Alfons is a healthcare innovator from Barcelona, Spain passionate about how new technologies can break the barriers to mobility and independence that people with disability face every day.

He holds a Master’s in Industrial Engineering (Biomedical major) from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and various entrepreneurship courses at the Business Schools of Cambridge Judge, EADA and ISDI.

Driven by a personal experience (his father had a stroke), Alfons started his professional career at Implantcast (German manufacturer of joint implants) and Institut Guttmann (neurorehabilitation hospital), where he discovered first-hand the daily reality of people with disabilities and identified unmet clinical needs.

In October 2018, he co-founded ABLE Human Motion: a start-up with the mission of enabling mobility for everyone, where he holds CEO responsibilities. Under Alfons’ leadership, ABLE has created a new generation of robotic exoskeletons that is light and accessible, crucial for widespread adoption. The technology has already been tested by +100 patients with spinal cord injury (who walked +150,000 steps), showing improved clinical outcomes and benefits in rehabilitation. The company is positioned among the most promising medical device start-ups in Europe, being recognized as the Best European Robotics Startup in 2020 and winner of the TOYOTA Startup Awards.

Ana Ortega-Gil is a telecommunication engineer by background and her journey is built upon the certainty that technology is the enabler and our minds are the solvers that encourage wellbeing for all.

She started taking a research position in the areas of biomedical imaging and instrumentation.  Her Ph.D. project on Micro-CT system optimization for pulmonary imaging tasks led to two clinical drug candidates for Tuberculosis by Diseases of the Developing World GSK SLP in the European and IMI founded project Predict-TB.  She has worked on investigating in preclinical research and evolved towards designing digitals solutions with the aim to improve health services.

She is the co-coordinator of the Health Engineers to Goroka (PNG) stay program in EHAS NGO,  supporting the Goroka’s hospital with the radiology service, and since January 2020, Senior Research Fellow at the Digital Health research group at Kronikgune Institute for Health Service Research.

Her group leads the ADLIFE European Innovation Action and Ana’s designs of digitalized clinical decision support services embody the change of paradigm from reactive discrete care problem solving towards proactive decisions modulated by the broad health outcome to which they are responsive: quality of life, of death, of care.

Curious about users, behaviours and needs, Becca founded a technology company, designing products and services for better inclusion. Her technology company is mostly known for their non-verbal emergency reporting app, TapSOS.

TapSOS is the only UK company to be accredited by BAPCO, DCMS and is integrated with BT 999 for all four emergency services.

Becca believes in ‘being the change you’d like to see’ and is passionate about design for those most vulnerable in society and to be a voice for those unheard.

Becca was awarded the 2020-2021 Women in Innovation award through Innovate UK and during 2020 expanded the innovation for domestic abuse reporting, in response to the impact of COVID-19.

Camille O’Malley is CTO & co-founder of Xtremedy Medical. Camille trained as an R&D chemist, working in large multinationals in Asia & Ireland. Camille completed her Masters from Smurfit Business School. She was chosen as a 2018 BioInnovate fellow & joined the Stanford BioDesign affiliate program to investigate unmet needs. She worked with orthopaedic clinicians and patients, witnessing first-hand the devastating impact chronic infections have on patients lives’. Camille used her scientific & commercial background to define the root cause of these infections – bacterial biofilms – and how various clinical interventions were wholly ineffective. 

O’Malley is developing a first-of-its-kind surgical treatment for eradication of biofilms in diabetic foot infections. Using pulsed field ablation, coupled with a non-invasive design, the BioBlate works by creating electrical signals to treat bacteria on the surfaces and below. The system uses custom biosensors to feedback the environment and deliver a repeatable signal every time. 

Camille & her team at Xtremedy have shown 1000-fold superiority to current treatments. Available surgical options for infections are limited, surgeons are blind to where the infection in within the wound & rely heavily on post-operative antibiotics. These therapies can last weeks or months & lead to extensive kidney damage in patients. O’Malley’s BioBlate technology works as an adjunct to antibiotics, physically disrupting the bacterial infection & subsequently creating a more receptive environment for antibiotics to work. All in a single surgery. 

