Program Schedule

Day - 1: Thursday, September 11, 2025
Venue: Meeting Room 2, Lower ground floor, Pullman Aerocity, New Delhi
Seminar on "Gold Assaying, Hallmarking and Refining Technologies"

10:00 am to 10:55 am

Seminar Registration & Networking

10:55 am to 11:00 am

Welcome Address

11:00 am to 1:00 pm

Workshop on XRF Spectroscopy

Dr. Mike Hinds
Good Delivery Consultant
LBMA (Download PDF)

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Networking Lunch

2:00 pm to 3:15 pm

Technical Session-2: Assaying and Quality Control

2:00 pm to 2:20 pm

Fundamental Readiness of Precious Metal Laboratories for
ISO/IEC17025:2017 Accreditation

Mr Pankaj Deshmukh
Head-Assay Laboratory
MMTC PAMP Pvt Ltd (Download PDF)

2:20 pm to 2:40 pm

Factors affecting cupellation loss of gold and silver beads from low grade material

Ms Makhosazana Sikhakhane
Chief Assayer
Rand Refinery (Download PDF)

2:40 pm to 3:00 pm

Quality Assurance in Gold Testing Through BNDs

Mr Dinesh Singh
Senior Technical Officer
CSIR - National Physical Laboratory (NPL) (Download PDF)

3:00 pm to 3:20 pm

Hallmarking of Gold Jewellery in India - Regulatory Perspective

Mr Chandan Rao
Deputy Director
Hallmarking Dept BIS (Download PDF)

3:20 pm to 3:45 pm

Technical Session-3: Gold Refining

Challenges in gold and silver refining

Mr Ankur Srivastava
Head-Refinery & Ecology
MMTC PAMP Pvt Ltd (Download PDF)

3:45 pm to 4:15 pm

Networking Break

4:15 pm to 5:15 pm

Technical Session-4: Update from Machinery Suppliers

Mr Ajay Raina
Fischer Measurement Technologies (India) Pvt Ltd (Download PDF)
Mr Stefano Zoi
Italimpianti Orafi spa (Download PDF)

5:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Networking Cocktails at Quoin Bar, Novotel lobby

Day - 2: Friday, September 12, 2025

12:00 noon onwards

IGC Registration

1:00 pm to 2:30 pm

Networking Lunch sponsored by SOHAM (JJ Gold Refinery)

2:30 pm to 4:00 pm

Exhibition & Networking

4:00 pm to 4:30 pm

Presentation: Avoiding Disputes in Bullion Imports

Mr Kishore Kunal
Supreme Court Advocate (Download PDF)

4:30 pm to 4:45 pm

Presentation

Mr Michael Stafford
Chief Financial Officer
Rafmoh Gold (Download PDF)

5:00 pm to 6:15 pm

Inaugural Session

Chief Guest:
Smt. Nidhi Khare, IAS
Secretary - Consumer Affairs,
Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, GOI
Mr Pradeep Ramakrishnan
Executive Director,
International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA)
Mr Jignesh Shah
Mentor & Coach, IGM (India Gold Metaverse)
Founder: MCX, DGCX, IEX, SMX, MSE, ODIN
Ms Ruth Crowell
CEO
LBMA
Shri Sunil J. Singhi
Chairperson
National Traders’ Welfare Board, GOI
Mr Prithviraj Kothari
National President
India Bullion and Jewellers Association (IBJA)
Ms Praveena Rai
MD & CEO
MCX
Mr Gagan Bhai
Executive Director
MMTC-PAMP India Pvt. Ltd
Mr Srivatsava Ganapathy
Director
Eventell Global Advisory Pvt Ltd

6:15 pm to 6:40 pm

Digital Vision Address - Gold: Beat the Bitcoin

Mr Jignesh Shah
Mentor & Coach, IGM (India Gold Metaverse)
Founder: MCX, DGCX, IEX, SMX, MSE, ODIN

6:40 pm to 6:45 pm

Cultural Performance

6:45 pm to 7:20 pm

IGC Excellence Award 2025

7:20 pm to 7:30 pm

Felicitation of Young Bullionaires of Bullion Industry

7:30 pm to 11:00 pm

Welcome Cocktail Dinner sponsored by StoneX

Day - 3: Saturday, September 13, 2025

9:15 am to 9:30 am

Announcement

9:30 am to 9:45 am

Special Address-1

Shri R. Arulanandan
Director - SMD Agriculture, EP (G&J), Kimberley Process, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, GOI.

