Ivy Masterclass - Gaining Your Human Edge

Join us for a virtual masterclass designed to help you gain your human edge. The conversation will have two parts -

A 30 minutes fireside conversation with Dr. Marcus Ranney to discuss his latest book - ‘ At The Human Edge’ where he will share inspiring stories of individuals pushing their bodies to extreme levels of performance.

This would be followed by a 30 minutes interactive session where Dr. Ramney will take us through 10 hacks to help enhance productivity and performance in 2021. These are small actions to help you build sustainable habits towards optimizing your physiology and psychology.

Dr. Marcus Ranney is a business professional in healthcare and technology. From sick care to wellbeing, Dr. Marcus Ranney's career journey over the past two decades has led him from the patient's bedside to a wider stage as he now creates a global impact via systemic change. With expeditions taking him to the sides of Everest, skiing in the Arctic and the European Alps, he has served as a medical officer in the Royal Air Force and at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. After practicing clinical medicine in London, in 2010, he made the transition to Mumbai where he has worked within the Healthcare and Life-sciences industry as a Strategic Advisor, Investor, and Operator for a range of MNC and national bellwether firms. Augmenting his contributions towards global health commentary, the Covid-19 pandemic has brought Marcus back to the frontlines of medicine as a medical volunteer for his city’s fight against controlling the virus. A published author, keynote speaker, digital talk show host, and public health commentator, he has been a World Economic Forum’s Global Shaper and is currently a Senior Fellow to the Atlantic Council, working on a project exploring the relationships between the climate crisis and global health. 

There are limited spots for the masterclass. You’re requested to RSVP using this link. We'll email the Zoom link to all participants upon receiving your registration. For questions, please write to us at team@ivyplusnetwork.com

Ivy Masterclass - How to manage your money in the times of coronavirus

Managing your money in the middle of a pandemic is an unprecedented dilemma. Although each individual situation is different, the broad issue is the same: concern about your financial future.

In this Ivy Masterclass, Satyen Kothari will speak about how to build a perfect portfolio. Hint: it does not start with buying a mutual fund. He'll also cover the concept of investing psychology and how to avoid common pitfalls that cheat people of their hard-earned money, all of this with a focus on the current context.

Satyen is the founder of Cube Wealth. At Cube, he advocates simplifying everything related to investing with a well-researched philosophy inspired by the greats like Buffet and Munger. Prior to Cube, Satyen founded 4 companies in India and Silicon Valley. His prior company, Citrus Payments, was sold in 2016 for $130 million, which shoved him in the world of wealth management. He is an alum of Stanford University.

For questions, write to us at team@ivyplusnetwork.com.

Ivy (Virtual) Happy Hour

Grab your favourite drink and join us donned in your finest 'work-from-home attire' for our first Ivy (Virtual) Happy Hour on Friday, April 3 from 5 pm - 6.30 pm IST.

We've designed this meet-up to enable our members to connect in a light-hearted environment through a series of fun and meaningful activities. We want to hear all about your quarantine stories, see your pet, and see you in your PJs - Promise we won't judge! We encourage everyone to bring a drink of your choice. There's something nicely communal about drinking together, even if you're only doing it remotely.

The happy hour will be facilitated by Swati Sahni, Founder of IvyPlus Network & Aakanksha Kapoor, Founder of Minds at Play, which works to address the lack of preventative mental health care in schools in India.

We'll send the Zoom Meeting ID to all confirmed attendees closer to date. For questions, write to us at team@ivyplusnetwork.com

Ivy Conversation - Emotional Wellbeing

A conversation for us to dive deep on how we can take care of our emotional wellbeing in the present time. These are difficult and uncertain times where fear, panic, sadness and numbing are rampant. These are also opportunities to go beyond our ideas of what we are capable of living through. Let’s come together to find ways to proactively respond rather than react to the current scenario at an inner personal level, as well as with the external world.

