Program
Day 1
24 October 2017
Day 2
25 October 2017
Day 3
26 October 2017
07:00-18:00
Opening Plenary: Welcome Remarks and State of the Sector
Welcome and opening remarks by senior Indian government officials, followed by remarks from the Alliance CEO on the current state of the sector and acceptance of clean cooking as a... Read More
Burzis S Taraporevala
Dr. Yasmin Ali Haque
Hon. Hajia Alima Mahama
Arunabha Ghosh
Reema Nanavaty
Sanjeev Kapoor
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Radha Muthiah
Amitabh Kant
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 - 13:00
Stein Auditorium
Plenary: From Push to Pull: How to Make Clean Cookstoves and Fuels Consumer-Driven Products
Creating demand for clean cooking products at scale is a longstanding challenge within the sector. This plenary panel discussion will examine how companies in the fast-moving goods sector have turned... Read More
Rewasa Nishchal (Moderator)
Harish Anchan
K. G. George
Peter Scott
Daleep Singh Manhas
Munawar Misbah Moin
13:00 - 14:30
Is Aspiration the Name of the Game for Driving Demand? Emerging Evidence from Behavior Change Communication Campaigns
This session will feature a panel of representatives from Alliance-supported behavior change communication campaigns launched in 2017. These interventions are delivering impactful, evidence-based communications aimed at influencing consumer purchasing decisions... Read More
Petra Fitzgerald
Julie Ipe (Moderator)
Adnan Amin
Farhana Islam
Andrew Schirmer
Wawira Nyagah
Disruptive Innovation in Business Models to Make Clean Fuels More Accessible to the Other 3 Billion
A panel discussion emphasizing both the technical and business aspects of disruptive innovations focused on increasing supply, accessibility, and affordability of clean fuels and technologies. Speakers will discuss innovations ranging... Read More
Satish Thatipelli
Eric Reynolds
Joe Obueh
Christina Espinosa
Luc Payen (Moderator)
Sagun Saxena
14:30 - 16:00
Casuarina
Closing the Gap: How Clean Cooking Can Address Time Poverty
Recent studies from McKinsey, Gates, and others suggest that to achieve women’s empowerment and gender equality we must address the unpaid care work burden of women and girls. A significant... Read More
Dev Nathan
Bharati Joshi
Krista Riddley (Moderator)
Allie Glinski
Sheila Oparaocha
14:30 - 16:00
Basement Theatre (BMT)
Improving Air Quality: The Role of Clean Cooking
In many parts of the world, household energy consumption accounts for up to 30% of ambient air pollution. This session will discuss the role that reducing emissions from household air... Read More
Jessica Lewis (Moderator)
Dr. Andy Grieshop
Charity Garland
Prarthana Borah
Arnico Panday
Sarath Guttikunda
India Clean Cooking Forum: Session I –Breaking Free from the “Chulla Trap”: Envisioning Clean Cooking Energy in India in 2020: Practitioners’ Perspectives
In this session, the attempt will be to bring together perspectives of various arms of the clean cooking energy sector. Representatives of electricity, LPG and natural gas as well RE... Read More
Anshuman Lath
P.C. Maithani
Rameshwar Prasad Gupta
K. G. George
Svati Bhogle
Arunabha Ghosh
16:00 - 16:30
Tackling Key Challenges Faced by Multi-Product Last Mile Distribution Businesses
This workshop type session will be facilitated by Practical Action and involve participants working together to identify and dissect best practices (and worst mistakes!) – with a focus on strategies... Read More
Emma Colenbrander (Moderator)
Anya Cherneff (Moderator)
Gaining and Retaining Customers: Lessons Learned from the Sector
In this session, representatives from cookstove and fuel enterprises will discuss their experiences in building their brands and attracting customers, and retaining customers through after-sales service and ongoing engagement. Presenters... Read More
Elisa Derby (Moderator)
David Evitt
Md. Atiqur Rahman Sarker
Ronald van Harten
16:30 - 18:00
Basement Theatre (BMT)
Experiences from the Trenches: Lessons from Female CEOs in the Clean Cooking Sector
Women are the fastest growing cohort of entrepreneurs and business owners in the developing world, and women’s involvement in the sector can spur wider delivery of goods and services. This... Read More
Gifty Baaba Asmah
Soma Dutta (Moderator)
Habiba Ali
Neha Juneja
Betty Ikalany
India Clean Cooking Forum: Session II Creating an Ecosystem for Jointly Working Toward Clean Cooking Energy for All
The session will focus on creating an ecosystem that favours promoting a range of cooking energy options (including various types of stacks) that are clean and effective in the delivery... Read More
Dr. Chandra Shekhar Sinha
Anya Cherneff (Moderator)
18:00 - 21:00
Charminar Area
07:00-17:00
Biogas Roundtable
John Mitchell
Kavanaugh Livingston
07:30 - 09:00
Stein Auditorium
National Alliances Meeting
(Morning Informal) A group discussion among representatives from national alliances to explore how mainstreaming clean cooking can strengthen the sector and help attract low cost investment capital.
