Venture Center is delighted to announce the
Dr. R. A. Mashelkar Endowment Lecture on “Renewable Oil & Gas: How Climate and Energy Security Are Shaping Its Future – and What It Means for All of Us.”
Join us for a thought-provoking session for scientists, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders exploring how the transition to renewable energy, evolving climate goals, and bio-based innovations are reshaping the future of oil and gas and driving the circular economy forward.
Organized By : CoE for Clean Energy & Green Hydrogen, Venture Center & Polymer Science and Engineering Division, CSIR–NCL
Supported By : NCL Research Foundation, Venture Center and ABLE (Association of Biotech Led Enterprises)
Why You Should Attend ?
Gain insights into the global shift towards renewable energy, the interplay between climate goals and energy security, and how bio-based innovations are redefining the future of oil and gas, opening new opportunities in the bioenergy and circular economy sectors.
Keynote Speaker : Mainak Chakraborty ( Co-founder & CEO, GPS Renewables Pvt. Ltd.)
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Co-founder and CEO of GPS Renewables, India’s leading biofuels technology firm and the world’s largest biogas engineering company
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A first-generation entrepreneur who scaled GPS Renewables from small biogas units to world-class CBG facilities, including Asia’s largest waste-to-CBG plant in Indore
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Leading India’s CBG revolution through joint ventures with IOCL and BPCL, and expanding into Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)
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Under his leadership, GPS Renewables became one of the few Indian startups to surpass ₹1000 crore in revenue while staying consistently profitable
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Holds an MBA from IIM Bangalore and a B.Tech. from NIT Calicut
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Recognized among India’s Top Innovators Under 35 by the MIT Technology Review
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Serves on National Bioenergy Committees under MNRE and MoEF&CC, and acts as an Expert Reviewer for BIRAC.
Speaker : Shriram Raghavan, Ph.D. (Member – Governing Body, ABLE)
- Executive Council Member, ABLE, with 30+ years of experience building six biotech startups across 28 countries
- SVP, Jananom - India’s first Synthetic Biology-as-a-Service company
- Co-founder, Elive Bio Inc (USA) for deep-space biotech innovations
- Mentor to 60+ startups and advisor to leading biotech incubators including Golden Jubilee Biotech Park, KIIT-TBI, and RCB-BSC
- Holds a Ph.D. in Computational Systems Biology, MBA in International Business, and certification from Harvard Business School.
The talk is free for all, but registration is mandatory
Please Note :
- Organizers reserve the right to accept or refuse or delay registrations so to optimize the composition of the group and hence maximize learning for all participants
- The talk will be conducted in In-person mode at CSIR-NCL
- Only registered participants will be allowed to participate in the event
- Email invitations will be shared with participants closer to the date of the event.
For event related queries please reach out to :
Manish Gore | +91-7410045657 (WhatsApp) | manish.gore@venturecenter.co.
We look forward to your presence and lively participation !