The session will be facilitated by Natasha Nair Gupta, an Integral Psychotherapist who brings together eclectic approaches that work with the body, mind, emotions and our deeper selves to help people take responsibility for whom they choose to be. Natasha was trained at the California Institute of Integral Studies, a pioneer in transpersonal studies. Subsequently, she trained in Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing in Europe, that aims at resolving health problems by focusing on releasing the trauma shock stuck in the body.

The session will be conducted on Saturday, March 28 from 12 pm - 1.30 pm IST for 15 IvyPlus Members online on Zoom. You'll need to download Zoom on your laptop or phone and join using the meeting ID, which will be emailed to confirmed attendees.

For questions, write to us at team@ivyplusnetwork.com

Ivy Workshop - Behavioural Economics for Startups

Behavioural Economics combines some of the best ideas in Economics, Psychology and other social sciences to improve our understanding of the decision-making process - both rational and irrational. In the current world full of screens and unlimited choice, understanding the patterns and pitfalls of human decision-making is key. As humans, we have limited brainpower and often take shortcuts to conserve that brainpower for certain decisions.

This workshop explores a core set of those shortcuts – “heuristics” – and predictable errors – “biases” – to provide participants with the psychological foundation for smarter decision-making, product design and marketing communications.

Key Takeaways - 

1. The top psychological variables impacting your customer's decision-making
2. Actionable insights on how to leverage behavioural science in your product development and marketing campaigns
3. Tools, like behavioural diagnosis, that help you evaluate your current product and marketing experience to prioritize changes
4. Understanding how to avoid your own biases and pitfalls when making business decisions

Who it’s for - Founders, Products Managers, Marketing and Sales Professionals

Workshop Format

• 6.00 pm - 6.30 pm: Open Networking over tea/coffee and snacks
• 6.30 pm-8.00 pm: An interactive talk introducing Psychological heuristics and biases of customers and managers, how behavioural science can be integrated into product design and marketing (including cases and examples) and a behavioural diagnostic tool that participants can apply to generate behavioural science solutions.
• 8.00 pm - 8.30 pm: A brainstorming session where participants design solutions for a hypothetical problem using the tools and theories introduced + ideation prompts. A few groups subsequently present brief descriptions of their solutions.

Facilitators: Beast Global is a team of behavioural economists, advisors and mentors, with a passion and expertise for applying behavioural insights within the Global South. Their goal is to create products and services that leverage behavioural economics and psychology to help individuals and companies make better decisions.

There are limited spots for this workshop, so please book your spot before they are sold out. For questions, write to us at team@ivyplusnetwork.com.

Ivy Alumni Networking Night - Delhi

IvyPlus Network invites you to Ivy Alumni Networking Night; an evening to kick start 2020 in style on Sun, Feb 16 from 7.30 pm - 10.30 pm! We'll join fellow IvyPlus members in their finest attire to enjoy 3 hours of dynamic conversation and festivity at The Kimono Club, a great new spot in town.

Your ticket includes a welcome drink (beer or a gin-based cocktail), appetisers and taxes. Plus ones are invited. Please buy a ticket for any guests you'd like to invite separately.

We are grateful to our venue partner, The Kimono Club and our Pouring Partners, White Rhino, Greater than Gin & Svami, for their support in helping us organize this event for our community.

Alumni from the following universities are invited to the mixer:

Brown University
California Institute of Technology
Carnegie Mellon University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
ESADE
Emory University
Georgetown University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Harvard University
HEC Paris
IE Business School
Imperial College London
INSEAD
Kings College London
Johns Hopkins University
London Business School
London School of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
McGill University
National University of Singapore
New York University
Northwestern University
Parsons School of Design
Princeton University
Purdue University
Sciences Po
Smith College
Stanford University
Tufts University
University of California - Berkeley
University of California - Los Angeles
University of Cambridge
University of Chicago
University of London
University of Nottingham
University of Michigan
University of Oxford
University of Pennsylvania
University of Toronto
University of Virginia
University of Warwick
Yale University

For questions, write to us at <team@ivyplusnetwork.com>.

