India Fashion Forum participants and speakers announced

By

Isabelle Crossley

Published
Mar 19, 2019

The India Fashion Forum has announced it list of participants and speakers for its 2019 edition that will take place on March 27 and 28 in Mumbai.

The fashion business panel event the IFF will welcome a host of Indian and international participants to its 2019 edition at the end of the month. Some of the participants will include Fila, Raisin, Soch, Wondersoft, Sara, Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, Retale, Indi, Zarzoa, The Woolmark Company, Heatwave, Wishful, Aurelia, W, Casa, Gap, Sephora, Ed Hardy, Skechers, Pepe Jeans, and True Blue. 

Some of the speakers that have been confirmed for the event include Machani Gangadhar Gopala Krishna, the joint managing director of MGB Felicity Mall, Rachana Singh, the business consultant and professor of fashion business at Istituto Marangoni, Sabhari Shankar, CEO of Wondersoft, Sandeep Kataria, CEO of Bata India, Pawan Sarda, group head of digital at Future Group India, and Rajneesh Mahajan, executive director of Inorbit Malls. A round-table discussion will look into India’s fashion growing fashion chains as well as retail space developers. 

The event calls itself “India’s largest fashion intelligence event” and international speakers will also attend including Deepak Kishanchand, Levi’s IT head for South Asia and the Middle East and Rahul Vira, Skechers’ CEO for South Asia. Topics such as artificial intelligence and future retail spaces will be addressed.

Partners for this year’s event include TRRAIN, NIFT Alumni, WGSN, UNBXD, Cotton USA, Shopify, Ethnix by Raymond, Infor, Arvind Fashions, and Istituto Marangoni among others.

The IFF has hosted fashion events since the year 2000 and aims to create a platform for brands to launch from as well as a place for businesses to join forces to forecast trends for the coming year. This year, the IFF will take place alongside the Customer Experience Forum at the Renaissance Hotel in Mumbai on March 27 and 28.