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About

A Top 50 EV business leader in Clean Energy, Kasturi brings 15+ years of executive experience to the stage. She is a serial builder with a passion for all things moving green – From e-mobility to Hydrogen.

She has built multiple 0-to-1 businesses across Asia & Europe at MNCs & startups like Daimler, Flipkart, Ola Electric, and Shell. Kasturi brings a unique blend of corporate leadership and entrepreneurial muscle.

From a wide-eyed researcher in Germany, working on hydrogen trucks to a hustler building India’s first electric tuk-tuk; she has often been the only woman and Asian in the room. Now as the Global Head of Battery Swapping at Shell, she is making the switch to EVs an easier choice.

Her stories are as much about breaking things as they are about building with a purpose.

Having spoken at over 30 events, Kasturi actively collaborates with startups, policymakers, and universities like NUS.

KeyNote

Sustainability is not an option

it will continue to shape how we live and earn our livelihoods. It will irreversibly also shape how our children live.

At the center of sustainability is energy – a highly complex system. It magically glows the bulb in our living rooms and puts food on our tables without showing the endless cogs that lead to it.

That’s why it is way too important for us not to understand and simplify.

In this conversation, we will all be the wide-eyed 5-year-olds. We will learn how to make sense of green businesses. We will learn what it will take to build it – locally and globally.

This will seek something from us – to learn to be builders, to remind ourselves of the joy of building from scratch and the pride of impacting our future.

You, the audience will take away the frame to understand and ideate opportunities. To build them and to do it with diverse, seemingly dysfunctional brilliant teams.

KeyNote Topics

Energy transition, Electric mobility, DE&I

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