Camille O’Malley co-founded Xtremedy Medical in 2020 and works as CTO “I wanted to work on a solution to a true unmet clinical need. DFI’s are a growing, global pandemic. We didn’t stand by & assume someone else is working on the next generation of infections treatments. We’re doing it ourselves.”

For years, Charlotte Degot had been concerned about environmental issues, and watched in alarm as the climate crisis deepened. She could have stayed in her lane as a BCG consultant focused on strategic transformations of Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods companies. But she wanted to do more to help save the planet. A self-starter with a very curious mind, she took a giant leap of faith in the power of computing, left the comfort of her consulting position, returned to school, learned how to code, and dove into the fundamentals of Data Science and AI.

Immersed in the field, she soon discovered the enormous potential and the transformative power of AI—and that her greatest impact could be through using AI to help companies act on their emissions targets. Today the solution Charlotte created, CO2 AI by BCG, enables companies around the world to reliably quantify their emissions, set appropriate targets, and reduce emissions by as much as 40%. This end-to-end, ready-to-deploy software solution can be used across all industries, including oil and gas, biopharmaceuticals, automotive, consumer products, and more.

As well as continuing to lead the CO2 AI team, Charlotte contributes frequently to the global conversation on AI and climate change through speaking, writing, and collaborating with key climate regulation setters and researchers. Each of her own personal actions is guided by her goal of transforming companies´ ability to act on carbon-footprint optimization.

Daniel Crawford is the Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Axial3D, a MedTech SME providing highly precise 3D visualisation solutions to make patient-specific surgery routine practice in hospitals globally. Daniel graduated with a BSc Hons in Biomedical Engineering and an MSc in Medical Visualisation and Human Anatomy. His published post graduate thesis was based on three-dimensional imaging techniques in medicine and focused mainly on the use of 3D printing. Daniel also graduated from the NISP’s Springboard program helping to hone Axial3D’s commercialisation strategy, reduce the Company’s’ go to market risk and make Axial3D investor ready. He has over 10 years of experience in medical device development and deployment into clinical settings, 7 of which are specifically related to medical 3D printing and automated applications. Daniel is responsible for the strategy within Axial3D, including its machine learning algorithms for use in creating 3D printed models from 2D medical scans.

Daniel Schulz studied architecture with a focus on urban planning at the TU Berlin, where he was already working on participation and digitalization, developing digital tools for planning, urban research and stakeholder management. Since 2015, he also worked as a web developer and media designer with his own company. At City Science Lab, he has been working on the development of GIS-based planning and collaboration tools such as the Cockpit Urban Infrastructures (CoSI) since 2019 and on the further development of Hamburg’s urban data ecosystem as part of the UrbanDataHub (UDH). 

The project CoSI (Cockpit for Social Infrastructures) is about dealing with the development of a technology and tool for different stakeholders in the co-production of cities. This is a dynamic and socially relevant field. Digital tools for urban co-production are being developed and increasingly used worldwide, which makes critical and informed development of these processes very important. Daniel Schulz’s Ph.D. is dedicated to the further development of CoSI as a component of digital urban twins. In the coming years, exciting innovative solutions can be expected here. In March 2022, CoSI was extended for a 3^rd development phase.

Dr Dorota Chapko is a creative mixed-methods researcher with a proven record of leading on health data science projects and digital products underpinned by ethical best practice and strong patient and user-led engagement internationally. She is Deputy Lead for Patient, Public, and Community Involvement at the School of Public Health, Imperial College London.

Dr Chapko applies her research towards improving and co-creating health opportunities of communities ‘whose voices are often not heard’ – on their own terms and in a way that is meaningful to them. Having respect for quantitative and qualitative research methods and tools (from pen and paper to big data), she was able to inclusively involve patients and the public as part of sophisticated data-driven studies.

The goal of Dr Chapko’s innovative research is to reduce health disparities globally – she aims to fix that by applying her expertise in participatory and community methods to perform research co-production while applying approaches from health education, communication, or human-computer interaction.

During the ‘Heart n Soul at The Hub’ residency at Wellcome Trust in London (2019-21), she led a team of artists and co-researchers with learning disabilities and autism to challenge public understanding of these conditions (Chapko et al. ACM CHI’20; DIS’21).

Dr Chapko earned Bachelor of Science degrees in Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Anthropology from MIT in 2012. She completed a PhD degree in Public Health at the University of Aberdeen in 2016.

Dr. Charles Chen is a Senior Scientist at AstraZeneca, a UK-Sweden-based pharmaceutical company, working on designing and synthesizing novel lipids for lipid nanoparticle-based delivery systems and focusing on vaccine delivery. Before joining AstraZeneca, Charles started his research journey when he was an undergraduate student and found his passion in drug development. Charles got his Ph.D. in Chemistry at King’s College London in UK under the supervision of Prof. Martin Ulmschneider. In 2019, Charles moved to Boston in the US and did a 2-year postdoc training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Massachusetts General Hospital and was co-supervised by Prof. Timothy Lu and Joanna Yeh.

Charles has led numerous projects and utilized molecular dynamics, a computational microscope, to investigate how small proteins interact with the cell membranes and combined this technique with high-throughput drug screening platforms. Interactions between small proteins and cell membranes have been a challenge for several decades, and it makes it difficult to rationally design the small proteins for drug development. Charles’ combinational approaches have shown promising outcomes in antibiotics and cancer chemotherapy and published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers and some international patents. His works have attracted great attention from industries and are under preclinical safety evaluation.

Dr. Elham Fadaly is currently a photonics research scientist and a laser integration engineer at Apple, Cupertino in the US. She has obtained a Ph.D. in Applied Physics with Cum Laude from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands in 2021. Her research was focused on the epitaxy, fabrication, and exploration of the structural and optical properties of hexagonal silicon-germanium alloys for the realization of direct bandgap emission for optoelectronic applications.

Dr. Fadaly and her research has won several international awards among which the ‘breakthrough of the year 2021 and 2020 in physics from the Falling Walls Foundation in Berlin, and physics world magazine affiliated by the Institute of Physics (IOP) in UK and Ireland, respectively, and the ‘ Best Tech Idea in 2020’ from the Dutch Kijk magazine. She has also been awarded the ‘2020 young researcher award’ from the IOP-Nanotechnology journal. This year she has been named among 21 influential Egyptian women in 2021 by the Embassy of the Netherlands in Egypt ad a local Egyptian initiative ‘E7ky’ for her research contributions in inspiring young women in the STEM field.

Prior to the Ph.D., Dr. Fadaly worked as a materials  researcher scientist in the quantum institute of technology (QuTech) at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands in collaboration with Microsoft in the period of 2015-2017. She holds a joint M.Sc. with high honors in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology with a specialization in nanoelectronics, class 2015, from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium and the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. She obtained a B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering with the highest honors from the American University in Cairo, Egypt in 2013.

The alteration of the earth carbon balance caused by anthropogenic activities and leading to climate change calls for immediate mitigation action. Based on the latest recommendations from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, carbon dioxide (CO₂) capture and storage are needed to limit global warming to below 2°C. 

As a Senior Scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Dr. Viola Becattini contributes to accelerating the transition toward a net-zero-emissions society by pioneering CO₂ capture, transport, and storage supply chains. Her research focuses on technology solutions and policies to decarbonize hard-to-abate industrial sectors and generate negative emissions. 

