Swiss Impact with Banerjis

Host: Sveta and Ben Banerjee

Topic: What happened in Geneva?

 

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.

Host: Ben Banerjee & Svetlana Banerjee

Topic: How Impact Investment can fight Plastic Pollution?

Special Guests: John Duncan Initiative Lead: No Plastics in Nature, WWF International

 

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.ç

John Duncan is the Initiative Lead for WWF’s No Plastics in Nature Initiative which brings together a diverse team of people from WWF offices working on solutions to one of the most complex challenges facing our oceans today. He holds an MBA and an MSC in Environmental Science and Policy and has over a decade of experience working across diverse value chains to develop effective multi-level, multi-actor sustainability approaches. With a background in marine biology, and an interest in sustainability transitions, he previously led WWF South Africa’s Marine Programme, where he worked on a broad range of areas, ranging from plastic pollution to sustainable seafood and marine spatial planning. He has previously held a seat on the Marine Stewardship Council’s developing world working group and is a current member of the Advisory Board for the World Economic Forum’s Global Plastic Action Partnership (GPAP).

Host: Ben Banerjee & Svetlana Banerjee

Topic: How Passion turns to successful Business

Special Guests:

• Karin Fuchs-Häseli, Founder and CEO of Sunhearts Business Leaders
• Franziska Mesche, Founder and CEO of Tripulse

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.

Franziska Mesche is the founder and CEO of Tripulse, a new Swedish sustainable activewear brand with the mission to create natural performance apparel that is free from harmful plastic, toxins and is ethically produced.

Her passion for sports, sustainability and health and her drive to make a positive impact in the world made her start Tripulse in 2019.

Prior to starting her entrepreneurial journey, she worked in tech and management consulting, and held various voluntary positions in NGOs with a social and environmental cause.

Host: Ben Banerjee & Svetlana Banerjee

Topic: “How do we make ageing better"

Special Guests: Dr. Amer Fasihi, CEO and Founder at Kraydel

 

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.

Amer is CEO and co-founder at Kraydel. He has worked in life sciences for over 20 years; at GlaxoSmithKline, IQVia (formerly IMS Health), and IBM, after which he founded Caros Connect (which merged with Kraydel). He studied Physics, and Biotechnology at Imperial College, has a PhD from Cranfield University in remote sensing, and is a Fellow at the Centre for Digital Innovation, Cambridge University.

 

Company outline

Founded in 2016, Kraydel aims to address social isolation and support independence for our Users. Our system is unique in that it combines social connectivity through easy TV-video calling with remote monitoring, through a broad IoT platform for health and environmental sensors and devices, that together support User independence and wellbeing. Kraydel is headquartered in Belfast, with offices in London.

 

 

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Learn about the globally accepted definition of impact investing, what are the important features for an impact company and how to impact investing is related to sustainable development goals.

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Host - Sveta and Ben Banerjee

Topic: How is Impact Investment in the world of AI and Crypto

Special Guests: Jason Hsu

Chapters:

0:00 Intro

1:32 Opening remarks

7:40 Jason Hsu's bio

How is Impact Investment in Taiwan

11:47 Family Offices and Impact Investment

14:05 Taiwan's role at promoting Impact Investment

17:03 President Tsai Ing-wen and Impact Investment

19:15 High Tech industry's focus on Impact Investment

Artificial Intelligence

22:40 Impact Investment's role on Artificial Intelligence

26:42 Why AI can be used for Impact Investment?

31:00 Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

37:09 Q/A: Thoughts on decentralized banking system

Impact Investment in the New Economy going forward

39:35 Cryptocurrency regulations

44:31 Q/A: Are you invest in cryptocurrency?

45:23 Digital currencies and central banks

50:02 Illegal business in the crypto sector

52:50 Call to action

56:09 Closing remarks

57:07 Outro

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.

