Surat : Biggest Business Festival ‘The Surat Biz Fest’ organized by BNI. Loktej Surat, Business News

BNI Greater Surat is one of the top performing regions in the world. Diamond City Surat is organizing a three-day ‘The Surat Biz Fest’ from March 24 – 25 – 26 at Platinum Hall, Sarsana Exhibition and Convention Center (SIECC). Held from March 24 to March 26, the business fest is an initiative of BNI Greater Surat and Corporate Connection.

‘More than 10,000 business owners, 500+ business entities, (45+) speakers will participate in Surat Biz Fest. With over 130 prominent exhibitors, 200+ startup founders and around 40+ participants from across the BNI India region, it will be an ideal networking destination. The objective of this business festival is to bring together the entire business community from all industries to participate, network, collaborate and showcase new emerging technologies and inform business trends. Thus a total of 3 days objective focused and growth oriented networking event.

Shri Harsh, Minister of State for Home Affairs, inaugurated the Surat Biz Fest in the presence of Shri Gaurav Singhvi, Executive Director, BNI Greater Surat, Atul Gupta, Chairman, Surat Biz Fest and Dhara Shah, Co-Chairman, Siddharth Bhatnagar, Amanat Kagzi, Dr. Kunal Parekh and Jinay Kapadia Sanghvi will do.

Surat Biz Fest will also have masterclasses presented by renowned keynote speakers and industrialists. The first day of the Biz Fest will be dedicated to the start-up fest, while the remaining two days will focus on other industries, which will see participation from other businesses from Surat and across the country.

Surat Bizfest Chairman Atul Gupta said that Surat Biz Fest is the biggest business festival of Surat. We expect over 15,000 visitors from Surat and other parts of the country to participate in the trade fest. The theme of the event is ‘Innovate, Impact, Inspire’.

On the opening day, March 24, Surat Biz Fest will host a workshop on ‘India’s Rise in the Startup Ecosystem’ by Apoorva Chamaria, leader of startups and VC of Google India. Apoorva Arora, Angel Investor and Managing Partner, EPIC Ventures, Kashyap Pandya, Founder, Syncoro Ventures, Nimit Agarwal, Co-Founder, DOCTCO, Ravi Nigam, Former President, Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE, Pune) and Vivek Kapoor, Co-Founder, DINEOUT Investing in Early Stage Startups ‘: The Risks and Rewards of Backing New Age Business’.

BharatPe’s Ex-CTO Vijay Agarwal, 91Springboard Co-Founder and 91Ventures’ Co-Founder Pranay Gupta and EMIZA’s Sandeep Dinodiya CPTO and Ex-CTO PICKRR will speak on ‘Transforming Traditional Business through Technology’. Whereas, Apoorva Agarwal, Founder, Universal Legal & Angel Investor and Chintan Ojha, Founder, Anantam Ecosystem will speak on ‘Beyond Cryptocurrency: The Real World Application of Web3/Blockchain Technology’.

Similarly, on the topic “How D2C are Leveraging Social Media and Influencer Marketing”, Siddhant Agarwal, Co-Founder, Avimi Herbal, Sulay Lavasi, Founder, Bummer, Twinkle Jain, Forbes Top 100 Digital Star and Content Creator, and Ayanara Kaur, Co-Founder, Belora Paris, shared their views. Will present

Panel Speakers on March 25 – Sanjay Saraogi of Lakshmipati Group, Girish Luthra of Luthra Group (Environment), Ashwin Desai of Ather Industries Ltd. (Chemicals), Ketan Jhota of Zota Pharma Ltd. (Chemicals), Jainam Securities Ltd. (Equity Investments) Milan Parikh), Abbas Hazuri of Sosyo Beverages Limited (Food & Beverages). The session will be moderated by Gaurav VK Singhvi (We Founder Sercel Startup Investors).

Surat Biz Fest will witness amazing master classes on Architecture, Textiles, Exports, Marketing and Vastu from eminent personalities like Gagan Kapoor, Sandeep Kaushik, Bindu Khurana, Ankit Mehta and other industry stalwarts. Anna Otto and 7-time TeDX speaker Anna Durai from Chennai, Dr. Neelam Mohan, one of the most renowned doctors at Medanta, Gurgaon, renowned author and eminent speaker Prof. Ramesh Arora and Chairman and Editor-in-Group of Business World Media Group will be the keynote speakers.

Gaurav Singhvi, Executive Director, BNI Greater Surat said, “Surat will become the financial capital of India by 2030 and Surat Biz Fest is an initiative to take forward this vision. It is our endeavor to promote a culture of earning and learning together by organizing this three day event, bringing together business exhibitions and scholarly speakers from across India.