Kavya Kopparapu is a passionate AI Thought leader, accomplished innovator, social entrepreneur, and a rising Freshman at Harvard. As the Founder of her nonprofit GirlsComputingLeague, she was invited to present at the White House. She helped raise $175,000 to the Children Science center 5 years ago. She further partnered with the White House and DC Public schools to teach coding to 3800 students…
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Nora Bannerman-Abbott (Nora Bannerman) is an accomplished fashion designer and business entrepreneur with over thirty-eight years (38) of experience promoting indigenous business and successfully managing a number of companies. Her rich experience in trade policy negotiations, business enterprise development, an understanding of the local business environment coupled with her extensive experience…
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Nick Martin is an educator, technologist, and social entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of TechChange, a Washington DC-based social enterprise that builds beautiful online courses on topics that matter. Nick is a PopTech Social Innovation Fellow (2013), and an International Youth Foundation Global Fellow (2009). He is also an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown and Columbia Universities…
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Maria Thomas is a consumer Internet pioneer who has helped build some of the most recognizable brands in the digital landscape. She's the former CEO of Etsy (NASDAQ: Etsy) and the former CCO at SmartThings (acquired by Samsung, 2014). In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Maria was a product leader at Amazon.com. Subsequently, she was the driving force behind NPR’s successful transformation from a…
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Oscar Edmundo has devoted his entire career to urban planning and transportation in areas such as road safety, urban planning, public transport and currently serves as Special Advisor to the Mayor of Bogota, Colombia. He is an internationally recognized expert for his participation and contribution to innovative projects on five continents. He has managed projects implementing BRT systems (Bus…
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HawaH is an yoga instructor, artist, author, educator, and non-profit leader. He tours internationally facilitating interactive workshops, retreats, performing poetry, and teaching yoga. Hawah has been teaching yoga for 17 years and has studied in various traditions including Sivananda, Iyengar, Jivamukti, and Ashtanga. In addition to his teaching, Hawah has authored 4 books, produced 3…
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Rachel Goslins is the Director of the Arts & Industries Building at the Smithsonian Institution. She is responsible for all aspects of developing and implementing plans to re-open the building to the public, after being closed for almost 14 years, as a space to explore creativity, innovation and the future. Prior to that, she served as Executive Director of the President's Committee on the…
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Paulo has 21 years’ experience in the natural resources, industrial and infrastructure sectors, with exposure to different business functions and geographies. He has a successful history in corporate turnarounds, mega capital project management, stakeholder and government relations, as well as operations safety improvement. In March 2017, he joined EGA (Emirates Global Aluminium) as Chief…
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Ambassador Norman Eisen is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings, a CNN political commentator, and the chair of the government watchdog group CREW, which he co-founded in 2003. Eisen served from 2009 to 2011 in the White House as special counsel and special assistant to the president for ethics and government reform. Following his White House service, Eisen was the U.S. Ambassador to…
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Veronica Nyhan Jones is Global Head of Advisory Services for Infrastructure & Natural Resources at IFC. Her team helps companies share value through delivery of tangible benefits to local stakeholders in emerging markets. She advises clients to operate sustainably in changing environments due to shifts in demographics, and innovations in technology and communications. Veronica incubated IFC's…
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