Thanks to the excellent organization skill of Shri DL Pandya and his dedicated hard working team, the Conference this year at Ahmedabad was a great success with highest ever participation by Manufactures and Developers and Vendors Government Officers and Students to the Medical Device Industry and a large number of International Exhibitors.

We are indebted to the initiatives taken by the humble and unassuming friend of the Indian Medical Device Industry, Shri Pandya to bring all Stakeholders at one Forum.

Rajiv Nath
Forum Coordinator
Association of Indian Medical Device Industry (AIMED)

Seminar covered topics very relevant to current mood of industry - Make in India, Promote innovations, Biocompatibility, Focus on compliance to standards and regulations etc.

N. K. Balgi
Director, Plastics Machinery India,

Ferromatik Milacron India Private Limited, Ahmedabad

For me this was the first time that that I, in India, spoke on a conference dealing with Medical Plastics. It was for me extremely useful to network and meet interesting people.

Tim Galekop
Owner, TIGAMED, Global Consultancy Infection Prevention, Belgium

The Biocompatibility (ISO-10993) was very useful for us.

Ganesh Nannaware
Drugs Inspector, CDSCO, Ahmedabad

The mix of audience and speakers from different segments of medical segment was really good and the arrangements and time scheduling were also good.

Sanjay Chotalia
Manager Technical Sales & Marketing – West, Covestro (India) Private Limited, Thane

Thanks for your great initiatives, continuous improvement, engagement and services to Medical & Pharma Industry.

Umang Shah
National Sales Manager, Clariant Chemicals India Ltd.

Very well organised and well conducted. The morning session was great when speaker from regulatory side come and elaborate and development on regulation side. This conference is getting strong foothold and more and more people are getting in giving good sign of organising of medical device industry.

Dr. Inder Jain

Managing Director, Airways Surgical Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai

Congratulations for the organising such a huge, diversified and multi facet event successfully.

Your team is efficient and dedicated. Medical Devices sector is undergoing through various odds, hence such platforms are very much required for the interaction of different stakeholders. So please continue organising these kinds of events and keep me informed too.

Dr. Jaishree Kasliwal
Technical, QCI – Delhi

The conference had planned focused sessions on different aspects of medical device engineering and technology, which helped the participant or attendee to decide what to listen based on one's own interest.

Dr. Nirav Jamnapara
Scientist, FCIPT, Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar

All arrangement, speakers and quality of the information material and presentations were extraordinary and were quite informative to the industry/ enterprisers.

Dr. Hemant Desai
Vice President - Operations, Makcur Laboratories, Ahmedabad

Congratulations on hosting such a wonderful conference. I enjoyed talking to my co-panelists and meeting many manufacturers of medical devices.

Dr. Prashant Jha
Fellowship Director, School of International BioDesign, Delhi

The conference was full of information related to compliances required to fulfill the quality of product.

Molay Das
Manager- Marketing, Kuraray India Pvt. Ltd., Delhi

Excellent - supporting Make in India drive pushing industrial growth and encouraging medical devices sector in the country.

Santosh Patel
Regulatory Affairs, Meril Group of Companies, Vapi

First day inaugural programme was an eye opener for current scenario of Medical Devices in India. Also, the exhibition was really good as manufacturer and supplier
from all over India were there.

Dr. Mukty Sinha
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medical Devices, NIPER-Ahmedabad

The IMDI 2016 had a very interesting inauguration session with very supportive and committed speeches from Gujarat Drugs Commissioner and Head Medical technology GOI.
I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you for bringing together a group of knowledgeable personalities under one forum and your team for excellent
arrangement and managing the event.

Prashant Trivedi
Sr. General Manager - OE & Technical Services, Sintex Industries Ltd.

The various sessions and panel discussions were very insightful and we were very happy by the level speakers and panellist attending the conference. We also got ourselves updated on the emerging technology in the Medical Devices space during the course of the conference. Also, the venue selected was apt for having such conferences.

