The marketplace conference new

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29th September 2022, Le Méridien, Gurgaon
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B2B marketplaces are exploding onto the scene,
signaling a disruption of procurement landscape
by creating value for not only apparel
retailers, brands and the manufacturers, but
also the entire textile supply chain - by
improving their overall supply-chain
effectiveness decision making through tech
enabled tools. According to a McKinsey report,
70 of B2B decision makers said they are open
to making remote purchase in excess of US
50,000 and around 30 are ready to spend more
than US 500,000.
Indias B2B e-commerce market is one of the
fastest-growing in the world, and is expected to
reach over US 1 trillion by 2024, said John
Curtius, a partner at Tiger Global, which has
invested in several Indian B2B
platforms. Courtesy The Economic Times (26th
December, 2021)
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Overview
Apparel Resources (AR) is providing a platform
to all the stakeholders of the apparel industry
to come together and discuss the current
challenges, opportunities and future of
the online marketplaces in India. This event will
offer an opportunity to the participants to not
only network, discuss and showcase their
platform to the apparel and textile value chain
but also exchange info and knowledge.
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Why Apparel Resources?
Apparel Resources is a 30-years-old fashion media
house that understands the very pulse of the
apparel and fashion industry. It is the publisher
of Apparel Online that has dedicated issues for
India, Bangladesh and Vietnam. Stitchworld, the
only fashion technology magazine for the region,
is also published under the AR platform. Apparel
Resources is also the organiser of Apparel
Sourcing Week which is a premium sourcing
platform for Indian and global brands and
retailers.
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Step Up with The Marketplace Conference

• Launch new products
• Great opportunity to increase sales Secure
  alliance joint ventures with the leading
• suppliers in the industry
• Face-to-face contact The most persuasive form
  of selling building customer relationships
• Opportunity to evaluate your products against
  competitiors also understand their products
  offerings
• Expand your market share, conduct business form
  strategic partnerships with brands, retailers,
  manufacturers investors

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The Marketplace Conference
The Marketplace Conference is an annual event
focused on all things related to marketplaces
and brings together marketplace entrepreneurs,
apparel textile manufacturers, buying houses,
apparel brands retailers. It provides a
platform to marketplace teams to interact with
the industry at large for exchanging the know-how
and best practices and to get a better
understanding of the customers expectations. The
event will witness top 25 apparel marketplaces
showcasing their latest technology and how they
are disrupting digitizing the supply chain. The
event will be held on 29th September 2022 at Le
Meridian, Gurgaon.
8 Sessions
15 Speakers
1000 Attendees
25 Exhibitors
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The Marketplace Conference Advantages

• The advantages of a B2B marketplace for buyers
  and suppliers
• They offer a platform to do business in a
  transparent environment where the factories are
  certified and buyers are financially credit
  worthy
• A place without any hindrance to geographical
  barriers
• It also provides access to new suppliers, faster
  approvals for ordering processes and delivery
  tracking
• The tech-enabled marketplaces also exist to help
  procurement of raw material which help the
  partners
• cost the product more constructively so that each
  one can benefit
• Participating Stakeholders

Apparel, Textile Home Manufacturers
Apparel Home Brands Retailers
Buying Houses
Marketplaces
Investors
Policymakers
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Spotlight your services
Thought leadership
Why Associate
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Priceless connections
Marketing campaign
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Brand awareness
6 Partnerships
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The Marketplace Conference Agenda
Panel Discussions Debate on industrys future
challenges and opportunities
One must remember, for every B2C transaction,
there are 6-10 B2B transactions happening in the
background. Rahul Garg, Founder-CEO, Moglix
Roundtables Closed door discussions
conversations
Networking Network with industry leaders and
businesses
Exhibition Showcase Showcase products and
services to the industry
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Key Discussion Points
Marketplaces Whats the future?
Small Orders vs. Volume How capable is an
online marketplace?
Future challenges opportunities
for Marketplace adoption in India
B2B
Sustainability How marketplaces are building a
sustainable eco- system for workers/artisans
How and why businesses are making a shift from
physical to virtual for their buying and
sourcing needs
Supply Chain Transparency Responsible
Sourcing A new norm for marketplaces
Product Development Assistance
The ease of creation onmarketplaces
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Our Offerings
Conference Panel discussions,workshops and
spotlight sessions on industry-theme based topics
Exhibition Showcase your products services to
the target audience Network with industry
professionals
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CONFERENCE AGENDA
29th September 2022, Le Méridien, Gurgaon
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Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion
1200 - 1300
1345 - 1445
Decoding Marketplaces What is it and how it
works? The influx of B2B marketplaces in the
fashion industry is creating a disruptive wave
in the procurement landscape. Marketplaces
endeavor is to create value for not only apparel
retailers, brands and the manufacturers but the
entire textile supply chain - by improving their
overall supply-chain effectiveness decision
making through Tech enabled tools. The
panelists will discuss decoding marketplace to
understand its working and complexities as well
as reasons why it is gaining prominence all over
the world.

