Agrisolar Best Practice Guidelines India Launch Event

Lina Dubina works as a Policy Advisor for Sustainability at SolarPower Europe. As part of the Land Use and Permitting Workstream, Lina coordinates work on agrivoltaics and floating PV and oversees several environment-related projects. Before joining SolarPower Europe, Lina was a trainee at European Commission, working on various files, including Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability. She also has experience from several consultancy companies covering environment-related projects. Lina holds an MSc.eng in Environmental Management and Sustainability Science from Aalborg University in Denmark. She speaks Latvian, English, and Russian.

Balaji did his engineering in Government College of Technology, Coimbatore with a B. Tech in Electronics and Communications. He worked for 16 years in Cisco Systems and became a Principal Engineer for several innovative technologies. Balaji was the lead architect and trusted advisor for engineering, marketing and eco-system partners to develop several transformative networking technologies. He is an eminent technologist with deep strategic and business insight and has been the recipient of prestigious Cisco Pioneer Awards 3 times in his career. Balaji holds about 13 USPTO approved patents in the networking area. Balaji has been successful in attracting, hiring and building a high performance team by stimulating, inspiring, offering bold disruptive visions and making them happen. Currently he is founder and CEO at Renkube, building what is probably the world's most efficient solar panels which is also agriculture friendly with several patents in the pipeline.

Dr. Kalpana Sastry, Director of Ag-Hub foundation, is a distinguished Agricultural Scientist with nearly three decades of expertise in the areas of Agriculture Research, Technology Commercialization, Intellectual Property and Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship and Start-up ecosystem development in Agriculture. She joined the Agricultural Research Service under ICAR in 1984.

Vivek is the founder and CEO of SunSeed APV, an Agrivoltaics startup providing deep tech solutions and developing projects. Vivek has 20+ years of global experience in Finance and Renewables and has a BTech in Chemical Engineering from IIT Kanpur and an MBA from Thunderbird.

Shubhang is a Geopolitics, foreign policy and climate action enthusiast and looks forward to taking NSEFI at various international platforms and international recognitions. He has completed his bachelor's degree with specialization in Economics from St. Xavier's College Ahmedabad and his Masters in International Relations from University of New South Wales, Sydney. He has previously interned with Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi and Public Affairs Centre, Bangalore. He has also worked as Research Assistant on UNICEF Gujarat Project. Along with this, he has presented papers at The Oxford University, United Kingdom. Shubhang was one of the contributors to the India Section of ""Global Market Outlook 2023 for Solar Power"" Europe and was Advisor & Reviewer for NSFEI - IGEF report ""Agrivoltaics in India: Overview of Projects and relevant policies.