Jason Hsu currently is Chief Initiative Officer at Taiwan AI Labs. With this role he is responsible for creating public awareness on AI bias, ethics, development and regulations. Taiwan AI Labs is a non-profit foundation that focuses on building AI solutions for advancing humanity. From 2016 to 2020 he served as Legislator At-Large in Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan (national parliament) overseeing technology policy, development, entrepreneurship and innovation. Among the crucial legislations that he authors and sponsors include FinTech Regulatory Sandbox Act, Selfdriving Vehicles Act, Angel Investment Law, Cybersecurity Management Act and Virtual Currency Guidelines (Security Token Offerings), Artificial Intelligence Development Act, Digital Economy Principle Act, Same Sex Marriage Act. Jason is a proponent for cryptocurrency and blockchain. Known as Crypto Congressman, Jason is credited for setting up Asia Blockchain Alliance (ABA),Taiwan Parliamentary Coalition for Blockchain(TPCB) and Self-Regulatory Organization(SRO). Legislator Hsu is in charge of setting up Council on AI, Law and Ethics. Concerning impact investment, Legislator Hsu amended Corporation Law to include Beneficial Cooperation and allow Impact Investment. Legislator Hsu also founded Indo-Pacific Cybersecurity Alliance under auspices of US State Department’s Global Training Framework Workshop with ICT Ministers from 15 countries. In 2019 Jason Hsu led Taiwan’s parliament with bipartisan effort to pass same sex marriage law, which is the first in Asia.

A regular keynote speaker on blockchain and cryptocurrency regulations, Jason has spoken at Global Blockchain Forum, BlockCity, Seamless Asia, World Economic Forum (WEF) Center for Industry 4.0, Google, G20 Summit in Osaka, Berkeley Blockchain Club and Taiwan RegTech Conference, Asia Leadership Summit, World Knowledge Forum, Harvard Law School’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet, Yale’s Jackson Institute of Global Affairs. Jason is a founding member of Global Blockchain Policy Council.

Jason Hsu co-founded TEDxTaipei in 2009 and served as TEDx senior ambassador to Asia from 2011~2015. Hsu graduates from Singularity University’s executive program with a focus on exponential technology. He is a Draper Hills Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Democracy Development and Rule of Law(CDDRL). He’s also selected as an IVLP (International Visitor Leadership Program) fellow by U.S. State Department in 2019. He is invited as a Senior Fellow at Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School in 2022.

Host - Sveta and Ben Banerjee

Topic: How do we turn Poverty into Opportunity Special

Guests: Reto Möhr Managing Director of Enabling Microfinance AG (EMF)

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.

Reto Möhr is Managing Director of Enabling Microfinance AG (EMF), an independent provider of microloans in Liechtenstein and responsible for client management. Reto has over 20 years of experience in the financial industry and has been involved in impact investing for over 10 years in various management positions at banks and asset managers. He is the EMF representative in the Association of Charitable Foundations and Trusts in Liechtenstein. Reto is very committed to a sustainable financial centre in the Principality of Liechtenstein.

Enabling Microfinance "EMF" has been an independent provider of microloans for over 12 years with the vision to catalyse access to capital where it is needed most and to promote financial inclusion to people in developing economies currently overlooked by the financial system. EMF is fully owned by the Charitable Enabling Microfinance Foundation. To date, EMF has reached over 6 million people and helped them to build a sustainable Livelihood for themselves and their families.

Host - Sveta and Ben Banerjee Topic: Are we on track?

Special Guests:

Jan Peter Balkenende Prime Minister of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (2002-2010), Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Member of the Club de Madrid, External Senior Advisor to EY, Associate Partner at Hague Corporate Affairs, Chairman Dutch Sustainable Growth Coalition, Chairman Noaber Foundation

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.

Professor Jan Peter Balkenende was Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 2002 to 2010. During 2011-2016, Balkenende worked as Partner at EY on corporate responsibility and international affairs. Since 2016, he is External Senior Advisor to EY and since May 2021 Associate Partner at Hague Corporate Affairs as well. Balkenende chairs the Dutch Sustainable Growth Coalition, the New Mobility Foundation (International) and the Noaber Foundation. Balkenende is Professor of Governance, Institutions and Internationalisation at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Member of the World Leadership Alliance - Club de Madrid.