January 6th Meetup - Green Drinks Mumbai

This session will begin with a talk by Dr. Prasad Modak (Executive President of Environmental Management Centre LLP, Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) at IL&FS Ltd, Dean of IL&FS Academy for Applied Development). Dr. Modak will give a critical review of sustainability reporting in terms of usefulness. He will address how target audiences can be served and involved better to reach the original goals of reporting in the future, using case studies.

EVENT DETAILS

Date _____Wednesday, 6th January, 2016

Time _____8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Agenda ___20 minute opening talk (by Dr. Modak)

_________ Q&A

_________Networking time

_________Post 10 pm, optional drinks@ ‘The White Owl’

_________Ground floor, Tower 2, One IndiaBulls Centre

Venue____Training Room @ Aditya Birla Finance Limited

_________14th floor

_________One IndiaBulls Centre, Tower 1

_________841, Senapati Bapat Marg, Elphinstone Road,

_________Mumbai - 4000 13

Contact___Pavithra @ + 91 981 9494 182

_________Carolien @ + 91 9619 233 429

_________(Coordinators, Green Drinks Mumbai)

We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday!

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>>About the Talk and the Speaker

WHO READS SUSTAINABIITY REPORTS?

Sustainability reporting provides increased knowledge on the sustainability related efforts taken by a company, but it has not yet changed the behaviour of investors, R&D and product designers and the regulators. The content of sustainability reports is also being questioned in terms of its usefulness. Dr. Modak will highlight these and some of the other concerns in sustainability reporting, examine the emerging trends in reporting and share case studies where sustainability reporting seems to work.

ABOUT PRASAD MODAK

Dr. Modak is Executive President of Environmental Management Centre LLP. He is also Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) at IL&FS Ltd and Dean of IL&FS Academy for Applied Development.

Dr. Modak has worked with almost all key UN, multi-lateral and bi-lateral developmental institutions in the world. Apart from Government of India and various State Governments, Dr. Modak’s advice is sought by Governments of Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Mauritius, Thailand and Vietnam. Dr. Modak has been invited by several international agencies, public bodies, professional journals and Governments to serve as a Jury and a Reviewer. He has authored and executed more than 400 consulting reports and trained more than 6000 professionals across the World.

Prasad Modak is an Alumni of IIT Bombay and holds Doctor of Environmental Engineering from Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok. Dr. Modak was Professor at Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay between 1984-1995. Currently, he is back at IIT Bombay as Professor (Adjunct) at the Centre for Technology Alternatives in Rural Areas.

Visit www.linkedin.com/in/prasadmodak for Dr Modak's detailed profile.

Green Drinks Mumbai - December 2nd meetup

This session, we will start with a short introduction to Green Buildings, followed by the opening talk by Mr. Balasubramanian Viswanathan (Associate Vice President – Technology and Strategic Partnerships at GIBSS - Green India Building Systems and Services). He will introduce innovative technologies to us, like Geothermal cooling systems used by GIBSS, to reduce energy use in buildings. He will also talk about what this type of technology means to residential communities and smart cities.

EVENT DETAILS

Date _____Wednesday, 2^nd December, 2015

Time _____8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Agenda ___>> 10 minute introduction to Green Buildings
_________>> 20 minute opening talk (by Mr. Balasubramanian Viswanathan)
_________>> Debate on a question posed by Mr. Viswanathan to the audience

_________>> Q&A
_________>> Networking time
_________>> Post 10 pm, optional drinks@ ‘The White Owl’
___________ Ground floor, Tower 2, One IndiaBulls Centre
Venue____Training Room @ Aditya Birla Finance Limited
_________14th floor
_________One IndiaBulls Centre, Tower 1
_________841, Senapati Bapat Marg, Elphinstone Road,
_________Mumbai - 4000 13
Contact___Pavithra @ + 91 981 9494 182
_________Carolien @ + 91 9619 233 429
_________(Coordinators, Green Drinks Mumbai)

We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday!

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>>About the Talk and the Speaker

GREEN BUILDINGS & INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY

The session will begin with an introduction to Green Buildings by Pavithra Mohanraj / Carolien Klep. We will discuss what green buildings do and how they are shaping up in India.

Mr.Balasubramanian Viswanathan from GIBSS will then go on to discuss some of the innovative technology being used in green buildings, with a focus on geothermal systems (which have been recognised by bodies such as WWF, MNRE and FICCI). He will share with the group the work done by GIBSS in reducing carbon and water footprint in over 300 buildings across India. 

