Ruy is a well-known authority on the subject of Sustainable Development, particularly in the areas of Energy Transition and Global Change, with a focus on Climate Change.

Ruy has worked for J.D. Edwards, Computer Associates, Shristi Corp., India Power Corp., SunEdison, Quantum Group, and Solarcentury in the private sector, primarily in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Ruy has overseen massive initiatives in this industry that focus on sustainable practices, such as renewable energy, eco-mining, and regenerative agriculture.

Since 2009, Ruy has served with Green Cross, a non-governmental organisation focused on environmental and social sustainability that was created by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mikhail Gorbachev in 1993. Ruy has been tasked by the Founding President with leading the Green Cross chapter in the United Kingdom.

Ruy was awarded one of the "30 sustainable thinkers of Latin America" by Forbes magazine (MEX) in 2021 for developing the Climate Positive framework with projects worth more than GBP 1000 MM.

Ruy is a System Engineer and a Naval Officer (RN) from Argentina who is pursuing his Doctorate in Environmental Projects. He also holds a Master of Business Administration and is a System Engineer.

I will be representing ESCALANDO, a social startup that envisions a world where every school is the most protective and safe environment, so children and adolescents can thrive and transform their societies.

Daniel is obsessed with making sure every child, adolescent and young person can live a healthy and fulfilling life.  This is why he became a medical doctor and got two master’s degrees, in public health and in public policy, and has worked for nearly a decade in the field of adolescent and youth health, at the national and international levels. Daniel is the co-founder and CEO of ESCALANDO, a social startup using technology to scale school health and well-being literacy and solutions.

PhD in Ecology, researcher in the Centre National de Recherche Français, co-founder and CEO of 8Circular, a circular economy company dedicated to transform organic waste into valuable materials through insects. His main interests are focused on the development of more sustainable forms of territorial management and economic development. He currently uses the frameworks of ecosystem services, nature-based solutions, circular economy and bioeconomy, to provide solutions to sustainability and climate change problems. His research is also focused in natural protected areas management and the social benefits provided by these areas supported by several articles published in high impact journals.

Forbes featured and globally recognised communications leader Johnny J Pawlik helps ethics first organisations, driven by purpose and positive impact to competently and effectively brand and market themselves. Oxford-educated with over 21 years of international experience in branding, marketing, and strategy, Johnny has consulted with the European Parliament, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, British Members of Parliament, Members of the United Nations, the NHS, and the UKTI, and a plethora of others. He's been featured on Good Morning Britain, the BBC Political Debates, BBC Radio, Osaka Radio, the Asahi Shimbun, and many others.

Johnny is the Founder and CEO of the international branding and marketing firm, Mantra Media, and the Co-Founder of the Japanese luxury retail brand, Atelier Japan. He is a human rights and mental health advocate supporting many organisations, causes, and societies on various boards. He's a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Commerce, a Guest Chair for the Intelligence Forums, and a member of Deloitte's Climate Action Coalition.

PhD in Ecology, researcher in the Centre National de Recherche Français, co-founder and CEO of 8Circular, a circular economy company dedicated to transform organic waste into valuable materials through insects. His main interests are focused on the development of more sustainable forms of territorial management and economic development. He currently uses the frameworks of ecosystem services, nature-based solutions, circular economy and bioeconomy, to provide solutions to sustainability and climate change problems. His research is also focused in natural protected areas management and the social benefits provided by these areas supported by several articles published in high impact journals.

President & Founder of World Sustainable Energy Institute (WSEIN)

Since 2013 Global Director & Founder of WSE Initiative

2011 US Program “A new beginning – Entrepreneurship & Business Innovation”

Since 2010 DEIK – DTIK, World Turkish Business Council Europe Region Member of Austria

Nov 2009 Founder of Reviesta Türkiye in Istanbul

March 2009 Founder & Manager of Reviesta Consulting Group, Environmental Technologies e.U.

2007 – 2008 REHAU Unlimited Polymer Solutions, Marketing, distribution and control in South East Europe

2006 – 2007 Austrian DOKA FORMWORKS LTD. International, Projects and Marketing

1993 – 2003 Manager at Yildirim Electronics Wholesale, Istanbul

Sarah is a Business Founder and Investor in the UK’s regional technology sector working with start-ups in SME productivity, workplace well-being, and multi-agency blockchain based in the Midlands.

As Chair of the Coventry & Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership (CWLEP), Sarah leads the public private partnership driving economic growth and delivering on UK Government’s ambitions for Net Zero and Levelling-Up by securing investment to improve economic and social outcomes across the region.