Pratik Narsingpura
Business Advisory, SKP Business Consulting LLP. Mumbai

I really appreciate your effort to uplift Indian manufacturer.

Pradeep Barot
M.D., Hitech Surgical Systems

My heartiest congratulations for successfully organising the Conference and Exhibition covering very important and relevant topics for the benefit of the Disposable Plastics Industry. I hope the Industry is upgrading their activities as per the changing scenario. I am also happy to know about the New High Tech Laboratory coming at Vadodara under FDA, will be helpful to all the Industries.

K. Shamjee
Technical Advisor, The Green Environment Services Co. Op. Society Ltd.

Information related with medical device development scenario in India and session on biocompatibility was very much useful for me.

Payal Rohit Patidar
Executive-Regulatory Affairs, Omni Lens Pvt. Ltd, Ahmedabad

I am really obliged to be present at the event. It was really an enlightening experience, as I am a student of bio medical engineering; I really found many sessions interesting. I would really like to appreciate the ideas about innovation and make in India. The center of the attraction was the key speech by Dr. Jitendra Sharma.

Akshar Thakkar
Student- Biomedical Engineering, GEC, Gandhinagar

The presentation & talk given by Mr. Tim is much appreciated. More awareness and inputs/care to be taken related to Infection control & risk management can be included.

Seema Iyer
Nursing Apex Heart Hospital

The conferences aided to have interaction with students and company officials that gave an idea about developing a lab scale research to Industrial product. Furthermore the conference provided knowledge regarding prevailing resources for an entrepreneur for a start up project for his product development. This conference also encourages student to develop research products according to the social need.

Bhuvaneshwaran SP
Senior Project Assistant, School of Medical Science and Technology,
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

It was very nicely organized…as the industry becomes more organized, I am sure it will have more eyeballs.

Chintan Joshi
Head - Communications, India, Covestro India Pvt. Ltd.

This was a great opportunity in the field of Medical Device. Especially in the field of Regulatory there were many eye opening talks about the rules to be implemented in the field of Medical Implants to be manufactured in India.

Anthony George
Emerald Plastics Magazines Pvt. Ltd.

Really appreciated the experience of the Invited panelists and quality of discussions. The Medtech Exhibition provided a deeper insight on New Technologies available in India.

Himanshu Baid, Managing Director,
Poly Medicure Ltd., Co- Chairman of CII Medical Technology Group
and Co – Chairman of PHD Chamber, Health Committee, Faridabad

I found the inaugural session well organized and conducted and the choice of speakers was very good. Found some useful companies in the exhibition area and thought to establish contact with them again. The presence of investors was very useful and the mix of attendees is good.

C. Padmakumar, Chairman & Managing Director
Terumo Penpol Limited, Trivandrum

The morning session was very informative.

Dr. Ajay Luthra, CEO
BioInteractions Ltd., U. K.

The exhibition and presentations of the papers were very useful for SME industry.

Kishore Khanna
Managing Director, Romsons Group of Industries, & Joint Co-ordinator, Medical Consumables Product Segment, Association Of Indian Medical Device Ind. Agra, India.

Arrangement of dais and compare and order of event was excellent. Food and beverages were well arranged. The volunteers were very courteous and active. Whole atmosphere was like a international conference

Rajnikant Shah, Director Marketing
MRK Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. and Nulife Global Medical Devices Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai

Seminar and topics were excellent and informative.

Atul Kanuga
Secretary - Environmental Committee, PLASTINDIA 2015 & Managing Director, Sudeep Industries, Ahmedabad

The event shaped well into Gujarat's MDM West kind of an event with a mix of talk shows, training, exhibits & workshops. Hence this is quite good and I am sure as the editions grow so would the participants and exhibitors.

