Template for submitting Success Stories on Eco- Innovation/ Waste Management Start-ups in India

This document will help you prepare your submission in a format that ensures its lasting value. Your cooperation in adhering to the template provided in this document will help in preparing an informative and value adding compendium.

Applicant organization
Applicant organization details / Contact name:
Email address:
Phone Number:
Address:
Years in operation:
Number of employees:
Applicant organization’s key products/services
Applicant organization vision and mission
Organization’s speak / Provide an introductory paragraph that describes your organization’ s success story or accomplishment. Include the following key points:
1. reasons for entering this industry,
2. the challenges, and
3. your unique proposition
Eco-innovation or innovative approaches adopted for waste management / For stories about your operations—a new equipment installation, design for environment, operational initiative, etc.
Please provide a paragraph or two on each of the below three sections. At each step, provide information that gives the basic “who, what, when, where how and why” of your story to make it more valuable to potential prospects.
Problem, challenge or opportunity:What was the situation before your solution or innovation? What goals did you have in seeking a solution or innovation?
Solution: When and how did you implement your solution/innovation? Why did you make the choices you did? What were the key considerations that influenced your decision-making?
Benefits & results:Provide before-and-after comparisons for benefits such as savings in time, cost, labor, waste reduction, environment safeguard etc. and what factors contributed to these benefits.
Photographs / Support your success story with photo in a common format (such as .jpg or .png).

Important Dates

05/04/2017: Last date for receiving presentations

10/04/2017: For Jury to shortlist 25 best ideas start-ups in India

13/04/2017: Intimation to authors of selected success stories

Submission Procedure

Applicants should submit the application in the attached template to

Submissions should be in Microsoft Word (Doc) or PowerPoint format (PPT, PPTX). No other format is acceptable. Presentation slides including all graphics and text must be in English.

Name the presentation using the following convention: Best Ideas ‘Organization name’

Sample: Best Ideas XYZ Company

Registering for CES 2017

On successful selection of your submission, you will be entitled to 20% discount on your Circular Economy Symposium (CES) registration fee. More details on Symposium are available at

Note: Be sure to PROOFREAD your work carefully before submission. No changes can be made to any portion of the contents after the above mentioned deadlines.

For more information, contact:

Sakshi Bhargava

Tel. +91 11 23487566, +91 11 23487211

Email:

1March 2017