As 62% of attendees registered high stress levels, Solh Wellness introduced real-time emotional analytics through its Streffie kiosk, redefining engagement at the POWERGEN India summit.
At the heart of India’s premier power and energy summit, where experts debated grid resiliency, carbon neutrality, and smart energy infrastructure, an unexpected force quietly transformed how attendees understood pressure within themselves. Amid the noise of POWERGEN India 2025 and its co-located expos at Yashobhoomi IICC Dwarka, a sleek, touch-screen kiosk quietly collected biometric data from conference delegates. The device, Streffie, developed by Indian wellness innovator Solh Wellness, recorded the unspoken tensions of the summit’s human participants in real time. The numbers it delivered were impossible to ignore.
Data collected from over 600 delegates revealed that 62.1% exhibited high stress levels, 35.7% moderate, and 2.2% very high. This real-time emotional snapshot reframed the power conversation entirely reminding leaders, policymakers, and technologists that the transition to clean energy cannot exclude the emotional climate of those driving it. Streffie wasn’t a sideshow or digital gimmick. It was a human mirror.
In a summit known for showcasing innovations in hydrogen energy, battery storage, and electric mobility, Streffie became an unlikely center of gravity for emotional truth. Delegates stepped up, pressed the button, and within seconds, were handed an insight more powerful than product specs or policy briefs: their own stress level. This wasn’t designed for spectacle. It was designed for awareness. And it worked.
The idea behind Streffie was conceptualized by Kapil Gupta, Founder and CEO of Solh Wellness, a digital-first mental health platform rooted in real-time diagnostics and proactive wellness tools. His philosophy is simple stress is no longer invisible, and it shouldn’t be treated like a private inconvenience. As he puts it, “When industries count kilowatts, they often forget the kilohertz of the heart.” Gupta’s platform combines emotional intelligence and data science to deliver scalable, measurable tools for mental health resilience in workspaces, campuses, and public forums.
Streffie’s installation at POWERGEN India 2025 marked the first time the device was used in a global energy event. Hosted by Iten Media, the organizers of Indian Utility Week and Bharat Electricity Expo, the summit attracted policymakers, engineers, utility leaders, and global researchers all deeply invested in India’s decarbonization journey. While high-stakes conversations about policy, pricing, and production filled panel rooms, Streffie offered an entirely different kind of keynote one based on physiological data and introspection.
Unlike VR booths or interactive dashboards, the Streffie experience stood out for its simplicity. A user approached the kiosk, held a sensor pad, and watched a live diagnostic generate a stress score using biometrics like heart rate variability and skin conductivity. The results weren’t stored with names, ensuring privacy, but were aggregated to create a broader map of emotional wellbeing across the summit floor. That map told a story that even the most polished keynote speeches could not.
What made Streffie more than just a health booth was its integration into the psychology of event experience. Rather than treating attendees as passive consumers of content, it engaged them as active participants in their own wellbeing. Visitors reported feeling “seen” not in a performative sense, but in a way that forced self-awareness amid industry pressure. While most events offer swag bags and coffee counters, Streffie offered a reality check. And the takeaway wasn’t just a report, it was a question: how are we feeling as we build the future?
The stress metrics collected aligned with what the World Health Organization has already warned about: over one billion people globally are navigating anxiety, burnout, or depressive symptoms. Stress has become one of the top three contributors to long-term disability worldwide. In high-performance sectors like power and infrastructure where engineering demands, regulatory pressure, and innovation cycles collide mental load is often background noise. Streffie made it the headline.
Solh Wellness has already deployed versions of Streffie in corporate campuses, academic institutions, and government offices. The POWERGEN deployment was unique in that it turned a large-scale industry summit into a real-time lab of emotional analytics. And yet, it did so without spectacle. There was no call for applause. No celebrity endorsement. Just data, empathy, and silence.
Looking forward, Streffie could become a permanent fixture in high-pressure environments summits, airports, universities, and even election rallies. Solh Wellness is exploring integrations into post-event dashboards, where anonymized stress data could help organizers understand how audience fatigue unfolds hour by hour. Custom modules may allow brands to offer recovery tools in-app meditation guides, micro-therapy prompts, or gamified challenges like “Beat Your Stress Score.” What began as a kiosk could evolve into a feedback loop where event wellness is not a sideline, but a metric of success.
Streffie’s deployment at POWERGEN 2025 was made possible by the vision of Iten Media, which continues to push the boundaries of what power sector engagement can look like. While other expos leaned into heavy tech demonstrations, Iten made space for a softer, subtler story: the wellbeing of the people powering the grid. That decision quiet, intentional, and courageousdeserves its own spotlight. In a field often dominated by performance benchmarks and project financing, Streffie’s quiet presence reminded all stakeholders that resilience is as human as it is electrical.
The success of Streffie at POWERGEN is also a signal to event organizers worldwide that wellbeing activations can no longer be treated as wellness “corners.” They are central to experience. Just as carbon dashboards and load forecasts are shared on large displays, emotional feedback loops deserve public stage space normalized, not hidden. This is where Solh Wellness plans to make its next move towards transforming real-time stress visibility into a cultural baseline.
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