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Social Responsibility Forum: Reimagining Tech
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Social entrepreneurs in the tech sector intentionally use technology to tackle some of the world’s most pressing issues, such as poverty, health, or climate change.
The panelists come from different backgrounds, they have different opinions and insights. But they all share a common mission: Creating impact-driven market opportunities in the tech sector.
Speakers
Uli Grabenwarter
Deputy Director - Equity Investments at European Investment Fund (EIF) and Trustee at GSG for Impact Investment
European Investment Fund
https://www.linkedin.com/in/uligrabenwarter/
Uli is Deputy Director – Equity Investments at the European Investment Fund (EIF). He is a senior professional in Venture Capital and Private Equity and Trustee at GSG: Impact Investment.
He has developed expertise in Impact Investing, Impact Due Diligence and Impact Metrics, together with an extensive operational and managerial experience in multibillion Fund-of-Funds and broad board experience in Asset Management Firms and Funds.
He is often speaker at Private Equity, VC and Impact Investing related conferences. Uli is author of numerous publications on Venture Capital, Private Equity and Impact Investing; he has conducted extended research on family offices' activity in SRI and Impact Investing developing leading-edge expertise in this investment field.
Niccolò Maurizi
Co-founder, Medical doctor
D-Heart, Hôpital du Valais
https://www.linkedin.com/in/niccolo-maurizi-0212932b/
Young and enthusiast medical doctor researcher in Cardiology with the group of Dr. Iacopo Olivotto and Prof. Franco Cecchi in Florence, Niccolò is an alumnus of Collegio Borromeo in Pavia. He earned international experienced in various field of Cardiology working with different groups at Johns Hopkins Hospital of Baltimore, London, Belgium, Pavia and India.
Alicia Mancheño
Managing Director
Alizent
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanchenoplaza/
Telecom Engineer and Executive MBA, Professor Alicia Mancheño is the Managing Direct of Alizent Spain, a subsidiary of Air Liquide, empowering industrial companies to optimize performance, improve user experience and reshape business models.
In her previous role as Head of IoT and Smart Cities at Vodafone Spain, she was responsible for leading the strategy and defining product and long term roadmap of the Smart cities proposition. She was also the Local Lead of the commercial launch of NB-IoT in Spain.
Her fields of expertise include product management, business development, transformation programs, presales, delivery and customer operations of solutions for corporate clients in a variety of verticals including Smart Cities, Industrial IoT, Utilities, intelligent buildings and smart home.
In her free time she is the Chapter Ambassador of Technovation, helping teen girls to become technology entrepreneurs and solve social problems they experience in their community.
She is an active member of Toastmasters, a non-profit educational world leader in communication and leadership development.
Professor of Smart Cities and Government at the Master in Big Data & Business Analytics.
Francisco Rojo
Co-founder, Business Development Manager
Voluntechies, Kabel
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rojofrancisco/
Social entrepreneur focused on new technologies and their power to transform societies. Passionate about exponential technologies, startups, innovation and adventure sports. Voluntechies is a community made of people that creates wonderful experiences using new technologies to help other people around us (for example Virtual Reality activities for hospitalized kids, disabled people and elderly).
Balvinder Powar
Board Member. Entrepreneur. Investor. Mentor. Professor. Specialist in Business Development/Relationship Management, Leadership and Wellbeing.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/balvindersinghpowar/
Bal has extensive experience leading business, social, cultural, media and technology projects in Spain and internationally. His main skills include internal and external communications, creative & strategic input, business development & senior management, team leadership, relationship management & business mediation.
He is a strong advocate of self-empowerment and pro-activeness to achieve one´s goals, with his favourite quote being that of Mahatma Gandhi: “Be the change you want to see in the world.”
He is a Founding Partner, Board Member and Director at BOOSTER Space Industries and AERDRON, innovative international Aerospace projects/consultancies with important stakeholders globally. In 2015 he became a Business Mentor at “The Founder Institute”, one of the largest and most powerful start up networks in the world. In 2017 he became a partner at B- Scaled, a consultancy helping mainly tech start-ups to find clients and investment globally. His current focus is on Wellbeing projects in the Therapy, Mindfulness and Hydroponic Food Production sectors.
He is also an Adjunct Professor and Business Mentor at IE Business School.