A fraudulent event titled BTOPEX, organized by Confexco Events Pvt. Ltd., is attempting to copy and impersonate the highly respected Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Summit and Awards (BTOES).

This event is not affiliated with us in any way.

We are issuing this notice to protect speakers, sponsors, participants, and our wider professional community from being misled.

BTOPEX’s actions are especially egregious. Aware that BTOES had paused its 2025 edition, they seized the opportunity to deliberately plagiarize our trusted event. This calculated and unethical move was designed to exploit our temporary absence, mislead the market, hijack our reputation, and profit from decades of our hard-earned credibility.

This is full-scale brand hijacking, reputation theft, and attempted impersonation.

What Has Happened

After thorough investigation, we discovered that Eimran Kahn and Vinayak Bhagat of Confexco Events Pvt. Ltd. have:

• Copied our event title, branding, awards program, website structure, color scheme, and design.

• Scheduled their event for the same month, city, and similar dates where BTOES has historically been staged.

• Plagiarized significant portions of our awards framework, judging criteria, website text, event structure, and even functional elements like registration buttons.

• Listed speakers without their consent, falsely implying industry endorsement.

This is not coincidental — it is a calculated attempt to mislead.

Evidence of Intellectual Property Theft

Our detailed review has identified extensive duplication and plagiarism, including:

Brand Identity Theft:

• Using the name “Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Global Summit & Awards (BTOPEX)” — nearly identical to “Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Summit & Industry Awards (BTOES),” designed to deliberately mislead and confuse.

• Visual branding (color palette, typography) copied to create confusion. Identical primary color (accent orange) and typography/fonts were copied.

• Blatant theft of our bespoke brand imagery and signature tint - The header image and orange tint seen on Eimran Kahn’s LinkedIn profile are not generic or publicly available assets — they are part of a bespoke brand identity we created back in 2015. These visuals were professionally developed and have been consistently used across our official platforms, including proqis.com, btoes.com, and btoesawards.com.See below for screen shots

• Falsely claiming this is the “19th Edition” of the event, despite it never having taken place before. See further below graphics to support this. 

• Replicated our original Early Bird promotional graphics, mimicking both design and messaging.

Event Timing and Location Theft:

• Scheduled their fraudulent event for May 8–9, 2025, in Orlando — exactly when and where BTOES has historically been staged.

• Deliberate selection of timing and location to create maximum market confusion.

Website and Structural Theft:

• Homepage structure, agenda formats, awards sections, CTA buttons (“Register Now,” “Download Agenda”) — copied almost exactly.

• Navigation structure (“Home,” “Agenda,” “Speakers,” “Awards,” “Sponsors,” “Venue,” “Contact”) mirrors ours.

• Same CTA buttons throughout site: “Register Now,” “Download Agenda,” “Become a Sponsor,” “Apply to Speak,” “Become a Media Partner.”

• Event calendar listings and monthly summit titles lifted directly from the BTOES portfolio.

• Sticky navigation headers, collapsible agenda sections, and speaker profile grids mirrored exactly.

• Exact replication of homepage "tabbed" Why Attend section — especially the tabs "Who Should Attend," "Why You Should Attend," and "Networking Opportunities."

Awards Program Plagiarism:

• Judging criteria, entry guidelines, scoring matrix (1–3, 4–6, 7–10 scoring), and 50-word finalist summary — copied or reworded with minimal cosmetic edits.

• Full duplication of key awards sections including About the Awards, How to Enter, Key Dates, Entry Fee Structure, Main Entry Document Guidelines, Best Practices, Pitfalls to Avoid, Judges' Code of Conduct, and Terms & Conditions.

• Benefits of winning, judging panel criteria, and awards marketing captions (“Showcase Your Outstanding Achievements”) replicated almost word-for-word.

Content and Textual Theft:

• Page headings, text structures, value propositions, and website messaging copied throughout with minor rewording.

• Strategic operational messaging such as “Live Q&A,” “Virtual Breakout Rooms,” and “Meaningful Conversations” copied.

• Replicated structure of award entry supporting materials: four-page document, 250-word synopsis, and optional two-page additional materials.

• Copied navigation menu structure, collapsible agenda reveal formats, and content flow.

Speaker and Sponsor Misrepresentation:

• High-profile speakers listed without consent or knowledge.

• Falsely suggesting legitimate partnerships by displaying logos and event formats to imply endorsements.