Passionate about future digital talent, Sarah is on the Industry Advisory Board at Warwickshire College, has worked closely with UKIE’s Digital Schoolhouse programme, and was an Industry Partner for the Institute of Coding with Coventry University. She is also an Enterprise Advisor at Campion School and a current student herself studying an MSc in AI and Data Science.

Zeina Nazer has over 20 years of global experience in strategy, consulting, M&A support, research, and platform development at firms including KPMG, Parsons, Jacobs and AECOM.

Zeina is Co-Founder of CITIES FORUM a non-profit organisation with multidisciplinary international group of experts in Smart Cities.

As a leading Advisor for governments and major global player in Intelligent Mobility, Sustainable Transport, Smart Cities, energy, and the public sector, Zeina specialises in driving Corporate Planning, Commercial Due Diligence, Growth Strategy, Sales Improvement, Operations Excellence and Cost Reduction in the Middle East, Europe, Southeast Asia and the USA.

Zeina is Co-Founder & Secretary General of ITS ARAB since 2005, delivering several advisory services contracts to public sector in MENA.

Founded Innova Consulting Ltd in London in 2007, specialising in intelligent transport systems (ITS) engineering and consulting services for the public and private sectors.

Co-Founded Jardins D'EDEN with her sisters in London in 2011, Luxury & Aromatherapy Body & Bath Products.

Ian Collins is a seasoned entrepreneur and successful businessman. He has started numerous companies, raised tens of millions of £ investment, bought, sold, merged and exited several businesses. He has worked for SMEs, corporates and NFP organisations and held senior roles in most functional disciplines. Earlier in his career, he gained experience as a product designer, electronics engineer and project manager and today he still enjoys playing with ML/AI, quantum and other leading-edge technologies. Currently, Ian is an executive in GTM Global - an international growth consultancy, Radium Services - a niche advisory agency that helps deep tech companies commercialize, and an AdTech business that uses a mix of creative and AI to deliver affordable, high-performance ads for SMEs. He also holds several NED/advisory roles and is an occasional angel investor.

Guillermo is the CEO of Meep, an application that integrates all modes of transportation in cities. Guillermo focuses on bringing several, at times competing, entities within a city together to create a smart, reliable and user-centric mobility ecosystem. Meep has reached more than 40 agreements with different operators, both public and private, and will deploy in 9 additional cities in 2019 with the aim to become the official #MaaS solution. Guillermo is a lawyer and economist with degrees from ICADE-Comillas University and holds a master's in international trade from UIMP. He is a smart city enthusiast and firmly believes that we can make great advances in urban mobility with technology and collaboration.

Bob Mollen is a senior US corporate lawyer based in London and co-leads Tech London Advocates Healthtech.  He is a startup mentor and assessor at EIT Health and the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme and also mentors Medtech startups at the NHS Innovation Accelerator, KQ Labs (the data-driven Medtech accelerator associated with The Francis Crick Institute), MassChallenge Israel, FrenchTech London, the Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst and other Medtech accelerators.

Bob regularly conducts workshops on early-stage investment, US market entry and corporate-startup collaboration and advises startups on US establishment.

Tony is an entrepreneur, corporate innovator, and angel investor with over 25 years of leadership experience. He is an authority on start-ups, corporate venturing, building high performing teams, product design and international business development. He is especially focussed on building high-value, technology enabled Health, Environmental & Sustainable Development impact driven organisations.

He is currently on the Advisory Council and a Venture Partner for the world’s largest UN Sustainable Development Goals venture accelerator, Accelerate2030, operating in 25 countries in partnership with the UNDP and Pfizer.

Freyr is an entrepreneur who loves to help people develop their solutions, co-founder of Iceland Innovation week, co-founder of Iceland Venture Studio, founder of Nordic Health Hackathon and last but not least the founder of Iceland Health Tech Cluster. Freyr believes that innovation is the only way forward for our healthcare systems. Scalability and exponential growth in this market is huge opportunity as most of the western societies all have the same challenges they are facing.

Ms. Carine Zeier has been operational in, invested in and founded several enterprise software companies in data intensive industries since the dotcom era. She has worked with building companies and teams across all continents, and has for the past three years divided her time between the US and Europe as the CEO for Dele Health Tech, an ag-tech firm looking to solve falls amongst senior adults. She is now a venture developer working with her portfolio and consulting scaleups on their growth path. Ms. Zeier holds an MBA from Boston University, MA and a BFA from Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA.

Marco Marchetti has graduated in medicine at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Rome) and postgraduate in Hygiene and Public Health and Legal Medicine.

