189th Edition – Zak World of Façades India

This will be the 189^th edition globally and the 10^th edition in Bengaluru which will showcase sustainable innovations and challenges in the construction industry pertaining to the building envelope and will also display latest technological solutions.

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Speakers & Panelists

Lolita Almeida

Associate Director, Rathi Associates

Lolitha Amdia is a seasoned architect with over 30 years of experience in the architecture and real estate industry. A graduate of MIT, Manipal, she has built a dynamic career working across a wide spectrum of prestigious projects and organizations....

Nishanth H.H

Director - Design & Operation, Aedium Design

Nishanth is Director – Operations & Design at Aedium Design, Bangalore. With 20 years of professional experience, Nishanth H.H. is a design leader who has contributed to top design practices in India. His expertise lies in spearheading the design, management,...

Erasmus Eller

Prinicpal, Eller + Eller Architekten

Erasmus fell in love with India, this incredible country, when he travelled there for the first time in 1999. He promised himself that one day he would design a project there.Born in 1965, Erasmus comes from a family of architects....

Sneha Murthy

Sustainability Associate, McD BERL

Sneha Murthy is the Manager of Sustainability at McD BERL, a Sustainability driven MEP consultancy based in Bangalore. McD BERL has been pivotal in transforming conventional Buildings into Net Zero Built Environments across the globe. These campuses are Super Energy...

Sahana Raghunath

Head Design, Space Matrix

With 20 years of experience, Sahana excels in collaborating with cross-functional teams, bridging client needs with technical execution for seamless project delivery. Throughout her career, she has built a reputation for excellence across multiple domains, including program definition, sustainable design,...

Omar Al Fakih

Associate Façade Consultant, WSP

Omar is a highly skilled professional with 15 years of experience in delivering landmark projects in the Middle East. He specializes in signature facade projects with complex geometry and has a deep understanding of the technical requirements and design aesthetics...

Ashish Jauhri

Director, DSP Design Associates

Ashish has 26+ years of experience spread between India, Europe and Singapore. He has been associated with DSP since 2013 and has been leading the design philosophy and client relationship pan India. He has been leading various teams and has...

Charanya Premkumar

Associate Principal & Director, Vernekar Associates

Charanya Premkumar graduated from Madras University and later specialized in Building Engineering and Management from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. She is affiliated to the Council of Architecture, India. Charanya has a professional tenure of 18 years...

Marek Tryzybowicz

Design Director | Managing Partner, MTDI Group

Architect Marek Tryzybowicz is a Co-founder and Design Principal of MTDI Group (formerly BOSE INTERNATIONAL PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE Group), Marek is designing for over thirty years. He created architectural concepts of realized, award-winning, large multifunctional retail, office, residential and entertainment...

Harsharaj Shetty K S

Deputy Head - Engineering, Schueco India

Harsha is a seasoned professional with over 8 years of experience in façades and fenestration products, specializing in new product development for both Indian and international markets. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, India. Currently,...

Harpreet Kaur

Co-Founder, Architecture Dialogue

Harpreet Kaur is the co-founder of Architecture Dialogue, a multidisciplinary architecture and design practice based in Bangalore and Hyderabad, established in 2019 with her partners Sreenath Vinayakumar and Vikram Desai. The practice is grounded in a collaborative, research-driven design process,...

Deepak Parameswaran

Specifications Manager, Jotun Powder Coatings

A professional with over 15 years of experience in the Façade industry and having worked in diverse set of projects ranging from Infrastructure to Residential projects. Deepak brings to you a wide range of solutions that Jotun Powder Coatings can...

Pradeep S M

Design Manager, Kinlong India

Pradeep SM is a highly experienced professional in the field of façade and fenestration engineering. With his seven years of experience and a master’s degree in Machine Design, he possesses extensive knowledge of structural engineering components of façade systems. As...

Sushant Goel

Director - India, Eckersley O’Callaghan

Sushant Goel is a postgraduate structural engineer from the University of Stuttgart, with seven years of professional experience in Germany. During this time, he contributed to a diverse range of international projects across the USA, Europe, and the Middle East,...

Kushagra Awasthi

Head of Engineering, Schueco India

Kushagra Awasthi comes with over 13 years of experience in various aspects of façade and fenestration in both Aluminium and UPVC products. By education, he is a post-graduate in Architecture, integrated with Façade Design, from TH OWL, Germany, and a...

Nandakumar BS

Project Director, Evermark Façades

Nanda has over 17 years of rich experience in various capacities in façade construction projects. He is currently heading Evermark Project Solutions, A Consulting firm as Façade Project Director. Prior to Evermark, he was with Goldman Sachs through C&W as...

Ashwanii Khanna

Chief Customer Officer, FunderMax

Ashwanii Khanna is a seasoned professional with over 11 years of experience in the facade industry and an overall career spanning 18 years in the construction materials sector. Having worked with esteemed organizations such as Fundermax, Armstrong, and Saint Gobain....

Faizer Ali Dastagir

National Head - Projects, Viva Metal Composite Panel

Mr.Faizer Ali Dastagir is the National Head–Projects for Viva Composite Panels. He is a Mechanical engineer by qualification. He Has 25 years’ experience in Marketing, Business Development, Operations and also handling execution for various Façade projects with leading Façade Companies...

Susanna Noureddine

Head of Façade & Access, WSP

Susanna holds a master’s degree in Façade Engineering from the University of Applied Science in Detmold, Germany. In her current position as the Head of Facade Engineering she is responsible for technical and commercial design, competition design documents and managing...

Rohan Keswani

Director, Aluplex

Armed with a Structural Engineering double-degree from Oxford University, Rohan has experience working with Façade and Fenestration companies in Thailand, Spain and South Korea. Leading the operations at Aluplex since 2011, Rohan has been using his strong technical foundations to...

Amudha Tamilmani

Director, Turner and Townsend

Amudha brings over 23 years of extensive experience in the construction industry, specializing in Project Management, Cost Control, and Commercial Management for capital projects across India. Her deep involvement in multiple large-scale developments has made her a seasoned professional known...

Malvinder Singh Rooprai

Senior Technical Program Manager - APAC, Kuraray

Malvinder Singh Rooprai, Architectural Market Development Manager & Technical Consultant for PVB division of Kuraray, is based out of New Delhi – INDIA. His key responsibilities are to grow the market for value added products under the umbrella of Trosifol®...

Anup Naik

Founder & CEO, Urban Frame

Dr. Anup Naik is the Founder Director of Urban Frame Pvt Ltd, is a trained architect and urban designer. He completed his PhD in Sustainable Architecture from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka and BMSCA being his Research Center. He completed his...

Rajan Govind

Director - Façade + Construction Tech Specialist, BES Consultants

Rajan has more than 30 years of international experience within the facade industry, out of which he has served more than 11 years at Arup. With Structural engineering background Rajan has gained working experiences in various regions such as Asia,...

Jean Paul Hautekeer

Global Strategic Marketing Director, Dow

As the global head of strategy for the teams that develop silicon(e) based solutions which increase energy efficiency, sustainability and design performance of buildings, Jean-Paul’s responsibilities include market strategy development and implementation, innovation and marketing excellence for the Building &...

Vikram Desai

Co-Founder, Architecture Dialogue

Vikram Desai is the co-founder of Architecture Dialogue, since its inception, the young practice has carved out a national identity through its work across diverse building typologies and scales—each project marked by innovation, creativity, and a strong theoretical foundation. Before...

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