• Choosing the right marketplace
• Retailers, manufacturers and suppliers in apparel
  and textile industry look for convenient
  channels to reach a large audience for their
  buying/ sourcing needs as well as cut down
  marketing and operating costs. Therefore,
  leveraging the right marketplace ensures reduced
  supply chain costs, product costs via enhanced
  efficiencies, and increase in revenues due to
  timely delivery as well as reduced process costs
  associated to managing the transaction and the
  list goes on.
• The key focus of the experts in this session
  will be to impart a clear understanding of
  marketplace in those vendors who want to go
  online and find new growth avenues.

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Spotlight Session
Panel Discussion
1400 - 1430
1500 - 1600
Bringing financial and operational excellence in
your transactions Financial transactions through
online marketplaces were considered to be
vulnerable to fraud risks. More so, procurement
of materials online is considered risky due to
concerns over performance, availability, and
security of the materials purchased as sellers
may not disclose data related to the product
quality, legality of use, and warranty resulting
into operational failure sometimes. Being a
part of the session will make you understand how
the new-age B2B marketplaces are addressing
these issues head-on, while ensuring excellence
in finances and operations at all times.
Future of Marketplaces What does the future of
B2B marketplaces hold? While its been
established that the B2B marketplace users
prefer remote human interactions or digital
self-service due to reduced travel expenses, ease
of scheduling, and safety, these marketplaces
need to evolve and continuously add value for
its users by incorporating more
tech-interventions to explore future trends in
fashion retail and manufacturing business that
offer wider opportunities to the associated
companies. The panel discussion aims at talking
about possible integration of concepts such as
fashion in metaverse, digital twin etc. in the
marketplaces that are missing today but there is
great potential to capture this untapped market.
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Panel Discussion
Spotlight Session
1615 - 1715
1500 - 1530

• Ensuring sustainable supply chain is a new norm
  for marketplaces
• As sustainability has moved from a mere concept
  to become a norm in the fashion industry, B2B
  marketplaces are integrating tools in their
  platforms that help vendors and buyers in
  responsible sourcing, assist in end-to-end
  visibility, and build a sustainable eco-system
  for workers/ artisans through better living
  wages.
• The discussion in this session will highlight all
  efforts that B2B marketplaces are making to
  help thousands of companies source and bring
• products to market with more sustainable
  materials and practices.

Farm to Fashion apparel marketplaces make you
cost and time efficient Online B2B
marketplace/platforms are designed to address
key prolonged issues of the fashion industry as
they cater to the entire supply chain of fashion
right from farm to fashion retail. Being cost
and time efficient is a key requisite in fashion
business and online marketplaces, with all the
integrated tools, keep transparency aspect on
top so as to ensure that bottlenecks in any
process can be viewed in real time and corrected
instantly. The speaker in this session will help
industry understand how streamlining end-to-end
processes on a common platform enable companies
become more efficient on two critical parameters
cost and time.
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THANK YOU!
Bhumica Bansal 91 9810500644 bbansal_at_apparelresou
rces.com
Nitish Varshney 91 8800431295 nvarshney_at_stitchwor
ld.net
Geetanshi Kandwal 91 7003673360 gkandwal_at_apparelr
esources.com
www.apparelresources.com
www.themarketplaceconference.com