Event Calendar and Scheduling Theft:

• Event titles like “Enterprise Architecture Live,” “RPA Live,” and “Cultural Transformation Live” lifted almost directly from BTOES.

• Monthly event structure mirrored to overlap and confuse the marketplace.

Signature Elements Theft:

• Direct copying of the "Let’s Talk" sponsorship banner — a distinctive BTOES branding element.

• Home page block design and event flow structure copied exactly.

• Exact duplication of “Who Should Attend” and “Industry Segments” sections — including bullet points, industry lists, and segment flows.

• Full replication of the three-tabbed "Why Attend" structure ("Who Should Attend," "Why You Should Attend," "Networking Opportunities").

• Copying of the “Get the Latest Info” section structure and messaging.

Why This Matters

Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Summit & Industry Awards (BTOES) was built over many years through trust, credibility, and the highest standards of professionalism. Participants trust that their submissions, strategic information, and achievements are handled with strict confidentiality, judged fairly, and celebrated authentically. By ripping off our trusted framework without implementing the essential ethical and professional standards, BTOPEX is deceiving entrants, and damaging the integrity of awards programs globally.

This is not just plagiarism. It is a coordinated attempt at identity theft, brand hijacking, intellectual property theft, fraudulent impersonation,unfair competition, copyright infringement, and passing off — all serious violations under intellectual property and competition laws.

BTOPEX is trying to steal our reputation, mislead the market, deceive participants, and ride on the credibility and trust that BTOES painstakingly built over many years.

We are taking all appropriate steps to protect our brand, our intellectual property, our participants, and the global business community we proudly serve.

Fraudulent events like BTOPEX threaten that trust.
They risk exposing sensitive information, misleading the market, damaging reputations, and undermining the credibility of the entire industry.

We cannot — and will not — allow that to happen.

Our Response

We are taking full legal and criminal action against the organizers:

• Legal notices have been issued.

• Police filings have been made.

• Copyright, trademark, and competition law violations are being pursued aggressively.

See below links to initial legal notices and the police filing. Please note,  both Eimran Kahn & Vinayak Bhagat of Confexco Events Pvt. Ltd based in India.

Vinayak Bhagat Legal Notice

Vinayak Bhagat Police Filing

Eimran Kahn Legal Notice

Eimran Kahn Police Filing

We will continue to defend our brand, our customers, and the values that BTOES represents.

How You Can Protect Yourself

✅ Only trust communications and websites linked to BTOES Official Website.
✅ Verify organizers before registering for any event.
✅ If you have already registered for BTOPEX under mistaken belief it was BTOES, please contact us immediately.

For verification, the official BTOES website is https://btoes.com/home. There are no other legitimate BTOES event websites.

For verification or concerns:

📞 Vijay Bajaj: +44 7711 636366
📧 Email: vb@proqis.com

We thank our community for your continued trust and support.
Together, we protect the standards of excellence that define our industry.
We look forward to welcoming you back to the next official BTOES in May 2026 — stronger than ever.

How We Discovered BTOPEX’s Misappropriation — and How They Persisted Despite Being Warned

November 22, 2024, it came to our attention — through our long-standing Chairperson, Jose Pires (see screenshots below) — that a new event was attempting to impersonate BTOES. Immediate outreach to Eimran Kahn was met with denial. Subsequent investigation confirmed that not only had no corrective action been taken, but further unauthorized copying had occurred — extending even to our proprietary Awards Judging Criteria and Scoring Matrix.

Given the gravity of these violations and the continued escalation of intellectual property theft, we initiated legal action to protect the integrity of BTOES, our partners, and the industry we serve.

BTOPEX’s shameless copying and misappropriation of our intellectual property represent a fundamental disregard for ethics and a deliberate attempt to mislead the global market.

Email We Sent to Eimran Kahn on November 22, 2024

SCREENSHOTS

BTOES Home Page: BTOPEX mirrors the overall structure and layout of the BTOES website:

BTOPEX (Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Global Summit & Awards) has:

• Copied the name very closely

• Copied the brand concept: Global Summit, Awards, focus on Business Transformation & Operational Excellence.

• Copied the design style: Event website structure, language (“Summit & Awards”),

• Copied event dates/location (Orlando, Florida).

• The website layout (home page buttons, black and orange color scheme) mimics BTOES

  Audience Confusion:
  Executives seeing BTOPEX could easily believe it is either the same or a new version of BTOES.

