Fourth Edition of the Vegan India Conference to take place in Mumbai on the 5-6th July 2025

Monday, 13th January, 2025

The Vegan India Conference (VIC), India’s largest plant-based event, is bringing you its fourth edition in Mumbai on July 5th and 6th, 2025. It is an annual event organized by Vegan First, India's premier media and community platform for the plant-based movement.

Mark the date for the conference: 5th-6th July 2025

Timings:10 am-7pm

Venue: Mumbai 

After the resounding success of the previous Vegan India conferences (VIC), the 4th edition is anticipated to have an impressive impact. VIC stands out as one of the most coveted events shaping India's plant-based ecosystem. It addresses the country's dire need for plant-based alternatives across various sectors and encourages the industry to rethink food, fashion, technology, and sustainability through a plant-based lens.

What to expect at the Vegan India Conference?

The conference will serve as a platform and catalyst to envision a sustainable future. Here is the list of widespread impact that the Vegan India Conference creates across various domains.

The different conclaves covered extensive topics such as:

1. Future of health and lifestyle: Discover secrets of optimum health and cruelty-free lifestyle
2. Future of Food Conclave: Get to know recent developments, innovations from industry leaders, investors, and global game-changing technologies.
3. Grassroots Impact boot camp: Learn to ace your activism and advocacy game.
4. Start-up Ignite—Pitch stage: Plant-based startup owners and entrepreneurs get a chance to pitch to value-aligned investors.

The speakers for the Vegan India Conference (VIC) 2024 were:

• Jacqueline Fernandez, Renowned Actor and Animal Rights and Welfare Advocate, Guest of Honor
• ‘Tempeh King’ Dr. Susianto Tseng, Founder-President, World Vegan Organisation
• Shriti Malhotra, Group CEO, Quest Retail-The Body Shop
• Rishabh Mariwala, Managing Partner, Sharrp Ventures and Director, Marico Ltd.
• Arvind Krishna, Actor & Professional Basketball Player
• Dr. Nandita Shah, Founder, SHARAN and Nari Shakti Award Recipient
• Kuntal Joisher, the World’s First Vegan Everester 
• Nina Lekhi, Founder, Baggit
• Pratik Dadhania, Founder, Aamati 
• Rohit Bhagat, Business Head, SO Good, plant-based beverages 
• Pawan Kumar, Head of D2C brands charter, Swiggy Instamart
• RM Vinay Kumar, Building New Categories -TATA Consumer Products Limited
• Sachin Aggarwal, COO, Nature's Basket
• Loui Blake, Angel investor, CEO, Miami Foods And many more.

Extended over 2 days, the Vegan India conference was attended by 1000 delegates from more than 10 countries with 40+ exhibitors and 75+ speakers, who came together across 5 conclaves & 35 panel discussions, making the event a true harbinger of the blooming vegan ecosystem of India.

In 2024, the guest of honor, Jacqueline Fernandez, shared her insights into achieving fitness goals without consuming meat in a comprehensive discussion with co-panelists Kuntal Joisher, the world’s 1st vegan to climb the Mt. Everest summit, Arvind Krishna, an actor and pro basketball player, and Palak Mehta, Founder and CEO of the Vegan India Conference.

The head of D2C brands Charter at Swiggy Instamart, Mr Pawan Kumar, shared valuable insights during the Future of Food Conclave, stating, “The Vegan category on Swiggy Instamart saw an increase in Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) of 1.78x times in the last fiscal year, while the orders within the Vegan Category rose by 1.50x times.”

You can register in advance on the following link, veganindiaconference.com to know more about the event. 

Stay tuned for the VIC tickets and join the conversation on social media using #VeganIndiaConference2025