As the co-founder at Open Collective and Chair of DemocracyEarth Foundation, Pia is a democracy activist in her home country, Argentina but also encourages activism around the world. She is passionately engaged in developing global technologies for democracy. Driven by the deep belief that we need a profound change in our political and economic systems as we move towards digitized generations. Despite her work, Pia is part of the Forum for Young Global Leaders and a YC Alumni.

Peter is an Entrepreneur and DOer as he uses technology innovation for social good. A lifelong learner, passionately helping the next generation to get started in tech and social entrepreneurship. While Peter is a Creative Director at IdeaHacks and Project lead at FuelMyHustle, he holds various Diplomas in Computing and IT accomplished in Singapore, at the SMC Switzerland, and the Kellogg Business School. His inspiring work gained great attention, as a winner of the Union Bank Centenary Innovation, as well as a Mandela Washington and The DO School Fellow.

Eric is a social entrepreneur and is currently co-leading Count Us In, a radical collaboration to encourage a wide range of people to collectively tackle the climate crisis. While he worked with several clients in finance, education and is a former CEO of the Stars Foundation, Eric holds seats at USA Rx (healthcare) and the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation.

In 2018 Niall joined Polymateria as a CEO, passionate about businesses aligning with an authentic purpose and contributing to sustainability in the long term. His goal is to tackle the global crisis of plastic waste and thus moving the company and science towards developing innovative solutions to solve global plastic pollution. Despite his work, Niall collaborated with the World Economic Forum YGL and the Global Agenda Councils on Sustainable Consumption.

Pia is Former Chief Sustainability Officer at the IKEA/Ingka Group. She was named one of the top 10 female leaders in sustainability by WBCSD in 2018, and top 5 influencers on the climate changer agenda by the Climate Group. As a purposeful leader, Pia emphasizes her care about the people and planet as a Keynote/TEDx speaker and Mentor. Purposeful leadership and sustainability are key to her in having a successful business performance. 

Helmy is the CEO of the SEKEM Initiative in Egypt which was founded by his father in 1977. The organization focuses on sustainable development whether it is ecological, economic, societal, or cultural. Before, he was passionately campaigning in international and national politics to advocate responsible competitiveness, social entrepreneurship, and approaching our great challenges of this century – global warming and food security.

Cheryl is a social entrepreneur and President of Echoing Green, a global organization that unleashes and grows future talents to solve the greatest problems in our world. Her bold idea is to increase access to health and improve healthy behavior through free and culturally appropriate health services. Before initiating this movement, Cheryl served two presidential administrations as a White House Fellow and Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Labor.

With her strong commitment to making a difference in the world, Mina takes this mindset into founding the initiative Thirst – a non-profit on changing the way we think about water – that she is now the CEO of. To raise awareness of the global water crisis, Mina ran across 7 deserts on 7 continents in just 7 weeks in 2016. As a global leader, entrepreneur, and adventurer, she follows a 15-year long career in climate change while strongly committing to activism around the urgent climate and water crisis.

Sven is the CEO of the PHOENIX Group, the leading and integrating healthcare provider in Europe. Before, he was CEO of LIDL and was a member of the Executive Board of the Otto group.