HEEN Wkp ''Innovation for a Low Carbon Energy Transition'' Berlin 2019 Presentation EFdeN, energiaTa & FEL

1. Who should lead the way?
Tech or people?
Mihai Toader-Pasti
@toaderpasti

2. My Data Sheet
07.11.1991 Born in a small town in Romania, currently living in Bucharest
• Cofounder and General Manager @ EFdeN & energiaTa, 2012 & 2015
• Co-President @ Eisenhower Youth Leaders, 2017
• President @ Future Energy Leaders, 2018
• GlobalShaper @ World Economic Forum @ Bucharest Hub, 2017
• Young Leader Professional @ Aspen Institute 2017
• Talent @ UNLEASH 2018, Putting SDGs into action
• Climate Ambassador @ GYCN – World Bank Youth Community 2018
• Climate Reality Leader @ Climate Reality Training, Altanta, 2019
• FEL100 @ Future Energy Leaders, World Energy Council, 2019
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3. Navigate in space-time

4. My story

5. Projects I love

7. Pilot of Sustainable Smart City

8. 4 Facts
Climate change is the biggest
threat to humanity so far
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We are generating the
6th mass extinction
47% of jobs will be automated by
2034 and no gov is prepared
Every minute 1 million plastic bottles
and 2 million plastic bags are bought

9. 5 Observations
1. Who should lead the way?
Private? Gov? NGOs? Average citizens?
2. It’s not about tech, it is also about behaviour.
How can we advance both?
3. Together is the only way to achieve
carbon neutrality until 2050.
4. Fighting climate change can create
an entrepreneurial generation.
5. Sometimes people act based on data, but often on emotions.
What to do when data is not driving change.
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10. Innovation is
making
the world better
in a better way
For me
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11. 12 lessons
1. Create demand before creating offer. Create the market you need
2. Multidisciplinary design and build are key parts for innovation
3. Failure is a necessary prerequisite for innovation. Do it fast and big
4. Innovation is a numbers game. More people can test more hypothesis
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12. 5. When the system is broken, fix the system. Take on big challenges
6. It is ok not to know, to do mistakes, to forget, to be stupid
7. It is not ok not to be curious, emphatic, courageous and happy
8. Talk more about issues, people are evaluating based on the public discussion
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12 lessons

13. 9. If you don’t like rules, change them. Use the productive power of frustration
10. Build communities to shape an industry, put dreamers and doers together
11. Try to make everyone happy. It’s harder, but the change lasts
12. Sharing is caring, common good needs common participation
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12 lessons

14. Who should lead the way?
Tech or people?
You have the power
to shape
your community,
sector, country and
even the world.

15. Live your dream.
Mihai Toader-Pasti
www.toaderpasti.com
@toaderpasti
Thx! & Enjoy life.
without negatively affecting
other people, animals or the environment.