H. Vijay Kumar
CEO & T. N & Jt. Co-ordinator - SIDD Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd. Maraimalai Nagar, Tamilnadu & Medical Disposables Vertical Product Segment (HWG) - AIMED

I would like to highlight that the topic selected for conference was exceptional in many ways. Though occupational hazards for healthcare worker are serious area of concern compare to other industry but rarely narrated at national level. The amount of  audience attended conference itself shows there is crave for it.

Dr. Mahesh Patel, Quality & Patient Safety Officer
Apollo Hospitals International Ltd., Ahmedabad

The Technical speeches were good.

Qiyu Chen, Sales Manager
Maider Medical Industry Equipment Co. Ltd., China

I received a chance to interact with various medical device manufacturer company representatives, medical device and regulatory personnel & enjoyed the interaction with students.

Dr. Ashok Thakkar
Senior Manager – Clinical Research & Medical Writing
Sahajanand Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Surat

It was a unique experience and full of knowledge. The students gained lot more knowledge on the present status and scenario of our industry.

Deepak Dave
Vice President - Medical Surgical And Healthcare Industries Trade Association,
Ashutosh Export International, Mumbai

Thank you for providing a wonderful opportunity for meeting all national and international delegates through this conference.

Ganesh Khanduri, Manager QC & MR
Airways Surgical Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad

The conference was really very nice I could attend only for a day but it was very useful and informative.

Avinash Kanodia,
Ribbel International Ltd. Sonepat, Haryana

The interaction about the Medical Devices and its regulation, of all the speakers, seniors and all delegates was really informative and good knowledge sharing.

Hardik Shah, QA Incharge (Engineering)
Sharma Pharmaceutical Pvt. Ltd., Vadodara

The Best thing was that the conference got together the Industry and various “Regulators” of the Industry. The conference brought out talks on major concerns of manufactures.

Rayomand Pardiwala,
Raymazda Medical Systems Pvt. Ltd., Valsad

It was a cross functional event involving Manufacturers, Regulators and Entrepreneurs - very good mix. The presenters were very honest and sincere in expressing their views – which was needed as the industry matures in the future.

Umesh Kini
Supply Base Manager, Asia - Contract and Regional Manufacturing,
Covidien Healthcare India Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai

Over all the conference was nice and informative. Discussions were good and stalls informative. Facility was timely and nice.

K.R. Dave and others
Drug Inspectors - FDCA, Gujarat

The conference hall, food arrangements, and the stall arrangement all was good.

Chirag M. Gaudani, Production Manager,
ET Elastomer Technik GmbH, Germany

Content and Speakers of the Conference were excellent. Excellent management keep it up.

Pratap Pokale, Manager Projects
Advanced Medtech Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai

A session taken by Mr. Harshit Thakkar about the MDSAP & Unannounced Audit - EU & also Mr. Baid's session was useful regarding medical device & regulatory.

Hemal Patel, Executive Business Development
OMNI Lens Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad

Different topic discussed in details regarding qualities & present rules regulation were useful.

Mihir Mehta, Technical Consultant
Shaili Endoscopy, Vadodara

The programme covered every aspect in manufacturing, right from materials & machinery till sterilization & packaging, not only for an existing medical device producer but also for potential manufacturers & new projects.

Kamal Kurra, Sales Manager – India
Rehau Polymers Pvt. Ltd., Pune

The seminar section including the presentations by various speakers and the panel discussions were very useful and engaging. The presence of large number industrial and academic people was encouraging. The seminar venue and arrangements for presentation were very good.

Kedar V. Chikhalikar
Associate Head, Technical Service and Application - South Asia, Middle East, LifeSciences, Lubrizol Advanced Materials India Private Limited, Mumbai

All Medical Industry coming together in same platform was really appreciable and discussing their potentials and problems. Newbie's in the Medical Industry would get great insight and understanding of the Medical Industry.

Sanjay Chotalia, Manager – Technical Sales,
Bayer MaterialScience Private Limited, Thane

It was very interactive chain of sessions. The industry technical session was most useful.

