social change through local innovation and global entrepreneurship

Co-Founder of the Ecole Supérieure d’Infotronique d’Haïti (ESIH) and part of the initiatives to rebuild the Haitian Higher Education System with technology, inclusion and engagement of technology students.

Tai Chi Rhythmball originated in China. It is a 3-in-1 exercise, with taichi, dance, and badminton merged together. It is an exercise for the whole body. It does not just use our neck, limbs and eyes, but it also balances our right and left brain and exercises our reaction capabilities.

Vivian Claire Liu's burning passion for making a difference, particularly to the poorest and the most neglected, has seen her bring to bear her world-class hybrid experience across the public, private and non-profit spheres - The World Bank, Goldman Sachs, UBS and Nobel Peace Prize winner Medecins sans Frontieres ("MSF", ie Doctors without Borders), in addressing the critical gap in Asia's developmental sphere.

A self-described "social hub", Robin is the founder of Greenyarn, a nanotechnology company manufacturing sustainable socks, fabric and apparel for environmentally conscious consumers. He is also the founder of xSandals, a social business of sandals made by amputees in Indonesia and he is now working on doing.gd a consolidate space for social organizations and causes.

Social Entrepreneur and CEO of VayuGrid, empowering the first mile through community dynamics for social business and energizing the first mile by fueling the future with non-edible oil based bio-diesel for transportation. Current Executive in Residence, INSEAD Social Innovation Centre, Singapore 2010-11 and past Wharton Fellow 2005, Reuters Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University 2006.

Research Fellow at the KEIO-NUS CUTE Centre at the National University of Singapore. Jose's research spans projects from feeling communication to the use of video games in education, going through the understanding of social dynamics in the internet. His research interest focus on the use of technology to empower creativity and innovation.

Min Xuan is devoted to working on her own startup ideas and passion projects, one of which is to create a financial education platform targeted at children. She also actively tickles her creative side as a designer, photographer and musician.

Margarita is a member of the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab and director of the Stanford Peace Innovation Lab where she conducts research in Innovation, collaboration, persuasive technology & the potential of social networks to change society for the better. She is a devotee of design thinking and brings a beginner's mind to everything she does.

Dr. Shengdong Zhao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, where he earned the NUS Young Investigator Award in 2009 and where he has spent the past 2 years with a team of gifted students working on Farmer’s Tale: A Facebook Game to Promote Volunteerism.

Jessica Colaço is a 2009 TED Global Fellow, currently running iHub Kenya (an innovation centre similar to Garag3), named as one of the top 40 women under 40 years in Kenya's business scene by Business Daily on 2009.

Founder of Jaroka Tele-healthcare a social business providing affordable health services in rural Pakistan, which won the mBillionth Award's mHealth category on 2011 in New Delhi, India organized by the Digital Empowerment Foundation, and sponsored by India's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, OnMobile, and Intel among others.

Social Entrepreneur in Residence at the National University of Singapore Entrepreneurship Centre (2010-2011), Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University 2004-2005, Google Developing World Scholarship recipient 2004, acknowledged by CNN as one of Latin America's top 20 most influential people on the Internet (2000).