Why is Energy a Product and Not a Right? with Arash Aazami | Sense Making Conversations

This conversation was recorded live. In this Sense Making Conversation, our host, Andrea Sampson, CEO of Talk Boutique, converses with Arash Aazami.

The energy conversation is often a debate on fossil fuels vs more sustainable alternatives, but what if there is a bigger conversation to be had? What about the cost of energy, the power that is literally and figuratively being held by large energy companies, and what about those who don’t have access to energy.

Shouldn’t energy be a right?

Join me Andrea as she has this conversation with her guest, Energy Futurist, Arash Aazami, on Tuesday during my next Sense Making Conversation. Arash is a big thinker and is deeply involved in pushing the boundaries of how we should be accessing and sharing energy in the not too distant future. Join us, this is going to be fun!

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About Arash Aazami

Founder of Kamangir & the IoE initiative, and Singularity University Faculty

Arash is a purpose-driven entrepreneur and innovator, half Persian, half Dutch and raised in Niger, West Africa. His initiatives merge energy, digital tech and finance. He first pursued careers in music and tech, until he became director of a Dutch energy supplier in 2006.

In 2010 he founded the world’s first energy company that earns more as it sells less energy. Arash is now founder and director of Universalright.org, developing a global energy exchange platform to support an “Internet of Energy”, enabling users worldwide to “download as well as upload” energy from abundant renewable resources, democratizing access to clean, renewable energy.

Besides his work for Universalright.org, Arash is a faculty member at SingularityU The Netherlands. He also is a mentor of social entrepreneurship at INSEAD Business School in Paris and he advises the European Commission and the Dutch government on long-term strategies for energy and digitization.