Rita Idehai
Rita Idehai is the Founder of Ecobarter, building innovative systems to collect, tokenize and transform wastes into new products. She built West Africa’s first reverse vending machine – an ATM for plastics and cans. Their infrastructures enable individuals, households, and […]
Nasrat Khalid
Nasrat Khalid is the Founder & CEO of Aseel, a social for-profit startup company, transforming humanitarian aid and economic access in fragile regions through technology. A former refugee with 12+ years at the World Bank, USAID, and the EU, he […]
Minhaj Chowdhury
Minhaj Chowdhury is the Co-Founder & CEO of Drinkwell, a social enterprise revolutionizing safe water access across South Asia through an award-winning water ATM and piped-water model. They have invented HIX-Nano – a proprietary, resin-based water filtration technology which removes […]
Michael Eaglen
Michael Eaglen is the Co-Founder & Chief Executive of EV Maritime – a cleantech design, engineering, and technology company specializing in electrification of the global inshore commercial maritime sector. Their recently-launched flagship EVM200 is believed to be the fastest electric […]
Mary Ngechu
Mary Ngechu is the MD of LinePlast Group Limited, a leading East African manufacturing group providing high-quality, eco-friendly packaging solutions. They produce high quality, recyclable & environmentally friendly PET, PP & PE Solutions. She is also the Founder of TakaTaka […]
Manivannan J.K
Manivannan J.K. is the CEO of DesiCrew Solutions, an Indian enterprise incubated at IIT-Madras delivering business transformation services across AI data operations, financial processes, and shared services. Their expertise spans computer vision, NLP, software testing, AIOps, and business process transformation, […]
Lukas Moravek
Lukas Moravek is the Co-Founder & CEO of Sabbia, a Danish company spun out of Aarhus University Research, on a mission to transform the $250B+ commercial cleaning industry. By replacing traditional liquid products with ultra-concentrated dissolvable sheets, Sabbia cuts over […]
Levi Cheptora
Dr. Levi Cheruo Cheptora is a medical doctor, healthcare innovator, and educator pioneering digital transformation in African health systems. As the Founder & CEO of Doctors Explain Digital Health, he develops AI-powered telemedicine platforms, multilingual health education, and digital hospital […]
Lara Gervaise
After conducting her research at EPFL, Lara Gervaise co-founded Virtuosis AI, a spin-off pioneering clinically validated voice biomarkers for early disease detection and continuous health monitoring. With a simple 30-second voice recording, Virtuosis’ technology analyzes vocal cues to assess mental, […]
Kushagra Srivastava
Kushagra Srivastava is the Founder and CEO of Chakr Innovation, a deep-tech clean-air company transforming sustainability through material science and engineering. They have developed Chakr Shield, a patented, Government of India-certified Retrofit Emission Control Device (RECD) that reduces these emissions […]