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Navigating ESG perspective from Global South ft Marcelo Behar & Kamran Khan
Marcelo Behar, Co-Chair, B20 India Action Council ESG in Business and Vice President – Sustainability & Group Affairs, Natura & Co, Brazil discusses how can adherence to Environment Social and Governance (ESG) benefit businesses across the world and how can harmonizing and standardizing ESG frameworks lead to global economic progress in the current age of sustainability. He is in discussion with Kamran Khan, Member, B20 India Action Council on ESG in Business Managing Director and Head of ESG for Asia Pacific, ESG Centre of Excellence, Deutsche Bank.
During its G20 presidency, how does India plan to address the challenges and seize the opportunities related to ESG principles, definitions and standards across sectors and supply chains?
What steps has the Action Council taken to establish integrative & inclusive standards and principles for ESG in both developed and emerging markets?
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169. India@100: How Tech is Empowering a Billion Dreams ft Ipsita Dasgupta
42:57||Season 1, Ep. 169Ipsita Dasgupta, Senior Vice President and Managing Director for India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka at HP Inc., shares insights on driving go-to-market strategy, business growth priorities, and managing operations across commercial, consumer, and public sector markets.
168. Waste to Worth: Innovations Shaping India's Circular Future ft Prashant Singh
18:38||Season 1, Ep. 168Prashant Singh, Vice Chairman, CII National Committee on Waste to Worth Technologies and Co-Founder & CEO of Blue Planet Environmental Solutions, shares insights on emerging waste technologies, circular economy solutions, and policy-driven opportunities shaping India’s sustainable future.
167. Space Intelligence for a Dynamic Planet ft Awais Ahmed
20:58||Season 1, Ep. 167Awais Ahmed, CEO & Founder of Pixxel, highlights how space intelligence and continuous, multi-sensor Earth observation are helping us understand a dynamic planet, and how combining space-based data with ground and IoT systems, along with collaboration between governments, startups and global agencies, can strengthen India’s role in managing planetary resources.
166. New Frontiers- Shaping India's Orbit through Earth Observation
34:35||Season 1, Ep. 166Suyash Singh, CEO & Co-Founder of GalaxEye, shares how India’s NewSpace ecosystem is transforming Earth Observation through advanced technologies while highlighting major opportunities, challenges, and the role of policy and industry partnerships in shaping a globally competitive EO future for India.
165. Digital Infrastructure and SME Banking in India
28:03||Season 1, Ep. 165Sudarshan Chari, MD & Head of SME Banking at DBS Bank India, discusses how digital infrastructure from Aadhaar to UPI and ONDC is transforming India’s MSMEs and shaping a more efficient, personalised future for SME banking.
164. Ideas to Impact: Building Collaborative Excellence in Indian R&D
18:38||Season 1, Ep. 164Aniket S Gandhi, Head of R&D, Strategy & Operations, and Site Leader for Unilever’s Mumbai R&D Centre shares how industry–academia partnerships, startups and policy shifts can accelerate India’s rise as a global R&D powerhouse.
163. Dignity, Identity and the Social Lens of Ageing ft Neena Gupta
15:47||Season 1, Ep. 163Tune in as Neena Gupta, Ambassador for the CII Committee on Senior Care & renowned actor, shares how societal attitudes and expectations around ageing impact seniors’ dignity, autonomy, and emotional wellbeing, while focusing on the shifts needed to support them better.
162. Air Quality Management: Businesses Leading the Clean Air Movement ft Dmitry Trubitsyn & Ashwini K Channan
14:23||Season 1, Ep. 162Dmitry Trubitsyn, Founder, Airvoice and Ashwini K Channan, CEO, Airvoice explore how scalable technology, cross-sector partnerships and a clear vision can turn clean air from an aspiration into a reality.
161. Industry-Academia Partnerships Powering India’s R&D Ecosystem ft Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao
35:47||Season 1, Ep. 161Listen to Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao, Group Vice Chancellor, Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani, share insights on how industry–academia partnerships can power India’s R&D ecosystem, driving innovation, building a future-ready workforce, and strengthening the country’s position as a global research and innovation hub.