In a concluding note, JP Nair, Managing Director of Virtual Info Systems Pvt Ltd, said, “I would like to thank all our exhibitors, visitors and supporters in making the CIP 2011 and the IFM Seminar and Expo a grand success.
“I am making a special mention of Diversey, Eureka Forbes, Roots Multiclean, Charnock Equipments, Jade, Best Practice Washrooms, Dulevo, Karcher, PCI, Lion Services, Kam-Avida, All Services Global, Inventa, Soma Specialities, Technoclean… who have all been very supportive and encouraging right from the time we began the Clean India Show and the magazine in 2005. The Show which began with 20 plus companies has grown to 100 plus this year.
“The growth of the exhibition also corresponds with the growth of the Indian Cleaning Industry from its nascent stage to what it is today. This year, we also launched the IFM Seminar and Expo in a small way and look forward to taking the Expo to greater heights in the coming years.
“With the next Clean India Show scheduled for Bangalore, we assure to make the Show of the Cleaning Industry another grand success.”
Seminar
Giving the exhibition a complete cleaning solution, the first Integrated Facility Management Seminar and Expo organized concurrently hosted a high level two-day seminar and had over 23 stalls of service providers. The well attended seminar saw speakers/panelists from both the FM companies and the end-user companies addressing the competitive FM expectations and deliverables in the Indian scenario. The theme was aptly “Vision 2015: FM as a corporate function”.
The panelists of the opening session – Naushad Panjwani – Knight Frank (India), Ravi Manchandani – Aramark Patman Services, Atul Tendulkar – Nomura Group, Ragupathy Vaidyanathan – Cognizant Technology Solutions India – explained the importance of setting standards and benchmarks for deliverables and the need for an FM professional to have a holistic view of the company business. The speakers for various sessions included – Aneesh Kadyan- CB Richard Ellis, C T Sadanandan – Tata Communications, Comdt. Atanu Guha Thakurta – Standard Chartered Bank, Vinay Deshmukh – Forbes Facility Services, Sunil Ralph – Essar Steel, Jagmohan Mehta – IndusInd Bank, Keith Monteiro – Reliance Industries, National Director – Facilities Management, Nellie Samuel – National Director-Facilities Management, Knight Frank India, Dr Narendra Bhat – Surmount Energy Solutions, Manoj Agarwal – Inorbit Malls, Sanjay Prabhu – Beyond Squarefeet Mall Management, Ashwin Bhadri – Equinox Labs, Suhag Khemlani- Cradle Runways.
