Eighth edition of BMPA's Print Summit on 24 January
The journey of Print Summit began due to a celebration. The Bombay Master Printers’ Association (BMPA) turned 50 in 2004/05 and to commemorate this milestone an epic 3-day conference was pieced together. This was also the year when a world leader in print solutions set shop formally in India and partnered with BMPA to launch Print Summit in 2005.
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Then came Print Summit of 2007. It gave birth to an idea which is acknowledged to be progressive with a revolutionary concept: the Share-to-Benefit Forum also known as the StB. The last seven editions of Print Summit (2005, ’07, ’08, ’10, ’11, ’12 and ’13) can be credited to have introduced SME Print companies with such managerial tools like Kaizen and Six Sigma. Bygone Print Summits have brought forth the concept of Breakthrough Management, LED Curing, Romancing the Balance Sheet and more. Print Summit has held very successful panel talks and investigated on "Where is Print Going?" and examined at close quarters the nuance of “Outcome” as opposed to “Output”
The seventh edition of the Print Summit 2013 saw a star-studded inaugural with more than 450 print delegates at the opening. The full-day seminar at Tata Theatre, NCPA, Mumbai saw an array of speakers bringing participants up-to-date on a variety of important topics including finance and a motivational speech. Conceived around the 'change is for the better' theme, Print Summit 2013 came to be a platform for delegates to exchange views and ideas to keep abreast with modernisation and technological advancements in the printing industry.
The BMPA sees Print Summit as an evolution, a revolution and an agent for change. The goal of Print Summit 2014 is to ‘enable change and thrive’.
The eighth edition of Bombay Master Printers’ Association’s (BMPA) Print Summit (PS), a day-long knowledge seminar will be hosted on Friday, 24 January 2014 at the Tata Theatre in NCPA, Mumbai.
The day long summit will witness 15 speakers deliver exhaustive presentations which will highlight the facets of change.
The Print Summit will also host a 90 minutes panel discussion featuring two traditional print firm chief executive officers (CEO), A Balachandra of Rajhans Enterprises and Narendra Paruchuri of Pragati Offset, two firms headed by professional print CEOs Pramod Khera of Repro India and C J Jassawala of Thomson Press and two disruptors Nilesh Parwani of Vistaprint and Dharti Desai of MOS will cover many areas and examine different methodologies for different types of print operations.
Mehul Desai, chairman and founder of Mumbai-based Mail Order Solutions (MOS) who along with Ramu Ramanathan, editor, PrintWeek India, will chair the panel discussion.
Faheem Agboatwala, a Print Summit committee member, said, "The seventh edition of the Print Summit in 2013 saw a star-studded inaugural with more than 450 print delegates at the opening. We are expecting Print Summit 2014 to be even bigger than the earlier editions."