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Ruth Becke
Founder of PlantmatchRuth Becke is founder of Plantmatch, LLC, an early-stage social venture from Seattle, WA, with a mission to help more people get more plants in their lives. While Plantmatch will launch its marketplace app for plant adoption, swapping and peer-to-peer selling first in the U.S. in early 2019, the goal is to also establish operations in China soon after. Put a little more green in your life!
Pierre Bojarski
Facilitator at ChallengersPierre graduated in engineering from French university Arts et Métiers. Throughout his 9 years living in Beijing, he has worked in various industries such as construction, air purification, and is now developing ski resorts all around China. He has been focusing on challenges and 30days challenges over several years. His learning’s and experiments lead his to found Challengers, a community to help people achieve their 30 days challenges. Through this community, he is developing new ways to empower people by learning new skills, creating new habits. Pierre is also a Global Shaper under World Economic Forum, where he takes part in various project to building a better community.
Petros Djakouris
Founder of BeHivePetros comes from Cyprus, studied Economics at Nottingham University, and has been in Beijing for three years. He manages the international marketing department at an AI startup where he bridges China with the rest of the world through smartphone applications and business solutions. After working and studying in China, he founded BeHive, a nonprofit community organization that operates across Beijing to help students become more employable through professional skills training. BeHive is powered by volunteers which include driven students and working professionals from diverse backgrounds. Since March 2017, they have held numerous professional and social events, co-organized job fairs, and have equipped thousands of participants with transferable skills that will help them thrive in their careers and lives. Petros has been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Global Shaper and is an avid supporter of youth empowerment and entrepreneurship.
Azam Fardous Mohammad Safiul
Bangladesh Representative at YPARDFardous Mohammad Safiul Azam is a Bangladeshi PhD student at Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) and working on maize functional genomics for bio-fortification of folic acid (Vitamin B9). He nurtures his expertise on agriculture, youth empowerment, health, nutrition, environment and climate change issues, both nationally and globally. Mr. Azam is attached as Bangladesh Representative of YPARD (Young Professionals for Agricultural Development) since 2013 which is a global youth volunteered networking movement and also enjoying the journey as Liaison and Partnership Officer at YPARD Asia and Pacific. YPARD is hosted by GFAR, c/o FAO of UNs. YPARD`s major role is to empower youths and young professionals to engage them in agriculture through information exchange, capacity building, conferences, training, workshops and mentoring and create opportunities for them. YPARD is working to make agriculture more interesting and fashionable to increase food and nutritional security as well as ensure sustainability.
Costas Georgiou
Co-founder of BeHiveCostas is originally from Cyprus where he completed a two-year military service. During that time, he joined the ranks of the Special Forces, qualified as a Sergeant Major and graduated first of his Class. As a first-generation university graduate, Costas studied Law at the University of Manchester. After graduating, he came to Beijing where he has been living for the past 3 years. In 2017, he co-founded BeHive, a platform that helps students, recent graduates and young professionals develop career skills, and organised workshops and seminars presented by renowned experts. He worked as HNA Capital’s first non-Chinese Management Trainee undertaking the International Talent Program (ITP) for 15 months. He has recently qualified as a lawyer and has embark on a new professional journey as an intellectual property attorney here in Beijing.
Ossian Heulin
Director of StartupGrind University BeijingOssian Heulin is a passionate innovator with both entrepreneurial and engineering experiences. He is currently Director of StartupGrind University Beijing as well as CIO of Planit, a startup tackling the waste management issues in Beijing. He strives for youth empowerment and aims to provide perspective to the Beijing youth regarding the opportunities they have to integrate the Chinese tech/startup ecosystem, but also to provide startup/corporates the young talents they are desperately looking for to push their company growth. StartupGrind University Beijing aims to shrink the gap between Beijing’s students and the entrepreneur’s community of the city. Pioneer of SGu in China, we host key players of the innovation and tech ecosystem that’ll share their meaningful experiences and insights through our events, giving our attendees the background and the tools they need to succeed on both personal and professional level.
Helena Javitte
Founder of BAREBARE aims to connect people in safe spaces that allow them to remove their protective armor, and encourage them to build meaningful relationships without the need to feel self-conscious about the things they feel behind-the-scenes but rarely have a chance to express. We hope BARE will be the first step in fostering a broader culture of strength through vulnerability. Our goal would be to engage “high achievers” and encourage them to share not only their successes and everything that they are amazing at, but also their doubts, their moments of fear, their struggles to inspire others and show that we are not alone and that we can support each other to achieve even higher goals together.
