Innovation Workshops: Bringing a Million Solar Cookers to Africa

Join our inspiring workshops aimed at students who want to make a real-world impact! Collaborate to develop a Lions charity go-to-market strategy to distribute solar cookers to one million African households. #millionsolarcookers

Key Facts:

• 2,000 solar cookers have already been deployed in Kenya by Lions Clubs.
• A local manufacturing and educating network is in place.
• Solar cookers reduce deforestation and CO2 emissions, while also freeing mothers’ time by replacing the need to gather firewood with solar energy.
• Local partners in Kenya:
  
  
  

  PCC Rajinder “Pape” Sembi, Lions club of Kakamega as the project coordinator in Kenya
  LEO President LEO Club of Katch Collins Ojiwa and vice President LEO Brian Onuonga

  
  
  
  

What You’ll Gain:

• • Be part of a mission to improve living standards and reduce deforestation and CO2 emissions.
  • Learn how to create go-to-market strategy and the Innotiimi innovation process used by top companies as e.g. Goodmill Systems, Wärtsilä, UPM, Tieto and ABB.
  • Be part of the solution by innovating for good.
  • Earn a “Certificate of Contribution for Million Solar Cookers to Africa” into your LinkedIn profile.

Task Assignment: Innovating Solutions for Solar Cookers in Africa

The goal of the workshop is to develop innovative and scalable solutions for bringing one million solar cookers to Africa. Your task is to identify the most effective strategies to design, manufacture, distribute, and promote the use of solar cookers, with a focus on affordability, sustainability, and local impact. Think creatively about partnerships, open-source technologies, and business models that can help make this vision a reality.

Time Schedule:

To make the most of these workshops, it’s important that participants attend all three sessions. This ensures continuity and allows us to build on the knowledge from each previous workshop without needing to start over with new attendees. Your commitment helps everyone benefit from the group’s growing expertise.

• DAY 1: tue 5.11.2024 klo 16:30 – 19:30 (Design Factory, studio)
• DAY 2: mon 11.11.2024 klo 16:30 – 19:30 (Design Factory, studio)
• DAY 3: wed 20.11.2024 klo 16:30 – 19.30 (Design Factory, studio)

Workshops’ Content:

Workshop Facilitator:

Juhani Lehtonen
Partner, ICG Innotiimi

Sharing his expertise pro bono.

Juhani Lehtonen is an experienced facilitator in leadership, innovation, and change management. He has worked with well-known organizations like the GloCell, Forest Cluster, Wärtsilä and ABB, helping teams develop creative solutions and improve collaboration. Juhani has a strong background in guiding groups through innovation processes, making complex ideas easier to understand and apply in real-world situations. His workshops are practical and designed to help participants use their own skills and experiences to find new ways of solving problems.

For more details, visit his profile at ICG Innotiimi or LinkedIn.

Experts in Workshops:

• Heikki Saarinen, Civil engineer (Lions Club Helsinki/Pohjois-Haaga)
  Nordic Lions Solar Cookers to Africa between 2015 – and today project manager. Member in the solar cooker development group. Experienced in the adapting of 2000 solar cookers to the Kenyan Kakamega periphery.
• Kari Silfverberg, Architect and environmental advisor (retired),
  Long-time experience with urban planning and environmental protection with City of Helsinki and development projects in six African countries. Also teaching at Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University) and Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. 
• Tapani Rahko, Secretary of Solar cooker project group since 2015 (LC Järvenpää/Jean Sibelius)
• Kalevi Ekman, Professor at Design Factory, Aalto University
• Teemu Ronkka, Electronics Specialist at Design Factory, Aalto university
  Specialist to build quick prototypes and simulations of solar cooker ideas in Design Factory laboratories.
• Henry Stenberg, Solution Architect at CGI (LC Tapiola)
• Mika Wenell, startup specialist at Uniwaves (LC Tapiola)
• Susanna Jokiperä, Sales Manager at Bang & Bonsomer Group Oy (LC Espoo/City)
• Ari Torpo, Country Managing Director at adesso Nordics (LC Tapiola)

Downloadable PDF Ad of the Workshop

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