Richa is an educator and social entrepreneur. She is the co-founder of Labhya Foundation, a nonprofit that enables over 2.5 Million children from low socio-economic backgrounds with the necessary skills to cope with poverty & become lifelong learners through Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) programs, at scale in India. Additionally, Richa’s nonprofit reaches children in over 20,000 schools across 11 states of India. Her nonprofit’s internationally recognised programs have been visited by eminent personalities like His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and the First Lady of the United States of America. Richa’s passion for education stems from her lived experience as a child and her extensive work with children from refugee, migrant, and other at-risk communities, from the age of 16. During her journey, Richa has worked with education nonprofits like Teach For All and Teach For India. Currently, Richa is a Master's candidate at Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she also serves as an Equity & Inclusion fellow and a Harvard Ministerial Leadership Fellow.

 
Affiliated researcher at the SETI institute (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence), Fatoumata Kébé studies the space environment and planetary nebulae after completing a PhD in Astronomy from Sorbonne Université. She specializes in space debris, and currently co-chairs the International Astronomical Union Junior Members working group and is a member of the Royal Astronomical Society Early Career Network Committee. Fatoumata was named one of Vanity Fair's most influential people in the world in 2018. Kébé founded Ephemerides, a program that provides astronomy classes for high school students from disadvantaged backgrounds, aged 12 to 15 years old. She works with schools in the suburbs of Paris, including Seine-Saint-Denis, Bobigny and Villetaneuse. In 2018 Ephemerides launched in Bamako. 

Guila Clara is a social entrepreneur and executive coach, using theatrical techniques and role-playing games as tools that can not only enhance corporate communication, but help heal those who have suffered from prior trauma, especially women. She has been nominated “UNESCO Artist for Peace” notably in link with her work in collaboration with Nobel Peace Prize Malala Yousafzai using theatre to help girls’ empowerment. Guila Clara is an active member of the Harvard University affiliated Institute of coaching. She is awarded the title of Officer from the Order of Arts and Literature by the French Minister of Culture and recently received the Global Gift Women Empowerment Award 2020 given by Eva Longoria for her engagement in positive leadership and diversity.

Lesego is the founder of LFA Mining and Automotives which is a 100% female youth-owned company specializing in mining supplies such as (mining tools,hardware,consumables), offering mining services for open cast and underground mining,Plant hire and supplying automotive parts Before diversifying in the automotive sector, she co-founded an Engineering company in 2015 (Ditsogo Projects). She is passionate about rural development and uplift and as a result started “Give the Love,” a non-profit organization aiming to improve the life of women, children and the elderly. Her vision is to use her strong business operations management strategies and leadership qualities to uplift and upskill underprivileged rural individuals interested in STEM. She was named 1 of the 100 inspirational young South Africans, made it to Forbes Africa 30 under 30 list (2019) and Most influential woman in business and government SADC-South (Engineering).

Nthabiseng Mosia is the co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer at Easy Solar, one of the leading solar fin-tech companies in Africa. Easy Solar distributes and finances high-quality solar systems and appliances for those with limited access to the electric grid. Created in 2016, Easy Solar has provided power to more than 450,000 people, while creating jobs for more than 600 in both Sierra Leone and Liberia. As a South African and Ghanaian dual-citizen, Nthabi is a Pan-African at heart, passionate about building community-driven solutions to the continent’s most pressing development challenges. She is holds a Masters in Energy Finance from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and Economics from the University of Cape Town. Nthabi was named Social Entrepreneur in 2019 by the World Economic Forum, and Young Female Entrepreneur of the Year by Forbes Africa in 2020. She lives full time in Sierra Leone and is the proud mother of a little girl - Naledi.

Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo is Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, where she is the Deputy Director of the Digital Ethics Lab and is Defence Science and Technology Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. Her work focuses mainly on the ethical analysis of Artificial Intelligence, cybersecurity, cyber conflicts, and ethics of digital innovation. Her area of expertise is Philosophy and Ethics of Information. She has received multiple awards for her work, among which the 2010 Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy; the 2016 World Technology Award for Ethics. In 2018, InspiringFifty named her among the most inspiring 50 Italian women working in technology, in 2020 she was listed as one the top 100 most influential women in UK technology by ComputerWeekly. In the same year, ORBIT listed her among the top 100 women working on Ethics of AI in the world. Since 2016, Taddeo serves as editor-in-chief of Minds & Machines (SpringerNature) and of Philosophical Studies Series (SpringerNature). Her research has been published in major journals like Nature, Nature Machine Intelligence, Science, and Science Robotics.

Graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris where she wrote a thesis on the neuronal interactions during early development, Eve has a scientific background in Toxicology, Health and Environment. Her interest in cutting edge technology led her to specialize in Synthetic Biology, an emerging research area at the convergence of advances in chemistry, biology, computer science, and engineering. She was recognized as a top innovator by the MIT technology review and listed in Forbes 30 under 30 Europe. Now Co-founder and Chief Scientist of WLAB, she focuses in bringing high-end laboratory equipment to end users in order to simplify allergy and asthma prevention.