Ronak Sutaria
Eminent Speaker
Short CV: Ronak Sutaria is the Founder and CEO of Mumbai-based award-winning ClimateTech startup Respirer Living Sciences. In December 2015, Ronak was amongst the earliest technology researchers to build and deploy the first ever nationwide low-cost air quality sensor network in India. His company specializes in IoT and Big Data powered technologies for urban and rural data-driven Climate Sciences research. Ronak collaborated with India’s foremost research organizations including IIT Kanpur, Microsoft Research India and Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation, in an effort to bring unparalleled scientific rigor to his work.
Focused on building Sustainable Development Goal related technologies using sensor-based IoT and GIS/Big Data Analytics Platforms. He has over 22 years of industry experience - largely focused on product development. He has a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering and M.S. in Computer Science.
Title of Talk 1: Using Climate-focused Technologies (ClimateTech) for tracking & improving air quality
Synopsis: The talk will focus on how we are building indigenous technology for tracking air pollutants (PM2.5, NO2, CO) and green-house gas emissions (CO2 and Methane) to better understand the hyper-local and spatio-temporal sources of our emissions - which in turn are having long-term climatic impact on our living conditions.
Title of Talk 2: Building a revenue generating nationwide sensor-based air quality network.
Synopsis: How is large scale air pollutant and GHG emissions data becoming a part of the SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) led framework for BRSR. What are the implications of such data in the "Green Credits" and "Green Debt Security". What are the implications for polluting industries which are looking to raise equity, debt or mergers. What are the global norms around such reporting.
Title of Talk 3: Building ClimateTech startups in a non-supportive (hostile) regulatory framework in India
Synopsis: What are the challenges while building a startup in a regulated domain such as pollution monitoring. What are the challenges and how are the technology development roadmap navigated when there is little to no support from the largest user of this technology. What are some of the global advances and where is India lacking in its startup developmental efforts. Also, what are some of the advantages that work in favour of early stage startups in this domain. Having a higher barrier of entry tends to work both ways.
Ronak Sutaria
Qualifications: M.S. in Computer Science
Title: Founder & CEO
Affiliation: Respirer Living Sciences
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