EBG Leadership Series 2018

EBG in association with Roseate Hotels & Resorts organized its 6th Leadership Series, where our guest speaker was Mr Manoj Kohli,Executive Chairman, SB Energy (Softbank Group). Topic of the session: “Global transformations of Energy and Transport Sectors and their impact on the Indian scenario”. Mr Sudhir Narang, Managing Director, British Telecom and EBG's National Council Member welcomed Mr. Manoj Kohli and he also thanked Mrs Radha Bhatia, Chairperson, Bird Group for hosting the EBG Members at the Roseate Hotel. It was a very interesting session where Mr Kohli took the Members through his experience of starting work with the manufacturing sector moving on to Telecom and now finally working in the Energy and Transport Sector. He said that energy is core to growth and the global transformation of energy from fossil and nuclear energy to renewable energy is happening.This transition will have to be done carefully and will take 20-30 years. He also shared the work being done by SB Energy, SoftBank Group in this sector. SoftBank has built the largest solar plant in Saudi Arabia and have plans to do a project in Africa. He mentioned that the Banking sector is also supporting the energy transformation by bringing down fossil funding to zero and moving up the renewable energy funding. He then shared his thoughts on the transformation in the transport sector and talked about the shift from diesel and CNG vehicles to electric vehicles. Mr Kohli answered some interesting questions from Members. Mr Kush Kapoor, Area General Manager, Roseate Hotels gave the vote of thanks.