India as you know is facing a severe water stress. Industries, in particular, are exposed to massive and imminent water-related risks - such as financial risk, business continuity risk and compliance risk. FluxGen's Sustainable Water Management product AquaGen is a IoT and AI based Water Management system that de-risks Industries from water crisis by helping in Measuring, Monitoring and Reducing water usage. The system is running on the ground with 50+ industrial customers that helps in monitoring and analyzing water consumption, water leakage and excessive water usage for food processing plants, manufacturing plants and campuses. Installation of AquaGen aids in Industries going water positive by reducing water wastage by up to 30% with a vision of saving 1 Billion litres of Water per day!

The session will focus: Introduction to application of IoT and Data science for Climate Tech in general and water management in specific.

What will you learn from this session: You will learn building IoT based system from idea to prototype, to eventually hit the market.

Guest Speaker: Ganesh Shankar

Ganesh is a serial entrepreneur in Sustainability/ ClimateTech space with a career vision towards making Sustainability the default choice for all. He is currently the Founder and CEO of FluxGen Technologies, with a goal of De-Risking Industries from Water Crisis. Previously he Founded a ClimateTech startup called Airprobe.Tech - Drone analytics for solar farm fault inspection, which was acquired by DroneBase, a US based ClimateTech company. He has been with GE Digital Energy, Selco Solar and NextFirst Technologies before embarking on an entrepreneurial journey.

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LinkedIn-https://www.linkedin.com/in/ganesh-shankar

Session hosted by- Vinayak Hegde

Vinayak Hegde currently works as CTO-in-residence at Microsoft for Startups helping startups to scale their tech stacks, teams and products. With over 20 years of experience, Vinayak has built multiple products across different domains such as IoT, large scale networks and large-scale data systems in a variety of individual contributor and senior technical leadership roles. Previously he has worked with Akamai, Inmobi, and Zoomcar.

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LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinayakh/

Session hosted by- Vivek Sridhar

Vivek is a technophile and an Open-Source contributor with around 15 years of experience in the Software Industry and works at Microsoft as Senior Cloud Advocate. In his previous role, he has mentored startups/developers, speaker at conferences/meetups for DigitalOcean as Senior Developer Advocate, Co-Founder / Chief-Architect of NoodleNext Technology. He was also heading DevOps and QA at BlackBuck and was a DevOps Solution Architect at HCL (Australia) in client engagement. Vivek started his career with IBM Rational (India Software Labs) as a Software Developer.

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Twitter - https://twitter.com/vivek_sridhar

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