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Thought Leadership In Action

Sustainability Forums & Conclaves — Mercury SPC's sustained presence as keynote speakers, panel curators, and moderators at India's foremost sustainability-design forums since 2015.

Thought Leadership — Conclave & Forum stage
2020
Design Week
Keynote Speaker
Steps to Sustainable Development in a Modern World

The imperative need to promote sustainability as a fiscally profitable business practice — presenting the framework that underpins the Mercury SPC Fiscally Positive Sustainability Doctrine.

Steps to Sustainable Development keynote
Sustainable Micro Culture presentation
Design Week
Speaker & Moderator
Architecture 2010–2030: Natural Light & Airflow in Sustainable Design

Exploring the use of natural light and airflow in sustainably designed buildings with leading international sustainable architects.

Marc Thorpe — North American Sustainable Architect of the Year 2019–2020
Nuru Karim — The Straw Bale School, Malawi; Modern Mosque of Light, UAE
Marc Thorpe, Nuru Karim — Architecture 2010-2030
Architecture 2010-2030 panel discussion
Bikaner House
Keynote / Panellist
Future Collective — Food, Clothing & Shelter: Building a Conscious Future

A landmark three-track conscious futures panel — Food: Building a Conscious Future (Amitabh Kant, Niti Aayog), Clothing: Decoding Sustainable Fashion (Nonita Kalra, Harper's Bazaar), Shelter: Conscious Building & Living for the Future (TC de Sousa, FWC LLP).

Conscious Building panel with Martand Khosla (Moderator), Mahendra Singhi (MD/CEO Dalmia Cements), Gawda Saxena (BD GRIHA), Gauri Mathur (Sustainable Building Alternatives, GRIHA)
Future Collective panel at Bikaner House
Sustainable Systems presentation
2019
Design Week
Keynote & Panellist
The Past, Present & Future of Sustainable Thinking & Design

A forward-looking examination of sustainability's trajectory across design disciplines — from legacy practices to emerging frameworks.

Theresa Millard — Kohler Inc. Eco Lab
Dan Gurney — Sustainable Architecture, Vancouver
Amit Khanna — City Planner
Past Present Future panel
Sustainability design discussion
Design Week
Curator & Moderator
Design is not just the Destination — Sustainability is the Journey

A curated forum exploring the relationship between design practice and sustainability as a continuous, embedded process rather than a destination.

Bikram Mittra — Kohler, Asia
Saket Sethi — International Architectural Practice
Seetu Kohli — Curator
Sustainability is the Journey forum
2018
Design Week
Design Partner Dialogues
Humour & Design Thinking — A Product Design Perspective

Exploring the role of playfulness and wit in sustainable product design — featuring the Focal 100SI Recycled Metal Series.

Takaharu Tezuka — Tezuka Architects
With Takaharu Tezuka
Focal 100SI Metal Series presentation
2017
Design Week
Panel Curator & Speaker
Future Product Design: Recycled vs Recyclable

A two-part forum on the product design future and India-specific sustainable infrastructure — examining what "Sustainable Infrastructure: The India Story" really requires.

Raffaella MangiarottiPaul MathieuAshiesh Shah
Dikshu Kukreja — Harvard / School of Planning & Architecture
Sanjay Puri — Sanjay Puri Architects
Kaif Faquih — Urban Planning Architect
Recycled vs Recyclable panel
Future Product Design forum
Sotheby's Int'l
Keynote & Panel Curator
Sustainable Design Thinking in Luxury Planning and Design

Examining how luxury planning and design intersect with sustainable practice — exploring the premium end of the sustainability adoption curve.

Raseel GujralAmit GuptaGaurav BhatiaParesh Maity
Sotheby's CII Global Luxury Realty Conclave
2016
Design Week
Speaker & Curator
Finding the Balance — Aesthetic and Engineering

From new age development projects to luxury retreats — the balance between aesthetic ambition and engineering constraint as a sustainability lever.

Finding the Balance — The New Retreat panel
2015
Design Week
Speaker & Panellist
Global Sustainable Architecture & Urban Planning

Curating panel discussions on landmark global projects: 4 World Trade Centre (NYC), MIT Media Lab (Cambridge, MA), the UN Building (NYC), the creation of Amravati (Andhra Pradesh), and the sustainable planning & design of the Aga Khan Museum (Toronto).

Global Sustainable Architecture keynote
Sustainable urban planning presentation
Fumihiko Maki
Conclave & Round Table
In Dialogue with Fumihiko Maki (1928–2024)

A private conclave and round table session with the Pritzker Prize Laureate (1993) — reflecting on a lifetime of sustainable design thinking at the highest level of global architecture.

With Fumihiko Maki