TLUD Gasifier Stoves: Review, Highlights, and Discussion
(Morning Informal) This informal discussion will include a discussion on the distinctive features of the TLUD technology, ongoing projects and highlights of new products, and explore past successes and continuing... Read More
Paul Anderson
Women’s Energy Entrepreneurship Breakfast
(Morning Informal) Co-hosted by ENERGIA, wPOWER Hub, and the Alliance, this networking session is targeted toward participants who work in women’s energy entrepreneurship and who are using effective strategies to... Read More
Rachel Mahmud
Multi-Tiered Framework – Update on Next Steps
(Morning Informal) Ensuring universal access to energy (SDG7) includes the facilitation of access to modern cooking energy services. To measure and monitor access to energy, the World Bank (WB) and... Read More
Yabei Zhang
09:00 - 10:30
Stein Auditorium
Raising Seed and Early-Stage Equity from Friends, Family, and Angel Investors
A panel discussion about best practices and pitfalls to avoid when trying to attract early-stage financing from angels, impact investors and other risk capital providers. Panelists will include a cross... Read More
Winnie Odhiambo
Louis Boorstin
Shashank Verma (Moderator)
Laure Vinçotte
Ethan Kay
Neha Juneja
09:00 - 10:30
Basement Theatre (BMT)
Scaling the Sector: How New Actors are Integrating Clean Cooking into their Programming
The cookstoves and fuels sector continues to evolve as a range of new organizations from large international NGOs, to UN agencies, to corporations launch clean cooking initiatives to drive health,... Read More
Bhushan Tuladhar (Moderator)
Van Dinh
Ugan Manandhar
Orode Doherty
Indu Kumari
Designing for Performance, Usability, and Manufacturing
For 100 million households to adopt clean and/or efficient stoves and fuels, the sector requires products that meet users’ cooking needs, have low emissions and high fuel efficiency, and are... Read More
Paul Means
Aart de Heer
Vi Rapp
09:00 - 10:30
Casuarina
India Clean Cooking Practitioner’s Workshop
The India clean cooking session will assess the current state of the Indian clean cooking sector in the context of recent technology developments and policy initiatives. Practitioners, ministry representatives, and other... Read More
South-South Transfer of Knowledge on Clean Cooking: How Governments are Helping Scale the Sector
Clean cooking efforts around the world have evolved considerably over the last few years. South-South cooperation is increasingly critical as we seek to build upon practices and efforts without reinventing... Read More
Helen Mo
Yishui Tian
Rameshwar Prasad Gupta
Dr. Narayan Prasad Adhikari
Ronald van Harten
Asna Towfiq
10:30 - 11:00
Stories of Impact
Speakers (Eric Reynolds and a representative from Tata Trusts) will present a Ted Talk-style presentation on their inspiring and innovative work in the clean cooking sector, followed by a performance... Read More
Eric Reynolds
Rocky Dawuni
12:00 - 13:30
Stein Auditorium
Plenary: Designing Investments to Drive Market Growth – Perspectives from Donors and Investors
This Plenary will include panelists from the donor and private sector investor perspectives who will help explore the dynamics of market creation using grant and concessional capital, with the goal... Read More
Manoj Kumar
Anindya Chowdhury
Marcel Raats
Louis Boorstin
Laure Vinçotte
Jeroen Blüm (Moderator)
Rachel Kyte
13:30 - 14:30
Addressing the Affordability Gap: Innovations in Consumer Financing for Clean Cooking Solutions
A panel discussion involving financial institutions, last-mile distributors, and other relevant parties involved in extending credit to consumers to enable them to purchase products too expensive to purchase outright. The... Read More
Eric Naivasha
Julie Ipe (Moderator)
Fouad Aoun
John Hauge
Jessica Alderman
Market-Based Cooking Interventions in Humanitarian Settings – What are the Conditions for Success?
