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India is the third largest innovation ecosystem in the world. From India's transformational growth in the IT sector to her rapid digitisation, innovation is truly having its moment in India today. However, despite this promising outlook, social innovation continues to face challenges to scale.

Faced by the perennial challenge that the problems for people and planet are running faster than the solutions being created to solve them, social innovation has a critical and lasting role to play in ensuring we break the cycle of creating poor solutions for the poor. In this episode of Decoding Impact, Rathish Balakrishnan and expert guest Manoj Kumar engage in a dialogue on social innovation that is not only helpful to understand the innovation landscape in India today, but to also numerous ideas and examples of what social innovation looks like.

Through this discussion you will get insight into:

• India's innovation landscape

• The mental models for entrepreneurs to succeed

• The architecture needed for social innovation to scale

• How we need to look at unlocking diverse forms of capital from across CSR and Philanthropy

Tune into this latest episode of Decoding Impact today!

Manoj Kumar is the founder of Social Alpha, a multistage innovation curation and venture development platform that has supported over 300 startups under his leadership. Manoj is one of the pioneering forces in India's social innovation landscape, with a wealth of expertise and hands-on experience founding startups.

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Guest: Manoj Kumar

Host: Rathish Balakrishnan

Producer: Meenakshi Iyer

Produced by: Pickle Jar Media

Worldwide, roads are increasingly seeing the presence of electric vehicles (EV) and India is expected to take 30% of the EV market worldwide. However, these tailwinds are attracting many players to the EV ecosystem, from suppliers to customers, to make EVs a reality on the road.

In order to ease the challenges that these stakeholders could face in coming together, Digitial Public Infrastructure could have a key role to play and could help:

• Reduce frictions

• Enable greater customer experience

• Drive better adoption for electrical vehicles in India, especially when it comes to the charging experience

To learn more about India's burgeoning EV market and understand whether the promise of DPI can enable the EV market to solve some of its current challenges, in this episode of Decoding Impact Rathish Balakrishnan is joined by Akhil Jayaprakash, co-founder at Pulse Energy, and Arun Vinayak, co-founder at Exponent Energy. Through this discussion Akhil and Arun share their expertise to help us understand who the key stakeholders are in the EV market, what is the user experience when it comes to EV today in India, and what unification using DPI could look like in the EV market.

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Guest: Akhil Jayaprakash and Arun Vinayak

Host: Rathish Balakrishnan

Producer: Meenakshi Iyer

Produced by: Pickle Jar Media

Chapters

00:00 - Precap

01:30 - Welcome

01:43 - Topic and Guest Intro

03:28 - Akhil & Arun's journey into the EV ecosystem

08:21 - The key players in EV

11:41 - What a vertically integrated stack looks like

12:32 - The EV Market

15:51 - Summarising insights on the EV market & players

17:07- Approaching the new world with an old world mental model

26:36 - Challenges in the charging EVs

30:22 - Access to EV for different vehicles

35:45 - Understanding the user experience of the EV charging infrastructure

41:13 - Moving past the obvious solutions

48:39 - Summary and further understanding of how to solve for charging anxiety

59:10 - Achieving unification through a DPI approach

01:06:58 - Where can unification unlock value

01:10:05 - Imagining the end game

01:16:31 - Wishlist for scaling EV infrastructure in India

01:20:29 - Summary & Thanks

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