Shell E4 Demo Day has passed, but you can watch back the keynote speakers, fireside chats and startup pitches right here:
Join us for this 2-day event and meet ‘industry trailblazers’ tackling the biggest challenges in energy and mobility transition, through innovation and entrepreneurship.
The Shell E4 2021 cohort startups and select alumni will be pitching how they’re influencing the smart energy landscape.
Dive deeper with industry leaders during the live panel discussions by asking your most pressing questions.
Visit the unique startup profiles and click the ‘Contact Startup’ button to leave a virtual business card.
Our world is connected, thriving on affordable and reliable energy supply extracted from carbon-based resources, primarily coal, crude oil, and natural gas. The threat of climate change looms large, and humanity stands at an inflection point with a need to transition to innovative, cleaner, and affordable energy solutions.
Having innovative solutions can help in matching these demands for growth in developing nations and drive the ‘Zero Carbon Emissions’ goal by 2050. The future of energy lies in sustainable solutions emerging from the synergy between governments, industries, scientific research, and digitization. Shell is at the helm of developing and investing in new technologies that contribute to a cleaner energy future.
The Future of Energy event explores groundbreaking ideas that can transform the face of the energy system as we know it.
Nitin Prasad
Chairman of Shell Companies (Shell India)
Harry Brekelmans
Executive Committee Member (Royal Dutch Shell plc and WBCSD)
Vinod Khosla
Founder (Khosla Ventures)
Daniel Jeavons
Vice President Computational Science & Digital Innovation (Shell UK)
Manu Saale
CEO & Managing Director (Mercedes Benz Research & Development India)
Sindhu Gangadharan
Senior Vice President & Managing Director (SAP Labs India)
Uwe Dieter Grebe
Executive Vice President Global Business Development (AVL)
SJR Kutty
Chief Sustainability Officer (TATA Motors)
Emma Lewis
Vice President Downstream Strategy & Portfolio (Shell US)
Nakul Raheja
Country Head Shell Energy (Shell India)
CogniTensor
Noida, India
CogniTensor has created ‘DeepOptics’ - integrated MLOps which provides an automated and standardized development along with deployment in a collaborative workspace which helps in successfully deploying AI/ML projects at speed.
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EmbedSense
Bengaluru, India
EmbedSense is an end-to-end IoT sensors, systems and solutions company with unique energy efficiency and productivity enhancing solutions for the moulding, stamping and allied industries.
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ExactSpace
Bengaluru, India
ExactSpace builds energy-focused AI solutions to assets across the energy value chain to help the organizations in power, oil and gas to improve asset reliability, minimize failures of critical assets, reduce the carbon footprint, and energy wastage in industrial complexes.
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Pradjna
Thiruvananthapuram, India
Provides a machine learning platform to assess and evaluate human professional talents and integrates appropriate sensors and IoT devices to harvest data for efficient Talent Management solutions.
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SpareIt
Bengaluru, India
SpareIt® is thargest multi-sided platform for the Indian automotive aftermarket, which connects the neighborhood garages to distributors and manufacturers through digital business management solutions for better access, logistics, and digital credit.
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XYMA Analytics
Chennai, India
XYMA Analytics provides novel ultrasonic sensors and Industrial-IoT solutions to industries using high temperature processes such as refineries, power plants, steel plants and other manufacturing industries.
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Planys Technologies
Chennai, India
Planys provides intelligent, safe, digital and cost-effective solutions through innovations in marine robotics, non-destructive testing and AI-enabled post-inspection platform in the underwater inspection industry.
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OSSUS Bio
Bengaluru, India
OSSUS Bio is a bioenergy company supplying on-demand hydrogen gas to process industries as an alternative to fossil fuels via the OB HydraCel Device. The device allows the use of the dilute carbon content of industrial effluents as a feedstock for hydrogen gas production, recycling clean water simultaneously.
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Zypp Electric
Gurgaon, India
Zypp Electric is on a mission to solve pollution by making all last mile deliveries go electric with the right EVs, battery swapping infrastructure, IOT, and AI platform while making it sustainable and affordable for businesses of all types including kiranas to large e-retail customers.
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igrenEnergi
Mumbai, India
igrenEnergi offers an intelligent, patented, state of the art battery management system built using advancements in software and hardware to extract higher performance from Lithium-ion batteries.
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LogisticsNow
Mumbai, India
LogisticsNow provides a neutral platform for logistics to organize the logistics industry, optimize operations, time and revenue, focusing on emerging markets with lack of business visibility, utilization and transparency.
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The rising global population and irreversible impact of climate change have made humankind cognizant of the need for innovative and sustainable energy sources to safeguard our future. There is a pressing need to design solutions catering to the increasing commercial demand while meeting sustainability goals.
Emerging technologies and business models aiming for a greener and sustainable ecosystem have made this world ripe with opportunities for individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit. We can see a wave of ingenious energy generation models churning intelligent grid solutions.
The Shell E4 Program brings ideas to life by providing a platform for collaboration and conversation around valuable energy transitions. Those with an enterprising mindset and innovative ideas stand a chance to get access to infrastructure, expertise, and customers to help them accelerate their business growth and technical viability.
Tarun Varma
Vice President Human Resources, Technology (Shell India)
Yuri Sebregts
Executive Vice President Technology & CTO (Shell Netherlands)
Greg Moran
Co-founder & CEO (Zoomcar)
Debanjali Sengupta
General Manager Lubricants (Shell India)
Geert van de Wouw
Vice President Shell Ventures (Shell Netherlands)
Bryan Hassin
Co-founder & CEO (Third Derivative)
Prof. Thomas Astebro
L’Oreal Chair in Entrepreneurship (HEC Paris)
Lathiki Pai
Country Head (Microsoft Ventures India)
Aravind Sanka
Co-founder (Rapido)
Xin Ma
Managing Director Asia Platforms (Total Carbon Neutrality Ventures)
Shyam Menon
Co-founder (Bharat Innovation Fund)
Pratibha Priyadarshini
Vice President Human Resources (Shell India)
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