Networking, Reconnecting and Getting Inspiration

Mausmi Ambastha, Founder & COO at ThreadSol. She was my classmate at NIFT. 

Manoj Singh, my ex-colleague and friend. He is now running an apparel consultancy firm named Excellentiaa.  Md. Jasim Uddin, Project Director of NZ denim, Bangladesh. 

Met Subaash Dhananjayan, Vice President – Anugraha Fashion Mill, Tirupur.  He came from Tirupur.

Rahul Mahajan, Sales and Marketing Director at Datatex. He was my senior at NIFT, New Delhi.

Ram Sareen, CEO and Founder, Tukatech. He spoke on developing digital sample for jeans and reducing sample development cost and time by adopting digital samples. This is one of the sustainable ways of doing apparel business. He suggested one good idea of how garment factories can reduce production lead time by reducing fabric segregation and fabric grouping. This is possible if garment manufacturers and fabric mill work together and fabric mills share fabric grouping information with their buyers.

I met speakers from Ramsons, Fortuna colours, SipItaly and Macpi group, Ama Herbals. 

Though many feel in an event, all people look for business opportunities and become busy with promoting companies and brands. However, the more important thing is building connections. In today’s business, we need connections and networking.

In this event, things that I liked the most – all the professionals love their business, love their working field – all innovative thinkers – everyone doing their bit to make this apparel manufacturing and apparel supply chain sustainable and their effort towards making our mother earth a better place for living.

 

Inspiration

When I listen to speakers talking about how we can make the fashion manufacturing industry sustainable, it inspired me to be part of the sustainability drive. For me, circular fashion, sustainability, circular economy, closed loop economy is the new areas to explore. I got many ideas for writing articles and blog posts.

On the other hand, I got encouragement from my super super super seniors like Chandan Saha da (Industry expert), Ravi Sir (Professor, IIT Delhi), Kalesh Nath da (Professor, TITS, Bhiwani), Arindam Basu sir (DG at NITRA) for my writing work and blogging. That is the true inspiration one needs to continue hard work without expecting any return.

 

Thanksgiving

I am thankful to Dr Prabir Jana for taking the lead for organizing this seminar. Let me mention here that he was my professor at NIFT. Thanks to all Tantu members. I can’t stop myself sharing the team photo, wearing a stitch-less t-shirt, whose efforts made this event a great success.

 

Tantu team

It was a great feeling being part of the association and of the event. I felt that I was not disconnected from the institutes, industry, friends, and contacts.

I observed a great energy level and learning spirit among the young engineers.

It was not only me who benefitted from the event. The speakers and other participants benefitted as well – many of them talking about business collaboration and working together for mutual benefits. Sanjay Goel, a NIFT alumnus and founder of two start-up companies, is starting a new business. He invites people from the industry to work with him in his new start-up.