Aseem Trivedi

Aseem is a Harvard- and Duke-educated executive with more than 12 years of experience in climate-tech and national-scale infrastructure. He began his career advising Fortune 500 clients at Ernst and Young New York before leading India’s largest infrastructure rollout. He brings proven capabilities in execution, governance and large-scale partnerships with the Government of India. At Novasensa, he leads the strategy and localisation of dry coal and mineral recovery technologies, ensuring regulatory alignment, speed to market and investor confidence.

Proposed Title
Building India’s Resource Independence: Smarter Coal, Smarter Recycling and the Future of Circular Energy Materials

Synopsis
India’s energy and materials demand is accelerating, driven by electrification, digital expansion and industrial growth. Meeting these needs sustainably requires a dual approach: cleaner primary energy and secure access to critical minerals. This talk presents a unified framework for India’s transition from linear resource consumption to circular and high-efficiency recovery systems.

The first part will examine the role of advanced dry coal beneficiation technologies in improving India’s energy efficiency, reducing ash load, cutting emissions at source and enabling a more resilient thermal power ecosystem during the transition decade. The second part will focus on the emerging strategic imperative of recovering critical and precious minerals from e-waste and lithium-ion batteries. Drawing from recent advancements in AI-guided hydrometallurgical extraction, the session will highlight how high-yield, selective recovery routes can unlock domestic supply chains for cobalt, lithium, nickel, manganese, copper and rare metals.

By integrating clean coal, critical-mineral recovery and circular design, the talk will demonstrate a coherent path to resource independence. It will show how smarter processing, digital optimisation and responsible recycling can jointly transform India’s energy and materials landscape, reduce import dependence and create new industrial value chains.