As part of the Smart Cities Virtual Market Entry Programme – Singapore 2020*, Nordic Innovation House Singapore (NIH-SG) welcomes Nordic smart cities companies to an online introductory session with our programme partners – Asian Development Bank (ADB) Ventures and UNDP Global Centre for Technology, Innovation and Sustainable Development Singapore.
You will learn more about:
- NIH-SG Smart Cities Virtual Market Entry Programme in October 2020
- ADB Ventures and UNDP Smart Cities activities in Southeast Asia
- Smart Cities related network, challenges and opportunities in Singapore
This event is co-organised with NIH-SG core partners from Business Sweden, Innovation Norway, Embassy of Finland, and Promote Iceland.
*The NIH-SG Smart Cities Virtual Programme 2020 is open to Nordic companies only.
Agenda:
15:00 – 15:05
Welcome Address – Sami Jääskeläinen, Community Director, Nordic Innovation House Singapore
15:05 – 15:15
General overview and information about the Nordic Innovation House - Smart Cities Virtual Market Entry Programme in October 2020 – Marcus Kuusinen, Project Manager, Business Sweden
15:15 – 15:45
ADB Ventures presentation by Kunal Upadhyay
Senior Fund Manager, ADB Ventures
15:45 – 16:15
UNDP Global Centre presentation by Bradley Busetto
Director, UNDP Global Centre for Technology, Innovation and Sustainable Development, Singapore
16:15 – 16:30
Q&A
Kunal Upadhyay, Senior Fund Manager
ADB Ventures
Kunal Upadhyay is a senior fund manager for the Asian Development Bank’s impact investing platform ADB Ventures, which aims at backing early-stage cleantech, fintech, and agritech enterprises across South Asia and Southeast Asia. Kunal is co-founder of India’s Bharat Fund, which invests in early-stage deep tech and inclusion-tech ventures. Kunal has also set-up CIIE.CO, one of India’s leading acceleration platforms and early-stage investing platforms, and Infuse Ventures, a sustainability-focused early-stage fund in India with investments in distributed energy, energy efficiency, and agritech.
Bradley Busetto, Director
UNDP Global Centre for Technology, Innovation and Sustainable Development, Singapore
Bradley leads the newly-established UNDP Global Centre for Technology, Innovation and Sustainable Development in Singapore. Bradley is regarded as a pioneer in creating and scaling innovative financing and business models for sustainable development. Bradley set up the UN’s first social venture incubator and impact investment fund, as well the world’s first national SDG Innovation Lab, during his tenure as UN RC/UNDP RR in Armenia (2013 - 2018).