AndPurpose Forums are a highly curated gathering in city-specific regional chapters to create a vibrant network that unites the sustainability & impact community across India.
PEOPLE, PLANET
ANDPURPOSE
As India lays the foundation for a $10 trillion economy, the AndPurpose Forum, Mumbai 2025 will spotlight sustainability and impact from the lens of the Global South — led by innovation, collaboration, and equity.
From circular fashion and climate resilience for coastal regions, to finance as a force for good, the Forum is designed to spark partnerships and ideas that balance people, planet, and profit.
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FOR PEOPLE & THE planet —
Where 350+ changemakers from startups, non-profits, investment firms, government, philanthropies, global corporations unite to solve world’s most pressing challenges.
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What You’ll Experience at AndPurpose Forums, Mumbai
Discover how startups are building sustainable solutions for India and beyond.
How circular design, climate resilience, and green innovation are opening up multi-billion-dollar markets across fashion, energy, and urban development?
What kind of alignment do policymakers and investors need to make sustainability responsible and inclusive?
Connect with 350+ leaders from corporates, nonprofits, philanthropies, and investors driving India’s $150B+ sustainability and impact ecosystem.
KEY THEMATIC AREAS
With Action Comes Hope
AndPurpose Forums blend social innovation, art, and storytelling to move conversations into action. Each forum is designed to spark collaboration, showcase solutions, and inspire change through art & storytelling. By uniting changemakers and innovators, we create spaces where purpose drives progress and ideas transform into lasting impact.
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WHAT AWAITS YOU AT THE ANDPURPOSE forums —
KEY CONVERSATIONS —
Circular Chic – Fashion, Film & Waste
Beyond trends and fast cycles — discussions on circular design, mindful consumption, biomaterials, heritage handlooms and creating fashion that respects people and the planet.
Allyship in Action, DEI as Strategy – The Inclusive Future of Work
Conversations on building truly inclusive spaces – where gender equity and representation are not mere checkboxes, but integral to culture and leadership that shape businesses for tomorrow.
Water, Waste & Weather: Reimagining Resilience for Coastal Futures
Conversations on how communities can prepare for rising climate risks, from adaptive planning to resilient infrastructure, strengthening societies now vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
Sustainable Finance: Reimagining Mumbai as the Capital of Impact
Exploring how finance can go beyond profits – through impact investing, sustainable capital flows, philanthropic capital and embedding responsibility into growth.
See what the Industry Stalwarts have to say
SPEAKERS
Purvi Bhavsar, a first-generation entrepreneur from Ahmedabad is the co-founder and Managing Director of Pahal Financial Services Private Limited, a Leading Non-Banking Financial Services Company (NBFC-MFI) working in the areas of microfinance and enterprise lending. Company has an Asset under management of around 2000 crores managed through more than 300+ branches in 9 states and employing more than 3000 people. It has already reached out to more than a million women customers in the bottom of pyramid space.
Nidhi is Co-Founder of Science For Society - S4S Technologies. Nidhi works at the intersection of agriculture, gender, energy access and financial inclusion.
S4S Technologies is a near-farm gate food processing platform converting farm losses to value-added products for F&B Industry.S4S products save time, cost and energy for industrial customers.
S4S trains Small Holder Women Farmers to be Entrepreneurs by providing the right combination of - technology, finance, and market and increasing their household income by 100-200% Annually. S4S is working with over 20,00 farmers and 800 Women Entrepreneurs. And in the process save over 300,000 Tons of CO2 from entering the environment.
Attended By
Philanthropists Impact Investors Social Entrepreneurs CSR Leaders Civil Society leaders Foundations
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