Opening Remarks
Keynote Address – I – Opportunities unlimited
Mr. Vipul Shah
COO – Petrochemicals
Reliance Industries
Keynote Address – II – Refinery-Petrochemical integration and the Indian petrochemical market – Constraints, imperatives and waypoints
Mr. K. K. Jain
General Manager (Petrochemical – Projects)
Indian Oil Corporation
Keynote Address – III – State of the global chemical industry
Mr. Sanjay Sharma
Vice President – MDE and India
IHS Chemical Consulting, UAE
India macro outlook – Resilient despite headwinds
Mr. K. Balasubramanian
Managing Director,
Head of Local Corporate Banking Group, India
Citi India
Petrochem feedstocks overview
Mr. Stefano Zehnder
Senior Consultant
Global Refining & Petrochemical Feedstocks
ICIS, Italy
“Coal /Pet-coke to chemicals”
Technology development & cost competitiveness overview
Mr. Rajesh Amba
Group Manager & Country Head (India) –
Petroleum, Chemicals & Energy, Jacobs Consultancy
Jacobs Consultancy
Benzene market in China
Mr. Luo Jian Fei
Trader
Sinopec Chemical Commercial Holding (Hong Kong) Company
Logistics – Driving the growth of Petrochemical Industry
Moderator –
Mr. Subhasis Ghosh, Managing Partner, Apex Group
Panel –
Albemarle Catalysts: Refining and chemical catalyst developments of the Past, Present and Future
Dr. Ludo Boot
Technical Sales Manager – Chemical Catalysts
Albemarle Catalysts Company, The Netherlands
UNIPOL™ PE Technology:
Advanced solutions for the Indian HDPE & LLDPE markets
Dr. Ayush A. Bafna
Manager, Product R&D and Technical Service
Univation Technologies, USA
LDPE/EVA market & revamp opportunities
Mr. John Rogers
Global Licensing Manager, Polymers
ExxonMobil Chemical Technology Licensing, USA
Propylene Production Based on Propane Feedstock: Innovations in CATOFIN® Dehydrogenation Technology
Mr. Matthias Wyzycki
Head of Sales Region
EMEA/CIS, Propylene & Aromatics BU Catalysts
Clariant Produkte, Germany
Dinner Speech
Effect of GST on Indian industry
Mr. R. Sekar, IRS
Principal Commissioner
CESTAT (Authorised Representative)
Government of India
Cracker & polyolefins markets in India
Mr. Unmesh Nayak
Sr. Vice President – Polymers &
Business Head – Polypropylene
Reliance Industries
Butadiene outlook & overview
Mr. Makarand Dixit
Head – Marketing
OPaL
Polymer Additives – Excellent Solutions for Maximizing Polymers’ Performance
Dr. Naoshi Kawamoto
Head of R&D, General Manager – Polymer Additives R & D Laboratory
Adeka Corporation, Japan
New horizons for downstream plastic industry
Mr. Binay Agarwal
Engagement Manager
TATA Strategic Management Group
Polyolefins trends: A licensor’s perspective
Dr. Godofredo Follmer
Managing Director
Lummus Novolen Technology, USA
Methanol outlook & overview
Mr. Mazlan Razak
Managing Consultant – Energy & Chemicals
Nexant, Malaysia
Toulene – Asian market perspective
Mr. Settawat Takulpakdeechoumpon
Head of Aromatics Trading Book
PTT International Trading, Singapore
Acetic acid market outlook and challenges
Mr. Paresh Patel
Asst. Vice President – Procurement
(Bulk Chemicals)
Reliance Industries
Methanol to Olefin –
Monetization of coal by conversion to polymer grade propylene and ethylene
Mr. Sachin Agarwal
Lead Sales Account Manager, PT&E
UOP
Aromatics market dynamics:
Gasoline strength, feedstock diversification and demand developments
Ms. Anu Agarwal
Vice President, Chemicals – Asia & Mideast Gulf
Argus Media, Singapore
India emerging as the largest importer of Phenol/Acetone in Asia
Dr. Rajeev Pandia
Director – Business Development, Asia
CSI
A new suite of catalysts & adsorbents for paraxylene manufacture
Dr. Ernst Köhler
Global Product Manager
Aromatics, Business Unit Catalysts
Clariant Produkte
Cutting-edge ethylbenzene technology
Dr. James Cao
Catalyst Product Manager
ExxonMobil, USA
Opportunities for Bio-based chemicals in Asia/Global
Ms. Priyanka Khemka
Senior Analyst
Nexant, USA
Transforming the cost of lactic acid and bio-propylene glycol
Mr. Ian Woodcock
Regional Licensing Manager
INVISTA Performance Technologies, UK