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EVENT SCHEDULE

Agenda

FEB 11

TIME

PROGRAM

SPEAKERS

8:00 am

Registration

8:30-8:50 am

Networking

9:00 am

All delegates and guests and seat

9:00 - 10:30 am

Inauguration of the conference

Chefs Thomas Guglar, Manjit Gill, Vijaya Baskaran, Ministries- Welcome address, Presidential address, IFCA presentation, Honouring Guests/ Guest of Honour address, Special invitee address.

10:30-10:50 am

Tea Break

Tea Break Millet Sweets and Savories

10:50-11:00 am

Partner Presentation

Culinary Academy of India

11:00-11:30 am

History of Millet

Anthropologist Dr. Kurush F Dalal

11:30-12:00 pm

Feeding the World with Millet

Mr. Paul Newnham Director SDG 2 Advocacy Hub UN

12:00-12:45 pm

Ministry of Agriculture's Presentation

Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

12:45-12:55 pm

Partner Presentation

Nestle

13:00-14:00 pm

Lunch

Featuring delicacy of millets

14:00-14:30 pm

Cooking Demo-Millets

Chef Satinder Shergill

14:30-14:45 pm

Partner Presentation

Mukunda Foods

14:45-15:15 pm

Panel Discussion : Nutritional Importance of Millets

Chef Amey Marathe (Moderator)
Dr Bani Aeri, Dr Pulkit Mathur, Dr Eram Rao

15:15-16:00 pm

Diversity of Millets.Millets as ethnic and specialty foods.Nutrition and health benefits of millets.Processing and value addition in millets.Entrepreneurship in millets

Chef Amey Marathe (Moderator)
Dr Bani Aeri, Dr Pulkit Mathur, Dr Eram Rao

16:00-16:30 pm

Tea

16:30-17:00 pm

Cooking Demo

Wellbit

17:00-17:45 pm

Corporate Chefs Panel Discussion: Millet Nutrition, its future use in hotels and catering

Moderator - Chef Salil Fadnis, Chef Sheetharam, Chef Satbir, Chef Manisha Bhasin,Chef Rajeev Janveja, Chef Rakesh Sethi

18:00-20:00 pm

Young Chefs Session

Chef Saby Gorai, Debraj Bhowmick

Agenda

FEB 12

TIME

PROGRAM

SPEAKERS

9:oo-9:10 am

Special Information of the day, Housekeeping

9:10-9:50 am

Growth and opportunities in the tourism industry 

MoT Representative & Chef Gill

9:50-10:10 am

Health Benefits of Millets 

Ms Ishi Khosla

10:10-10:40 am

Nourishing the world- How the Global Culinary Community can help create and scale impact 

Mr. T.C. Chatterjee CEO Griffith Foods, USA

10:40-11:00 am

Connection of food with Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopath a

Dr. Bharat k Pappala

11:oo-11:10 am

PARTNER PRESENTATION

Olam Food Ingredients

11:1o-11:40 am

Tea Break 

11:4o-12:00 pm

Cooking Demo

Welbilt

12:oo-12:20 pm

Cooking Demo 

By Chefs

12:2o-12:40 pm

Inovative and Creative F & B Concepts and Branding

Mr.Vikram Cotah CEO GRT Group of Hotels

12:4o-13:10 pm

Panel Discussion : The future of work / attracting and retaining talent in Culinary Industry.

Chef Saurabh (moderator), Chef Ashish Bhasin, Mr.Sunjeh Raja

13:1o-13:20 pm

PARTNER PRESENTATION

RAK Porcelain

13:2o-14:30 pm

Lunch

Millet delicacies included

14:3o-14:40 pm

PARTNER PRESENTATION

Infini Foods India Private Limited

14:40-14:45 pm

PARTNER PRESENTATION

USAPEEC - I2I

14:45-15:15 pm

Share our strength & Akshya Patra

Mr.Jeetu Jodhpurkar and Mr.Shridhar Venkat

15:15 - 15:45 pm

How we lost our sensory
connection with food - How to restore it

Mr. Jaspal Sabharwal

15:45-15:55 pm

PARTNER PRESENTATION

PCK Agri Ventures- Saivai

15:55-16:30 pm

Tea

16:30-16:40 pm

PARTNER PRESENTATION

Asian Christian Culinary and Agricultural science Institute

16:40-17:15 pm

Transformation from within

Ms. Manisha Dahad & Mr. Krishna Iyer

Agenda

FEB 13

TIME

PROGRAM

9:00-9:30 am

The wonder of Fermentation

SPEAKERS

Mr.Hakeui Kosato

9:30-10:00 am

Sustainable & Food safe supply chains in Hospitality

Mr.Kamesh Ellajosyula

10:00-10:10 am

Gift your Organ - a social initiative

Chef Raj Sethia

10:15-11:00 am

Making of Masala Lab and how science can help in the kitchen

Mr.Krish Ashok

11:00-11:30 am

Tea Break

11:30-12:00 pm

Cooking Demo

Stratsure Associates (Cranberry)

12:00-12:15 pm

Branding for Chefs

Chef Koushik

12:15-12:35 pm

Tete a tete with Priya Joshi

Chef Madhu Krishnan and Ms.Priya Joshi

12:40-14:00 pm

LUNCH

Millet delicacies

14:00-14:10 pm

PARTNER PRESENTATION

Haldirams

14:10-15:10 pm

Regional Associations - Showcase

15:15-16:30 pm

Awards Ceremony & Closing of event

16:30 pm

Beverage evening & Millets

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