Changing the Game

Having won this award she got the honor of representing Japan in the international competition, Intel International Student Science and Technology Fair (ISEF), but due to a long-term hospitalization after falling ill from tuberculosis just before the competition she was not able to participate.

She re-entered the same competition the following year and got the Grand Award of Excellence Award. In 2007 she took part in the ISEF again, although this time as a student observer. After entering the International Christian University College of Liberal Arts, she won the Bronze Medal at the Asia Science Camp of 2009 created by Nobel laureates. In 2011, although she was studying abroad in London, together with Kentarou Yoshifuji, she took part and won the Waseda Monozukuri Grand Prize, the Student Entrepreneur Championships, the Campus Venture Grand Prix and the likes with the concept of OriHime.

Graduate of the International Christian University (ICU) College of Liberal Arts, the University College London (UCL) as an exchange student majoring in Innovation Management.

Before joining the Group, Ms O’Riordan was a senior managing director in Accenture where she worked for 28 years. In this period, she worked across the US, Europe and Asia with global companies transforming their business and operating models to meet changing market and portfolio needs.

She is a member of The Women’s Foundation, the 30% Club and the board liaison with the Women of Influence Committee at the American Chamber of Commerce. She holds the role of the treasurer of the American Chamber in Hong Kong and is an independent non-executive director on the board of Jazz Pharmaceuticals – a global healthcare company founded in Palo Alto.

Ms O’Riordan has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biotechnology from Dublin City University and a Postgraduate Degree in Financial Accounting and Management Information Systems from the National University of Ireland, Galway. She also is a graduate of Women’s Directorship Programme from the University of Hong Kong and Stanford University Directorship Program.

She is married with two sons.

Using his CURATE.AI platform, Prof. Ho has led multiple pioneering clinical studies that have validated the promise of N-of-1 medicine, where only a patient’s own data is used to personalise their treatment for the entire duration of care.

Multiple CURATE.AI-based clinical studies are ongoing or cleared for start in the areas of solid cancer and blood cancer therapy, digital therapeutics/personalised learning, and post-organ transplant immunosuppression, among others.

Prof. Ho is an elected member of the US National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Election to the NAI is the highest professional honor for academic inventors. He is also a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening, as well as a Fulbright Scholar.

He is also a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Translational Research Award, and V Foundation for Cancer Research Scholar Award, among others. Prof. Ho was recently named to the Asia Tatler Gen.T List, which honours young leaders who are shaping the future of the region. Prof. Ho has appeared on the National Geographic Channel Program “Known Universe” to discuss his discoveries in drug delivery and imaging. His discoveries have been featured on CNN, The Economist, Forbes, Washington Post, NPR and other international news outlets. He has served as the President of the Board of Directors of the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS), a 26,000+ member global drug development organization comprised of senior executives from the pharmaceutical and medical device sectors, as well as academic thought leaders.

As part of its mission to help build a sustainable society, Spiber is engaged in the development and industrialisation of Brewed Protein™, structural protein materials produced from plant-derived feedstocks through a microbial fermentation process.

Some of his previous investments include: Palantir, Coupang, Evernote, Plangrid, and Zoom

Kent is also an Executive Director of Sing Tao News Corporation, which maintains the highest circulation newspaper in Hong Kong as well as a presence in 4 continents.

Kent earned his M.B.A from Stanford Graduate School of Business and his B.A. from Duke University. He is an Honorary Trustee from Peking University. He also sits on multiple boards including Hong Kong Trade Development Council’s Innovation & Technology Advisory Committee, and is an independent non-executive director of Hong Kong listed Grace Wine Holdings Limited.

Kent was selected for the Young Global Leaders by World Economic Forum in 2018.

She oversees the Group’s investment properties in Hong Kong, an overall portfolio of over 9 million square feet comprising mostly of retail and commercial and leads the launch of the group’s new “H Commerce” series of thematic commercial developments, including that of H Queen’s, the first vertical, purpose-built gallery building in Hong Kong; H Code, for leisure and lifestyle, and H Zentre for premium medical and wellness.

Li holds a Master of Science in Real Estate from The University of Hong Kong and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University, USA. Prior to joining Henderson Land, Li worked in the investment banking industry. She currently serves on the executive committee Urban Land Institute, and is a member of The Y.Elites Association, Hong Kong Pei Hua Education Foundation, and Union Hospital Charity Program Ltd.

Li is also the founder of HART, a not-for-profit art initiative under Henderson Land. HART has the mission to foster collaboration and community value through a sustainable culture of creativity and programming, including the operation of HART Haus, a studio incubator for local-based creative talents, as well as HART Foundation, which runs community-based arts education and outreach for the under-resourced in Hong Kong.

Starling was voted Best British Bank for the past three years and has opened more than 1.5 million accounts, including more than 200,000 accounts for small business owners. Anne is a board member of UK Finance and was awarded an MBE for services to financial technology in 2018.

This personal journey to become self-sufficient led him to found Infarm in 2013. Today the Infarm network produces 500,000 plants a month across Asia, Europe and North America. 

Under Erez’s leadership and in collaboration with co-founders, Osnat Michaeli and Guy Galonska, Infarm has recruited an industry-leading team and developed cutting-edge R&D to help cities become self-sufficient in their food production, while significantly improving the safety, quality, and environmental footprint of food. 

In service of this vision, to date, Infarm has raised more than $100 million in funding from world leading investors.

Erez has been recognized for his forward-looking vision in multiple fora, including: Innovation Weekend Tokyo - First Prize, Vision Award Germany - First Prize as well as selection by the European Commission as one of Europe’s top innovators in the fields of agriculture and technology. In 2017 and again in 2019 Infarm became the first hydroponic farming company to receive GlobalG.A.P (Global Good Agricultural Practices) certification, one of the world’s most recognised standards for safe and sustainable food production. 