  Location Confusion:
  Both events are located in Orlando, increasing the risk that attendees, sponsors, and speakers mistakenly think BTOPEX is a continuation or expansion of BTOES. Which is precisely what people thought. 

BTOES Home Page" Why Attend Section 

This design is a unique visual branding element of BTOES — and BTOPEX have copied it wholesale. BTOPEX has directly copied the structure, flow, and target audience definitions that BTOES developed and presented.

BTOES Home Page Section - Get The Latest Info - Proprierty section copied. 

BTOES

BTOPEX

BTOES About Page- Directly copy of our "Who Will Be Attending" and "Industry Sectors"

They have directly copied the exact text, from our original BTOES about page. The 'Who Will Be Attending' and 'Industry Sectors' sections are almost identical, with only extremely minor word changes — a textbook case of "close paraphrasing," which legally still constitutes plagiarism. Even the design, style of bullet points, flow of audience segments (C-Suite, Senior Leaders, Functional Leaders, etc.), and industry sector listings have been duplicated.  It’s a blatant copy-paste job aimed at misleading audiences into believing they are affiliated with our trusted brand. This constitutes serious intellectual property theft, copyright infringement, brand misrepresentation, and a calculated attempt to unlawfully benefit from the years of credibility, reputation, and original content BTOES has built.

BTOES

BTOPEX

BTOES

BTOPEX

BTOES Vision: blatantly copied the structure and keywords

• • BTOES site says:
    "We then create inspiring intentionally intimate environments, both in-person and virtual, for meaningful conversations, with the most progressive experts..."

  • BTOPEX (their site) says:
    "Our approach involves curating intimate, intentionally designed environments that facilitate meaningful conversations. Through both in-person and virtual platforms..."

    They blatantly copied the structure and keywords ("intimate environments," "meaningful conversations," "in-person and virtual") almost word for word.

This is classic "thin plagiarism" where they change adjectives or a few verbs but retain 90% of your original intellectual property.

BTOPEX Awards 

The BTOPEX Awards website is a blatant act of plagiarism. Large sections of text, structure, judging processes, and scoring matrices have been directly copied or lightly reworded from the BTOES Awards site.

They have mirrored the homepage layout, event title, dates, location, call-to-action buttons, color scheme, and key messaging — including near-verbatim use of phrases like "Showcase Your Outstanding Achievements."

This is deliberate brand impersonation designed to mislead the market and unlawfully trade off the reputation and credibility of BTOES.

BTOES Awards: Precisely the same wording of the Key Dates

BTOES

BTOPEX

BTOES Awards: Precisely the same wording of the Entry Fee Text 

BTOES

BTOPEX

BTOES Awards: Precise copy of our criteria for judging. Same wording of section headings in the same order.  

BTOES

BTOPEX

BTOES Awards: Precise copy of our scoring matrix criteria

This is a precise copy of our scoring matrix criteria, scoring bands (1–3, 4–6, 7–10). and order of importance. 

BTOES

BTOPEX

BTOES Awards: Precise copy Supporting Materials

BTOES

BTOPEX

BTOES Awards: Theft of Our Unique 50-Word Summary Concept

One of the signature innovations of the BTOES Awards — a concept we pioneered — is the 50-Word Summary for Published Materials.

At BTOES, we created this original concept to extend the visibility and celebration of finalists beyond the ceremony itself. Here's how our unique process works:

• All shortlisted entries are invited to submit a precisely crafted 50-word summary of their project.

• These summaries are featured in the Awards Book Of The Night, distributed at the BTOES Awards ceremony and the global BTOES Summit.

• Post-event, the book is shared with our 1.8 million+ BTOES Insights subscribers, creating unparalleled global exposure for finalists and winners.

This 50-word marketing showcase was designed exclusively by us to provide lasting recognition and brand promotion for every finalist — a completely original innovation in awards marketing.

BTOPEX Fraudulently Copied This Unique Concept

BTOPEX has directly stolen this concept and copied our wording almost line-for-line. BTOPEX made only minor superficial changes (such as inflating the subscriber number slightly) but copied the entire concept, structure, purpose, and marketing model — a blatant case of substantial copying disguised with minimal rewording.

They are now fraudulently presenting this entirely original idea — designed, developed, and launched by BTOES — as if it were their own.

