Dechen Wangmo is a Senior Procurement Officer working under Ministry of Finance since 2011. In this role, Ms. Dechen is responsible for managing the e-procurement sytem development project in Bhutan. She is mainly involved in conducting requirement study and stakeholder meetings for the…
Topic(s): Governance and Public Sector Management, ICT
SDG: Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
Deepanshu is a consultant at LocationMind Inc. His interests include utilizing mobility data to address socio-economic challenges and enable data-driven decision-making. He previously served as a research associate in the Capacity Building and Training Department of the Asian Development Bank…
Topic(s): ICT
SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Dr. Dennis Fritsch leads the United Nations’ Sustainable Blue Economy Finance Initiative, part of UNEP FI, focused on bringing banks, insurers and investors together to develop guidance and tools to enable financial institutions to align their activities with a sustainable ocean economy. The…
Topic(s): Environment, ICT
SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 15: Life on Land
Despoina Kouria is a Supplier Diversity and Sustainability analyst with Corporate Procurement at the World Bank Group (WBG), which she joined in 2020. She is part of the team that mainstreams sustainability considerations into over $1.7 Billion of annual purchases for the World Bank Group’s…
Topic(s): Gender Equality, Governance and Public Sector Management, ICT
SDG: Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Didier leads Elia Grid International’s global energy transformation with over 25 years of experience in the power transmission and distribution sector, including the development of state-of-the-art, interconnected transmission systems, including long-distance, multi-terminal HVDC and Offshore Grids
Topic(s): ICT
SDG: Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
Digbijoy has close to two decades of wide-ranging experience across diverse sectors, initially started his career in education marketing with reputed educational institutes and then subsequently joined the advertising and events industry to execute several large scale events/campaigns including a…
Topic(s): ICT
SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Divya Gupta is the Chief Business Officer, Global Health at Qure.ai. Qure offers cutting edge AI solutions to make healthcare more accessible and equitable. Qure has impacted more than 20mil lives, across 90+ countries, in TB, Lung Cancer, Stroke care etc.
Divya has extensive experience across med…
Topic(s): ICT
SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Mr. Young-il Ahn is the Managing Director of TIPS Town. Before he joined TIPS TOWN, he had
various work experiences relevant to startup development as the CEO of a design service
company “DCG”, a consultant at Evernote, and a sales representave at IBM Korea Global Tech
Services. He graduated from…
Topic(s): ICT
SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Technical responsible of the 24/7 e-GEOS Emergency Team, active more than 75 times since 2009 to provide fast satellite based response to Civil Protection / Humanitarian Aid Authorities in case of natural / man made disasters. GIO Emergency Mapping Service in RUSH mode - Technical Manager (2012 -…
Topic(s): ICT, Transport
SDG: Goal 15: Life on Land
Dominic was part of the founding team that set-up and currently co-manages ADB Ventures. Prior to ADB Ventures, Dominic launched the Mekong Business Initiative (MBI), which promoted entrepreneurship in emerging ASEAN economies. MBI designed and operated corporate innovation and accelerator programs…
Topic(s): Finance, ICT
SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure