Keynote's speakers (Saturday)
Graça Fonseca
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Dr. Lex Paulson
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Christian Vanizette
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Christian Busch
Innovation Centre, London School of Economics. Co-Founder: Leaders on Purpose, Sandbox Network. WEF Expert Council.
Christian teaches on business model innovation, impact entrepreneurship, community-building, and social impact at the London School of Economics (LSE). He has served as Inaugural Deputy Director at the LSE's Innovation Centre, and is co-founder of Sandbox Network, the leading community of young innovators, as well as Leaders on Purpose, an organization convening high-impact leaders. Christian has been named as one of Diplomatic Courier’s 'Top 99 Influencers', The Economist's 'Ideas People', JCI's 'Ten Outstanding Persons', a TEDster, a 'Key Influencer' (Siemens), an 'Institute for the World Economy Global Fellow', one of the 'Davos 50', and 'Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts'. He frequently speaks at conferences such as the World Economic Forum (WEF), TED, and Financial Times Sustainability Summit, and his ideas have been featured by outlets such as Harvard Business Review, The Economist, and the UN. His presentations and workshops at companies such as Dell and Danone have reached millions of people.
He previously worked in business in Kenya, Mexico, Russia, Germany, and the US. He has served as Senior Advisor at multinational companies (e.g., CEO Haier) and the National Entrepreneurs Association, on Ashoka's Selection Panel, on the Global Shapers Steering Committee, and on the Jury of the African Entrepreneurship Award. He is part of the WEF's Expert Forum (a recent article on curating serendipity can be found here), and has lectured at ESADE, Stanford, Peking University, and Strathmore Business School. His work has been published by journals such as IJEV & was featured by The Guardian, WIRED, AMJ, among others. In 2016, he received the 'Best Paper Award' (Entrepreneurship) of Emerald Publishing, and the 'Best Social Entrepreneurship Paper Award' of the Academy of Management. He holds a PhD (LSE: Networks, entrepreneurship), MSc (LSE: Management), B.A. (Hagen: Sociology, psychology) & B.B.A. (Furtwangen & Moscow Business School: Business).
Twitter: @ChrisLSE
He previously worked in business in Kenya, Mexico, Russia, Germany, and the US. He has served as Senior Advisor at multinational companies (e.g., CEO Haier) and the National Entrepreneurs Association, on Ashoka's Selection Panel, on the Global Shapers Steering Committee, and on the Jury of the African Entrepreneurship Award. He is part of the WEF's Expert Forum (a recent article on curating serendipity can be found here), and has lectured at ESADE, Stanford, Peking University, and Strathmore Business School. His work has been published by journals such as IJEV & was featured by The Guardian, WIRED, AMJ, among others. In 2016, he received the 'Best Paper Award' (Entrepreneurship) of Emerald Publishing, and the 'Best Social Entrepreneurship Paper Award' of the Academy of Management. He holds a PhD (LSE: Networks, entrepreneurship), MSc (LSE: Management), B.A. (Hagen: Sociology, psychology) & B.B.A. (Furtwangen & Moscow Business School: Business).
Twitter: @ChrisLSE
Citizen's projects pitches (Saturday)
Sérgio Ribeiro
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Irene Ciuci
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Joana Moreira
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Finished his Master Degree on Biological Engineering in 2014. After working as an intern on an energy R&D laboratory and a Biofuel Unity in two of the biggest Portuguese companies, realized that he wanted to create his own projects and become one of the major agents for sustainable transformation. In 2017, being already a CEO and co-founder of an educational game project for schools, he created Planetiers – an online marketplace exclusively for sustainable products and solutions. Since then, he made his life goal to keep promoting global sustainable transformation developing new platforms and speaking in schools, conferences and all kind of international events. |
Irene dreamed to be a criminal judge but after the graduation she was not feeling fulfilled with her choices. That sense of emptiness brought her to UC Berkeley where she studied business and marketing.
After her studies she was hired to work for a start up in Silicon Valley which kick-started her career within marketing and social media. After 3 years of working with various start ups in Silicon Valley she decided to drop the routine life and leave the rat race to become a digital nomad. Her nomadic life opened her eyes to the possibilities of the world as well as the unnecessary suffering as she traveled across 44 countries in 30 months. Along her journey she visited many developing countries and was convinced that starting a social business would be the only way she could continue working. Through her interest in social business her eyes were opened to the Zen and tranquility of Yoga which she decided to share with the world after being certified in Bali. During her travels Irene also became a vegan as part of her pledge to be more sustainable and to support ethical businesses. Since her travels she has been a TedX speaker on becoming a digital nomad, runs the Down to Earth Yoga retreat and has her own social business called Bamstraw which empowers villages in Bali, reduces bamboo waste and provides businesses with a sustainable alternative to plastics. |
Joana was born in Porto and is a committed volunteer from birth. She believes in the power of people and their talents as a way of changing the world.
