WEF: Accelerating Grassroots Innovation ( Speakers: John Dutton, Alexei Levene, Alban Bressand, Kenneth Kwok, Wajiha Khalid)

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What innovations are needed for a Great Reset and how can anyone, anywhere, engage digitally with the SDGs?

Join this session to accelerate impact on the World Economic Forum's UpLink project, a digital platform crowdsourcing innovative solutions addressing the SDGs.

This session features video contributions from Professor Klaus Schwab, Marc Benioff and Punit Renjen.

John Dutton

Head, Uplink; Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum Geneva

Head of UpLink and Member of the Executive Committee for the World Economic Forum. Previously served as Head of the Forum Foundations and prior to that as the Head of the Forum of Young Global Leaders at the World Economic Forum. Formerly, Small Funds Initiative Coordinator for the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment; has also spent several years as a French Teacher at the Trinity Pawling School. MBA with a specialization in International Organizations from the University of Geneva and completed undergraduate studies at Kenyon College with a BA in Economics. Interests: spending time in the Alps skiing and hiking; playing competitive football in the local leagues.
Alexei Levene

Co-Founder, Desolenator

Background in consumer products, business consulting, and sustainable technologies. Globetrotter who has lived in UK, US, Poland, India and France contributing to Fortune 500 corporations and innovative start-ups. Loves philosophy, disruptive technologies and adventure. Dreams of a world without waste, with access to clean water, food and education for all.
Alban Bressand

Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer, Reforestum

Passionate about scaling solutions to climate change, and integrating a price on carbon in everything we do. Co-founded Reforestum to bridge the financing gap for nature-based solutions - by helping businesses and investors jointly back the right projects with more trust and transparency through the use of technology.
Kenneth Kwok

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Global Citizen Capital

At the World Economic Forum, Kenneth Kwok is a member of the UpLink Innovators community as well as the Global Innovators community. His forum engagements are (i) Shaping the Future of Media, Entertainment and Sports, (ii) Advancing Global Digital Content Safety and (iii) Accelerating Digital Transformation. For Davos Agenda 2021, he is a session contributor on "Accelerating Grassroots Innovation". Hong Kong based Kenneth is a Young SDG Advocate whose focus is on the intersectionality of #impact, #innovation and #inclusion. Through a hybrid for-profit and non-profit circular model, he wishes to advance multi-stakeholder ownership towards financial and social justice, equality and well-being. He is the Founder and CEO of Global Citizen Capital, an inter-disciplinary impact venture focused on education, technology and healthcare. His for-profit ventures include Ntuple (Global Innovators Community), Family Mask (UpLink Innovators Community), the MXA Group (a UNGM member) and ITS Education. His non-profit ventures consist of Better Together Foundation, Asia World Anti-Aging and Well-Being Association ("AWAWA"), FamilyQ and KIDsforSDGs. Global Citizen Capital is a proud supporting organization of StartmeupHK, an initiative by InvestHK aimed at helping founders of innovative and scalable startups from overseas to set up or expand in Hong Kong. Its flagship event, StartmeupHK Festival, is Asia's largest entrepreneur and innovator summit. Kenneth is particularly passionate about the advancement of quality education. Through KIDsforSDGs, he has built a leading community of young global changemakers in Asia through his engagements with World Humanitarian Forum (where he serves on the Youth Council), InterPride (where he sits on the Board as VP of Accessibility, Diversity and Inclusion), Asian Development Bank, Geneva Tsinghua Institute, iGEM Community, UNITE 2030, YOUNGA, SDG Labs and more. A firm believer in intergenerational learning, Kenneth's goal is to empower Hong Kong to become Asia's hub in Education for Sustainable Development. He is a passionate writer, and has authored the "Career Planning Algorithm" based on his 15 years of conducting campus recruitment and university alumni interviews. He is a frequent speaker and contributor on topics such as youth empowerment, health preservation, impact investment, social justice, LGBTI equality and the Global Goals. His various endeavours are part of the UN Global Compact and UN ESCAP communities - an example is Family Mask, which he co-founded in 2020 as an impact start-up. The PPE manufacturing company is a UN SDSN Youth Solutions Innovator for its PPE Technology Access Alliance and donated over 2,000,000 face masks to marginalised communities around the world, with the support of the Forum of Young Global Leaders and Global Shapers Communities.
Wajiha Khalid

Steering Committee, Rawalpindi Hub

More than 5 years of experience in digital marketing and analytics domains with the global media house "Group M" and Pakistani telecom operator Jazz (previously known as Mobilink). Currently serving as Chief Operating Officer for Cubex Global, which has recently secured seed funding from Oman Technology Fund.