Mrutyunjay Jena, Joint Director,
National Accrediation Board For Certification Bodies (NABCB), New Delhi

The Requirement of Medical Regulation for plastic device parts. Medical regulation is mandatory for growth of medical device industry in India.

Partha Mohapatra, Lead – Healthcare (India) & Technical Support
Styrolution ABS (I) Ltd., New Delhi

Good number of medical device manufacturers attended the exhibition. Such things are necessary for business purpose.

Nagendra Chaurasiya, Officer
Shriram Axiall Pvt. Ltd., Gurgaon

Good representation from across medical device industry. Good interaction between industry and regulators from GOI. Saw increased participation in 2015 compared to previous years.

Atul Bali
Business Manager –Life and Health Sciences,
U.L . India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore

Session – I - Indian Medical Device Industry: Balancing, Innovation, Quality and Compliance Enabling “Make In India” was much useful.

Dr. Sanjay P. Chauhan, Associate Professor
Dharamsinh Desai University, Nadiad

Panel Discussion in Session – I on Balancing, Innovation, Quality and Compliance Enabling “Make In India” was good and the introduction including the speeches given by Dr. Eswara Reddy, Dr. H. G. Koshia, Mr. Himanshu Baid during the inaugural  sessions were useful.

K. R. Navaneethakrishnan, Assistant Director
GLR Laboratories Pvt. Ltd., Chennai

The discussion on Future Prospects For Indian Medical Device Industry (Regulation & Market Growth) was interesting.

Ankit Jain, Director,
Jain Rubbers Pvt. Ltd., Gummidipoondi, Tamilnadu

Panel Discussions were interesting and useful.

Prof. Dr. S.P. Patil, Principal,,
Karmayogi Engineering College, Solapur, Maharashtra

There was a good blend of vendor booths, technical presentations, academia and professionals from healthcare device industry.

Brian Reilly - Marketing & Sales Director,
Nusil Silicone Tech., USA

It brings down the different branches to a single platform. We could meet the other stake holders in healthcare domain whom we don’t get to meet in our specialty conference such as material scientists, biomedical Engineers, investors, entrepreneurs, PEs CROs etc.

Dr. Samuel Abrahim - Cardiac Surgeon
Yamanashi University, Japan

I would like to congratulate you for organizing a successful conference. Wishing you many more successful years with conference.

Himanshu Baid - Managing Director,
Poly Medicure Ltd., Faridabad

You own management skills and superb support is exemplary. I must say that you are a Role Model of a visionary combining with Action Oriented Dedication to bring progress. I learnt immensely and feel that the three days were an Educational Trip for me.

Dr. Sujoy K. Guha - Chair Professor,
IIT, Kharagpur

Perfect location, professional staff helps a lot.

Beck Lin - Dept of Foreign Marketing & Sales Specialist
Shin Yan Sheno Precision Industrials Co., Ltd., Taiwan

Conference was a great success with wide participation from Industry, Research & Development and young generation of students. Arrangement were excellent. Participants take care of very well. Food arrangement were good. Exhibition was well organized.

Dr. C.S.B. Nair - Consultant, R&D
Terumo Penpol Ltd., Trivandrum

Quality of speakers / presentations and Exhibition were very good. The conference was very well organized. The quality of some of the conference presentations was exemplary.

Manoj Bhardwaj - M.D.
SMC Medical Mfg. Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore

It was a wonderful conference very informative. I liked interaction with difference experts and students, friendly nature of volunteer.

Dr. Sainath S. Pawaskar - Managing Director,
Sandhyasthi Biomedical LLP, Goa

I appreciate the conference on medical devices arranged by you. Over all it was good.

Atul Kanuga, Vice President, Indian Plastic Institute &
Chairman Environmental Committee, Plastindia 2015, Ahmedabad

It’s good platform for the companies related in the field of medical grade plastics to present their specifications, it helps all of us to share our positives & drawbacks well.