Mr. Viswanathan will also share case studies of this technology in action and discuss the benefits of deploying this technology in large residential communities and smart cities.

BALASUBRAMANIAN VISWANATHAN

Mr. Balasubramanian Viswanathan is Associate Vice President – Technology and Strategic Partnerships at GIBSS.

Mr. Viswanathan has over 10+ years of experience in high performance building technologies. He has held senior positions in organisations such as Siemens, Trane and Ingersoll Rand in both India and United States and has managed several projects involving Green buildings and renewable technologies like Geothermal systems. He is also one of the thirteen IGSHPA (International Ground Source Heat Pump Association) accredited professionals in all of South East Asia. Mr. Viswanathan holds an Electrical Engineering Degree from Mumbai University and is a member of ASHRAE.

Green Drinks November 4th

Green Drinks November 4th

We are excited to invite you to the next meet-up of the Green Drinks Mumbai chapter - where green business, progressive ideas and entrepreneurship meet in an informal setting.

Opening the session, Mr. Tony Henshaw (Chief Sustainability Officer, Aditya Birla Group) will talk to us about Aditya Birla’s journey towards becoming a sustainable business. He will also discuss the upcoming climate negotiations in Paris (the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference – COP 21) and what they will mean for India.

EVENT DETAILS
Date _____Wednesday, 4th November 2015
Time _____8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Agenda ___>> 20 minute talk (by Mr. Tony Henshaw)
_________>> Q&A
_________>> Networking time
_________>> Post 9:30 pm, optional drinks@ ‘The White Owl’
___________ Ground floor, Tower 2, One IndiaBulls Centre
Venue____Training Room @ Aditya Birla Finance Limited
_________14th floor
_________One IndiaBulls Centre, Tower 1
_________841, Senapati Bapat Marg, Elphinstone Road,
_________Mumbai - 4000 13

Contact___Pavithra @ + 91 981 9494 182
_________Carolien @ + 91 9619 233 429
_________(Coordinators, Green Drinks Mumbai)

We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday!

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 >>About the Talk and the Speaker

Aditya Birla Group’s journey to sustainable business
Mr Tony Henshaw will be talking about Aditya Birla Group’s (ABG) view and efforts on sustainability, their sustainability model and the predictions it makes going forward towards creating sustainable businesses. Inspired by Mr KM Birla’s Sustainability vision, all businesses have established an internal roadmap towards 2017 to achieve their internal sustainability targets in line with international best practices.
Mr Henshaw will also be discussing the upcoming Paris talks taking place under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change that will conclude at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) in December.

About Tony Henshaw
Mr. Henshaw is a seasoned Business and Sustainability professional with more than 27 years of global experience in Sustainability strategy for a low carbon marketplace. He brings along vast expertise in driving sustainability development for leading MNCs and fortune 500 Companies. His earlier assignments include working as CSO with Cemex SA. in Mexico and senior management posts at Transredes SA in Bolivia. Prior to joining the Aditya Birla Group, he worked in India as the Chief Sustainability Officer for the Vedanta Group.

Tony Henshaw is currently Chief Sustainability Officer, Aditya Birla Group. The Group Sustainability cell, headed by Mr Henshaw, is mandated to help formalise and integrate the principles and standards required to develop and enhance sustainable businesses throughout the Aditya Birla Group.

Green Drinks October 7th

We are excited to invite you to the next meet-up of the Green Drinks Mumbai chapter - where green business, progressive ideas and entrepreneurship meet in an informal setting.

Opening the session, Mr. Madhav Pai (Director - India, The WRI Ross Centre for Sustainable Cities) will give a talk around Smart Sustainable Mobility. Mr. Pai will share with us elements of his work pertaining to sustainable transport and urban planning projects within the broader context of enabling sustainable cities.

EVENT DETAILS
Date _____Wednesday, 7th October 2015
Time _____8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Agenda ___>> 20 minute talk (by Mr. Madhav Pai)
 _________>> Q&A
 _________>> Networking time
Venue____Cafe Free India
_________N.M. Joshi Marg, Opposite Deepak Cinema
_________Lower Parel
_________Mumbai - 4000 13
Contact___Pavithra @ + 91 981 9494 182
_________Carolien @ + 91 9619 233 429
_________(Coordinators, Green Drinks Mumbai)

We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday!

