Social Enterprise Speaker Series at The Hub Bombay
Thursday April 29, 2010 , 3 min Read
The HUB in partnership with Sankalp 2010 (www.sankalpforum.com/Sankalp/index.php) is delighted to invite you to the Social Enterprise Speaker Series, Saturday 1st - Monday 3rd May 2010 @ the HUB
The Speaker Series will showcase inspiring stories from Sankalp 2010 finalists, highlight key learnings from successful social enterprise models from across India, and provide a unique opportunity to connect with social entrepreneurs and changemakers. Each talk will be followed by an interactive discussion with the audience to foster mutual learnings and inspiration.
The Sankalp finalist speakers are:
SATURDAY 1ST MAY
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
* Saloni Malhotra - Desicrew Solutions Pvt Ltd (www.desicrew.in) - Saloni is founder of DesiCrew Solutions and has been nominated for BusinessWeek's Asia's Youngest Entrepreneurs, MTV Youth Icon 2008 and E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year 2008.
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
* Inir Pinheiro - Grassroutes (www.grassroutes.co.in) - Inir founded Grassroutes, an enterprise that aims to improve income generation capacities of rural areas by developing villages as tourist destinations.
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
* Mayank Sekhsaria - GreenLight Planet (www.greenlightplanet.com) - Mayank is the co-founder of Greenlight Planet, a clean-tech social enterprise manufacturing and selling ultra-affordable solar lanterns for the 1.6 billion people who still don't have electricity.
SUNDAY 2ND MAY
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
* Supriya Bhalerao - BooksLine (www.bookslineindia.org/index.html) - Supriya was a professional publisher and regional manager with Wiley Eastern and is founding director of BooksLine - publishing local language books and magazines for the rural poor of Andhra Pradesh.
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
* Madhusudan Agrawal - MAM Movies (www. mammovies.com) - Madhusudan is co founder of MAM Movies, an organsiation engaging youth in creating media for social change.
MONDAY 3RD MAY
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
* Venugopal Suvarna - Vishal Organnix (www.vishalorgannix.com) - Venugopal founded Vishal Organix in 2001 striving to provide quality herbal products at a reasonable price to the common masses.
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* Mayukh Choudhury - D.light Design (www.dlightdesign.com/home_global.php) - Mayukh developed the distribution channel to take clean energy products to the base of the pyramid and lead financing initiatives and MFI partnerships at D.light.
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
* Karon Shaiva - Empaower (www.empaower.com) - Karon is founder of Empaower - a social enterprise that promotes sustainable marketplaces for a better tomorrow.
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* Valli Krishnan - eFarm (www.matchboxsolutions.in/eFarm) - At Matchbox Valli is responsible for operations, business development and finance. eFarm is an initiative of Matchbox Solutions and has created a farm-to-home supply chain platform for procuring and delivering farm based produce in a transparent, economical and efficient manner.
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
* Dhiraj Dolwani - B2R Technologies Pvt. Ltd (www.business2rural.com/B2R_Technologies.htm) - Dhiraj is co founder and CEO of B2R Technologies - working to make a high social impact by generating employment in rural India.
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* Sunil Uplap - Tanclean (www.tanclean.com) - Sunil is founder of Tanclean - putting systems in place to provide clean and safe water sources and storage.
ENTRANCE FEES
* Rs. 250/- per talk (including tea, coffee, refreshments)
* Rs.1,600/- for 3 days (including lunch, tea, coffee, refreshments)
Another HUB-tastic feature at this Speaker Series is our special offer of 25% discount on all membership packages if you sign up on the spot!
Please RSVP specifying which talks you would like to attend at: [email protected] or call us on: 022 3222 0475.