Sarabjot Singh - M.D.
Sterimed Surgicals India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi

Liked interaction and speakers selected from various sources such as industry, academia, regulatory and health care professionals.

Dr. Renuka Mishra - Assistant Professor,
Institute of Pharmacy, Nirma University, Ahmedabad

Excellent response for business. We are able to showcase our products & capabilities to medical devices market. Well organized.

Pradeep Rao - M.D.
Pradeep Surgical Dressings Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore

It was the Great Event, Good Gathering & Useful Feedback.

Alok Kumar, Executive - Sales,
Shriram Polytech, Gurgaon

I liked most were Panel Discussion & topics especially on innovation in medical device industry, strategy to increase credibility of Indian Medical Device, Risk Management.

Dhananjay Khairnar - Regulatory Norm - Compliance Lead
Philips Electronics India Ltd., Pune

I liked experts’ comments on different topics as well as guidelines given by Deputy Drug Controller on regulatory affairs.

Sanjeev Shrma - Director
Hospiline Equipments Pvt. Ltd., Delhi

Conference & exhibition covered all parts of industries (Medical Device).

Chirag Bhatt - Sr. Manager - Quality,
MIV Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd., Surat

Amazing event, very informative. Especially the knowledge imparted by industrial leaders was very valuable and practical.

Rahul Bora, Sales Dev. Manager - Medical India
Sealed Air Corporation, Pune

Lecture by Dr. Reddy, Deputy Drug Controller of India was excellent. All exhibition stalls are very good for getting up-dated knowledge and latest instruments and testing facilities.

Ms. Darshna Barot, I/c Jr. Scientific Officer, Govt. Analyst
Food & Drugs Lab, Vadodara

Exhibitor’s Stalls increased with new products & technology. The event was so well organized.

N. Chetan Urs - M.D.
Nusaac Mediequipts, Mysore

In this event, I got new clients, also known the different producers of Pharma industries, also known the difficult marketing strategies.

Jigar Panchal
Ambica Medicare Engineering, Ahmedabad

The event was better. Management was too good. Response from the organisers was the best.

Gurpreet Panjrath - General Manager - Sales & Operation
Multivac Laraon India Pvt. Ltd., Gurgaon

Has been the best event for us. We await outcome to see results but very well managed, better organized and keep up good work.

Mehul Javeri - Director
Federal India Trading Company, Ahmedabad

We see a good potential participation in this medical segement.

Nandkumar Nair - Exe. Busiess Dev.,
Ami Polymer Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai

Unique Platform. Good Information sharing & interactions opportunities. Excellent arrangement by Mr. Pandya and his team.

Parag Dave,
Dave Technical Services, Mumbai.

Arrangement are good & create good interest for actual Business field people. It is good informative for new project & innovation.

Arvind Desai - Business Ambassador
Reema Associates, Ahmedabad

I liked good arrangements of every aspects of the exhibition & good visitor response.

Ritesh Naik - Project Manager - Events & Brand Marketing
All India Plastics Manufacturers Association, Mumbai

Gathering of so many stake holders including Govt. personnel to students & good faculties in the business was a good idea.

Sudhir K. Jhaveri - Partner
Swastik Enterprise, Jamnagar

Overall presentation and arrangements were highly professional. Audience were also, quite and keen to learn.

Making the program highly interactive is most essential for success, and the same was visible at the event.

Mr. Nitin Mahajan - Managing Director
Mitra Industries ( P ) Ltd.

It is harculian task which you are handling single handedly with the help of your skillful staff and bringing so many people under one roof for benefit of industry and state.

It was a lovely show with good arrangement but I have few points to be added to it.

- auditorium is excellent - food arrangement was excellent - speakers were good

Mr. Rajnikant Shah - Managing Director
MRK Healthcare

I found the conference very invigorating and I am more excited about partnering with Indian than ever! From my perspective, you had may wonderful presentations and discussions that I was not able to attend because I had to stay in the booth.

