{"id":877,"date":"2014-02-28T14:10:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T14:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/?p=877"},"modified":"2014-07-29T16:53:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T16:53:58","slug":"global-castor-conference-feb-2014-ahmedabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2014\/02\/global-castor-conference-feb-2014-ahmedabad\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Castor Conference, Feb 2014, Ahmedabad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Contributor<\/strong>: Narasimhan Santhanam, Cofounder & Director, CastorOil.in<\/p>\n

The Global Castor Conference 2014 was held in Ahmedabad on 22nd<\/sup> Feb 2014. I on behalf of CastorOil.in attended the conference.<\/p>\n

This conference is by far the largest and most prestigious castor congregation in the world, so it was a pleasure to be present there.<\/p>\n

This is the first of a series of blog posts I plan to write on the conference.<\/p>\n

In this post, I will provide an overview of what happened at the conference and following this up in the next few days with details and inputs from specific sessions at the conference, and also from my interactions with a number of experts present there.<\/p>\n

Stats<\/strong><\/p>\n

The conference had about 450 industry professionals participating, from around the world. Pretty much every important entity in the world of castor was present physically or virtually (through video conference).<\/p>\n

The conference itself was a fairly brief affair, just one day (Feb 22nd<\/sup>) and five sessions.<\/p>\n

Brief details of each session presented in this post.<\/p>\n

Inaugural Session<\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome Address: Vijay Data, President SEA (Solvent Extractors Association)<\/p>\n

Brief Overview of the Castor Industry<\/i> – Abhay Udeshi, Chairman, SEA Castor Seed, SEA Castor Seed & Oil Promotion Council<\/p>\n

Address by Guests of Honour<\/i><\/p>\n