GUEST LECTURES ON SOCIAL INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY
Venue: PGP Auditorium, IIM Kozhikode Date: Saturday, 8th March 2025
Time: 10 AM - 12 PM
Date: Saturday, 8th March 2025
Time: 2:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Date: Sunday, 9th March 2025
Time: 10 AM - 12 PM
Date: 4th January, 2025
Time: 4 pm to 6 pm
Venue: MDP Auditorium, IIMK
- Panelists:
- Siva Devireddy, Founder of GoCoop
- Jabir Karat, Co-Founder of Green Worms, a circular startup that builds a women's workforce to combat ocean plastics & poverty.
- Aishwarya Jayan, Head of Operations, Backbay India
- Aparna Vinod, Founder, Igloopupa & School of Sustainability
Moderated by Prof. Priya Nair Rajeev, Chair, Center of Excellence for Social Innovation, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode.
Date: 20th October, 2021
Time: 11:00AM to 12:30PM (EDT)
- Topics Covered
- The ways in which technology can help in advancing not only social impact, but also social justice
- The off-tech work required to make technology deliver the impact and justice goals
- The challenges in making technology-based solutions reach the extremely marginalized and excluded groups
- The importance of context developing and deploying ‘appropriate’ technologies
- The role of ecosystem actors such as the funders and government in the development and deployment of technologies for social good
- Short and long term implications of Covid for technology development and adoption
Moderated by Simy Joy, Faculty Fellow, Center of Excellence for Social Innovation, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode. Introduction by Latha Poonamallee, associate professor of management and social innovation & chair of management programs. Remarks by Prof Sridhar Guda, Dean (Executive Education), Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode. Save the date for our next Management & Social Justice Conversation panel on Thursday, November, 4, 2021 at 12:00 PM EDT.

Paul Basil
Co-founder & Partner of Menterra
Paul Basil is co-founder & Partner of Menterra, an impact investment fund.
He is Founder and former CEO of Villgro Innovations Foundation and an Ashoka Fellow.
Paul has also contributed to building the social enterprise eco- system in India through Unconvention, India’s leading conference on innovation and social entrepreneurship;
Villgro fellowship that recruits global mid career professionals to experience social entrepreneurship and the India Chapter of Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs.
A mechanical engineer by training and post-graduate in forestry management, Paul been conferred the Samaj Seva Bhushan Award and the Star Entrepreneur Award.