Swiss Impact with Banerjis

Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: Sustainable Supply Chain
Guest: Carolina García Arbeláez Global Sustainability and Innovation Director for ABInBev and Co-lead of the 100+ Accelerator.

Carolina García Arbeláez is a leader with over 10 years of experience working for a more equitable and sustainable world . She is a One Young World Ambassador and one of the 88 women around the world chosen for the Homeward Bound leadership program and its Antarctic Expedition in 2019. She is the founder of Still New, a sustainable fashion for children start up. Currently, she works as Global Sustainability and Innovation Director for ABInBev and is the Co-lead of the 100+ Accelerator. She has been working for ABInBev over the past four years in Sustainability at a local, regional and global scale. She graduated as a lawyer from Los Andes University and later from a specialization in Economics from the same university. She is a fellow from the Aspen Institute Early Movers Fellowship. She has published several articles in national and international media. For more than 3 years she worked in WWF in the international climate negotiations (from COP19 to COP22) and in local climate advocacy. She has taught international environmental law courses at Rosario and Externado University. She is the author of the climate change book “Cambio climático: lo que está en juego” and author of the booklets “El Acuerdo de París: así actuará Colombia frente al cambio climático”, among others.

Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: Soil Scout Underground Weather
Guest: Jalmari Talola - Soil Scout CEO and partner

Soil Scout provides the most advanced fully buried underground wireless soil sensor and monitoring solution for professionals in Agriculture, Golf and Sports turf maintenance.

Several golf courses and sports fields worldwide, including such iconic venues as the Wembley Stadiumand Philadelphia Phillies, use Soil Scout to maintain their turf in tip-top shape while reducing maintenance costs and water consumption.

Farmers and agriculture professionals around the world use Soil Scout to understand their fields, optimize soil conditions for better growth and improve crop production, also reducing operational costs and water consumption.

Soil Scout is the first-ever soil sensor system that allows you to place any number of fully buried wireless sensors all across an area, giving you a complete real-time underground weather map to your fingertips. It is the most advanced and cost-efficient soil monitoring solution for professionals in agriculture, golf and sports turf maintenance.

By using Soil Scout, hundreds of farms and other agriculture professionals worldwide become even better in their data-driven agronomy. The system enables learning and controlling of soil conditions for optimized growth, as well as savings in operational costs and inputs. Golf courses and sports fields use Soil Scout to improve turf quality, minimize quality variations, and reduce maintenance costs, chemical usage and water consumption.

The Soil Scout Hydra sensor has the most outstanding battery lifetime on the market – up to 20 years. The maintenance free sensors operate completely autonomously in the ground, which is why once installed, the solution provides you with an unmatched perennial measurement consistency, also leading to a superior cost efficiency over the years.

CEO Jalmari Talola

Jalmari Talola (Master of Engineering in Business Informatics) is a result driven business leader with analytical mindset and tools for driving growth through business development, navigating continuous changeand leading people.

Born and raised on a dairy and cereal farm at Hauho, Southern Finland where Jalmari spent the 20 first years of his life doing various farming activities. High interest in technology led to engineer studies that later on took him working with location technologies; optical, GPS, machine control ja softwares. After finishing his Masters, Jalmari ran the world leading GIS and mapping software provider Esri’s sales operations in Finland.

Now Soil Scout combines Jalmari’s roots in agriculture, technology and management expertise with passion in sports; a perfect fit to build up the next big thing from Finland. CSO Johannes Tiusanen CSO Johannes Tiusanen, (PhD, docent in AgTech (University of Helsinki) ) is a 19th generation farmer , well-known innovator and thought-leader; and a sought-after lecturer in all topics combining agronomy, electronics and soil management. He is the Chief Scientific Officer, co-founder and board member at Soil Scout.

Moving to the family farm at the age of 12, he got a front seat view into his engineer and chemist parents taking over and renovating the farm operations, leading to a voracious process of doing thing even better than before. Their need for better soil monitoring tech, combined to his academic studies lead to the breakthrough science that became the basis and international patent for underground radio communication.

His present focus is on simplifying complicated data, turning invisible agronomic problems into tangible and manageable actions, giving all soil experts the information they need to become better at what they do.

Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: Nature: the most important stakeholder
Guest: Satish Kumar Founder of Schumacher College Connect with Satish through the Resurgence Trust

Peace-pilgrim, life-long activist and former monk, Satish Kumar has been inspiring global change for over 50 years. Aged 9, Satish renounced the world and became a wandering Jain monk. Inspired by Gandhi, he decided at 18 that he could achieve more back in the world and soon undertook a peace-pilgrimage, walking without money from India to America for the cause of nuclear disarmament. Now in his 80s, Satish has devoted his life to campaigning for ecological regeneration, social justice and spiritual fulfillment. An acclaimed author and international speaker, Satish appears regularly on podcasts, radio and television shows. He has been interviewed by Richard Dawkins, Russell Brand and Annie Lennox, appearing as a guest on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, Thought for the Day and Midweek. Satish presented an episode of BBC2' s Natural World documentary series, which was watched by 3.6 million people. Satish's autobiography 'No Destination' sold over 50,000 copies, inspiring change around the world. Through his writing, teaching and international talks, Satish passionately shares visions of the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible. Satish co-founded Schumacher College and founded The Resurgence Trust, an educational charity that seeks to inform and inspire a just future for all. He was the Editor of the charity's changemaking magazine, Resurgence & Ecologist, for over 40 years, making him the UK's longest-serving editor of the same magazine. He continues to serve this publication as Editor Emeritus and by writing for each and every trailblazing issue.

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Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: From Sink to Sea
Guest: Haaziq Kazi
           Founder of Ervis Foundation

Haaziq is 16 years old and is currently studying in Grade X in The Hotchkiss School in Connecticut in the United States. He is passionate about the oceans and tackling the plastic problem afflicting oceans and marine life. He created a ship called Ervis, which is a smart ship that can clean the oceans. He established the Ervis Foundation, wherein he is working with the youth of today to bring a generational change in the way they interact with plastic. The foundation focuses on educational initiatives such as educational workshops on the perils of plastic, and digital platforms which offers an alternative to plastic. The foundation also works with many other movements to bring a change. He regularly speak at various forums, highlighting the perils of the plastic issue plaguing the generation, and my solutions for it. He is also passionate about math, science, computers and arts, and love learning how the world works and asking questions, whether big or small.

The goal of the Sustainable Nation Group is to excel in innovation by building up new analytic capabilities related to climate change transformation. 

We translate the scientific realisations into detailed socioeconomic implications, and assist others in articulating actionable solutions. We provide perspective and implicative detail, and embed risk management into the strategic planning, as well as new analytic capability for governments, companies, investors and individuals to use.

Sirpa Juutinen is a 17 years veteran in charge of sustainability in PwC Finland.
* Member of PwC Global Sustainability Steering Board in 2018-2020
* Board Member of Baltic Sea Action Group
* Chair of Sustainability Council of the Finland Chamber of Commerce.
* Member of Outokumpu ESG Advisory Council
* Member of Equilibrium Sustainable Finance Committee in Singapore.

Mika Aaltonen, PhD in Economics, is an Associate Professor (Foresight & complexity) authoring of 16 books and 100 + articles on foresight, decision-making and societal change with some of the best experts and for some of the most prestigious organisations in the world.
* “Mika Aaltonen is one of the new leaders in strategic thinking and research.” - Tarja Halonen
* Former President of Finland, 2015
* Since the time immemorial, the search for a reliable problem-solving strategy has occupied some of mankind’s finest minds. Mika Aaltonen is one of those minds.” - The Royal Society of Arts Journal, August 2007.

Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: Real News and Action on Climate Change
Guest: Professor Petteri Taalas Secretary-General of the World Meteorological
            Organization

Prof. Petteri Taalas is the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, with its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. He was appointed to serve as Secretary-General in 2015 by the World Meteorological Congress, the supreme body of the Organization. He took up his position in January 2016 for an initial four-year period and was duly re-elected in 2019 by Congress to serve for a second term of four years. Prior to his appointment as WMO Secretary-General, Prof. Taalas was Director General of the Finnish Meteorological Institute. during this period he represented Finland at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He has a PhD in Meteorology from the Department of Physics at the University of Helsinki and is the author of around 50 peer-reviewed papers on satellite technology, global change, climate and atmospheric chemistry as well as numerous other publications and presentations.

The show on how Impactful investments and businesses are helping to implement the 17 UN SDG's worldwide to preserve the world for future generation.

Banerjis have enlightening and in-depth conversations with newsmakers, celebrities, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, project owners, investors, politicians and business leaders and encourage them to act now.

Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: Decarbonizing mobility. How can every car become electric?
Guest: Federico Restrepo Sierra Founder of Energía Vectorial

Entrepreneur and social innovator, Federico has traveled to more than 60 countries. +10 years of experience in sustainability and international development. Founder of Vector Energy, electric mobility StartUp; and Impact Hub Medellín, innovation laboratory for entrepreneurship and Sustainability. Federico is a SocialGood Connector of the United Nations and chosen by DTU and C40 as a high-impact entrepreneur to free the streets of carbon.

Energía Vectorial decarbonizes mobility by converting Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles (ICEV) in Electric Vehicles (EV). With a very simple process we can make any vehicle electric from a VW Beetle to a bus or a truck can now become electric.

The show on how Impactful investments and businesses are helping to implement the 17 UN SDG’s worldwide to preserve the world for future generation.

Banerjis have enlightening and in-depth conversations with newsmakers, celebrities, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, project owners, investors, politicians and business leaders and encourage them to act now.

Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: Your Choice shapes the future
Guest: Bart Van Coppenolle Co-founder and CEO Choice.be
           Philip Vandormael Co-Founder Choice.be

The show on how Impactful investments and businesses are helping to implement the 17 UN SDG’s worldwide to preserve the world for future generation.

Banerjis have enlightening and in-depth conversations with newsmakers, celebrities, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, project owners, investors, politicians and business leaders and encourage them to act now.

Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: The Invisible Economics of Nature
Guest: Pavan Sukhdev Founder & CEO, GIST Ex-President, WWF-International; UNEP Goodwill Ambassador

Pavan Sukhdev is a scientist by education, an international banker by training, and an environmental economist by passion. Years of work in sustainability and the invisible economics of nature led to his appointment to head the United Nations’ “Green Economy Initiative” and to lead the G8+5 study TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity).

Pavan was awarded the McCluskey Fellowship (2011) by Yale University. At Yale, he taught a graduate course on TEEB and wrote his book “Corporation 2020-Transforming Business for Tomorrow’s World”. In this book, he advocates four changes in micro-policy and regulation which can rapidly transform today’s corporation to deliver tomorrow’s green and equitable “economy of permanence”. This led to his ongoing campaign (launched at Rio+20, 2012) on transforming business for tomorrow’s world. Pavan promotes tomorrow’s corporation, “Corporation 2020”, one with positive rather than negative externalities as the engine of tomorrow’s inclusive green economy. As founder and CEO of GIST, which delivers impact valuation and analytics, Pavan works with asset managers, C-suite executives and senior government officials on transition techniques, with an emphasis on metrics for sustainability.

Pavan has served on the boards of Conservation International (CI), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC), and on the TEEB Advisory Board and has won several awards for his work including the Blue Planet Prize (2016) and the Tyler Prize (2020).


The show on how Impactful investments and businesses are helping to implement the 17 UN SDG’s worldwide to preserve the world for future generation.

Banerjis have enlightening and in-depth conversations with newsmakers, celebrities, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, project owners, investors, politicians and business leaders and encourage them to act now.

Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: 1st Step Toward Net-Zero Emissions
Guest: Joshua Campbell, President & CEO of Bridgeway Solutions.

Mr. Campbell is an experienced C-Level executive with an extensive background in the Operations, IT, Telecom, Management, and Business Development areas. He possesses a very unique background and skill set that combines business, operations, and IT expertise and has led several business plans, business development initiatives, start-up projects, new buildout of departments, and revamping of several IT and Operations teams.

His vast experience includes leading technology departments, operation teams, and setting policies & procedures. He played a key role in the initial technical components of a business plan that raised $3MM in startup capital. He also successfully implemented the network infrastructure for a Retail Electric Provider which successfully billed out over $15 million per month. He also assisted with the expansion plans and roadmap for entering new markets. This company eventually sold for $350MM.

Over the past 5 years, Mr. Campbell was asked to guide a publicly traded company through the Chapter 11 process which took just over 18 months to complete. He was successfully able to accomplish this task in a manner in which all stakeholders bought into his exit strategy.

Today, in his capacity as President & CEO of Bridgeway Solutions, he is responsible for ensuring the firm’s long-term stability and liquidity as well as ensuring that the day-to-day operations run smoothly, including implementing both long-term and short-term strategic objectives and key initiatives.

The weekly show on how Impactful investments and businesses are helping to implement the 17 UN SDG’s worldwide to preserve the world for future generation.

Banerjis have enlightening and in-depth conversations with newsmakers, celebrities, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, project owners, investors, politicians and business leaders and encourage them to act now.