The Exchange, presented by Hindalco in collaboration with Xynteo, is a platform that brings together eminent leaders from Indian and global corporates, public policy, government, not-for-profits, and entrepreneurs, to solve pivotal challenges towards building a people- and planet-positive future.
Event details
15 – 16 February 2024
Manekshaw Centre, New Delhi
India is already a shining beacon of growth and development in the 21st century. Now, as a leader of Global South our collective voice must be a powerful advocate for people and planet-positive innovation, action, and impact. We know our 2030 ambitions are bold, clear, and inspirational – but ambition will only get us part of the way to the future we seek.
Over the two days, The Exchange builds actionable outcomes within our sectors of focus by leveraging the support and expertise of Xynteo’s partners and those experts present, to foster collaboration and drive meaningful change.
What is Exchange?
The Exchange is a powerful opportunity to build a more sustainable and future-fit India. The programme is designed to bring together business leaders, policy makers, thought leaders and entrepreneurs for perspective shaping conversations, shaping action-orientated solutions, and to accelerate India’s ambitions for an inclusive and planet-positive future. The Exchange will be convened around answering some of the critical topics for India’s accelerated development:
- Tackling shared challenges to future-fit growth through immersive sessions
- Forging new, and reinforce existing, relationships for transformative collaborations
- Generating actionable outcomes that leverage the expertise of like-minded organisations
- Nurturing start-ups and change makers that are innovating for a sustainable and resilient India
Panel discussions
- How business and sustainability can work hand-in-hand towards India@2030
- India’s ‘good growth’ on a global stage
- Ensuring ‘good growth’ through collaborative leadership
- What’s in store for ‘good growth’ in India@2030
- Boosting the building blocks for a more equitable and prosperous India@2030
Fireside chats
- Defining India’s ‘good growth’ vision @ 2030
- Building towards an inclusive 2030
- India@2030: The business logic of sustainability
- How to build a prosperous and sustainable business that lasts over 100 years
- How to find that next big idea towards ‘good growth’, and scale responsibly
Marketplace
A curated experience, showcasing promising ventures that offer commercial solutions for India’s, and indeed the world’s, most pressing challenges.
The Marketplace is a space that enables fostering meaningful opportunities and connections between entrepreneurs, innovators, technologists, change-makers, industry-shapers and investors.
Studios
Curated for diversity of perspectives and to incubate commercially-driven seed concepts for selected problems; participants co-create around ideas, forge unlikely partnerships, and discover how to accelerate impact. Themes for the upcoming Exchange include:
- Plastics and circularity
- Decarbonising the metals and mining sector
- Decarbonising the built environment
Outcomes
Participation
- Over 300 business leaders from across industries, sector and expertise were present at the prestigious Manekshaw Center, New Delhi
- Positive engagement for our social media campaign over the last two months (impressions – 72,652, CTR – 2.31%, engagement rate – 3.05%)
- 30 speakers across industry, ranging from business leaders, policy makers, founder-entrepreneurs and social service
- 10 sessions in the ‘Square’ to hear diverse perspective and insights, covered by CNBC TV 18
- Participation from 25 start-ups at across 4 thematic areas – circularity, healthcare, energy decarbonisation and sustainable livelihoods
- UltraTech, Saint Gobain and Energy Leap showcased their low-carbon innovations
- Discussions on 12 critical and industry-relevant topics across 3 Studios: circularity, build environment and decarbonisation of metals and mining
- 40+ ideas developed across Studios, with next steps already being planned
On the sidelines
- 350 trees planted on behalf our attendees and speakers, in collaboration with Grow-trees, as part of their Trees for Leopards project
- Ultratech and Saint Gobain formally joined the Build Ahead coalition
- Energy leap awarded its first Innovation Challenge Award to clean hydrogen start-up, Suzhiyam Industrial Machines, who are working on a pathbreaking waste to clean hydrogen solution
- The Ease of Doing Business team showcased a miniature of the state-of-the-art EV charging station conceptualised by the National Highways for EV (NHEV)
Communicating impact
- 26L+ impressions on articles shared on moneycontrol.com and CNBCTV18.com
- Multiple media houses (10+) showed interest in attending and covering the Exchange
- CNBC TV18 will be airing the event across three episodes in March
- An amazing portrayal of the possibility of a sustainable future, by a national award-winning sand artist, Manas Sahu
About Our Sponsor
Hindalco Industries Limited is the metals flagship company of the Aditya Birla Group. Along with its subsidiary Novelis, Hindalco is the global leader in flat rolled products and the world’s largest recycler of aluminium.
A US$28 billion metals powerhouse, Hindalco is an industry leader in aluminium and copper. With a global footprint spanning 52 manufacturing units across 10 countries, the company is committed to driving sustainable development through innovative solutions.
Hindalco is ranked the world’s most sustainable aluminium company in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.
