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Nitin Dani - Judge
Founder & Director of Green Initiatives & GIGANitin is an architect and an environmentalist. He was raised in India and has worked in Bangalore, Singapore, and Milan. In Shanghai, he formed an entrepreneurial venture facilitating clean technology solutions, while also founding Green Initiatives - an environmental nonprofit-turned-social enterprise that facilitates learning and solutions on local & global issues, and collaborates with companies on employee engagement activities.
Green Initiatives has organized over 500 events since its inception in 2009 attended by over 25,000 people, including Shanghai’s longest running monthly sustainability forums. In November 2016, it was awarded Shanghai’s Most Innovative Nonprofit by AmCham Shanghai for reducing barriers for organizations to participate in CSR.
Nitin works as a Project Director at GIGA, combining building material research and cloud software. GIGA’s software is used to manage the material data of some of the world's largest developers, design firms and certification bodies. GIGA is also the founder of RESET; a targeted project certification focused on health, regeneration, and air quality.
Nitin is frequently invited to talk about GIGA and Green Initiatives at conferences throughout Asia.
Bethy Bao - Judge
Innovation Incubator and Investment Partner at Impact Hub ShanghaiBethy is a transformational practitioner working as a cross-border development consultant, focused on entrepreneurial incubation and full-stage investment. Coming from a technical background with an MBA, and 10 years’ experience in project innovation, Bethy features rich experience in different industries including software, e-commerce, exhibition, PR, education, incubator, finance, etc.; also features multi-role background in production, R&D, marketing, strategy, incubation, investment, etc.; and accumulated practical experience in state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, foreign companies, joint ventures, start-ups and different types of organizational changes, with internal and external innovations.
Alizée Buysschaert - Judge
Founder of Zero Waste ShanghaiAlizée is one of the co-founders of Zero Waste Shanghai. The Zero Waste Journey started as a personal challenge but quickly transformed into a larger movement in Shanghai. She started by teaching workshops (DIY compost bin, Cleaning products, ...), but later was able to work with larger institutions to make an impact and work towards a more sustainable and green way of living. The company was created in 2017, and offer workshops, consulting services and seminars. Alizée has been living a (close to) Zero Waste Lifestyle for almost three years now and has led over 80 workshops in Shanghai.
Philip Lohrmann - Permaculture Workshop
Cofounder & COO of Urban Rural BridgePhilip's focus is green technology, regenerative business models, environmental resource stewardship and design. He is currently engaged with studying Permaculture, discovering its allies in China and organizing training workshops.
Since moving to China in 2011, Philip worked in construction project management, interior design of co-working office spaces, and has been collaborating with Rainbow of Hope (RoH) and Urban Rural Bridge (UR Bridge). UR Bridge's vision is to bridge urban and rural communities, to cultivate and nourish joyfully resilient communities and an ecologically sound economy.
Philip holds degrees in Civil Engineering, Chinese and Japanese Studies, and Mathematics.
Michael Teubenbacher - Design Thinking Workshop
General Manager at CPC Consulting BeijingMichael has broad experience in the development of strongly growing organizations, in establishing international collaboration models as well as in project consulting in the automotive-, finance and logistics industry. From his study background, Michael has deep knowledge on structured financing for small- and medium-sized enterprises. He is certified Business Coach and Scrum Master and has a wide experience in agile methods such as Design Thinking.
Brigitte Neumann - Design Thinking Workshop
Senior Consultant at CPC Consulting BeijingWith more than 20 years of working experience as a management consultant and a line manager in Germany and in China, Brigitte has developed a wide range of methods and skills that enable her to impact projects and organizations fast and effectively.
She enjoys stimulating the complete potential of individuals and groups and therefore more than ten years ago started to apply a design thinking approach in her workshops and trainings – with overwhelming results. Brigitte is convinced that a playful, open-minded, intuitive way of solution-finding can generate faster and better results than pure logic. Besides being much more fun!
Sissi Chao (Princess of Trash) - Mentor
Sustainable Fashion Changemaker & Founder of REmakeHub2018 Forbes 30 under 30 China List，Asia-‐Pacific Youth4SDG advocate, SDG MY WORLD 2030 promoter, PWC CHINA NextGen representative, Global Changemaker, Youth leadership mentor, Her Century mentor, Fashion Revolution committee.
REmakeHub is a young social enterprise trying to do things differently. We believe that "Trashion" is the next super fashion, and we use high-tech recycled fabrics and creative upcycling ideas to invent the first generation of sustainable products. We believe that there is no need to use our world's natural resources in a careless way.
Clotilde Pallier - Mentor
Senior Project Manager at Mind Up Consulting and FeiyClotilde obtained her master degree in food engineering in 2007. Following her studies she joined the international retail chain Carrefour as a quality manager. Her first position was in Indonesia and later on in China, where she has been living since 2010. In 2015, as she was looking for more purpose and alignment, she operated a turn in her career and joined the sector of social entrepreneurship. She is now working responsible sourcing issues at Mindup Consulting and an advisor at Feiy, a platform that empowers empathic and purpose-driven leaders to shape tomorrow’s world. It inspires, connects and supports individuals, entrepreneurs and employees to drive change by building a career aligned with environmental and social goals.
Diego Zegada - Mentor
Corporate Innovation Director of Chinaccelerator & MOXDiego focuses on the execution of open innovation programs for Fortune 500 companies. His responsibilities include startup sourcing and vetting, project management, and strategic alignment. Diego previously worked for a telecommunications firm in Bolivia where he developed a new business unit. He also worked in a Foundry where he designed the production line of mining equipment. Diego holds an MSc. in Global Entrepreneurship and a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering.
Albert Liang 梁中柏 - Mentor
Founder & CEO of iGenesiis at iGenesiisAlbert gave up multimillion salary package to build a community for ideation to startup to first revenue platform. The optimal continuation to Startup Weekend!
Adjunct Instructor Fudan FISF Masters, Nanjing University and Hult eMBA programs.
Albert has had the rare opportunity to be a serial founder and hold various roles in over 15 ideation to launch companies and in almost 10 industries, from coder to founder and investor.
Anastasiia Isakii - Mentor
Managing Director & Cofounder of LifeSkills4MeAnastasiia Isakii has organized projects and facilitated in international conferences on leadership development for global audiences, aimed to transform thinking, find out solutions, and inspire action. Anastasia has a big passion towards education, she is a Co-Founder & Managing Director of the LifeSkills4Me Community that aims to promote personal growth on daily basis.
Jane Zhao - Mentor
P.E.T.上海好润环保创始人，80后二胎妈妈 at P.E.T.从专业角度出发，期望将自己十几年的纺织服装行业积累和品牌创业经验与可持续发展相结合，为环境和地球做出自己力所能及的贡献，并带动更多人一起行动。