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Dastur Energy recognized with the Decarbonization Excellence Partner Award

01st July 2024: Dastur Energy, a leading clean energy technology company, has been named winner of the “Decarbonization Excellence Partner” award by the Governing Council of The Global Refining & Petrochemicals Congress (GRPC 2024) & Organizers of the Downstream India Excellence Awards 2024.

The Award recognizes Dastur Energy’s significant contributions towards enabling industrial-scale clean energy transformation by offering deep expertise across the industrial decarbonization value chain including – renewable energy, clean fuels like hydrogen, production process changes, and carbon capture, utilization & sequestration. Dastur Energy’s team of industrial decarbonization, technoeconomic, regulatory, and project risk experts deliver – a cost-effective strategic approach that is designed to deliver significant business impact while enabling clean energy transition and carbon management.

The Award, held in association with the Global Refining & Petrochemicals Congress (GRPC 2024), recognizes industry leaders and organizations that have demonstrated excellence in thought leadership, management, research, technology, innovation, and overall operations in the Indian downstream Oil & Gas industry.

Atanu Mukherjee, CEO Dastur Energy, expressed his gratitude for the award, stating, “We are honoured to receive this prestigious award which recognizes our commitment to developing innovative solutions that enable the transition to a sustainable future.”

The award was announced and conferred during the ceremony and networking reception held on June 27, 2024, at Hotel Le Meridien, New Delhi, as part of the 5th edition of the Global Refining & Petrochemicals Congress (GRPC 2024).

Dastur Energy, a subsidiary of M. N. Dastur & Co. (P) Ltd., has been successfully delivering industrial-scale clean energy transition and carbon management solutions for companies in the ‘hard to abate’ sectors in North America, the Middle East, and India. In addition, the company has been closely associated as a partner and thought leader enabling pioneering projects funded by governmental entities like – NITI-Aayog, the United States Department of Energy, United States Trade and Development Agency.

O4S launches a new Business Podcast Series Featuring Industry Leaders

O4S launches a new Business Podcast Series Featuring Industry Leaders

O4S, a Supply Chain SaaS start-up, has launched a business podcast named, ‘Expert Keynotes’ with the primary aim to bring Industry expert opinion to the masses. This fortnightly podcast by O4S offers a new viewpoint and topic of discussion about a fresh industry in every episode.

The first episode of the business podcast saw esteemed industry expert, Mr. Diwaker Bharadwaj, President of Packaging & Brand Protection at Polycab India. He discussed the importance of Smart Packaging in creating a distinguished brand and discouraging counterfeiting activities. In the second episode, appeared Mr. Anshuman Marodia, Director -Supply Chain Operations, Pan Seeds. He discussed the importance of digitization and automation in the agricultural sector.

The format of O4S’ new business podcast is guest podcasting, where the organization invites different guests who are industry doyens and have years of experience in various sectors. Each episode is an exclusive interview with an industry expert, which is available on the company’s YouTube Channel known as “O4S Labs”. These short episodes of ‘Expert Keynotes’, timed anywhere between 20 to 30 minutes, briefly cover the concepts that major organizations across the globe are adopting and utilizing to enhance productivity and acquire a competitive advantage in the industry.

Explaining a little more about the purpose of the business podcasts, Divay Kumar – CEO, O4S said, “Often

C-level executives or leaders are not easy to connect with as they are usually occupied due to professional commitments. Our platform acts as a medium to connect them with their audience; lets listeners from different sectors understand the expert’s viewpoints on pertinent subjects. Moreover, they can understand the expert’s journey and life-changing learnings on the business podcast”.

Another podcast that O4S Labs conducts and is popular on their channel, namely “WTF- What’s The Flow!” is based on engineering themes. This podcast invites engineering and product innovators who bring architectural and product use-cases to tech enthusiasts.

O4S was incepted in 2017 and has raised over $10Mn so far, with a recent Series-A investment of $6Mn led by Think Investments and Venture Highway. O4S, with its multi-module platform, enables supply chain traceability and automation for the manufacturing to the retail ecosystem. The solutions help optimize downstream Supply Chain operation, Trade Promotion, Consumer Engagement, and Brand Protection.

At present, O4S caters to 50+ enterprise customers such as Honeywell, Dulux Paints, Mahindra Agri, Polycab, Essilor, NATCO Pharma,  and Mondelez, among others. Moreover, the company is experiencing a 200% increase in revenue year on year.

Beyond Key to put together a panel discussion on data analytics with industry leaders

In its free-for-all virtual panel discussion, Beyond Key will host some of the world’s finest industry leaders on Wednesday, June 8, 2022 at 1 pm EST to discuss the intricacies of data analytics. The hour-long panel discussion is themed at Unleashing The Power Of Data Analytics.

Useful across sectors, Data Analytics requires examining data sets to find trends and to draw conclusions about the information they contain. As organizations continue to accumulate data from various sources, it is vital to have a plan to use that data constructively. Effective use of data analytics could be beneficial for all industries, especially healthcare, insurance, logistics, e-commerce, automotive, and nonprofits.

“Data is the new oil, and that’s a known fact. There are ample amounts of data available online and offline, but we still fail to use them effectively. With Data Analytics, not only today’s concerns but also tomorrow’s bigger challenges can be identified and solved. It will not just help professionals working in the field to make data-informed decisions, but the humanity as a whole as well,” says Piyush Goel, Founder and CEO, Beyond Key.

Mr Goel would moderate the panel that include Raj Krishnan, Industry Digital Strategist, Microsoft and advisor at Beyond Key who brings over 25+ years of experience as a renowned technology enthusiast with deep expertise in AI, Modern Data Warehouse, DevOps and Cloud design, and implementation services; Piyush Richhariya, Director of IT, Shelterpoint, who is a certified InsurTech Leader with proven track record in digital transformation and value based management practices; and John Cheng, Co-Founder and CEO, Baotris who has a strong background in building sophisticated data products for large companies, John was inspired to start a company so smaller brands could realize and leverage those same competitive advantages.

In this webinar, panellists will discuss how to convert massive data into meaningful patterns and why data analytics are vital to your business operations. Attendees can expect to learn a complete overview of data analytics, know how it will help you with better decision making, and understand how to use it to its fullest potential.