BNI hosts the biggest business festival ‘The Surat Biz Fest’ in Surat

Surat : BNI Greater Surat, one of the world’s top-performing regions, will host the three-day “The Surat Biz Fest” in the diamond city of Surat on March 24th at Amore and on March 25th and 26th at the Platinum Hall of the Surat International Exhibition and Convention Centre (SIECC), Sarsana. BNI Greater Surat and Corporate Connections organised it.

The Surat Biz Fest will bring together 10,000+ business owners, 500+ business entities, 45+ speakers, 130+ premium exhibitors, and 200+ startup founders and participants from 40+ BNI India regions. The business festival brings together all business sectors to exhibit, network, collaborate, and learn about new business trends. A three-day networking event with growth goals.

The Surat Biz Fest will be inaugurated by Minister of State for Home Shri Harsh Sanghavi, Executive Director of BNI Greater Surat Mr. Gaurav Singhvi, chairman Atul Gupta, and co-chairmen Dhara Shah, Siddharth Bhatnagar, Amanat Kagzi, Dr. Kunal Parekh, and Jinay Kapadia.

Keynote speakers and industry experts will teach master classes at Surat Biz Fest. Surat and other businesspeople from across the country will attend the start-up fest on the first day of the biz fest, followed by two days on other industries.

“Surat Biz Fest is the biggest business festival in Surat,” said Surat BIZFEST chairman Atul Gupta. The business festival will attract over 15,000 Surat and national visitors. Its theme is “Innovate, Impact, Inspire.”

On an inaugural day on March 24, Surat Biz Fest will be witnessing a workshop by Apurva Chamaria, head of start-ups and VC at Google India, on the ‘Rise of Bharat in Startup Ecosystem’. Apurva Arora, angel investor and managing partner of EPIC Ventures; Kashyap Pandya founder of Syncoro Ventures, Nimith Agarwal co-founder of DOCTCO, Ravi Nigam, former president of the Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE, Pune), and Vivek Kapoor co-founder of DINEOUT will be speaking on ‘Investing in Early-stage starups: The Risks and Rewards of Backing New Age businesses’.

Vijay Agarwal ex-CTO of BharatPe, Pranay Gupta co-founder of 91Springboard and founder 91Ventures, and Sandeep Dinodiya CPTO at EMIZA and ex CTO PICKRR will be speaking on ‘Transforming Traditional Businesses Through Technology’.

Apurva Agarwal founder of Universal Legal and angel investor and Chintan Oza founder of Anantam Ecosystems will be speaking on ‘Beyond Cruptocurrency: The Real World Applications of Web3/Blockchain technology’.

Siddhant Agarwal co-founde rof Avimee Herbal, Sulay Lavasi founder of Bummer, Twinkle Jain Forbes top 100 digital star and content creator, and Ainara Kaur co-founder of Belora Paris will be speaking on ‘How D2C Are leveraging social media and influencer marketing’.

Panel Speakers on 25th March, includes  Sanjay Sarawagi of Laxmipati Group, Girish Luthra of Luthra Group (Environment), Ashiwan Desai of Aether Industries Limited (Chemicals), Ketan Zota of Zota Pharma Ltd (Chemicals), Milan Pareek of Jainam Securities Ltd (Equity investments), Abbas Hajoori of Sosyo Beverages Ltd (food and beverages). The session will be moderated by Gaurav  V K Singhvi (WE Founder Circel Starup Investors).

The Surat Biz Fest will witness amazing master classes on Architecture, Textiles, Exports, Marketing, and Vastu from acclaimed people such as Gagan Kapoor, Sandeep Kaushik, Bindu Khurana, Ankit Mehta, and other industry veterans. Anna Durai of Anna Auto and 7 times TeDX Speaker from Chennai, Dr. Neelam Mohan, one of the most acclaimed doctors of Medanta, Gurgaon, Prof. Ramesh Arora, acclaimed author and keynote speaker, and Anurag Batra, chairman and editor-ini-chief of Business World Media Group will be the speakers.

Gaurav Singhvi, executive director of BNI Greater Surat said, “Surat shall become the financial capital of India by 2030 and Surat Biz Fest is an initiative to promote this vision. It is our attempt to promote the earning and learning culture together by having this three-day event with business exhibitions and learned speakers from across India”.