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September 11 & 12, 2025 | IIT Madras Research Park, Chennai
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Event Sessions

High-Impact Industrial Decarbonization

Bio-Economy for Decarbonization
Energy Efficiency & Digital Solutions
Deep Tech for Net Zero
Translational Research-Academia-Industry Collaboration for Decarbonization

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CLIMAFIX 2025 AGENDA

September 11–12, 2025
IIT Madras Research Park, Chennai
CLIMAFIX 25 will comprise four sessions, each representing a powerful lever for industrial decarbonization. Each session will comprise Expert Insights, Panel Discussions, and Startup Pitches.
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Day 1

Thursday, September 11th
09:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Inauguration & Partner Introduction

10:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Bio Economy For Decarbonization

Bio-based materials, bio-based processes, and other key components of bioeconomy that are driving industrial decarbonization.

Time Theme People
9.30 am - 10.00 am Inaguration & Partner Introduction
10.00 am - 10.15 am Keynote Ashok Jhunjhunwala, IITMRP
10.15 am - 10.35 am Startup Journey - Building a Sustainable Biomass Supply Chain Suhas Baxi - Biofuel Circle
10.35 am - 10.55 am Startup Journey - Cracking the Green Chemicals Code Sivaram Pillai - Proklean Technologies
with Mirik Gogri - Spectrum Impact
10.55 am - 11.15 am Expert Talk - From fossil to forest: Bio-based plastics & Net Zero Sunder Balakrishnan - Natur Tec
with Gayathri Kuppendra Reddy - NOW Ventures
11.15 am - 11.30 am Expert talk - Investing in climate, an international perspective Johnny Karlbetzer - Twynam Investments
11.30 am - 12.00 pm I3 - Industry Investor Insights Moderator: Toine van Megan - Auroville Consulting
Participants: Abhijit Ray - Unitus Capital, Sameer Mehta - Atlas Family Office, Col Monish Ahuja - PRESPL
12.00 pm - 12.30 pm Special Mentions Mentioned are :
Archana Stalin - myHarvestFarms, Mallesh Tigali - CultyVate ,Kern Agarwal - Carbon Loops,Sankaranarayanan - SWMS, Samkalp Pathak - GPS Renewables,
Prabha Nagarajan - Open Water , Shweta Dalmia - Bharat Climate, Vaibhav Anant - Bambrew, Ashwati Ramesh - Value Network Ventures , Desika Prabhakar - DPurpose ,Sowmalya Mukherjee - Tan 90, Ganesh Shankar - SusMafia
12.30 pm - 1.30 pm Impact Pitches - Bio-economy Startups pitches from 7 curated high-impact startups Jury: Karthik Chandrasekar - Sangam Venture, Chandran Krishnan - Campus Angels, Ashita Gupta - Merak Ventures, Sweta Shah - Silver Compass
1.30 pm - 2.00 pm Startup Showcase 12-15 startups related to the bioeconomy will be briefly introduced
2.00 pm - 2.45 pm 🍴 LUNCH
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2:45 PM – 7:00 PM

Energy Efficiency & Digital Solutions

Energy-efficient innovations and digital/AI solutions that are providing high-impact decarbonization impact.

Time Theme People
2.45 pm - 3.00 pm Digital & AI 4 Energy Efficiency Hemalatha Dave - Technip Energies
3.00 pm - 3.20 pm Startup Journey - From emissions to efficiency: The circular path to decarbonization Ashwin KP - Promethean Energy with Siddharth Mehta - SE Ventures
3.20 pm - 3.40 pm Startup Journey - Cooling as a service: Transforming thermal efficiency through innovations Madhusudhan Rapole - Oorja Energy with Satyanarayanan Bansal - Blue Ashva Capital
3.40 pm - 4.00 pm Expert Talk - Energy Efficiency as a service-status and trends Ajit Shah - Yantra Harvest
4.00 pm - 4.45 pm I3 - Industry Investor Insights Moderator: Tina Philip - Accenture
Industry Experts from: Sanjay Kumar - Orbi2aNext, Head Digital Products & AI - Technip Energy, Radhika Chowdhary - Freyr Energy, Arul Shanmugasundaram - Ayana Renewables, Anson Sando - IITMRP
4.45 pm - 5.45 pm IMPACT PITCHES - Energy Efficiency and digitization startup pitches from 7 curated high-impact startups Jury: Rohit Jhunjhunwala - In44 Capital, Alexander Hogeveen Rutter - Third Derivative, Vinod Shankar - Java Capital, Aswani Chaitanya - Capital A
5.45 pm - 6.15 pm Startup Showcase 12-15 Startups in Energy Efficiency & Digital will be quickly introduced
6.15 pm - 7.00 pm
BTDT Session
Insights from folks who had Been There Done That Arun Nagpal - Mrida, Satish Rajagopalan, Venkat Rajaraman - Cygni , Ashish Sethi - Trigen , Priya Selvaraj - Siemens Gamesa, Pashu Gopalan - Fenice, Raghuttama Rao - GDC, IIT Madras, Julian Thomas - Informa Markets, Arun Natarajan - Venture Intelligence, Ramesh M - Business Line
7.00 pm - 9.00 pm 🍽️ DINNER
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Day 2