As the international aid community struggles to cope with record levels of human displacement, more organizations are assessing the viability of market-based approaches – cash transfers, vouchers, carbon financing, revolving... Read More
Kathleen Callaghy (Moderator)
Raffaella Bellanca
Amber Bloomer
Joe Attwood
Christopher Baker-Brian
Doors Wide Shut: How to Attract Debt as an Early Stage Enterprise
This session will address the common conundrum faced by early-stage social enterprises: the challenge in raising equity growth capital, when debt is nearly off-limits until your business is stable and... Read More
Peter Scott
Karthik Chandrasekar
Simmi Sareen
Jeroen Blüm (Moderator)
14:30 - 16:00
Basement Theatre (BMT)
Case Studies on Accelerating Clean Fuels: Lessons from the NIH Implementation Science Network
The National Institutes for Health (NIH) has developed an implementation science network (ISN) to advance our understanding of how to improve the uptake and appropriate use of evidence-based clean cooking... Read More
Precious Benjamin
Ashlinn Quinn (Moderator)
Carlos Gould
Wubshet Tadele
Rob Bailis
Transition Scenarios: Moving Toward Clean Cookstoves and Fuels by 2030
This interactive session will set the stage for a broader discussion among the sector to develop possible transition scenarios for advancing access to clean cookstoves and fuels, building on existing... Read More
Anteneh Dagnachew
Richenda Van Leeuwen
Andries Hof
Anna Ingwe
Kirk Smith
Rohit Khanna
Frank van der Vleuten
Radha Muthiah
16:00 - 16:30
16:30-18:00
Jacaranda II
Creating a shared understanding around adoption: Stakeholders Roundtable organized by Tata Trusts and Nexleaf Analytics
The session will bring together stakeholders to share their understanding of adoption. It will also focus on how different organisations are measuring it and what level of adoption have they achieved based on... Read More
Scaling Markets for Clean Cooking: What Can We Learn from the Off-Grid Solar Sector
The two main uses of energy for base of the pyramid households are electricity and cooking. While businesses that are providing distributed electrification solutions are attracting massive amounts of capital,... Read More
Winnie Odhiambo
Jorund Buen
Christopher Baker-Brian
Myths, Reality, and the Future of Charcoal and Its Environmental Impacts
This session will contribute to the discourse on charcoal and its contribution to forest degradation, offer examples on designing interventions that work within existing charcoal supply chains, and discuss production... Read More
Ugan Manandhar
Jolien Schure
Adrienne Stork
Rob Bailis
16:30 - 18:00
Jacaranda I
Approaches to Evaluating Impacts in the Clean Cooking Sector
This session will provide an overview of techniques for monitoring and evaluating progress on achieving impacts of clean cooking adoption. Topics to be addressed include: approaches to evaluating behavior change... Read More
Anita Sircar
Ajay Pillarisetti
W. Douglas Evans
Allie Glinski
Michael Johnson (Moderator)
Raising the Profile of Your Work via Media and Narrative Story-Telling
Today’s digitally-driven world is full of noise and distractions. And convincing the right people to pay attention to you and your work can often seem impossible. But having a good... Read More
Kip Patrick (Moderator)
Joanna Pinneo
Wawira Nyagah
Alison Abbott
Jessica Alderman
18:00 - 22:00
07:00-12:00
Solar Cooker Performance Evaluation
(Morning Informal) Discuss recent developments in the solar cooking sector, including the new solar cooker Performance Evaluation Process to evaluate the quality of solar cookers in alignment with the ISO/TAG... Read More
Using the Latest Tools to Demonstrate Clean Cooking Social Benefits
(Morning Informal) For the first time, there is a common language for the measurement, analysis, and reporting of social impacts related to clean and efficient cookstoves and fuels – including... Read More
Allie Glinski
Rachel Mahmud
Humanitarian Dialogue: Cooking in Crisis
(Morning Informal) Energy access is a critical and under-served need among the 128 million people in need of humanitarian assistance today, including refugees and internally displaced persons. Most of the food... Read More
Kathleen Callaghy (Moderator)
Presentation and Discussion on Phase 3 of the Alliance’s Market-Enabling Strategy
(Morning Informal) Interested partners can join the Alliance’s CEO Radha Muthiah in a discussion on the third phase of the Alliance’s ten-year and beyond 2020 strategies for the clean cooking... Read More
Kavanaugh Livingston
Radha Muthiah
Breathe Life – Household Air Pollution, Climate and Health Impacts
(Morning Informal) Among the options for reducing black carbon emissions, residential cookstove and fuel interventions offer the highest net benefits per cost. The Climate and Clean Air Coalition is working... Read More
Yekbun Gurgoz
09:00 - 10:30
Stein Auditorium
Plenary: Delivering Large Scale Impact through Policy – Lessons for Governments
While vibrant markets are necessary to scale clean cooking solutions, a strong enabling policy framework and government commitments to addressing the lack of access to clean cooking are also critical... Read More
Dr. Narayan Prasad Adhikari
Siddique Zobair
Anil Kumar Jain
Sheila Oparaocha
Richard Ebong
Stories of Impact
Speakers will present a Ted Talk-style presentation on their inspiring and innovative work in the clean cooking sector.
