPack is a unique conference, ‘With Take-Home Value’ – this is the tech, business, and industrial part of the Indian Save Food movement that discusses food production, processing, supply chain and logistics, and sustainable packaging, in the context of automation, efficiency, and sustainability.
The detailed conference program, available on our website (www.foodtekpack.com), includes sessions on the Indian Save Food Movement. Tech innovations for sustainable farming, sourcing, and food processing, distribution, and packaging for the domestic cold chain and exports, the circular food economy, food and beverage product and process innovations to convert waste food into protein, and to convert waste food into packaging will be discussed. As will be the FSSAI compliance and trends update, brand protection, anti-counterfeiting of inputs and food products from farm to thali.
Sessions will address food processing, filling and sealing, and packaging technologies and optimization using data, AI, and automation of packaging machines, especially for sustainable materials. Sessions on Recyclability and compliance with Extended User Responsibility will highlight the US$ 5-9 billion business opportunity of packaging waste recycling. Held alongside the Intrapac exhibition at the Greater Noida Expo, the conference is supported by institutions and associations, including ASPA.
Sustainable processing and packaging help in the preservation and delivery of healthy food, preserving its nutritious value hygienically, and with integrity till it reaches the consumer. The food industry is the best user of renewable resources that can drive the modern food processing industry and skilled employment. With the use of recyclable and sustainable packaging materials, food and beverages are our greatest wealth and export products – it is time to use technology to modernize the supply chain and work together on this opportunity.
In the very busy season, the conference on 11 and 12 December is fast approaching. The program is developing well and is available on the FoodTekPack www.foodtekpack.com website. Sponsorship, speaker, and panelist opportunities are still available. Participants are urged to register as soon as possible to be part of a unique knowledge event that will lead to actionable contributions to the Save Food movement and to the integrity of the food supply chain.