Inspired by one of the key messages of the United Nations Environmental Program Emissions Gap Report 2020 that “countries’ net-zero emissions pledges must urgently be translated into strong near-term policies and action”, she strives to combine research with the demonstration of new solutions. She is one of the co-founders of the DemoUpCARMA project bringing together 21 key players in the Swiss and European fields of CO₂ capture, transport, and storage; the project implements CO₂ management solutions by capturing, transporting, and permanently storing CO₂ both in concrete for building and road construction and in underground geological reservoirs.

Emil was a PhD researcher in Computational Neuroscience and Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge. Prior to this, he was in the early team of two deeptech startups (CMR Fuel Cells – Exit to Samsung c.2008; Sphere Medical – Listed). He also spent time in the technology investing team at Blackstone Group and R&D teams at Siemens and McLaren F1.

Emil was recognised as an Engineering Leader by the Royal Academy of Engineering and was named in Forbes 30 Under 30.

The fascination and challenge of building a high-fidelity, stable connection between machines and the biology of our bodies led to him to co-found BIOS, along with fellow researcher Oliver Armitage. 

BIOS is now realising the potential that lies in AI to underpin a deeper control and understanding of the human nervous system; by developing a neural interface platform, that uses AI to decode and encode the signals from the brain to the body, to treat chronic health conditions.

BIOS was backed by YCombinator (W’17) and MassChallenge UK (2015) and its current investors include Real Ventures, AME cloud, Fifty Years VC and the Human Augmentation Syndicate.

In 2019, BIOS became the first company in the world to automate the identification of the neural signals regulating physiological activity via machine learning. This ground-breaking research has opened the door to a new generation of AI-based neural healthcare treatments.

Guglielmo Mazzà is an environmental engineer and social entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of ReFuse, a social enterprise based in Beirut that offers community-based solid waste management services. Guglielmo worked in development initiatives and humanitarian response in the field of water, sanitation, and hygiene as well as financial inclusion. Projects implemented reach Italy, Kosovo, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda. As a member of the Green Inclusive and Climate Smart Finance Action Group of the European Microfinance Platform and working with Microfinanza Srl, Guglielmo focused on the development of sustainable microcredit strategies and products for microfinance institutions in Africa and the MENA region. His passion is combining equitable access to resources with ecosystem justice and restoration.

Passionate about the mountain, Forrest Gump and their grandparents, Guillem Viladomat founded his first company Alpify just when he was out of college. It was an emergency app designed for mountain rescues that facilitated contact with emergency services by providing instant information. In 2020 and through several changes, the app evolved to Durcal, the leading app to care of elderly remotely as an alternative to the usual traditional messaging options, connecting the elderly with their relatives in a simpler and more intuitive way. Nowadays, the app has almost 8M downloads. Last September we launched the Durcal Watch, a smartwatch with GPS tracker connected to Movistar Prosegur Alarmas, smart falling alert and vital signs analysis. The company had several bailouts and, in some cases, lives were saved. The main purpose is to make people’s lives calmer and safer. Guillem’s goal is to improve people’s lives and he is proud of his team, which has a strong personal life combined with this project.

Hannah Thomson, Founder CEO, was inspired by her Granny Jean to create The Joy Club. For Jean, retirement was an opportunity for discovery. Her retirement adventures included backpacking around New Zealand, volunteering in Bulgaria and becoming an amazing painter.

Sadly, not everyone has the same experience of retirement. Older people are facing an epidemic of social isolation and loneliness, with 49% of retirees considering the television or a pet to be their main companion.

On losing Granny Jean to dementia, Hannah decided that the best tribute would be to share Jean’s sense of adventure with as many people as possible. So, she created The Joy Club to enable retirees to meet new people and try new things. Thousands of retirees are now finding joy through The Joy Club, with access to 50+ live online events a month, daily articles and the thriving community.

Hannah has raised £2.2m+ investment and built an impressive team, to deliver on the vision of building the largest and most joyful community of retirees globally.

In an era where social media is often blamed for damaging relationships and making people feel more lonely, Hannah is creating an online community that truly brings people together.