Graduated in Clinical and Health Psychology and Postgraduate in Marketing Management, Joana has worked in social neighborhoods, prisons for young people and has met many children and young people at risk. She realized early on that it was in the social area that she wanted to invest and began her professional career in social entrepreneurship in 2012 when she joined the Transformers Movement (where she is the current CEO) to boost the growth of volunteerism rates in Portugal and increase social engagement rates. Currently she is also a trainer of IES - Social Business School, a specialist in IRIS (Regional Incubator for Social Innovation), Youth ambassador of the Portuguese Institute for Youth and Sport, collaborated with the HeforShe movement in Portugal and coordinated TEDxPorto, one of the largest TEDx events in the world . Despite her curriculum, Joana is passionate about animals, the social area, education and community development and travels. Always with sneakers on her feet and a backpack, Joana really enjoys sharing knowledge. Transformers information The Transformers Movement is a national volunteer movement, recommended by the Secretary of State for Youth and Sport, whose mission is to increase people involvement in their communities through what people like to do (their talents). With a structured volunteer program, volunteer mentors give weekly classes of different talents (cooking, football, kickboxing, rowing, surfing, music expression, theater, meditation, photography, etc.) to groups of learners, mainly children and young people at risk and isolated seniors. These groups of learners, throughout the year, must identify a social problem and solve this problem through the activity they have received (payback). |
Marta Pereira de Melo
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Marco Barbosa
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João Duarte
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Circular Economy Portugal is a young and ambitious NGO that aims to accelerate the transition from a linear to a circular economy in Portugal. We stimulate people and organisations to redesign/repair/reuse (products), reduce (consumption) and above all: rethink business-as-usual. We believe that positive change is possible through collaborative action and social innovation. Therefore, we develop concrete projects focusing on waste prevention, based on circular principles and community engagement. To achieve this, we gather knowledge and partners around a collective goal: a sustainable society without waste!
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After supporting different startups, spend several months in Silicon Valley and having global entrepreneurship training in MIT, I'm now currently the founder and executive director at eSolidar.
eSolidar.com is a giving marketplace allows people to shop, sell and donate to their favourite charitable causes. The platform enables charities to diversify their fundraising base and reach new audiences through online charity shops, donations and special charity auctions with celebrities/brands. business.eSolidar.com is a solution that allows companies to better understand, empower and engage their employees, while amplifying their social impact and CSR strategies. Currently working on impactMarket.com, a shared infrastructure for impact-based Initiatives and Rewards. It empowers people, charities and businesses to exert positive social change by leveraging the blockchain for transparency and efficiency. |
Menos is a social enterprise that was born with the mission of fighting unemployment through micro-entrepreneurship and technology.
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Impact Workshops (Sunday)
Social Entrepreneurs (Sunday sense_tour)
Photographers
Ana Catarina Lobo
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Volkan Tokmak
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Marina |
Radovan Surlak |
Filmmaker, production coordinator, creative, artist, meditator, good-doer still figuring out what i want to be when i grow-up. the who is in the now.
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Passionate photographer, who has been living various cities in Europe in the last 9 years.
When he is not taking photographs, he enjoys cycling, yoga, camping and volunteering at local NGOs |
Olà
I’m Marina, half French and half Portuguese so I decided to move to Lisbon from Paris to quench my thirst for creativity and develop my photography skills. I mainly do street photography because I consider the street as being the space in which we mostly interact with the other and get the chance to share brief moments- that I love to capture. I have also been an English (and French) teacher for the past 7 years. I spent one year in Minneapolis (USA) and then the rest in Paris teaching adults and teenagers not only to speak another language but also to discover a new culture and way of portraying their environment. I am devoted to music, literature and street art, but I also spend much of my time free time contemplating the people, learning how to paint and draw. |
24 years old, from a small village in the north of Slovakia.
Lived in UK, Denmark and recently moved to Porto, Portugal. Jack of all trades, interested in personal development, psychology, emotional intelligence, photography, online marketing, e-commerce, health, fitness & nutrition, travel and more. At the moment working as a web-developer for Superhuit in Porto. |