Welcome Address
Mr. B. M. Bansal
Director (Planning & Business Development)
Indian Oil Corporation
Key Note Address – I
World out of balance – Success factors for the (petro) chemical industry of tomorrow
Dr. Werner Kreuz
Vice President
AT Kearney, Germany
Key Note Address – II
Levarging R & D execution technologies to impact corporate objectives
Mr. Isy Goldwasser
CEO
Symyx Technologies, USA
Key Note Address – III
Mr. Hans van der Wiel
Vice President (Strategy)
LyondellBasell Industries, Germany
What is driving crude prices and what this means for petrochemicals producers?
Mr. Shahrin Yatim
Global Editorial Director (Petrochemicals)
Platts, Singapore
East-of-Suez petrochemical feedstock market dynamics
Mr. N. Ravivenkatesh
Principal Consultant
Purvin & Gertz, Singapore
Challenges for the petchem business
Dr. Partha P. Maitra
President
Reliance Industries
Improving the steam cracking process
Mr. Michael Tallman
Manager – Olefins Technology
KBR, USA
Innovation in Petrochemicals – Vision 2020
Dr. Ajit SapreGroup
President – Research & Technology
Reliance Industries
Licensee – Licensor : Optimum project execution strategies
Mr. Gary Godwin
Managing Director
UOP India
Petrochemical pricing & margin development (and analysis)
Mr. Satit Vaewvichit
Consultant
Nexant Asia, Thailand
Innovation in polypropylene – Spherizone technology at its bestt
Dr. Andreas Neumann
Technology Manager – Spheripol/ Spherizone
LyondellBasell Industries
EP(D)M Elastomers: a challenging material for growing industry
Prof. Dr. Paolo Galli
Research & Technical Advisor
FasTech, Italy
EPC contractor’s outlook – Turning challenges into opportunities
Mr. A. C. Sureshbabu
Senior Execuitve Director
Stone & Webster Rolta Ltd.
Networking Cocktails & Dinner
Dinner Speech
Nanotechnology in petrochemical industries: Hip, Hype or Horrible?!
Prof. Vinayak P. Dravid
Director, NUANCE Centre
Northwestern University, USA
Ethylene & Propylene : 2008 in retrospect – A new outlook?
Mr. Peter Jordan
Sr. Vice President
DeWitt & Co., UK
Indian polyolefin markets – An outlook
Mr. Ujjal De
Senior Vice President Head (Marketing & Business Development)
Haldia Petrochemicals
Polyester by 2010
Mr. Anant Kishore
COO
Indorama Synthetics
HDPE Innovations on a single gas phase platform
Dr. Rakesh Kumar
Business Development Manager
Univation Technologies, USA
Global aromatics overview
Mr. Sanjay Sharma
Project Manager
CMAI, UAE
Novolen® technology – Extensive product range for the future
Dr. Werner Schoene
Consultant – Products & Applications
Lummus Novolen Technology, Germany
Phenolics chain – The technology and the market
Dr. C. Morris Smith
Chief Technology Officer
BADGER Technology
Advanced SCLAIRTECH: Maximizing market value with new nbsp;technology
Mr. Chris Bezaire
Vice President -Advanced SCLAIRTECH and Licensing
NOVA Chemicals, USA
Latest polyolefin processes
Mr. Phillip Wood
Licensing Manager
INEOS Technologies
Plastic downstream markets in India
Mr. Arvind Mehta
President
Plastindia Foundation
A novel PP clarifying agent creates a new aesthetics standard
Dr. Raj Batlaw
Regional Technical Director – Asia Pacific
Milliken Asia, Singapore
Polyester & downstream – Fibre market overview and new developments
Dr. Anup Rakshit
SHead – Product Development, Polyester Fibre Business
Reliance Industries
Indian polyurethane industry – on an exciting trajectory of growth
Mr. Jiten Desai
Sr. Manager – Marketing
GNFC