Dscoop Chennai Meet Speakers

Pranshu, founder of an AI company and IIT Bombay graduate with a background in strategy consulting and product management, is a hands‑on product builder working closely with contract manufacturers and B2B trading businesses to deliver real revenue impact through AI. In his seminar AI Productivity Hacks for Manufacturers, he shares practical ways to boost sales and leads with instant RFQ responses, AI copilots for buyer conversations, and scalable personalized outreach. He demonstrates how operations can be streamlined with faster costing, production visibility, and automated admin tasks, while growth and retention are strengthened through speed, responsiveness, and smart follow‑ups. Finally, he guides manufacturers on getting started — from building simple tools without developers to applying a cost‑versus‑value framework and embedding AI habits within teams. (Video promo)

Shrihari Rao is President – Global Centre of Excellence (Beauty & Cosmetics) at EPL Limited, a global leader in specialty tube packaging with 21 manufacturing facilities across 11 countries, producing 10 billion tubes annually.

With over 37 years in printing and packaging, Shrihari pairs deep technical expertise with global business leadership. During a decade at EPL, he has led global printing technology and sustainability and served as President of Africa, the Middle East and South Asia (AMESA), EPL's largest region by P&L and workforce. Before EPL, he spent nearly 14 years as Sales Director, South Asia at Esko, covering the packaging-print value chain from pre-press and colour management to conventional and digital printing.

He sees digital and combination printing as central to the future of packaging print, bringing agility, quality and creativity.

Anushka Namugade is Lead NPD Partner for packaging at Trigon Digipack, the Mumbai-based digital packaging company behind India's first HP Indigo 25K and 200K presses. Her work sits where creativity, technology and innovation meet. She helps brands use digital print to get the flexibility, personalisation and speed today's markets demand. She graduated from MIT Institute of Design in Communication Design and Digital Marketing, and worked in marketing and client partnerships at Trigon before moving into new product development. Trigon's Ek Ishwar rigid box won an Excellence award in the Folding Carton & Rigid Box category at the HP Presstige Awards 2026. Anushka believes that staying curious, adapting to change and sharing knowledge are what keep a fast-moving industry moving forward.

Mehzabin Nair is the Managing Director of Skanem India, with over two decades of professional experience, including extensive experience in the packaging industry. A techno-commercial leader, she brings expertise across business development, sales, product innovation, operations, and customer-centric solutions.

At Skanem India, she focuses on driving innovation, sustainability, and operational excellence, while building strong teams and delivering value-driven labelling and packaging solutions. Her industry perspectives have been featured by PrintWeek, and in 2026 she was recognised as Business Leader of the Year at the PrintWeek Women to Watch Awards.

Saifee Makasarwala has spent over three decades building his career at Silverpoint Press, which he joined in 1993 straight out of printing institute as a trainee — rising through the business rather than being brought in from outside. That ground-level path shaped his instinct for where digital print could take the business: he led Silverpoint's shift from a traditional offset operation into digital, and in 2017 drove the launch of printnation.in, initially as a B2B web-to-print venture. When he saw stronger demand on the consumer side, he pivoted it to a direct-to-consumer print-on-demand brand within 14 months — a bet that's since paid off with a 4.9/5 rating across 4,000+ customer reviews and sustained 100% year-on-year growth. At the Dscoop India Goa Meet, Saifee will speak on diversification in commercial print — drawing on Silverpoint's own path from a single-line offset business into a hybrid digital operation and, further still, into a consumer e-commerce brand, and what it takes to make each of those bets pay off rather than just spread the business thin.

Kalpesh Mehta is CEO of SRK Group of Digital Labs (also known as SRK Creative), a Mumbai-based photo and print finishing business. The company traces back to 1984, when Sandip Lab first launched, with Rupam Lab and Kamal Lab joining a few years later; the three unified under the SRK Creative name in 2000, giving the business its current 25+ year history in photo finishing.

Under Kalpesh's leadership, SRK has grown into one of Mumbai's largest photo-lab operations — running 30+ retail photostores across Mumbai plus a location in Pune, with a Borivali East manufacturing unit producing 150–200 albums and photo books a day. The business runs on a mix of HP Indigo digital presses, other digital equipments, and large-format printers, and its product lines span photo books (Jade, Pearl, Ruby, Blossom), lay-flat and specialty binding, calendars, and design services, alongside offset and large-format print. At the Goa Meet, he'll bring a rare vantage point on Digital Marketing & E-Commerce: what it actually takes for a traditional print business to build a consumer-facing brand, drive online demand, and operate at retail scale.

Gaurav Narang is the Founder of Coffee Culture, one of India's homegrown café chains, and also founded the food venture Unseen & Uncultured. He discovered his love for café culture as an undergraduate in Pune, where the city's barista scene inspired him and a group of childhood friends to bring that experience home to Surat. In December 2004, he launched the first Coffee Culture outlet there — facing early skepticism from customers who asked for "Nescoffee" — and worked behind the counter himself to introduce patrons to espresso-based drinks.

Over two decades, Coffee Culture grew into a well-loved social hub, differentiated by quality coffee paired with an unconventional food menu (burgers and sizzlers alongside café staples). Rather than a single template, Gaurav has designed each outlet around local character — a palatial-industrial look in Jaipur, Persian design reflecting Navsari's Parsi heritage, and an art-gallery concept in Baroda — and now runs roughly sixteen outlets across multiple Indian cities. He's an experienced Managing Director in the F&B space with expertise across catering, negotiation, retail operations, and coffee sourcing, and has been featured as a speaker at industry events including the Restaurant India Congress and the India Retail & E-commerce Congress (IReC).