Boyan Slat is a Dutch inventor and entrepreneur, passionate about creating megaprojects to address planetary problems. He is the founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization developing and scaling technologies to rid the world’s oceans of plastic. The organization aims to put itself out of business, with the goal of removing 90%…
Shelly Henry is the CEO and Co-Founder of MooresLabAI, a deep-tech company reinventing silicon engineering where custom silicon can be designed at the speed of software using agentic artificial intelligence. His work focuses on transforming how advanced chips are built—dramatically reducing cost and time while expanding access to silicon innovation. Shelly holds a Bachelor’s degree from IIT Madras and a Master’s degree from the University of Illinois…
Prof. Dunant is a material scientist whose career went from the material science of concrete durability to holistic analysis of material flows and design strategies in the built environment and has been widely published. Always interested in driving change, he has led the development of a criterion for the certification of bonds aimed at establishing…