James da Costa is a Co-Founder and COO of Fingo – the first pan-African digital bank designed for Africa’s 500 million youth. Fingo recently graduated from Y Combinator and received backing in its seed round from a number of unicorn founders and global VCs. With Fingo, in 240 seconds, any young person can access a full suite of financial services including personal, investment and savings accounts. Fingo offers 90% cheaper transactions and has partnered with Ecobank, the largest footprint bank in Africa, to provide market access to 33 African countries. Fingo aims to bring all of finance to all of Africa.

James draws his roots from the UK, India and Kenya. James is passionate about fintech disruption and Web3’s potential on the African continent. Prior to Fingo, James was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company in London focused on corporate business building and a Co-Founder of Mandala Group, a tech-focused social enterprise building SMS and voice-based tools in rural India and Kenya on feature “brick” phones. James is Forbes 30 Under 30, Alibaba eFounder, One Young World Ambassador and Gates Foundation Goalkeeper.

As Chief Product Officer of Elvie, the revolutionary femtech company, Jonathan O’Toole is at the forefront of improving women’s lives by creating technology that they want, need and deserve.

Since he joined Elvie in 2014 from Dyson, as one of the first few team members and the first product hire, Jon has grown the product team to 100 people strong, launched five world-class products and continues to play a key role in the Elvie executive team, contributing to the company’s journey from East London start-up to global brand.

Jon takes stigmatised or forgotten areas of women’s health and technology and applies his empathy and creative flair to create transformative products. Under Jon’s leadership, Elvie has supported women on their breastfeeding journey (Elvie Pump, Elvie Stride, Elvie Curve, Elvie Catch) and enabled women to strengthen their pelvic floor, helping them to regain confidence and control after childbirth (Elvie Trainer).

The 50+ awards for these products, including several awards from The Red Dot and inclusion in TIME Magazine’s ‘100 Best Inventions’ twice, speak volumes. These products define or create categories and, most importantly, are effective in supporting and empowering new mothers in their most vulnerable and intimate moments.

Lubomila Jordanova is the co-founder and CEO of Plan A, a Berlin-based company developing an end-to-end platform that uses machine learning and science to enable businesses to manage and improve their carbon and ESG performance. She is also the co-founder of the Greentech Alliance, a community of over 1300 startups which are connected to over 500 advisors from VC, media and business. Prior to Plan A, she worked in investment banking, venture capital and fintech in Asia and Europe. She is a BMW Responsible Leader,  Marshall Fund Fellow for 2021, 100 Top Women in Germany 2020 (Focus Magazin), Top 50 Women in Tech in Germany 2021 (Handelsblatt), and Obama Leader Europe 2022.

Water scarcity is an increasingly worrying phenomenon affecting the world population.

Mulundu Sichone, founder & CEO of the award-winning cleantech startup PYDRO, is on a mission to preserve water. Together with his team and through the support of partners, he is developing a fully integrated and self-powered water monitoring solution to help reduce water losses.

PYDRO’s self-powered sensors for water pipes and its disruptive “Sensing as a Service” business model aim to provide water system managers with more data to better understand and monitor their water networks.

To bring his vision to life, Mulundu has raised more than 5 million euros of funding from business angels, VCs, the German government, and the European Innovation Council (EIC).

He firmly believes in the power of kindness and how it can bring people together. His hard work and the fact that he never gives up despite setbacks make him a true innovator under 35.

The fashion designer Nadine Schratzberger started her own outdoor fashion label in 2018. Since then, she revolutionized the austrian fashion scene with honest sports fashion in the spirit of the circular economy. Therefore she combines functionality with unusual designs in her products, as well as with circular take-back systems trough her label MONTREET. Her focus is, to keep clothing in cycle by different tech systems.

Owen is 27 and lives in Donegal, Ireland. He is an entrepreneur and software developer who created an iOS app called SayIt!. The app allows people with limited speech to communicate by typing what they want to say and then speak it out using speech synthesis. Users of the app can also add their most frequently used phrases to dedicated buttons for quick access. People with literacy issues can add pictures to said buttons for easy identification.