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 >>About the Talk and the Speaker

SMART SUSTAINABLE CITIES – MOBILITY

Mr. Pai will share with the group the work of WRI Ross Centre and EMBARQ, that has provided support to 15+ cities on sustainable transport and urban development projects - highlighting notable successes that include iBus in Indore, BIG Bus Network in Bangalore, Raahgiri in Delhi & Gurgaon, Transit Oriented Development in Hubli Dharwad and rickshaw rising.

MADHAV PAI
Mr. Madhav Pai is India Director for the WRI Ross Centre for Sustainable Cities and Director of the EMBARQ India program. Mr. Pai has published extensively in the field of Indian urban transport systems. He is the lead author of "Bus Karo" a guidebook on bus operations and planning. He has over 15+ years’ experience leading, designing and managing urban transport programs and projects in India, Asia and United states. At University of California Berkeley he was involved in shared mobility research assessing impacts of city car share on travel behaviour in the City of San Francisco. Madhav is a Civil Engineer from Mumbai and holds a Master’s Degree in Transport Planning from University of California Berkeley.

September meet up Green Drinks - full house!

Thanks everyone for the fantastic Green Drinks meet up on the 2nd of September - we were at "full house" for the first time at Green Drinks Mumbai, our biggest gathering yet!
We look forward to building on this momentum and bringing you more great speakers in the coming sessions. A big thank you to Anna Warrington for the talk on Forum for the Future's exciting and clearly challenging work. Thanks Joslyn JC and Aditya Birla Group for the great venue. And thanks to all of you who attended - for your participation, wonderful feedback, offers on hosting the next sessions etc. we hope to see you guys at the next session soon.

Green Drinks - September meet-up!

We are excited to invite you to the next meet-up of the Green Drinks Mumbai chapter - where green business, progressive ideas and entrepreneurship meet in an informal setting.

Our session will begin with a talk by Anna Warrington (Director, Forum for the Future - India). Anna will introduce us to the ‘futures’ technique used by Forum for the Future to develop strategy and organisational design that fosters sustainable innovation. She will also showcase the application of these techniques in some of Forum's work with large organisations.

EVENT DETAILS
Date _____Wednesday, 2nd September 2015
Time _____8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Agenda ___>> 20 minute talk (by Anna Warrington)
_________>> Q&A
_________>> Networking time
_________>> Post 9:30 pm, optional drinks @ The White Owl (ground floor, Tower 2, One IndiaBulls Centre)

Venue____Training Room @ Aditya Birla Finance Limited
_________14th floor
_________One IndiaBulls Centre, Tower 1
_________841, Senapati Bapat Marg, Elphinstone Road,
_________Mumbai - 4000 13
Contact___Pavithra @ + 91 981 9494 182

We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday!

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>>About the Talk and the Speaker

THE POWER OF FUTURES
‘If we want to make change, we need to think better. We need keen insight into the systems we’re working with, the ability to anticipate change in order to frame solutions and tools for getting things done under difficult circumstances. But most of all, we need awakened imaginations.’
Alex Steffen, Planetary Futurist, IDEO, Green Futures: The Long View2015

Futures is a powerful set of techniques that enables long term – and sustainable – thinking and planning. It has captured the imagination of senior business and government leaders the world over, and can be a ‘stealth’ way of engaging even the most sceptical of people in creating the world we want to see. It enables core business functions such as strategy, marketing and supply chain to understand their role and make change happen. At Forum for the Future we have been using these techniques for 20 years with global businesses, including the Aditya Birla Group here. This session will give you a flavour of the techniques, how they have been applied and what happened as a result.

ANNA WARRINGTON
Anna is currently Director, Forum India. She leads Forum's work in India as part of our global mission to work in partnership with business, government and other organisations to solve complex sustainability challenges. Her speciality focuses on Sustainable Innovation in Business - working with organisations to foster game changing ideas, build practical yet ambitious pipelines, prototype the future we want to see. She is an expert at applying Futures techniques to enable innovation and in developing strategy and organisational design that fosters sustainable innovation. Anna has had the privilege of working with many of the pioneering organisations in sustainability such as Ecover and Method, AkzoNobel, Bupa, Alliance Boots, BASF, Marks & Spencer, Kimberly-Clark, Kingfisher and Unilever.