Working towards strengthening business opportunities, cultural exchange and education opportunities in India and abroad, the International Business Consortium (InBizCo) conducted a Business Meet at the Dia Park Premier hotel in Gurugram on March 2.
During this brainstorming session, the InBizCo successfully brought together the top management of various companies with diverse spheres of businesses and provided them a common platform to help them expand their businesses internationally with a prime focus on Japan. However, the discussions also touched upon business opportunities in other continents such as Africa.
While steering the InBizCo Business Meet from the front, Ramesh C. Sharma – the president and founder InBizCo and promoter Sakura Corporate Solutions said that meeting turned out to be a great success the companies planning to expand their footprints in Japan and other Asian countries came together and exchanged their areas of specialization for mutual benefits during the meeting.
“The objective of the Business Meet organized by InBizCo is to provide a common platform and act as a facilitator to various companies looking forward to promoting their business. Besides discussing sectors like real estate consulting, agro-tech, training, education, hospitality, manpower sourcing, fundraising, automobiles, taxation, investment banking, manufacturing engineering, IT consulting and services and artificial intelligence (AI), the participants also had deliberations new business opportunities like TITP (technical intern training program),” Sharma said. His company Sakura Corporate Solutions is into consultation services for foreign nationals and he is an authority on Indo-Japan relations.
Based in Gugugram, Sakura Corporate Solutions is a company with a focus on consulting foreign nationals for infrastructure and company establishment support in India with prime focus on Japan.
One of the takeaways of the Business Meet was the new emerging sectors like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and TITP to which Japan is opening up.
“We are soon going to start TITP for Japan as its opening up to this new sector due to the age factor there. The old age population is increasing while the working population is on the decline and government is taking initiative to introduce TITP program. They presently manpower taking from ASEAN countries but India is also going to start operations in this sector,” said Pradeep Sahni, the partner of P S Consultants that provides manpower solutions for skilled and non-skilled workers in various countries with offices in Delhi, Punjab and Dubai.
Robindar Sachdeva of Imageindia moderated the session said that InBizCo was a great initiative by Ramesh C Sharma and colleagues like Akshita Bahuguna providing great business networking opportunities for the members who could leverage opportunities available out there in the global market.
Takeshi Hiratsuka, deputy general manager, Corporate planning division and India hotel management division of Hitachi Life Limited met the participants on the sidelines of the meet. Hitachi Life Limited manages and runs Dia Park Premier hotel in Gurugram and it is going to manage more hotels in India in time to come.
Others who participated in the Business Meet included Dr. Rajesh Naithani, the advisor to the Chairman of Parliamentary Committee, and former principal advisor to the chief minister of Uttrakhand, Akshita Bahuguna, the founder chairman of Future Icons Group, Yukihiko YAMADA, representative, Japan Desk of KrayMan Consultants LLP, Pradeep Sahni, partner P S Consultants, Supratim Roy Choudhary, director Pratyaksha Agrotech Pvt. Ltd., Akash Govani, Tech Project manager, JK Technosoft, Pradeep Sahni the partner of P S Consultants, Dr. NC Nainwal, technical coordinator, Horticulture, JICA, Uttrakhand, Ashish Nautiyal from IBM, US Nauni, CEO The Capital Sacks, Kailash Singh, manager, business development, Starts India Pvt. Ltd, Jaspal Singh Kalkat of Asian Cabs Pvt Ltd, Dheerendra K Singh, vice president The Imageindia Institute, Sanjay Kaushal CEO and MD, Synergy Software Ltd and Punit Thapliyal, senior manager with Genpact India.
Dr. Sanjana Jon an international fashion designer lent surprise for the participants as she arrived in the meeting with her mother.
A doctorate from USA, Dr. Rajesh Nathani is also former pro-vice chancellor of Bharat University, Chennai. He talked about business opportunities in African countries.
Yukihiko YAMADA, representative, Japan Desk of KrayMan Consultants LLP, is promoting medium and small Japanese companies to come to India. KrayMan Consultants specialises in the field of accounting and taxation.
Supratim Roy Choudhary, director Pratyaksha Agrotech Pvt. Ltd. that deals in tissue culture plants, seeds, plant chemicals, fruits potatoes and flowers laid stress on the training of Indian farmers to boost business opportunities in agro-tech and fortified food sphere globally, especially in Japan.
Akash Govani, Tech Project manager, JK Technosoft which is into IT consulting and services working on artificial intelligence (AI) said that there was a huge scope in Japan on this front
“I joined this group as people coming from diverse background can be a good contributor for growing Japanese market,” said Kailash Singh, manager, business development, Starts India Pvt. Ltd which is a Japan-based company and provides real estate consulting for Japanese corporates helping them to relocate in India and also help them in residential and corporate leasing profile.
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