Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs, Bay Area (SA&E)and Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs India invite your participation in a dialog on Innovations to Combat Climate Change with industry, academia & philanthropy thought leaders including Stanford Computer Science Prof. Vaughn Pratt, MD of Godrej Industries, Nadir Godrej, MD of The Rockefeller Foundation Deepali Khanna. The dialog will be led by SA&E and SA&E India Co-Presidents Radhika Shah & Paula Mariwala. Entrepreneurs Himanshu Gupta, Climate.AI & Anshuman Bapna, Terra.do will join to share their experiences in building climate-tech solutions.

This conversation is a UN General Assembly week side event in response to the UN call to action DECADE of ACTION to Accelerate Solutions to the Sustainable Development Goals. We will discuss the role of Tech & Financing Innovations, Green Energy Transition & Entrepreneurship in this moment of ‘CODE RED Climate Report’.

Date: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Time: 9:00 - 10:30 AM PST / 9:30 - 11:00 PM IST

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Zoom link for call: https://zoom.us/s/97083951509

Event Co-Convenors

Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs, Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs India, Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs SoCal, Stanford Alumni Start-ups New York with The Sustainable Development Goals Philanthropy Platform, WINGS and BASES

OUR SPEAKERS

Mr. Nadir Godrej - Chairman, Godrej Agrovet, Managing Director, Godrej Industries

Mr. Godrej is a well known industry leader who has been active in developing the animal feed, agricultural inputs, and chemicals businesses of Godrej Industries and associate companies. He is also deeply committed to the ‘Good’ and ‘Green’ strategies and achievement of set targets for the Godrej Group. Listen to his poem on Climate Crisis. Affiliations: CII, Harvard Business School and MIT Alumni Association of India, Stanford University

Ms. Deepali Khanna - Managing Director The Rockefeller Foundation, Asia

Deepali is MD of the Asia Regional Office of The Rockefeller Foundation where she oversees the Foundation’s policy, advocacy, grant-making, and strategic partnerships in Asia. Deepali comes with more than three decades’ experience in the development sector, including with MasterCard Foundation, Plan International, and UNICEF, across Asia and Africa. Read more here.

Prof. Vaughan Pratt - Professor Emeritus, Stanford University

Prof. Pratt is an early pioneer in the field of computer science. He has made several contributions to foundational areas such as search algorithms, sorting algorithms, and primality testing. He contributed in various ways to the early operations and founding of Sun Microsystems. Read his research on climate change here.

Paula Mariwala - Founder and Co-President, SAE, India; Founder, Aureolis Ventures; Board Member at Stanford SEED, Krea University

Paula has been an active part of the Indian startup ecosystem since its beginning in the early 2000s. She is passionate about education, women leadership, and climate & sustainability. She currently manages a portfolio of 35+ global companies, and has been an early investor in Terra.do and BlueSky Analytics.

Radhika Shah - Co-President Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs, Advisor SDG Philanthropy Platform

Radhika is a Tech/Impact Angel investor; Advisor at The Stanford Center for Human Rights & Int. Justice & The Stanford Global Center for Gender Equality, She is on the Board of Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at U.C. Berkeley & Advisor, Illumen Capital Fund of Impact Funds focused on bias reduction.

Anshuman Bapna - Founder, Terra.do

Anshuman is building Terra.do, through which he is shaping a community of investors, operators, designers, and other changemakers to work towards climate change. He is an ex-CPO of Makemytrip and Goibibo, and ex-CEO of Mygola. Affiliations: Stanford University, IIT Bombay

Himanshu Gupta - Founder, Climate.AI

10+ years of experience in Climate Change. Forbes award for contributions to Climate space in India and Arbuckle Award from Stanford University. Lead modeler for the Emission Pathways project for the Emission Pathways project for India. MBA / MS in Climate Change from Stanford.

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