BTOES

BTOPEX

BTOES Awards: Precise copy word for word of our Criteria to join the Judging Panel

BTOES

BTOES Awards: Precise copy (reworded) of our tips for improving your entry

BTOES Awards: Precise copy of our awards pitfulls section

BTOES

BTOPEX

BTOES Awards: Precise copy Terms & Conditions to enter the awards programs. 

BTOES Awards: Precise copy of our benefits of winner 

BTOES

BTOPEX

BTOES Awards: Precise copy the benefits of winning with the same CLICK HERE message

BTOES

BTOPEX

BTOES Sponsorship Call To Action LET'S TALK Banner On Our Sponsorship Page - Copied, Proves Intentional Theft

One of the most distinctive and original elements of the BTOES brand identity is our “LET’S TALK” banner — a unique, simple, and welcoming call to action that has been a signature part of our communication style and website design for years. 

This is intentional brand impersonation, aimed at confusing participants, sponsors, and the broader market into thinking that BTOPEX is affiliated with or identical to BTOES. Not just copying it but putting it on their sponsorship page. 

By replicating our visual design, plagiarizing our text, stealing our framework, and mirroring our event details, BTOPEX is attempting to hijack not only our intellectual property — but also our brand identity, credibility, and nearly two decades of industry trust.

This is full-scale brand theft — and we are taking all necessary legal and public actions to protect the integrity of BTOES and the global community we serve.

BTOES

BTOPEX

Copied and plagiarized from our Proqis/BTOES event calendar:

In the two event listing screenshots,  it is extremely clear that BTOPEX has copied and plagiarized from our Proqis/BTOES event calendar:

• They have directly copied your event titles almost word for word:
  Examples include Enterprise Architecture Live, Digital Process Automation Live, Cultural Transformation Live, RPA Live, Business Transformation and Operational Excellence Global, and others.

• They have copied the structure and format of your event listings:
  Both pages list event titles on the left, and the event format (Virtual Conference, In-Person, Location, etc.) and dates on the right, in exactly the same table style.

• Unique event names you originated are now appearing with minor text tweaks on their fraudulent site — clear evidence of copying with superficial modifications (known legally as derivative plagiarism).

• Even your special branded event concepts like Business Transformation & Operational Excellence (BTOES) have been ripped off and renamed BTOPEX, trying to trade off your brand’s authority and global recognition.

• They even chose the same month and similar event themes (like RPA, Digital Transformation, Cultural Transformation) as your listing — revealing intentional deception rather than independent creation.

BTOPEX’s event schedule is a blatant theft of our original intellectual property. They have stolen our event names, structure, schedule format, and specialized summit concepts and simply made minor cosmetic edits. This is not coincidental; it is systematic fraud, copyright infringement, trademark passing off, brand impersonation, and unfair competition designed to confuse our clients and hijack your market position.

Copied and plagiarized from our Proqis/BTOES event calendar:

The section from Proqis (our site) titled "PARTICIPATE" — with three separate panels "Sponsor/Exhibit," "Request to Speak," and "Media Partner" — has clearly been copied by BTOPEX, just reworded slightly and reformatted.

• Structural Copying:
  Both use three side-by-side blocks focused on exactly the same actions — speaking, sponsoring, and media partnering.

This is clear and deliberate copying of our page design, content intent, with light paraphrasing to try to mask it. It reinforces a broader pattern of fraudulent misrepresentation, passing-off, plagiarism, and brand theft that they are systematically engaging in across their entire site.

Blatant theft of our bespoke brand imagery and signature tint

The header image and orange tint seen on Eimran Kahn’s LinkedIn profile are not generic or publicly available assets — they are part of a bespoke brand identity we created back in 2015. These visuals were professionally developed and have been consistently used across our official platforms, including proqis.com, btoes.com, and btoesawards.com. We have verifiable proof of creation and first use. Eimran has not only copied the exact skyline image used in our banners, but he has also replicated our unique orange brand tint — a key design signature of our identity. This is not an accidental similarity. It is deliberate brand mimicry aimed at reinforcing the illusion of legitimacy by visually associating his fraudulent BTOPEX operation with our trusted, long-established BTOES brand.

See our original brand image on my LinkedIn Profile. 

Blatant theft of our bespoke brand imagery and signature tint

Falsely claiming this is the “19th Edition” of the event, despite it never having taken place before. 

Replicated our original Early Bird promotional graphics, mimicking both design and messaging.

BTOES original design

They are listing speakers who have have not contact with them

See examples below. 

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