Since April 2021 up to now he is the Director  of the HTA Unit  to support Italian National and Regional Government.

Since January  2017 up to February 2022 he has been the Director of the National Center for the 'Health Technology Assessment of the Italian National Institute for Health.

He has been Director of Health Technology Assessment and Innovation Unit until December 2016 of the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario “Agostino Gemelli”, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.

He has been an expert and referee for Health Technology research proposal in the period 2033-2008 by The NHS Health Technology Assessment Programme. - National Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment - UK.

Back in 2000, Jof Walters saw the first internet banking product (Egg Card) to its launch and through its early stages of trading creating a $2bn debt book. After moving on to become Head of Innovation for Barclays, he introduced a large Pre-Paid Card programme. In 2006, Jof bought Shopcreator (a leading e-commerce platform), transformed it into a SaaS company, and sold it again. In 2010, he both founded and later successfully sold the Shilling Group, a boutique M&A advisory and small business lender. In 2015 was recruited as Programme Director by Russian Foreign Trade Bank (VTB) to build a UK retail bank. Jof founded Million Labs with Simon in 2018, he is a director of Silicon Canal and Co-Chair of the central region Fintech cluster.

Mahi’s background is in the financial services industry with 10+ years of experience on 3 continents (Europe, Asia, Africa) and a global exposure, part of it at the C-suite.

Fluent in fintech-bank partnerships, he championed amongst others the Frankfurt-based multi-corporate innovation platform Fintech Europe at Germany’s largest bank. As part of building a view around fintech, he has spoken at numerous venues including the Frankfurt Digital Finance Conference and AsiaBerlin Summit, and contributed alongside 280+ CEOs & leaders at global financial institutions to an ebook on fast-tracking fintech innovation in a legacy ecosystem, and more. Ambassador of the National Crowdfunding & Fintech Association of Canada, he is affiliated with several other financial innovation ecosystems.

Specialized in FinTech investments, Board & Management advisory and Swiss Fintech applications
IT technology innovations (Data structure, rule based development & cyber security)
Crypto currency
Innovative inclusive finance
Sustainable investments
Start Up consultant
Strategy-, Business- & Financialplanning

Virginia Mijes is a 25+ year veteran in the technology sector with extensive international experience. A leader in the Blockchain and Crypto industry, she is a firm believer in technology as an economic and social game changer with global impact.

Has extensive networking worldwide in the industry and works on application design as well as Fintech platforms with teams in EMEA, APAC, UAE

Technology evangelist, trainer and international speaker, she pays special attention to empowering education, research and entrepreneurship giving visibility to projects in the industry. She also collaborates with different initiatives in other emerging technologies.

Chris is a highly accomplished global business leader with robust skills in pinpointing and advancing the growth potential within early and growth stage companies. A graduate of Princeton University with an MBA from Columbia University, Chris brings considerable value to early-stage companies based on his extensive experience as CEO of technology-oriented enterprises such as GoBeyond, a Swiss FinTech, Mobilitrix, an early stage mobile technology company, and running a strategic advisory firm for the last 6 years. His areas of professional focus include advising of early stage growth capital raising, financial structuring, capital raising for technology companies, valuations, team development and leadership.

Secretary General at EERA , the public research pillar of the EU Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan).
The EU SET-Plan is the leading European political platform for accelerating the energy transition and supporting the EU's strategic objective of reaching climate neutrality by 2050.
EERA coordinates energy research activities of more than 250 research centres and universities across 30 countries in Europe
EERA manages 18 international research programmes, through which world-class European researchers provide cutting-edge expertise on low carbon energy technologies and decarbonization strategies.

Anna has been working in sustainability for 20 years and has a private sector background. As Chief Executive at Sustainability West Midlands she has worked with businesses, local authorities, LEPs, the NHS and the West Midlands Combined Authority to help shape the way that they reduce their impact and plan and mitigate for the impacts of climate change. Anna is also a Trustee for the Wildlife Trusts for Birmingham and the Black Country.

 Erwin Spolders is the Founder and CEO of Redavia, the leading provider of solar power farms for businesses in Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania. Redavia’s fully financed solar farms provide clean, cost-effective power to commercial

and industrial businesses without an up-front investment or long-term off-take obligations.

Founder and Partner at WunderOcean that is a company backed by a strong group and great team (a sister company of WunderHexicon). Focused on renewables R&D to commercialize innovative technology and developing software. The scope of the company is the onshore and offshore market to solve some of the current gaps over renewables, like planning, construction, H&S and O&M.