Ivy Alumni Networking Night - Bangalore

IvyPlus Network invites you to Ivy Alumni Networking Night; an evening to kick start 2020 in style on Sun, Feb 9 from 7.30 pm - 10.30 pm! We'll join fellow IvyPlus members in their finest attire to enjoy 3 hours of dynamic conversation and festivity at the House of Troy, a new Greek Lounge in Bangalore.

Your ticket includes a welcome drink (beer or a gin-based cocktail), appetizers and taxes. Plus ones are invited. Please buy a ticket for any guests you'd like to invite separately.

We are grateful to our venue partner, House of Troy and our Pouring Partners, White Rhino & Greater than Gin, for their support in helping us organize this event for our community.

Alumni from the following universities are invited to the mixer:

Brown University
California Institute of Technology
Carnegie Mellon University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
ESADE
Emory University
Georgetown University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Harvard University
HEC Paris
IE Business School
Imperial College London
INSEAD
Kings College London
Johns Hopkins University
London Business School
London School of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
McGill University
National University of Singapore
New York University
Northwestern University
Parsons School of Design
Princeton University
Purdue University
Sciences Po
Smith College
Stanford University
Tufts University
University of California - Berkeley
University of California - Los Angeles
University of Cambridge
University of Chicago
University of London
University of Nottingham
University of Michigan
University of Oxford
University of Pennsylvania
University of Toronto
University of Virginia
University of Warwick
Yale University

For questions, write to us at <team@ivyplusnetwork.com>

Ivy Holiday Mixer

IvyPlus Network and LSE Alumni Club of Chennai invites you to Ivy Holiday Mixer, an end of the year holiday mixer for alumni from top global universities on Friday, December 20 at G Bar in Novotel Hotel, Chennai. 

You're expected to buy your drinks and we'd be circulating some bar snacks. There is no charge to attending and you are welcome to bring your plus one along. The dress code for the evening is holiday colours - Red, Geen or White!

Alumni from the following universities are invited to the mixer:

Brown University
California Institute of Technology
Carnegie Mellon University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
ESADE
Emory University
Georgetown University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Harvard University
HEC Paris
IE Business School
Imperial College London
INSEAD
Kings College London
Johns Hopkins University
London Business School
London School of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
McGill University
National University of Singapore
New York University
Northwestern University
Parsons School of Design
Princeton University
Purdue University
Sciences Po
Smith College
Stanford University
Tufts University
University of California - Berkeley
University of California - Los Angeles
University of Cambridge
University of Chicago
University of London
University of Nottingham
University of Michigan
University of Oxford
University of Pennsylvania
University of Toronto
University of Virginia
University of Warwick
Yale University

For questions, write to us at team@ivyplusnetwork.com

Ivy Paint and Wine

Join us to experience the artistic process of recreating a beautiful painting, all while sipping on a glass of wine! The process you’ll learn is easy and designed to help you learn how to let go and enjoy the moment.

🍷complimentary glass of wine and hors d'oeuvre
🤷🏼‍♂️no experience in art required
🎨we'll provide all the art materials
👩‍🎨step by step guidance by a professional artist
🖼take your masterpiece home.

You're welcome to invite your friends or significant others - Please book a spot for them separately. We have 24 spots and they will be sold on first come first serve basis. For questions, write to us at <team@ivyplusnetwork.com>

We are grateful to our Experience partners, Tippling Art; Pouring Partners, Fratelli Wines and Venue partners, Serai at Olive for their support in helping us organize this for our community.

Ivy Dinner: Founders & Funders

Join us for an immersive Ivy Dinner to connect with entrepreneurs, investors and startup enablers from the IvyPlus community. The gathering will feature an immersive group conversation that's specifically designed to spark life-changing friendships, learning, and collaborations. All this over a delicious dinner curated by the extremely talented team at Punjab Grill and Gin Cocktails, curated by Tanqueray for the evening.

We have 20 spots for this experience. Your ticket includes a 4-course dinner, 2 complimentary cocktails and all taxes.

We are grateful to our partners, Punjab Grill and Tanqueray for their support in helping us organize this dinner for our community. For questions, write to us at <team@ivyplusnetwork.com>