The panel discussion on the emerging trends on Handicrafts brought to the table multiple facets of the handicraft industry and its evolution over the past few decades. Mr. Sandeep Sangaru, Founder of Sangaru Design Objects Pvt. Ltd, Ms. Sona Puri, Co-founder and CEO of The India Craft House, Mr. Dhiraj Thakuria, Managing Director of NEHHDC, Mr. Dilip Barooah, Director of Fabric plus Pvt. Ltd and Ms. Sakshi Talwar, Co-Founder of Rugs and Beyond discussed topics such as digitalisation, commoditization and branding of handicrafts steering the conversation towards the promotion of the industry in Northeast India.
The second day of the summit, began with a panel discussion on Fintech, essentially the connection between fintech and how it is an enabler to do something bigger in financial inclusion. Mr Durlov Baruah, Founder at Kuhipaat (Payment Solution_NorthEast), Mr. Nitin Mathur, Director at TAVAGA, Mr. Anubhav Jain, Co-founder and Head of Risk at Qbera and Mr. Visweshwaran Narasimhan, Assistant VP at FSS touched on a prevalent problem of reluctance of people to adopt apps and services based on financial assistance and then went on to discuss effectiveness of various banking transaction technologies. The latter half of day 2 saw an expert talk by Mr. Amit Kumar Agarwal, Founder and CEO at NoBroker.com, wherein he shared snippets from his entrepreneurial journey.
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