Friday, September 12th
10:00 AM – 1:45 PM

Deep Tech for NET ZERO

Deep Science and deep engineering technologies and solutions for the following decarbonization domains.

Time Theme People
10.00 am - 10.20 am Introduction & context setting Narasimhan Santhanam - EAI
10.20 am - 10.35 am AI 4 Deep Tech TBD
10.35 am - 10.55 am Startup Journey - Synergies to Accelerate Hydrogen Infrastructure in India Shaji John - Ohmium
with Vishesh Rajaram - Speciale Invest
10.55 am - 11.15 am Expert Talk - Deeptech Innovations for Clean Energy Transition Janani Mittal - Technip
with Shelly Mittal - Chrysalix Venture Capital
11.15 am - 12.00 noon I3 - Industry Investor Insights Moderator: Kushant Uppal - IndusDC
Nat Malupillai - IITMRP, Hardik Bhanushali - SCALE, Tejas Rao - Saint Gobain, Aastha Paliwal - Avaana Capital, Pawan Mehndiratta- Thermax
12.00 pm - 12.30 pm Special Mentions On Stage :
Prasanta Sarkar - NewTrace, Maxson Lewis - Magenta Mobility,
Soundararajan GS - Alldelite, Vikash Chandra - BPL-FTA,
KN Rao - formerly with ACC, Jacob Thekkekara - Sugrah Mobility, Kunal Gour - Bolt.earth,
Visakh Sasikumar - Fyn Mobility, Dinesh Arjun - Raptee, Deepak Rajmohan - GreenPod Labs, Ayshwarya Rajagopal - Climate Collective
12.30 pm - 1.15 pm Deep Tech Startup Pitches from 7 curated high-impact startups Jury: Roopan Aulakh -Pi Ventures, Vishal Katariya - Ankur Capital, Vasu Guruaswamy - Lavni Ventures, Partha Talukder - NOW Venture Studio
1.15 pm - 1.45 pm Startup Showcase About 15 startups in deeptech will be provided quick introduction
1.45 pm - 2.30 pm 🍴 LUNCH
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2:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Translational Research-Academia-Industry Collaboration For Decarbonization

Platforms and pathways by which India's academic and research sectors can partner with industry to accelerate the journey to Net Zero.

Time Theme People
2.30 pm - 2.45 pm Decarbonization Research in Universities: A Reality Check Energy Consortium - IIT Madras
2.45 pm - 3.15 pm Industry Showcase of Decarbonization
Decarbonizing building materials Shailee Goswami - Saint-Gobain R&D
Decarbonizing steel through use of steel scrap Sumit Bhatia - ARS Steel
3.15 pm - 4.00 pm Panel Discussion - What should be the constituents of a platform that can efficiently translate academic research into high-impact implementations? Moderator: Satya Seshadri
Panelists: Mirik Gogri - Spectrum Impact, Ajeya Bandyopadhyay - IFC, Vignesh Nandakumar - Enfinity Global, Indumati Nambi - IITM, Raghuttama Rao- GDC IIT Madras, Nishani Manohar - IITMAA
4.00 pm - 4.15 pm Special Mentions Mentioned are:
TS Giridharan - SSN iFound, Akshay Joshi - NSRCEL, Chintan Antani - IIMA Ventures
4.15 pm - 4.30 pm IITM Showcase of Translational Research IIT Madras Energy Consortium
4.30 pm - 5.00 pm Awards, Summary & Summit Conclusion CLIMAFIX Organizers
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