9:45 am to 10:00 am

Special Address-2

Mr Maheswar Sahu, IAS (Retd.)
Former Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Gujarat
Chairman, IGM (India Gold Metaverse)

10:00 am to 11:15 am

Roundtable with the Industry

Moderator:

Mr Surendra Mehta
National Secretary
India Bullion & Jewellers Association (IBJA)

Speakers:

Mr Lamon Rutten
Managing Director & CEO
IGM (India Gold Metaverse)
Mr Ramakrishnan Padmanabhan
General Manager
International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA)
Ms Praveena Rai
MD & CEO
MCX
Mr Chirag Thakkar
Director
Amrapali Industries
Mr Sachin Jain
Regional CEO - India
World Gold Council
Mr Mohammad Ayyob
General Manager
Sam Precious Metals
Mr Rajesh Rokde
Chairman
GJC
Mr Harshad Ajmera
Director
J J Gold House
Mr Neville Patel
Sr. Vice President
HDFC Bank
Mr Sadi Ahmad
Director
AKW Consultants

11:15 am to 11:45 am

Networking Break sponsored by AMS Bullion

11:45 am to 12:00 noon

Presentation: "IAGES: Transforming Indian Gold Industry"

Mr Kaushlendra Sinha
Chief Executive Officer
IAGES (Download PDF)

12:00 noon to 12:15 pm

Presentation: "Rethinking Gold Ownership in India"

Mr Moses Bodea
Executive Assistant
GOLDINVEST Edelmetalle GmbH (Download PDF)

12:15 pm to 12:30 pm

Presentation: "Gold in India: Consumer Insights into Jewellery & Investment"

Ms Kavita Chacko
Research Head-India
World Gold Council (Download PDF)

12:30 pm to 12:45 pm

Presentation: "Learning for India from the global logistics practices"

Mr Nader Antar
EVP & President
Brink's APAC, IMEA & Brink's Global Services

12:45 pm to 1:15 pm

Discussion: Where is the demand for gold coming from?

Moderator:

Mr Srivatsava Ganapathy
Director & CEO
Eventell Global Advisory Pvt Ltd

Speakers:

Mr Philip Newman
Managing Director
Metals Focus
Mr Sachin Kothari
Director
Augmont-Gold For All
Mr Shivanshu Mehta
VP - Bullion
MCX

1:15 pm to 2:45 pm

Networking Lunch sponsored by Parker Precious Metals

2:45 pm to 3:10 pm

Debate-1: Harmonise customs duty concessions across supply channels of gold

Moderator:

Mr Chirag Sheth
Principal Consultant
Metals Focus

Speakers for:

Mr Premnath
Director
FinMet India Pvt Ltd
Mr Monal Thakkar
Managing Director
Ashoka Global

Speakers against:

Mr Amit Modak
CEO and Director
P N Gadgil And Sons Ltd
Mr Neville Irani
Managing Director
Aureus Enterprises FZCO

3:15 pm to 3:40 pm

Debate-2: LBMA, UAE-GD and BIS accredited refiners should be exempted from Bullion Hallmarking

Moderator:

Mr Ketan Kothari
Director
Augmont-Gold For All

Speakers for:

Mr Anshuman Sharma
Head of Precious Metals - MEA &
Indian Sub-Continent
StoneX
Mr Vinit Agarwal
Director & Head of Trading
The Group Vintage

Speakers against:

Mr James Jose
Managing Director
CGR Metalloy
Mr Anil Kansara
CEO
Auro Metal Refinery Pvt Ltd

3:45 pm to 4:10 pm

Debate-3: One India, One price for Gold

Moderator:

Mr Shivanshu Mehta
VP - Bullion
MCX

Speakers for:

Mr Dileep Narayanan
Head Bullion & Treasury
Malabar Group
Mr Avinash Gupta *
Vice-Chairman
GJC

Speakers against:

Mr Surendra Mehta
National Secretary
IBJA
Mr Gagan Bhai
Executive Director
MMTC-PAMP India Pvt. Ltd

4:10 pm to 4:15 pm

Announcement - Winners of Scavenger Hunt & Leaderboard sponsored by Kanji General Trading

4:15 pm to 4:40 pm

Debate-4: Gold bullion imports into India should be only through one channel

Moderator:

Prof. Dr Sundaravalli Narayanaswami
Chairperson
India Gold Policy Centre, IIMA

Speakers for:

Mr Ashok Gautam
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer
IIBX IFSC Ltd
Mr Haresh Acharya
Director
Parker Precious Metals LLP

Speakers against:

Mr Vikas Nagpal
Head - International sales, Retail Forex, Bullion and Tech initiatives (Markets Group)
ICICI Bank
Mr Kumar Parmani
National Head-Bullion & FES Sales
Yes Bank Ltd

4:45 pm to 5:10 pm

Debate-5: All retail spot gold investment products should be regulated

Moderator:

Mr Sunil Kashyap
Director
FinMet Pte Ltd

Speakers for:

Mr Keyur Shah
CEO - Precious Metals Business
Muthoot Pappachan Group
Mr Ajit Mauskar
Director
World Gold Council

Speakers against:

Ms Rhea Chaterji
Director & Head of Consumer Retail
SafeGold India

5:10 pm

Vote of thanks

7:30 pm onwards

Gala Dinner & Cocktails sponsored by Rand Refinery

7:45 pm to 8:15 pm

Felicitation of Sponsors

10:30 pm onwards

After-party

Day - 4: Sunday, September 14, 2025

8:00 am to 10:00 am

Networking Breakfast

11:00 am

Check-out

* program schedule, agenda subject to change

To know more about registration contact Abhinaya at +91 9343734140 or email at abhinaya@eventellglobal.com