Victoria Khu
Cofounder & President of SCOLARVictoria Khu is a Russian born Chinese graduate student from Tsinghua University. She is passionate about building communities that can make lasting impact across regions and countries. Cofounding the Russian Student Association (RSA) in 2015, and the SCO Countries Youth League (SCOLAR) in 2017, supported by the Russian Embassy to China and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Secretariat respectively. SCOLAR is a platform aimed at bringing together young leaders from 18 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) countries to strengthen connectivity, promote dialogue and contribute to regional development. Professionally, she has been devoted to work as a founding member of a boutique consulting firm, Octoplus Advisory, focusing on projects on the Belt and Road countries. Victoria is also a member of Global Shapers community, an initiative of World Economic Forum.
Miatta Momoh
Cofounder of Kente & SilkMiatta Momoh Business Development Manager Born to a family of Sierra Leonean creators and innovators, Miatta has over 10 years of unique media business experience. As an MBA graduate, from one of the world’s leading business schools – Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management, she uses clear business objectives and data driven marketing, to improve robust Africa-China engagement. Within two years, she has managed business development and marketing responsibilities for a range of small groundbreaking Start-ups, and big bold enterprises. This gives her a rich insightful perspective for captivating Chinese, African and International audiences with good ideas. Miatta takes passion in being a “Connector”, strategically engaging valuable communities in successful projects. For example she has secured partnerships with Chinaccelerator, for excellent Start-up resources in China’s first African Start-up Pitch Competition, and she has created collaborations with Peking University’s African Student Association for China Africa Stories content contributions, empowering youth driven initiatives in Africa-China discourse. Kente & Silk is a social enterprise that aims to change the status-quo of Africa-China Relations. They do so in three ways: 1.Rebranding Africa China through events and experiences that deepen participants understanding of Africa- China Relations (e.g Kente & Silk Beijing Africa Week) 2.Delivering strategic advisory services to African based clients seeking to engage with Chinese stakeholders 3.Introducing products value-added in Africa to the Chinese market.
Nataly Mora
Manager at Señor ZhongguoNataly Mora is a Schwarzman Scholar from Ecuador, currently studying her masters in Economics and Business at Tsinghua University. She believes that intercultural understanding is key to improve multilateral relations among nations. She has joined Peruvian Schwarzman Scholar Luis Checa in Señor Zhongguo, a project that started as a video/interview/content platform oriented to Chinese students and young professionals to help them understand Latin America’s culture, history, diversity and economic and social development. The goal is to encourage Chinese students and young professionals to embrace diversity and multiculturalism.
Weiyi Qiu Munqith Alazzawi
Cofounders of PlanitworldPlanit is a social startup that aims to accelerate the speed of recycling in China by creating a public-private synergy to tackle the mismanagement of waste.
Linh Nguyen
Founder of SEAxBJMy name is Linh and I am currently working in Beijing. I want to introduce my initiative "SEAxBJ" to this Shape Tank event. Inspired by my personal background and previous leadership experience heading a Southeast-Asian focused organization at Yale, I want to create a platform/space for Southeast Asians in Bejing, or anyone interested in learning more about the region, to come together, exchange ideas, network, and explore topics related to the region. I welcome suggestions or ideas to kickstart this project, hopefully by the beginning of 2019.
Andre Queme
Community Manager at StartupGrind BeijingStartup Grind is a global community for Entrepreneurs actively educating, inspiring, and connecting 2000,000 entrepreneurs in over 500 cities across the globe. Beijing is an unique and exciting ecosystem that makes the chapter different from anywhere else, and full of interesting initiatives. Startup Weekend is Techstars’ program bringing 54 intense hours of togetherness so attendees learn how to create a real company, meet the very best mentors, investors, and cofounders experiencing the fun, highs, lows and pressure that makes up life at a startup. Also part of Techstars’ umbrella, Startup Digest is a personalized insider newsletter for all things startup in Beijing and around the world. It features events in the city delivered directly at your inbox.
Jonathan Rechtman
Initiator at Attitude of GratitudeAttitude of Gratitude is designed to make people happy without a lot of work. Every day for 33 days, share 3 things you're grateful for in a chat group with at least 3 friends. IMPACT: Since launching in Nov '17, over 1000 users have joined AoG communities around the world, sharing tens of thousands of moments of gratitude with each another across multiple languages, cultures, countries, and chat platforms. AoG helps individual users cultivate healthy habits, meaningful relationships, and a positive psychology. AoG helps established organizations increase engagement with authentic, daily, peer-to-peer experiences.
