SAHAY 2020

About Sahay SAHAY is one day summit organised by Vikasana, IIMB’s student-run social impact club, that includes luminary talks, panel discussion, and networking sessions. The aim is to bring together a diverse group of people from sectors such as health, education, energy, environment, sports, women & child development, and rural development to enable sharing of ideas, and relevant stories in the sector. Theme for Sahay 2020 ‘Reimagining the Indian development story through leadership, innovation and impact measurement’ Leading reports from the likes of World Economic Forum and Oxfam have indicated that India has a lot to improve upon in areas of education, poverty, health etc. despite a significant increase in funds, number of NGOs, and social entrepreneurs in the development sector. To leverage the opportunities presented by the increase in investment, innovations, and players effectively, there is a need for leadership that can help build sustainable and scalable organisations through strategic thinking, planning, change management etc. This in turn would help drive impactful development which needs to be based upon measurable metrics. This year’s theme investigates how the interplay of leadership, innovations and impact measurement can effectively translate into a transformative India development story. Schedule for the day

Sr. No. Events Timings 1 Inauguration 10:00 -10:15 2 Speaker session - 1 10:15 – 10:45 3 Speaker session - 2 10:45 – 11:15 4 Tea break 11:15 – 11:30 5 Panel discussion 11:30 – 12:30 6 Lunch Break 12:30 – 1:30 7 Investor Start-up networking session 1:30 – 3:00

Smita Ramakrishna: Founder – Rang De

Rang De, India’s first online micro-lending platform, enables individuals lend money to low-income households in the country. Set up by Ram NK and Smita Ram in 2006, Rang De has helped hundreds of low-income entrepreneurs finding their working capital needs. The operations are simple: any individuals can participate in microcredit by lending as little as Rs 100 by simply registering online and choosing a borrower of one’s choice.

Speaker Session – 1 (10:15AM to 10.45AM)

Speaker Session – 2 (10:45AM to 11.15AM)

Srikrishna Murthy: CEO – SATTVA Consulting

Sattva offers strategic and technical consultancy services to non-profit organizations to structure and scale them and to companies, to devise their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes. Krishna looks at the overall growth and strategic direction of Sattva. He has worked with senior management teams of leading non-profits, social enterprises, corporate and funders to make their social impact initiatives sustainable and scalable.

Srikanth Prabhu: Portfolio and Innovation at Social Alpha

Social Alpha is the ‘ecosystem architecture’ created by the ‘Foundation for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship’ to nurture start-up teams through their lab to market journey. It is an initiative supported by the ‘Tata Trusts’, to promote socially relevant innovations and entrepreneurship with a mission to create impact.

Kevin Houston: Co-founder and Partner, Carbon Masters

Carbon Masters was established in 2009 and has since worked with a wide range of organisations in both the public and private sector to help them take steps to reduce their carbon emissions. Since January 2010, Kevin has been advising the European Commission (EC) in Brussels as an independent expert.

Panel Discussion (11.30 AM to 12.30 AM)

Divya Tiwari: CEO, Saahas

An environmentalist working on developing and implementing sustainable solutions around circular economy with a focus on waste reduction and management, Divya is a thought leader in the area of Operations Management with a PhD in Supply Chain Optimization from IIM Bangalore and wide industry exposure in different sectors such as FMCG, Industrial, Life Sciences, Environment, IT and Hospitality. She has previously worked with HP and IBM.

Bobbymon George: Head, Assessments, Sattva Consulting

He has delivered evaluation assignments across sectors and with key CSR accounts such as ABG, JPMorgan, ACC, Philips, L&T Infotech, L&T Financial Services, Dell and Fidelity. He comes with over 13 years of experience in the development sector, across programme design, implementation and Monitoring and Evaluation.

Investor Speed-Dating Session (1.30 PM to 3.00 PM)

Nagaraja Prakasam: Angel Investor, Mentor, Fund Advisor

Nagaraja Prakasam is a versatile and passionate leader with 27 years of global experience (decade in the USA, rest in India). As a full time lead angel investor, lead 15 deals, invested in 22 start-ups, serves 13 boards, seen 6 exits, 2 write-offs. Spearheaded Impact thinking in Indian Angel Network and co-founded IAN Impact.

Shankha Lahiri: Analyst, Villgro

Villgro was founded in 2001 by PAUL BASIL with the mission of incubating early-stage, innovative businesses and has since worked in discovering thousands of innovations and innovators, and incubated over 200 businesses.

Karan Bindal: Director, Brownleaf Ventures

The organization support the talent of budding entrepreneurs, create the right ecosystem, impart knowledge, support and mentor clients to accelerate growth and revenues at speed. Karan has been passionate about entrepreneurship and creating successful stories by helping, mentoring and strategic alliances with other budding entrepreneurs.

Shreyansh Singhal, Investment Associate, Ankur Capital

Shreyansh works on Early Stage Deals in the Investment Team at Ankur Capital. They are looking for innovative business models that can address core challenges in agritech, food, healthcare, skill development and education among others.

Our Previous Speakers

• Dr Kalpana Gopalan, Additional Chief Secretary, Youth Empowerment & Sports Department, Government of Karnataka

• Mr. Muralidhar Pundla, Director - Process Excellence, Akshaya Patra Foundation

• Mr. Nagaraja Prakasam, Angel Investor & Mentor at NSRCEL at IIM Bangalore

• Mr. Cherian Thomas, CEO, World Vision • Mr. Ashutosh Kumar, Executive Director of Jagriti Yatra • Mr. Shankar Maruwada, Co-Founder of EkStep • Mr. Ashwin Mahesh, Co-Founder of Mapunity • Mr. Harsha Lal, Executive Vice President, Rural Shores • Mr. Mukund BS, Co-Founder of ReNewIT • Mr. Parneet Soni, Portfolio and Innovation team, Social Alpha • Mr. Sekhar Prabhakar, Managing Director, Hasiru Dala Innovations Pvt Ltd