Why You Should Attend VCCircle Cleantech Investment Summit

Why You Should Attend VCCircle Cleantech Investment Summit

By TEAM VCC

  • 24 Jan 2011

Are you geared to leverage the opportunities in India’s cleantech space? Do you want to know about the hot investment trends and sectors that are catching eyeballs in cleantech? Do you want to easily navigate the global and domestic maze of regulatory framework and protocols? Do you want to know what investors are looking for in startups to growth enterprises in the cleantech space?

The first-ever VCCircle Cleantech Investment Summit 2011, slated to be held on January 27 in New Delhi, promises to shed light on all this and much more. With over two dozen speakers, drawn from the investment and entrepreneurial community, the summit is designed to offer an end-to-end perspective on some of the key trends and projections of this sector.

In eight hours flat, the Summit will cover a range of happening cleantech sectors such as energy, water, waste, technology, mobility which would be punctuated by knowledge sessions and case studies. Here is how the conference day has been structured:-

Keynote Address I: The New Paradigms In Cleantech Investing (Scope, Outlook and Investment Potential) by Raja Parthasarathy - MD, IDFC Private Equity

Session I: The Big MegaWatt Question: Is Green Energy, The Most Visible Growth Driver In The Cleantech Space, Scalable Or Is It A Fringe Play?

Anand Prakash, MD, FE Clean Energy

Kamlesh Tejwani, CEO, All Green Energy

Sunil Jain, COO, Green Infra

S.K Sharma, MD, SBA Hydro & Renewable Energy

Gaurav Malik, MD, Olympus Capital

Ritika Goel, Senior Energy and Climate Policy Adviser, DFID

Keynote Address II: The Green Route To Markets

T. Shivaraman - Vice Chairman, Orient Green Power 

VCCircle Redhot: Solar Power

What are the underlying entrepreneurial and investment opportunities in this space? Is solar going to be a dominant source of power in India?

Kuljit Singh - Partner, Ernst & Young

Inderpreet Wadhwa - Founder, Azure Power

Alan Rosling - Chairman, Kiran Energy

Jonathan Winer - MD, Nereus Capital

Ashish Jain - Vice President, Corporate Strategy, Moser Baer

Session II: Technology Interventions Leading The Way

How energy efficiency driven by Information & Communication Technology (ICT) will become significant? How to make available technology which is low cost and scalable? Is there an appetite for heavy IP driven technologies which require a long gestation period?

Vinod Kala - Emergent Ventures

Mohan S Iyer - MD, Unidyne

Vivek Tandon - MD, Aloe Private Equity

Reji Kumar Pillai - General Partner, Magnetar Venture

Anjan Mukherjee - MD, HyCa Technologies

Session III: Water & Waste. Will they be growth drivers for cleantech investing going forward?

Vivek Mehra - MD, Sustainable Investment Banking, Yes Bank (Moderator)

S.Suthakar - MD, Aqua Designs India Private Limited

H. B. Singh - MD, Hydroair Tectonics

Samir Tuli - Director, Paramount Ltd

Aamir Jariwala - Head-Strategy & Investor’s Relations, SPML Infra Ltd

Keynote Address III: The Carbon Quotient

How to transition to low carbon economy? How to mine the Rs 28,000-crore opportunity? How is India placed in the global CDM landscape? What does it mean to invest in carbon as a PE strategy?

Vishwajit Dahanukar - MD, Managing Emissions

Session IV: Clean Mobility Solutions

Is India Ready To Drive Green Cars & Bikes? Increasing role of cheap, utility scale energy storage. Biofuels: Is it the way forward?

Mohanjit Jolly, Executive Director, DFJ India

Bhaskar Chalasani - CEO & MD, Naturol BioEnergy Ltd.

Tara S Ganguly - Chairman & CEO, Tara International

To make the most of the investible opportunities and winning business models in the cleantech space, mark your presence at the VCCircle Cleantech Investment Summit 2011 on January 27, 2010 at ITC Sheraton in New Delhi. To register and know more, .