Meg Rudy
Initiator at AdVenture for GoodAs Program Director at Philanthropy in Motion (PIM), Meg develops experiential education programs on social innovation and entrepreneurship. Through the “AdVenture for Good” project, Meg aims to find ways to help Beijingers discover, support and engage with local social enterprises. Combining a designer map of the city’s impactful ventures with tours and events, AdVenture for Good aims at advancing a dialogue about what it means to start and operate a business with a social focus, while raising Beijing’s local social innovation on a global platform.
Devon Sun
COO at HaidaxiaBeijing Foodies is a platform to help people learn and connect through Food, Fun, and Friends. We are a group of young international professionals from technology, finance, design and education industry. Our slogan is “Stay hungry, stay foolish” because we are all life-long learners.
Lucy Tong
Organizer at Global Solutions FestivalLucy Tong, a Canadian Chinese studying at Tsinghua University, majoring in Civil Engineering. Her ambition lays in youth dialog and cultural exchange, focusing on telling the Chinese story. During her masters in Beijing, she organized one of the largest social entrepreneurial make-a-thons in Tsinghua, Global Solutions Festival, and founded the Global Practice Association. Global Solutions Festival is an annual make-a-thon in Schwarzman College, focusing on bringing young leaders around the world to work together on pressing issues with disruptive solutions. Global Practice Association is devoted to improve Tsinghua students’ global competence by providing them with a platform to proactively interact with other cultures.
MJ Wang
Director of Corporate Events at WildChinaChi Fan for Charity (CFFC) was founded in 2009 in Beijing with a mission of giving back, it is a multi-city annual event that puts an innovative twist to the standard concept of a large gala dinner. On the same night, guests are invited to join one of the many participating restaurants in Beijing to dine with friends, clients, or likeminded people at a table for 10 - all for charity. To date, Chi Fan for Charity has donated more than 4,600,000RMB to local beneficiaries with proceeds going directly to the city’s designated charities.
Lysa Wei
Founder of DebatersNetworkLysa is the founder of DebatersNetwork, an organization aiming to teach debating and critical thinking to Chinese youth, who seriously lack in this curriculum. Since diversity/inclusion is always an important topic in debating, we also use DebatersNetwork as a platform to promote these spirits in China. DebatersNetwork has built a community of youth debaters, and run several successful events including the annual Beijing Women's Debate Challenge, Gender Workshop, and China Debater Networking.
Jonas Wolf
China MD at AngelhackJonas is passionate about the power of community, ideas and technology to solve problems and improve the lives of billions. An entrepreneur at heart, Jonas started his first job age 13, launched a business while in university and worked with naked Hub until its acquisition by WeWork. The AngelHack China team empowers code and change makers through hackathons, workshops and innovation initiatives. We love to connect and to build lasting partnerships.
Erin Wong
Co-Executive Director of Beijing Energy NetworkErin Wong has served as Co-Executive Director of the Beijing Energy Network (BEN) since January 2018. BEN is a volunteer organization that provides a hub for professionals in the energy and environmental sectors across Beijing, with a biweekly speaker series featuring experts and entrepreneurs, as well as a monthly reading group and bilingual podcast, Environment China. Outside of BEN, Erin coordinates international outreach and partnerships at the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE), a nonprofit organization that leverages information disclosure and public participation to strengthen environmental governance.
Yuan Yang
Board Member at DebatersNetworkYuan is currently a Beijing correspondent for the Financial Times, she is also a Board Member of DebatersNetwork - an organisation aiming to promote critical thinking education in China. She takes on an leading role in DebatersNetwork's initiatives directed at young women to level the gender gap in careers, and also to discuss sexual consent and assault. She has brought her past experiences running gender workshops back in Oxford University to China, more than 300 Chinese youth have attended her meaningful sessions across Beijing.
Tania de Sousa Dias
Initiator at Humanity in TechHailing from Lisbon, Portugal, Tania is guided by a belief in the power of education to transform lives and societies. In Beijing, she works as Director at Due West Education and is driven to explore questions in international education. In 2016, she co-founded an initiative to expand refugee youth access to higher education and presented at the United Nations as MIT Solve Finalist. Tania is passionate about creating solutions that harness technology to democratize and enhance education. Humanity in Tech aims to foster conversations that equip youth with tools to build technology that is ethical, just and equitable for all.