Swiss Impact with Banerjis

Hosts: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee

The show on how Impactful investments and businesses are helping to implement the 17 UN SDG’s worldwide to preserve the world for future generations.

Banerjis have enlightening and in-depth conversations with newsmakers, celebrities, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, project owners, investors, politicians and business leaders and encourage them to act now.

Hosts: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee

Hosts: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee

Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee

Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee

Dr. Vibeke Riemer (a Danish citizen), is a medical doctor, entrepreneur, board chair and philanthropist, has over 30 years of experience from public and private sector management and philanthropy. Specialized in Public Health with additional business education from Copenhagen Business School and the Wharton School, Dr. Riemer joined the National Board of Health (Ministry of Health) where she was engaged in developing and designing future structure and standards for the Danish public health service. Later she joined the Ministry of Finance, to work with similar challenges in other sectors. Realizing the importance of the human factor Dr. Riemer co-founded PeopleTools A/S, a management consultancy providing psychological assessment tools for public and private corporations, with the scope of improving leadership and social skills.

Dr. Riemer has been a volunteer Scout/Guide leader throughout her career. She has held numerous positions at local, regional, national and world levels. She has served as President of the Olave Baden-Powell Society, supporting the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS). Dr. Riemer’s passion is to develop tomorrow’s leaders with focus on girls and young women. She is a major contributor to this work, and she has been engaged in leadership development projects and social entrepreneurship around the world. She has received awards for her work including the Princess Benedikte Award and the Regal Circle Award from the World Scout Foundation, and she is a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog. Dr. Riemer attended the Clinton Global Initiative in 2012.

Lars Kolind (a Danish citizen) is a mathematician, serial entrepreneur, bestselling author and philanthropist. He has started more than 25 businesses and he is a thought leader on leadership and strategy. He has written five books about leadership and strategy that have been published in nine languages.

Kolind has been a pioneer in organizational design. He created one of the world’s first paperless and truly knowledge-based organizations in 1991 where he demonstrated how an organization can simultaneously become more innovative, more flexible, more responsive, more efficient and more meaningful to employees.

Kolind’s philanthropic work focuses on enabling young people throughout the world to be active citizens leading positive change in their communities. This is the vision of the World Scout Movement where Kolind has been engaged for four decades. He has received numerous awards including Denmark’s Man of the Year, the Bronze Wolf, The BSA Silver World Award, The Silver Fox, the Princess Benedikte Award, the Regal Circle Award, and he is a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog. He currently serves as chairman of the World Scout Foundation.

Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee

Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee

Carolina García Arbeláez is a leader with over 10 years of experience working for a more equitable and sustainable world . She is a One Young World Ambassador and one of the 88 women around the world chosen for the Homeward Bound leadership program and its Antarctic Expedition in 2019. She is the founder of Still New, a sustainable fashion for children start up. Currently, she works as Global Sustainability and Innovation Director for ABInBev and is the Co-lead of the 100+ Accelerator. She has been working for ABInBev over the past four years in Sustainability at a local, regional and global scale. She graduated as a lawyer from Los Andes University and later from a specialization in Economics from the same university. She is a fellow from the Aspen Institute Early Movers Fellowship. She has published several articles in national and international media. For more than 3 years she worked in WWF in the international climate negotiations (from COP19 to COP22) and in local climate advocacy. She has taught international environmental law courses at Rosario and Externado University. She is the author of the climate change book “Cambio climático: lo que está en juego” and author of the booklets “El Acuerdo de París: así actuará Colombia frente al cambio climático”, among others.

Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee

Soil Scout provides the most advanced fully buried underground wireless soil sensor and monitoring solution for professionals in Agriculture, Golf and Sports turf maintenance.

Several golf courses and sports fields worldwide, including such iconic venues as the Wembley Stadiumand Philadelphia Phillies, use Soil Scout to maintain their turf in tip-top shape while reducing maintenance costs and water consumption.

Farmers and agriculture professionals around the world use Soil Scout to understand their fields, optimize soil conditions for better growth and improve crop production, also reducing operational costs and water consumption.

Soil Scout is the first-ever soil sensor system that allows you to place any number of fully buried wireless sensors all across an area, giving you a complete real-time underground weather map to your fingertips. It is the most advanced and cost-efficient soil monitoring solution for professionals in agriculture, golf and sports turf maintenance.

By using Soil Scout, hundreds of farms and other agriculture professionals worldwide become even better in their data-driven agronomy. The system enables learning and controlling of soil conditions for optimized growth, as well as savings in operational costs and inputs. Golf courses and sports fields use Soil Scout to improve turf quality, minimize quality variations, and reduce maintenance costs, chemical usage and water consumption.

The Soil Scout Hydra sensor has the most outstanding battery lifetime on the market – up to 20 years. The maintenance free sensors operate completely autonomously in the ground, which is why once installed, the solution provides you with an unmatched perennial measurement consistency, also leading to a superior cost efficiency over the years.

CEO Jalmari Talola

Jalmari Talola (Master of Engineering in Business Informatics) is a result driven business leader with analytical mindset and tools for driving growth through business development, navigating continuous changeand leading people.

Born and raised on a dairy and cereal farm at Hauho, Southern Finland where Jalmari spent the 20 first years of his life doing various farming activities. High interest in technology led to engineer studies that later on took him working with location technologies; optical, GPS, machine control ja softwares. After finishing his Masters, Jalmari ran the world leading GIS and mapping software provider Esri’s sales operations in Finland.

Now Soil Scout combines Jalmari’s roots in agriculture, technology and management expertise with passion in sports; a perfect fit to build up the next big thing from Finland. CSO Johannes Tiusanen CSO Johannes Tiusanen, (PhD, docent in AgTech (University of Helsinki) ) is a 19th generation farmer , well-known innovator and thought-leader; and a sought-after lecturer in all topics combining agronomy, electronics and soil management. He is the Chief Scientific Officer, co-founder and board member at Soil Scout.

Moving to the family farm at the age of 12, he got a front seat view into his engineer and chemist parents taking over and renovating the farm operations, leading to a voracious process of doing thing even better than before. Their need for better soil monitoring tech, combined to his academic studies lead to the breakthrough science that became the basis and international patent for underground radio communication.

His present focus is on simplifying complicated data, turning invisible agronomic problems into tangible and manageable actions, giving all soil experts the information they need to become better at what they do.

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Haaziq is 16 years old and is currently studying in Grade X in The Hotchkiss School in Connecticut in the United States. He is passionate about the oceans and tackling the plastic problem afflicting oceans and marine life. He created a ship called Ervis, which is a smart ship that can clean the oceans. He established the Ervis Foundation, wherein he is working with the youth of today to bring a generational change in the way they interact with plastic. The foundation focuses on educational initiatives such as educational workshops on the perils of plastic, and digital platforms which offers an alternative to plastic. The foundation also works with many other movements to bring a change. He regularly speak at various forums, highlighting the perils of the plastic issue plaguing the generation, and my solutions for it. He is also passionate about math, science, computers and arts, and love learning how the world works and asking questions, whether big or small.