Owen uses SayIt! every day due to the fact that he has Cerebral Palsy. This is where his passion for developing the app comes from. He believes that having a voice is a right. He started to work on the app in 2016 during the last year of his time at Letterkenny Institute of Technology, where he earned a Diploma in Programming. Since then he has released a slew of new versions in order to make the app a solid choice for the people who require such a product.

Owen is a father to an almost two year old boy, Riley. He attributes his successes, both personal and professional, to his ability to communicate effectively with the people around him.

Roy Hotrabhvanon is the co-founder and CEO of PlayerData, a company whose sole mission is to make cutting-edge sports technology available to all.

From an early age, Roy was into his tech and spent his days building new solutions to his everyday problems. He was not, however, an athlete. It wasn’t until he went to university and decided to join the archery club that his passion for sport was born.

With this new passion, came a realisation that you had to already be the best to get access to the technology that would help you improve. So Roy and co-founder Hayden founded PlayerData – a solution that meant everyone could access their performance data.

Since founding PlayerData in 2017, Roy has empowered athletes from across the UK with his technology. With over 6000 athletes, the PlayerData Community is becoming a place where athletes of any level can come together to access their data, receive support and connect with other athletes.

The next step for PlayerData is to globalise this mission, bringing accessible sporting technology to the U.S., Europe and beyond. Tech doesn’t have to be expensive, or difficult to use, and thanks to Roy and PlayerData soon all sportspeople will be able to get their hands on their performance data so they too, can train like a pro.

Sergio Gallastegui is Co-Founder and Lead Blockchain in Code Contract. He has technical and legal know-how about Blockchain and other technologies such as Big Data. The platform allows to automate administrative processes through Smart Contracts getting digital and legal warranties. Moreover, he has participated in other national and international projects related to business and technical innovation. His passion is about technology, innovation and sport.

Sian Farrell is Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder of StimOxyGen, a spin-out company that has developed oxygen-generating nanoparticles to overcome tumour hypoxia and improve the effects of cancer treatments. 

Sian initially studied pharmacy at Ulster University and received an award for Best Student on the MPharm Degree programme upon graduating in 2015. After gaining experience as a hospital pharmacist at Bristol Royal Infirmary, Sian decided to follow her passion and began a PhD in at Ulster University in 2017 focusing on the development of nanoparticle formulations for enhanced sonodynamic therapy.   

In the final stages of her PhD, Sian began investigating the commercial value of StimOxyGen technology and established a spin-out company along with Professor Anthony McHale, Professor John Callan, and Dr Leslie Russell in 2021.   

Sian recently led the StimOxyGen team to success at the INVENT 2021 awards, hosted by Catalyst NI, where she won all three categories and was included in the Belfast Telegraph’s 30 under 30 of the best and brightest entrepreneurs in Northern Ireland 2022. 

With experience in both clinical and academic research settings Sian has developed a passion for technology transfer from bench to bedside to improve the lives of cancer patients on a global scale.

Somdip Dey, also professionally known as InteliDey, is an Indian-born embedded machine learning researcher, educator, entrepreneur and electronic music producer. Dey is credited to co-develop the Nosh app, an artificial intelligence based food management application, aiming to reduce food waste in the household. Dey also co-founded Nosh Technologies and currently, holds the position of CEO and Chief Scientist in the company.

Every year more than 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted globally, which is both a social and environmental issue. In 2014, Dey’s parents in India went through a car accident that forced him to send back all his money for the medical procedures. With no money in his pocket and to survive hunger for a week he ended up salvaging edible food from dumpsters. After seeing so much food thrown away by others while pursuing his PhD in the U.K. he ended up co-founding Nosh Technologies in 2020 to use cutting edge technologies to reduce food waste.

