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Eco-Entrepreneurial Journeys Part 2: 8th Dec at 7.30 pm

Name: Eco-Entrepreneurial Journeys Part 2: 8th Dec at 7.30 pm
Start: 2016-12-09T01:00:00+05:30
End: 2016-12-09T04:00:00+05:30
Location: The Barking Deer BrewpubMathuradas Mills Compound, Senapati Bapat Marg, Lower Parel West, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400013

Happened

Friday, 9 December 2016, 1 am - 4 am

The Barking Deer BrewpubMathuradas Mills Compound, Senapati Bapat Marg, Lower Parel West, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400013

Mumbai

About

We are excited to invite you to the second event in the series 'Eco-Entrepreneurial Journeys' on Thursday, 8th December, 7:30 pm @ The Barking Deer Brewpub. In this session, we meet with more stellar entrepreneurs whose work positively impacts the environment. Joining us to discuss various aspects of their challenging entrepreneurial journeys will be: - Rajat Gupta: Founder CEO, TESSOL and - Shriyans Bhandari CEO & Co-founder, GreenSole EVENT DETAILS Date : Thursday, 8th December, 2016 Time : 7:30 p.m. Agenda: 7:30 p.m. to 8:10 p.m. → Speaker presentations 8.10 p.m. to 8.45 p.m. → Discussion and Q&A Post 8:45 p.m. → Optional drinks and networking Venue: The Barking Deer Brewpub, Mumbai (VENUE PARTNER) 1st floor – Jameson Loft, Mathuradas Mill Compound, Senapati Bapat Marg Lower Parel Contact : Pavithra @ + 91 9819494182 Registration for the event is free, but required. (Reservations are on a first-come-first-serve basis). Kindly register here: https://goo.gl/Qu5NLA Read on below for more details on the event, the speakers and Sustainability Nexus. Do join us on our Facebook page to get regular updates on all our exciting plans. We look forward to seeing you at the discussion! Best regards, Organizing team, Sustainability Nexus --------------------- About the Talk and Speakers GreenSole – Step Towards Sustainability Shriyans Bhandari (CEO & Co-founder, GreenSole) will throw light on the environmental impact of making and discarding shoes, and the rationale behind the GreenSole venture, which recycles discarded shoes into comfortable footwear, keeping them away from landfills and providing them to the needy. Shriyans will also take us through the patent regime in India, and GreenSole's successful bid to get patents registered for their work. He will discuss the unique business model GreenSole has developed to achieve significant impact and become a self sustaining venture. About Shriyans: Shriyans has a Master's in Entrepreneurial Leadership from Babson College and is a passionate athlete with more than 100 long distance races till date in India and abroad. He has spoken at various environmental and entrepreneurship forums including the ones at Harvard Kennedy School, Babson College, MIT, Wharton and TEDx Youth WASO, Dubai. Shriyans is passionate about his vision of bridging the social, economic and environmental gap through Greensole and creating an infrastructure, which allows everyone to have the basic necessity of footwear forever. -------------------- TESSOL – Creating sustainable farm to fork cold chain solutions Rajat Gupta (Founder CEO, TESSOL) will discuss the inspiration behind and the development of TESSOL's proprietary PLUGnCHILL technology (fuel-free refrigeration) which provides end to end solutions for a sustainable Agricultural and Pharmaceutical Cold Chain. He will discuss the challenges in development of such a technology in the Indian context as well as how vital funding is for TESSOL and the challenges around obtaining funding. Rajat will also throw light on the cleantech funding landscape and how it has evolved in India over the last three years. About Rajat: Rajat has worked extensively in the energy space across India, Europe and US. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School (2010) and has worked with several early stage startups like 3Tier, Flodesign, Promethean Power. As an entrepreneur-in-residence (2012) at Infuse Ventures, he led their venture creation initiatives with an aim to create and incubate innovations in the cleantech space. He successfully launched the first venture accelerator for cleantech in India. Rajat founded TESSOL with a vision to create a farm to fork cold chain in India. ---------------------- About Sustainability Nexus Sustainability Nexus is a dynamic knowledge-sharing and collaboration platform bringing together Mumbai’s sustainability stakeholders to engage, ideate and work together. Through regular meet-ups and an online platform, we aim to connect and create dialogue between various members of the sustainability community – including sustainability professionals, students, entrepreneurs, NGOs, private organizations, academia, the government and society - to innovate on sustainability challenges, and bring together unique partners to achieve common sustainability goals. The online platform will allow like-minded individuals to brainstorm, liaise and partner on projects with similar objectives and to pick project teams from our highly talented and diverse pool of professionals. Sustainability Nexus is brought to you by the same team that organized and facilitated events under the ‘Green Drinks Mumbai’ banner, and builds on that work to address the imperative need for a comprehensive collaborative network that will act as a one-stop sustainability platform for Mumbai.

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