Erez resides in Berlin with his family.

In August 2013, he presented the world’s first hamburger from cultured beef. He is CSO and co-founder of two companies, Mosa Meat and Qorium that will commercialize cultured meat and cultured leather.

Matteo launched the first internet property website in the world, pioneered live streaming on mobile phones with Livestation and partnered with Microsoft to redefine push notifications globally with Skinkers. As a theoretical physicist, he brings scientific rigour to Your.MD’s work, as well as Italian flair.

Prior to SentinelOne, Nicholas was the Chief Revenue Officer at Cylance where he increased bookings by over 300 percent year-over-year and customer base to more than 2,000 deployments and 370 percent year-over-year. Nicholas has also held senior leadership roles at Intel Security and Websense, leading a worldwide team that has experienced a 7000%+ growth during his tenure.

Nils is passionate about mobility and media and was named as one of the “40 under 40” high-potential managers by the renowned German automotive publication Automobilwoche in 2018.

That same year Nils co-founded holoride – a spin-out from Audi focusing on the next generation of in-car entertainment.

Since February 2019 Nils serves as the CEO of holoride which has been named 4x “Best of CES 2019” and acknowledged by TIME Magazine as one of “The 100 Best Inventions of 2019”.

Together with Giza, Shmuel founded GPV, a pioneering Warsaw based venture fund where he also led virus internet and software investment. Shmuel was also co-founder of LocaLoco (sold to Say Media Group) a social gaming startup targeting emerging markets.

Shmuel started his career as strategic consultant to GCS and a consultant for several members of the Israeli parliament and government.

A leader in Canada’s technology sector and startup ecosystem, Allen is a member of the Canadian Council of Innovators, a lobby group that advances the interests of Canadian technology companies at all levels of government. He is also the co-founder of Two Small Fish Ventures, a fund that invests in Toronto and Waterloo-based early stage internet companies with strong network effects.

Prior to Wattpad, Allen co-founded FeedM8, a mobile advertising company that was later acquired. He also previously co-founded Tira Wireless, where he helped leading brands optimize content for mobile delivery.

Allen received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Toronto’s Electrical Engineering program.

Initially dubbed a "longer than long shot" candidate by the New York Times in 2018, Andrew became a top-tier contender for the presidency, raising nearly $40 million in grassroots funding.

With a vision to rewrite the rules of the United States economy through a “Freedom Dividend” of $1,000 a month for every American adult, Andrew became one of the most exciting stories in the 2020 race.

Andrew's nationwide support, known as the “Yang Gang,” propelled him to seven Democratic primary debates, outlasting six senators, four governors, three members of congress, two mayors, and one secretary. “A surprising, enduring, political force,” according to the Washington Post (March 2020), Andrew has been called “prophetical” (POLITICO) and a “phenomenon” (Associated Press), changing the national conversation to a point where nearly 75% of Americans support Universal Basic Income (MSNBC).

Andrew then founded Humanity Forward, an organization built to realize the vision and ideas of his presidential campaign. Through both advocacy and action, Humanity Forward’s vision is to foster a human-centered America that measures each person for their intrinsic value, not their economic value.

Prior to running for office, Andrew founded Venture for America, a non-profit that created thousands of jobs in Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and other cities throughout the country. In best-selling book, The War on Normal People, he explains the mounting job-loss crisis due to automation, making the case for Universal Basic Income. Andrew was named a Presidential Ambassador of Entrepreneurship by the White House under the Obama administration and a Champion of Change for his work with Venture for America. Andrew lives in New York City with his wife, Evelyn, and their two sons.

She has worked at the intersection of technology, consumer, design, and media, and is now working with leading scientists and innovators to steward a new global standard in probiotics.

Ara previously co-founded and served as CMO of mobile commerce marketplace, Spring (backed by LVMH, sold to ShopRunner), and was on the founding team of social commerce company, BeachMint (sold to Conde Nast), where she launched six direct-to-consumer, influencer subscription brands. She is an angel investor and advisor in companies such as mindbodygreen, Stadium Goods (recently sold to FarFetch), RXDefine, women’s healthcare startup, Mahmee, and new biomaterials company, C16.

Ara has been a fellow at the MIT Media Lab’s Center for Future Storytelling and CCA’s Design MBA program, was named in Marie Claire’s “The New Guard: The 50 Most Influential Women in America," listed on Business Insider’s “Silicon Alley Top 100” and “36 Rockstar Women in NYC Tech," and Create + Cultivate’s 100 List for STEM.

He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry and Chemical Biology from UC San Francisco, where his graduate research involved designing genetic circuits to control microbial organelles.

AeroFarms was listed on Fast Company’s 2019 Most Innovative Companies and Inc. Magazine’s 25 Most Disruptive Companies. AeroFarms received the inaugural Global SDG Award for Zero Hunger, was listed in Time Magazine’s 2019 Best Inventions, and received The Ethical Corporation’s 2019 Responsible Business Award in Sustainable Innovation.

As a member of the World Economic Forum, David co-chaired the Young Global Leaders Circular Economy Taskforce and is a member of the Global IoT Council. David serves as a Managing Trustee of the Liberty Science Center, a prominent U.S. interactive science museum, and is on the Board of Directors of Aspire, the world leader in cricket protein, and Clara Foods, a leader in non-animal based animal protein. David was named one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs at Goldman Sachs’ 2019 Annual Builders and Innovators Summit.

David received his BA from UNC Chapel Hill and holds an MBA from Columbia University.