At Nosh Technologies Dey invents algorithms and programs leveraging artificial intelligence, blockchain, edge computing and cloud computing to fight food waste and build a more sustainable planet.

Stefan works together with a team of 3 other cofounders and friends to make radiologists’ lives easier with XVision.

Swapnil Jagtap is an innovator of disruptive technologies in the aviation and energy (A&E) industry. He is a President’s PhD Scholar at the prestigious Imperial College London, holding engineering degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Mumbai. At 31, he is already a leader and distinguished researcher and has created a unique and highly interdisciplinary research niche of ‘sustainable A&E’, with one USA patent (sole inventor), and 16 high-impact publications (eight are solo authored).

Swapnil’s work reflects his grit, commitment, passion, and vision of decarbonising the A&E industry. A New-York ↔ Mumbai return flight emits a similar amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) an average car in the USA/UK emits annually. Aviation contributes to 5% of all man-made climate impacts, and 16,000 air-pollution-related premature deaths annually. Swapnil has extensively examined futuristic aircraft technologies and energy-vectors including their lifecycle impacts towards zero and/or negative GHG emissions intercontinental flight. He has invented a path-breaking design of a futuristic 300-passenger long-range liquid hydrogen aircraft which could bring a paradigm shift in the A&E industry because it produces zero-carbon and near-zero air-pollution while operating. His pioneering design could improve aircraft’s energy efficiency by over 50% and generate lesser contrails (climate impact) and noise than Boeing-777. This ground-breaking design will reinvent and revolutionise the A&E industry and drive future policy making, because it causes near-zero climate and human and environmental health impacts. 

Swapnil is building the foundations of the future low-carbon A&E industry via sustainable innovation. He has been recognised as a Forbes 30 under 30 visionary and disrupter (2020 Europe list), and Georgia Tech 40 under 40 innovator, trendsetter, and people to watch (2021). He has been recognised with 30+ international honours/distinctions including three fellowships, five scholarships and eight travel grants, for his academic excellence and extraordinary people-and-planet centric research contributions at prestigious world universities, which are credible testimonials of his positive societal and environmental impact and global influence.

Tanguy Serrat is the cofounder and CTO of SquareMind, a company that develops a breakthrough solution for dermatology to help physicians with diagnostic assistance and free up significant medical time. The solution leverages cutting-edge technologies at the crossroads of robotics, computer vision and computer graphics. SquareMind’s vision is to build the world’s first autonomous robotic platform for everyday healthcare going beyond skin care.
SquareMind is the 2021 laureate of the highly selective EIC Accelerator program (1-2% success rate) backing the most promising deep tech startups from Europe.
Tanguy holds Engineering Masters from ENSAM in France and from UCL in London.

Tatsiana Zaretskaya is a serial entrepreneur from Estonia, a lawyer by background, and an established and respectedexpert in sustainability and cleantech.

Tatsiana is a founder and CEO at Laava Tech, a company increasing the profitability and sustainability of indoor farming by decreasing energy consumption of the indoor farms by up to 88%.

Under Tatsiana’s leadership, Laava Tech has won several startup competitions and awards, such as University Startup World Cup, She Loves Tech, Polar Bear Pitching, and the EIT Food Program Israel. The World Energy Council has listed Laava Tech as one of the top 100 startups in the energy sector, and Hello Tomorrow has named Laava Tech as a DeepTech Pioneer three years in a row.

Tatsiana herself has been named on the Forbes 30 under 30 (Europe, Industry & Manufacturing) list for 2020, and received The Outstanding Young Persons Award 2019 (Tokyo, Japan). She is a Forbes Technology Council member, and a Country Coordinator for European Institute of Technology (EIT) Women. In addition, she has received the UN and OSCE Scholarship for Peace and Security 2018 (Vienna, Austria).

Valerio Magliulo is the co-founder of Abatable, a carbon intelligence and procurement platform that helps carbon project developers connect and transact with mission-aligned corporates and investors.

