10th Global Procurement Summit 2025
AIMA in Partners with the Ministry of Finance, Government of India, and The World Bank, organised the 10th Global Procurement Summit on 10th - 11th February 2025. The theme for summit was "Maximizing Value Addition by Procurement through Sustainability & Simplification.
The Chief Guest of the summit was Mr. Ajay Tamta, Minister of State for Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, Government of India. The welcome address was delivered by Mr. Nikhil Sawhney, Past President, AIMA, Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Triveni Turbines Ltd. The introductory remarks were given by Ms. Rekha Sethi, Director General, AIMA. The session also featured addresses by Mr. Sanjay Aggarwal, Advisor, PPD, Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance; Ms Aarti Mehra, Deputy Country Director Asian Development Bank; Mr. Paul Procee, Operations Manager and Deputy Country Director, The World Bank and Ms. Anna L Wielogorska, Regional Procurement Manager (South Asia), The World Bank.
Some of the distinguished speakers included, Dr. D.J. Pandian, Director General, New Development Bank; Mr. Stephane Y. Bessadi, Senior Procurement Specialist, Asian Development Bank; Mr. Adu-Gyamfi Abunyewa, Lead Procurement Specialist, The World Bank; Mr. Vinay Sharma, Ex-Procurement Director, The World Bank and African Development Bank; Mr. V.S. Krishnakumar, Ex-Regional Procurement Manager, Europe & Central Asia, The World Bank; Atty. Rowena Candice Ruiz, Executive Director, Government Procurement Policy Board – TSO, Republic of the Philippines; Mr. John Karani, National Chairman, Kenya Institute of Supplies Management; Mr. Quamrul Hasan, Lead Procurement Specialist, The World Bank; Mr. Praveen Kumar, Managing Director, Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited; Mr. Syed Jawed Ahmed, Executive Director (CMMG), Steel Authority of India Limited; Mr. Brijendra Swaroop, Executive Director Projects, National Mission for Clean Ganga, Ministry of Jal Shakti; Mr. Kanwalpreet, Executive Director, Railway Board; Mr. Ajit Mishra, Executive Director, Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited; Mr. Vishal Gupta, Executive Director, Deloitte; Mr. IPS Sethi, Director General, National Informatics Centre, Government of India; Mr. Sunil Bhasker, Group General Manager, Procurement, National Capital Region Transport Corporation; Mr. Abhijeet Sinha, Technocrat, Program Director, Ease of Doing Business; Mr. Rajneesh Rana, Head (Convergence), Convergence Energy Service Ltd; Mr. Pradeep Agrawal, Joint Director General, NRIDA, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India; Mr. Arun Mehta, Controller of Stores, Konkan Railways; Mr. Abhay Jain, General Manager, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd; Ms. Manisha Choudhary, National Coordinator, Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE); Mr. Satya Narayan Meena, Additional CEO & Chief Financial Officer, Government-e-Marketplace; Mr. Rajiv Kad, General Manager, EPS, Centre for Railway Information Systems and Ms. Rama Devi Lanka, Director, Emerging Technologies, ITE&C Department, Government of Telangana.
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Global Procurement Summit 2024
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AIMA, in partnership with the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India and the World Bank organised the 9th Global Procurement Summit 2024 on 8th - 9th February 2024. The theme for the summit was ‘Procurement: Enabler for Sustainable Development’. Mr. S Krishnan, I.A.S, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and IT, Govt. of India was the Chief Guest of the summit. Mr. Nikhil Sawhney, President, AIMA, Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Triveni Turbine Limited delivered the welcome address while Ms. Rekha Sethi, Director General, AIMA gave the introductory remarks. The inaugural session was also addressed by Mr. Sanjay Aggarwal, Advisor, PPD, Dept of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance; Mr. Hideki Mori, Manager (Operations-India), The World Bank and Ms. Anna Wielogorska, Regional Procurement Manager (South Asia), The World Bank.
