Rural India chills with us: Sam White at TEDxEMWS

Sam White, along with Sorin Grama, co-founded Promethean Power Systems in 2007. Promethean Power is a thermal battery technology start-up that enables cold-storage of perishable foods where there is unreliable power supply. Today, this revolutionary battery eliminates the need for a diesel generator when chilling milk at villages, something possible only for the first time in India's history. Sam has used his rich network in India to attack deployment challenges by helping Promethean Power seek strategic partners, customers, funding sources and publicity. Sam was also the catalyst for rapid growth and the deployment of new business models and technologies in his previous two start-ups, GetConnected and Smartleaf and recently co-founded Greentown Labs, the largest cleantech incubator space in the US.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

TEDxEMWS is the brave venture into the world of innovation and reflection for members of the ever-evolving education community in Mumbai.

TEDxEMWS was held on the 1st of February 2014. Bringing together the TED philosophy & the IB mission statement, the event aimed to ensure that speakers of various disciplines come together so as to be able to inspire the new generation of leaders into reforming society & ushering in new changes. By bringing together high school students from around Mumbai, the aim of the event is not necessarily to change the views of those present completely but simply open them to the different possibilities that can be explored as speakers build their talks around the theme 'Limitless Paradigms'.

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