The Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council’s Trends Forecasting Seminar got underway in Mumbai today. The seminar is being held for designers, students of the various design institutes and the jewellery industry in general and is being conducted by Paola Di Luca, Co-founder of the TJF Group, an Italian company specialising in trend forecasting, design and marketing strategy and positioning for the fashion and jewellery industries amongst others. %% Speaking at the inauguration Chairman, GJEPC Rajiv Jain said that India was an important manufacturing and trading hub for the gems & jewellery industry and, going forward, the purpose of such seminars was to make it a design hub as well. He also said that he was confident that the Trends Forecasting Seminar would become an important property of the Council as events like IIJS, IIJW etc had become. %% Paolo Novembri, CEO of the TJF Group introduced the group and its activities. Novembri said that India was poised to become a great power in the coming decade and that one aspect that would help it stride forward was education, which is what the seminars they held all over the world aimed at providing the industry with. %% The seminar itself was a closed event and open to delegates only.