Some of the other eminent speakers included Mr. Anil Kishora, Vice President and Chief Risk Officer, New Development Bank (NDB); Mr. Vinay Kumar Singh, MD, National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC); Mr. Subramanian Krishnan Sangaran, Principal Accountant General, Rajasthan, India; Mr. Ghansham Bansal, Dean, Delhi Metro Rail Academy and Ex CVO, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd; Mr. Ranjay Sharan, Director (Project), NPCIL; Mr. Vijay Mittal, Joint Secretary, Ministry Of Heavy Industries; Ms. Rukmani Attri, Joint Development Commissioner, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises; Dr Sanjiv Layek , Executive Secretary WASME; Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Singh, Chief General Manager (Contract Services), Power Grid Corporation of India Limited; Mr. Prakash Mirani, Addl. CEO and Chief Marketplace Officer Services, Government eMarketplace (GeM); Ms. Usha Saxena, Senior Director (IT), NIC, MeitY; Mr. Aashish Banati, Deputy Controller, MeitY; Mr. Tanmay Tathagat, Executive Director, Environmental Design Solutions; Mr. Vipul Mishra, Senior Development Specialist, JICA ; Dr Srikanta K. Panigrahi, Director General, IISD; Dr Prasad Modak, Managing Director, Environmental Management Center Pvt Ltd; Mr. Vishal Gupta, Executive Director, Deloitte; Mr. Shanker Lal, Country Procurement Lead, The World Bank; Mr. Kanwalpreet, Director, PPD, Ministry of Finance, and Mr. Chilakapati, Regional Executive Director, NTPC; Mr. Vinay Sharma, Ex-Director, The World Bank; Mr. Stephane Bessadi, Senior Procurement Specialist, Asian Development Bank; Mr. Ashutosh Vajpeyi, Joint Secretary (Economic Affairs), Finance Department, Government of Rajasthan; and Mr. E. A. Rathnaseela, Director General, Department of Public Finance, Government of Sri Lanka amongst others. The summit was well attended by more than 200 delegates from various countries including USA, Europe, Shanghai, and Sri Lanka. The topical themes and in-depth discussions were highly appreciated by the delegates.
Global Procurement Summit 2023
AIMA, in partnership with the Ministry of Finance, Government of India, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank organised the 8th Global Procurement Summit 2023 on 17th – 18th January 2023. The theme for the summit was ‘Procurement for Infrastructure Development’.
Mr Jayant Sinha, Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Finance, Parliament of India, BJP Lok Sabha Member of Parliament from Hazaribagh, Jharkhand was the chief guest of the summit. The introductory remarks were given by Mr Shrinivas Dempo, President, AIMA and Chairman, Dempo Group of Companies and Ms Rekha Sethi, Director General, AIMA delivered the welcome address. Mr Auguste Tano Kouamé Country Director-India, World Bank and Mr Takeo Konishi, Country Director, Asian Development Bank delivered the special address.
Some of the other eminent speakers included Mr Amarendra Kumar, Chief General Manager, National Highways Authority of India; Mr K Venkata Ramana, Executive Vice President & Head Legal, Tata Projects Limited; Mr Ravindra Kumar Jain, Managing Director, Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Ltd.; Mr Baldeo Purushartha, Joint Secretary (IPF), Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance; Mr Rajesh Gupta, Deputy Director General, DPIIT; Ministry of Commerce & Industry; Mr R Ganesan, Head Corporate Centre, Larsen & Toubro Construction; Mr B Anantha Sarma, Executive Director-Contracts, POWERGRID; Mr Saurabh Bhattacharya, Addl. Executive Director, Centre for Smart Governance, Government of Karnataka; Mr Sanjay Aggarwal, Advisor, Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance; Mr Shanker Lal, Lead Procurement Specialist, Global Governance Practice, World Bank; Mr Stephane Y. Bessadi, Senior Procurement Specialist, Asian Development Bank; Mr Sandeep Verma, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Science & Technology, Government of Rajasthan; Mr Prakash Mirani Additional CEO, Government e-Marketplace and Mr Hunt La Cascia, Senior Procurement Specialist, World Bank amongst others. The summit was well attended by more than 200 delegates from various countries including USA, Bangladesh, Thailand and Sri Lanka. The topical themes and in-depth discussions were highly appreciated by the delegates.
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