The voluntary carbon markets are widely seen as a critical tool to achieve a net zero carbon future and halt the course of climate change. However, these markets are still opaque, with little transparency around pricing and quality. Abatable connects companies that want to invest in positive climate contributions and project developers that are building those solutions. The platform gathers and leverages vast amount of data points available to generate actionable market intelligence and quality assessments to facilitate transaction between parties. Abatable provides worldwide project developers with the tools and support to scale and finance carbon solutions.

Prior to Abatable, Valerio held various product leadership positions at leading tech companies such as Meta, Google DeepMind and Monzo Bank. He dedicates his spare time to mentoring social entrepreneurs and product professionals through organisations like Bloomentor and Techstars, and volunteers for LGBTQ+ inclusion in primary and secondary schools in the UK with Diversity Role Models.

William Brant is an Associate Professor specialising in materials chemistry at Uppsala University, Sweden and co-founder of the sodium-ion battery company, Altris AB. William started his journey towards material development after graduating from the University of Sydney in 2010 with honours in Chemistry and receiving the University Medal. William then completed his PhD in 2014 on developing novel electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries before joining an internationally renowned battery research group at Uppsala University in 2015. Within the following six years William was promoted to become the youngest Associate Professor within the Structural Chemistry group and co-founded the start-up company Altris.

Williams research is focused on the design of new materials to be utilised in energy storage devices. His group applies cutting edge analysis tools at international synchrotron and neutron facilities to provide an unprecedented level of detail on the chemical mechanisms determining battery performance. It was William’s extensive experience in material design that led to the invention of an innovative production method for Prussian white, the low-cost, high performing cathode material produced by Altris. The vision for Altris is to produce the world’s most sustainable battery which does not compromise on price or performance. 

Xabier Sarasola is a speech synthesis researcher in Elhuyar Foundation and he has worked in multiple text-to-speech projects related with low resource languages, gender equality and cross-lingual synthesis. First, he has developed a multi-speaker speech synthesis system for Basque using neural networks. This system allows a low resource language like Basque to imitate any voice using only a small set of utterances of that voice. He has also used cross-lingual techniques to make the Basque voices speak in other languages that the original speaker does not speak. Combined with speech recognition, these cross-lingual techniques have the potential to create language dubbing systems that maintain the voice characteristics of the original voice. Moreover, he has participated in the development of the speech synthesis of Languedocien Occitan and Gascon Occitan. Finally, following the UNESCO recommendations to overcome gender bias in virtual assistants, he has created a gender ambiguous voice for the adaptation of the virtual assistant Mycroft to the Basque language. These projects have helped to build high quality text-to-speech services for low resource languages, an important step in an increasingly interconnected and digital world.

Since the term ‘endocrine disrupting chemicals’ (EDCs) was coined in the early 90’s, there have been calls for further research to improve our understanding of how EDCs impact both human and environmental health. The presence of endocrine disrupting chemicals in many everyday items such as clothing, food and cosmetics, makes our continuous exposure to them difficult to prevent. EDCs have not only been shown to effect fertility but may also result in transgenerational health risks, therefore research which leads to an even greater understanding of how these chemicals impact our health and cause disease is of utmost importance. 

Yuling Xie (Cher) began her research into EDCs during her postgraduate studies in Professor Lisa Connolly’s research group at Queen’s University Belfast, where she revealed how EDCs damage human health and the environment before switching her focus during her PhD to the metabolic effects of EDCs where she gained vast experience in assay development and optimisation. 

Cher has worked on developing high throughput test methods to identify chemicals with endocrine disrupting potential. Alongside her colleagues in the FREIA (Female Reproductive toxicity of EDCs: a human evidence-based screening and Identification Approach) project, Cher has expanded the knowledge of how EDCs impact female reproductive function. In addition to developing the high throughput test, Cher has also explored potential protective approaches to EDC exposure through the integration of nutritional studies to gain insight into how dietary intervention may help to counteract the negative effects of EDCs on our health.