Karabo Maelane – Solving funding, capital raising and market entry challenges

Karabo Maelane’s passion is international business development, market strategy and sector trends. Karabo solves challenges related to funding, capital raising, valuations, business development, market entry and strategy.  “After a few years in the banking sector, the challenge of being at the forefront of a new industry within the South African context drew me to renewable energy.” … Continued

Komal Sinha – Empowering waste workers

Komal Sinha is the Global Head of Partnerships at rePurpose Global, an award-winning social enterprise building a global community of consumers, workplaces and brands going #PlasticNeutral by empowering waste workers in some of the poorest communities worldwide. At rePurpose, Komal leads strategy setting, business and product development, strategic client relations and media partnerships for the … Continued

Harshita Gogoi – “I grew up deeply motivated to solve the environmental challenges that my country faces”

Harshita Gogoi is a performance-driven environmental engineer in the final stages of receiving a doctoral degree in the same discipline, committed to applying novel and innovative solutions to solve environmental problems. She has strong expertise in environmental remediation and developing sustainable technologies for water treatment with high quality results reported throughout the research career. Harshita … Continued

Petra Kotuliakova – Encouraging girls to pursue ICT careers

Petra Kotuliakova works as communication manager in education field.  “It shows me, how many problems do we have inside and how is standard system in Slovakia unable to manage it.” Petra has created an NGO to solve one of the problems special for girls; lack of motivation, missing information and no interest for pushing girls to study technical … Continued

Máté Olti – Specialized in international relations and climate change

Máté Olti is a Hungarian environmental, sustainability and climate change consultant, international relations expert and international economist with a demonstrated history of working in the management consulting industry as well as in the public sector. During the last four years, he has been working at Deloitte Hungary as senior consultant within the sustainability and climate … Continued

Kevin Reddy – Advising visionary entrepreneurs to become better leaders and creating innovative teams

Kevin Reddy is a seasoned venture CEO, digital strategy, innovation, transformation leader, keynote speaker, board member, CxO/Board advisor to venture funded startups, Fortune 500 C-suite, PE/VC portfolio leadership with Tech IB, M&A and transformation consulting experience at leading top-tier consulting firms Accenture, Booz & Co, and PwC. Kevin is also a global venture growth catalyst, … Continued

Antti Tapio – Developing cold chain solutions

Antti Tapio has a soul of entrepreneur. He says that his passion is technology and science. “I enjoy of problem solving within a team, and I have 30 years of experience in several companies and in all levels of enterprise management in Finland and abroad.” The most familiar business fields are fresh produce cold chain … Continued

Dinara Bozzhigitova – Transforming businesses toward sustainability

Dinara Bozzhigitova has studied energy production, waste management, wastewater treatment, forestry, risk management, microbiology and biochemistry in South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences. Furthermore, she knows about environmental legislation, eco-management and audit, GIS mapping, sustainable design, environmental sampling, monitoring, environmental physics and chemistry and sustainable product design. “I worked as a Technical Assistant trainee in … Continued

Shri Kasivajjula – Powering cities on their digitization journeys

Shri Kasivajjula has been with Deutsche Telekom Group and T-Systems since 2011. Shri is focusing on powering cities on their digitization journeys. Before his current position, Shri was leading the International Business Development activities for T-Systems Cloud and Applications business. “My work included managing client and vendor relations with leading global companies across different sectors … Continued

Niina Jortikka – Helping urban culture flourish in our cities

Niina Jortikka’s education is horticulture and environmental issues from Oulu University of Applied Sciences. Niina says that events, communality and urban culture have been her professional passion since year 2002. “I have large social network among environmental organizations. I have also worked in co-operation with many art and culture organizations in Oulu area.” At the … Continued