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White Paper on Smart Cities and Startups – Innovation in Policy and Practice

Author: Centre For Entrepreneurship, Ashoka University

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Ashoka ChangeMakers Radio

Ashoka ChangeMakers Radio started out as a Research Practicum project conducted by an MLS student at the Centre. The theme of the first season of the podcast was ‘Passion, Pandemic, and Pivot’ with an aim of indulging in conversations with entrepreneurs from various fields and understanding their adaptive strategies of working during the lockdown. The main agenda was to cover the functions during the pandemic for the business owners that were invited to the podcast. 

This guests for the 6 episodes were: 

Shreya Soni– Founder of Delhi Secret Supper Club (DSSC) that offers experiential dining and networking 

Pooja Dhingra– Founder of Le 15 Patisserie, a bakery chain 

Dhruv Singh – Founder of Pagal Haina Records, a record label

Rushil Mohan– Founder of Pidge, a personal delivery service) 

Sameer Ramesh – Founder of My Captain, an online education platform with live online classes 

Vishal Punjabi– Founder of The Wedding Filmer that offers wedding filming and videography

The Season 2 of Ashoka ChangeMakers Radio has been themed ‘Pride, Diversity, and Innovation’ and captures some candid conversations with social entrepreneurs who have been a part of the Innovations Marketplace for Gender Equality, a one of its kind incubation program by the Centre in partnership with UNDP in India. The motive of these conversations was to understand the social impact these entrepreneurs are trying to reate, their journey, motivation, and struggles. These conversations were hosted by Entrepreneurship students at Ashoka.