I think the quality of the discussion was super. I did come away with a sense that there is a need for a lot of learning in the community. That may present you with an opportunity to offer classes on specific topics at the conference. I would hope that many of the people in Industry might be willing to pay to be educated on some of the topics in more depth.

Christopher Sullivan - President of North America
Xponent Global and Marco Polo Products

I congratulate you on the extremely well organized conference. Your entire team needs to be applauded for the way things were managed professionally.

The IMDO conference is a unique platform where policy makers, regulators, industry and student find a common platform to discuss and participate in the growth of the Med Dev Industry. The technology display show was appropriate to help the industry interact on 1 B2B platform and the industry discussions were thought provoking. Also the content for the conference was very aptly set and divided into multiple tracks and it was inspiring to see the posters by the students. I hope the students found the entire conference to their benefit and we have growing numbers not only from Gujarat but from all over the country in the coming years.

Dr. Atul Sardana - Chairman
Alfa Corpuscles Pvt. Ltd.

I really enjoyed conference.

Overall conference managed in excellent manner, Lots of industrial contact and got a chance to interact with them, shared of information and knowledge also.

I Appreciate overall management / administration.

I appreciate knowledge and presentation of Dr. Dieter Dannhorn.

Dr. Ashok Thakkar, Senior Clinical Trial Manager
Sahajanand Medical Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

At the outset thankful you for arranging the conference with valuable information from the speakers. I appreciate mostly about the speakers for the quality management system of the medical devices.

B. Naga Prasad, Executive Manager - Production
Devon Innovation (P) Ltd.

It was indeed a fruitful experience to present at the informative conference organized by you.

Sakthivel Perumalsamy, Head
Centre for Excellence for Medical Textiles, SITRA Coimbatore

I really liked the diversity of the gathering and the attempt to include as much as technical content as possible.

The best part was the panel discussion on the first day which projected the difficulties of the medical device industry and the actions required to be taken for the improvements.

Dr. Subhashis Chakraborty, Head - Technical Services, South Asian Health Care,
Evonik Degussa India Pvt. Ltd

It was nice to meet you and your team during this event. It was great efforts to organize such a conference and was very well structured manner. The sessions were very diverse subjects and well organized in proper sequence. Panel discussions were very good and crisp.

Mr. Sunil Khokarale - Sr. Manager
Tata Consultancy Services

It was a pleasure to be part of the sessions and discussion held during the conference.

I am also deeply grateful for providing us especially our students an opportunity to interact with key drivers of the industry. The conference has enlighted them and given them lots of confidence.

Dr. Pallab Datta, Senior Lecturer - Medical Devices
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research

The inaugural session was much useful to understand the issues of Manufacturer, Regulatory Affairs Personnel and the Government bodies related to the harmonization needed in the Medical Device regulation in our country. Particularly the speech of Shri Jay Narayan Vyas and Dr. Ramkihan was useful.

Track III - Theme : Medical Device Start Ups / New Projects was very much useful for me to know about the patent issues, IPR and solutions for trouble shooting problems faced by the new medical device manufacturers. The speech given by Mr. Vishal Gandhi, Mr. Nitin Mahajan and Mr. Padmin Buch were useful.

K. R. Navaneethakrishnan, M. Sc, Clinical Research & Regulatory Affairs Manager
GLR Laboratories Pvt. Ltd.

It was our pleasure to attend the seminar arranged on 9th January. It was excellent and we have not observed any defects in said seminar.

Rajiv Trivedi - Chairman
Indian Plastic Institute

It’s nice & pleasure meeting with you and attending the IMDI-Conference. I have attended the conference, 1st time and really found good & fruitful.

Sachin Desai - Area Manager
e3 Plastech Mrketing Pvt. Ltd.

It was really very informative and well organized. I will look forward to participate same kind of conference.

Arpit Jariwala, Assistant Manager (R&D)
Sahajanand Medical Technology Pvt. Ltd.