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Upcoming Events
-1 To Ather Energy With Tarun Mehta
📅 Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 11:30 AM
South Park Commons India is excited to host Tarun Mehta as part of our -1 to Now series!Event Details5:00 PM: Doors Open5:30–6:30 PM: Chat with Tarun Mehta6:30–7:00 PM: NetworkingTarun Mehta is the co-founder and CEO ofAther Energy— the company behind India’s first truly smart electric scooter. What began as a battery R&D project at IIT Madras has grown into one of the country’s most ambitious EV companies, with a deep focus on in-house product design, localized manufacturing, and charging infrastructure.From the early days of building hardware in a hostel room to scaling nationwide with the Ather 450X and launching one of India’s largest two-wheeler charging networks, Tarun’s journey is a masterclass in first-principles thinking, long-term execution, and building for category creation.In this -1 to Now session at South Park Commons, Tarun will walk us through the big product bets, infrastructure plays, and cultural decisions that have powered Ather’s growth — and what it takes to build a hardware company in India.Registration and approval are required, and space is limited — please RSVP soon!
-1 to Boz
📅 Thursday, August 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
South Park Commons is delighted to host Boz as part of our -1 to Now series!Event Details:10:30am: Doors Open11:00am-12:00pm: Fireside ChatAndrew "Boz" BosworthAndrew “Boz” Bosworth is Meta’s CTO and Head of Reality Labs. Boz joined Facebook in 2006 as their ~10th engineer, and in his 19 year tenure he built the original News Feed, Messenger, Groups, as well as many early anti-abuse and infrastructure systems. At various times he has been the engineering director overseeing Events, Places, Photos, Videos, Timeline, Privacy, and more. Before establishing Reality Labs in 2017, he ran the Ads and Business Platform product group where he led engineering, product, research, analytics, and design taking annual revenue from $4B/yr to $40B/yr in 5 years. He was recently commissioned as an Army Reserve Officer, serving as a senior adviser for the Army’s modernization efforts in the newly-formed Detachment 201: the Army Executive Innovation Corps.📢 -1 to Now is a recurring speaker series at South Park Commons exploring how the world's best builders and thinkers took their ideas from -1 to 0 and beyond. Join us for the inside stories of their experiments, pivots, and breakthroughs on the way to where they are today.Registration and approval is required and space is limited, so please RSVP soon.Please note doors close promptly at 11am and there will be no late admittance.