Carlo Figà Talamanca
Adwoa Sey
Vahid Jahangiri
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 - 13:00
Stein Auditorium
Clean Cooking for Health: Separating the Noise from the Truth
Cooking behaviors are culturally engrained, resource-constrained, and a strong force of habit with a myriad of health consequences. Research on the effectiveness of clean cooking interventions for improving health in... Read More
Michael Peck
Roberto Accinelli
Sola Olopade
Sumi Mehta
Dr. Kwaku Poku Asante
The Role of National Alliances in Building Markets for Clean Cookstoves and Fuels
A panel discussion to explore the best role for national alliance in strengthening local markets for clean cookstoves and fuels and addressing the needs of their member. Conversations will also... Read More
Rianne Teule
Yishui Tian
Omar Masera
Salima Jahan
Precious Onuvae
Svati Bhogle
Myra Mukulu
Sarah Agbey
Siddique Zobair
Rianne Teule
Shifting the Mix: Strategies for Scaling Clean Cooking for Public Health in Nepal
There is increasing momentum to scale clean cooking in Nepal, with active engagement of the government and key stakeholders. Nepal illustrates a unique situation where a mix of biogas, LPG,... Read More
Shekhar Sharma
Amod Pokhrel
Gaurav Singh
Javier Lascurain
PV Solar for Cooking: State of the Technology and How to Address Remaining Barriers
This session will explore the latest technologies and cost-reduction advances in PV solar systems. Panelists will discuss the needed parallel processes for research and piloting in order to design a... Read More
Uma Rajarathnam
Viraj Gada
Simon Batchelor
Amit Kumar
13:00 - 14:30
Alcohol Fuels: Leveraging Lessons from the Past to Bring Alcohol Fuels Closer to Commercialization
Different organizations have tried many different approaches to bring the ethanol cooking fuels towards commercialization. The panel discussion will take a critical look at the past, present and future of... Read More
Thelma Venichand
Prashanth Srinivas
Desalegn Getaneh
Jean-Francois Hibbert
Bienvenu Février Rajaonson
Harry Stokes
Sagun Saxena
John Mitchell
Developing National Roadmaps for Clean Cooking: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach
Developing a comprehensive national clean cooking strategy that reflects the perspectives of all stakeholders—government, private sector, civil society, and donors—is a significant undertaking with many challenges and opportunities. Case studies... Read More
Jean-Robert Altidor
Kwesi Sarpong
14:30 - 16:00
Stein Auditorium
Beyond Carbon: Results-Based Financing to Achieve the SDGs
A panel discussion of interest to project developers, investors, and outcome payers/funders (bilateral, foundation, etc.). Speakers will address successes and challenges related to various results-based finance mechanisms such as the... Read More
Abhishek Goyal
Jesse Ross
Md. Enamul Karim Pavel
Tom Derksen
Tim Reutemann (Moderator)
Claire Dufour
Ruben Walker
Driving Technology Improvement: Standards, Labeling, and Product Selection
Sector stakeholders benefit from a common terminology for evaluating and improving cookstove and fuel performance and adoption. Standards can compare technologies and determine whether they meet user needs and whether... Read More
Ranyee Chiang
Richard Ebong
Paula Edze
Jim Jetter
Closing Plenary: Champions – New and Current Voices in Support of Clean Cooking
Having the right champions in your corner can be the difference between failure and success. Influential supporters can help raise awareness, boost engagement and partnerships, and create opportunities for your... Read More
Samira Bawumia
Nkechi Obi
Ugan Manandhar
Andrew Schirmer
Dr. Ajay Mathur
Forum Closing Session
Svati Bhogle