Shortlist

• A passionate advocate for leveraging technology to make a positive impact in our society.
• Bridging the gap between families seeking specialized assistance and the experts who can provide it.
• Aiming to empower families with valuable information and guidance, while also fostering a sense of community and support.

• An AI Enthusiast and tech entrepreneur with mathematical background. 
• Creating a Data analysis and programming school for ambitious learners.
• Aiming to build accessible tech education and help every person find a tech job globally.

• An innovative entrepreneur with an impressive corporate background. 
• Helping to reduce financial and time costs by integrating RFID cards, parking remotes, paper passes and magnets in one application.
• Contributing to the sustainable development of Astana.

• A social psychologist, ICF coach, and marketer passionate about making a positive impact in oncology care. 
• Creating an ecosystem around the patient, enhancing patient support and managing family life during the cancer journey. 
• Aiming to find a perfect match between a patient's needs and those ready to provide help.

• A serial entrepreneur who is passionate about consumer tech and social innovation. 
• Establishing a pet care service for urban pet parents in Taiwan.
• Aiming to help fur parents find trustworthy, reasonably priced pet care when they travel.

• A community advocate for women in agriculture and technology in Africa. 
• Working with companies, farmers and agent to improve the Agricultural supply chain, from sourcing through till delivery.
• Aiming to eradicate world hunger and poverty through technology and people-empowered solutions.

• A creator of a Digital Speech Therapy App powered by AI for daily exercises without supervision of a human speech therapist (SLP).
• Giving those who live in places that lack access to speech therapists an opportunity to improve on their condition.
• Aiming to provide aid for those with speech disorders to improve their speaking ability.

• A Prosci-certified Change Management Practitioner with over 9 years of experience in healthcare, nonprofit, consulting and higher education sectors.
• Creating a network of First Responders, emergency vehicles, and hospitals, and connecting people in urgent need to help, using technology.
• Dedicated to making healthcare accessible in Africa.

• An expert in leadership, migration and climate change, unbiased AI, refugee inclusion, and DEI.
• Building proprietary AI to eliminate bias from recruitment. 
• Aiming to match millions of refugees, marginalized women, LGBTIQ+, and other diverse talent with fair jobs to break the poverty cycle.

• A passionate advocate for meaningful changes in mind and lifestyle health. 
• Discovering new potentials in conceptualizing, innovating, and delivering care through technology.
• Fostering a supportive and balanced work environment using digital mental health solutions.

• An entrepreneur with interest in the high-tech industry and loads of energy. 
• Creating a database filled with reliable and loving nannies and au pairs.
• Aiming to revolutionize the care industry and empower women to work.

• An experienced entrepreneur as well as a passionate ecoactivist and blogger.
• Revolutionizing the way businesses approach environmental, social, governance (ESG) scoring and disclosure. 
• Empowering businesses to optimize ESG performance across operations and supply chains.

• An electrical engineer with 5+ years of experience in the energy sector deploying solar systems and IoT-tailored made solutions. 
• Enabling funding for renewable energy projects in emerging markets through meaningful connections
• Developing a platform that unlocks the potential of sustainable finance, avoiding E.S.G. greenwashing practices.

• One of the top 100 female founders in the world. 
• Establishing a software that creates secure and connected communities. 
• Aiming to ensure a supporting real estate advancement through technology.

• An entrepreneur with a vast experience in leadership and machine learning.
• Leading the development of cutting-edge AI models for the early detection of chronic diseases in women.
• Aiming to increase the chances of a cure, optimize healthcare system resources and reduce treatment complications, and improve patients’ quality of life.

• An expert in inclusivity.
• Creating an ecosystem of inclusive digital products designed to develop accessible tourism for people with disabilities and special needs.
• Aiming to make traveling accessible to everyone.

• A creative problem-solver, gender perspective based, community oriented and data driven leader.
• Helping companies and developers integrate blockchain technology frictionless.
• Aiming to improve access to web3 with innovative digital solutions.

• An entrepreneur with a career in travel and hospitality.
• Connecting blue and grey-collar workers with top employers in all sectors.
• Aiming to help technicians, workers, vendors or other professionals with lower education levels to secure jobs, upskill through AI, gaming and community building.

• A Hearing Aid technician and inventor
• Introducing the first solar-powered hearing aid — equipment made by people who are deaf for people with hearing loss in developing countries. 
• Aiming to empower the hearing impaired by creating employment opportunities and helping them better integrate into the deaf community.

• A passionate entrepreneur and business leader with a dual track record in technology innovation and the industrial sector. 
• Creating an international platform for trading recyclable metals and scrap metal.
• Aiming to bring disruptive solutions to the market, redefining the way we tackle today's challenges.

• Driving sustained growth for small and medium-sized enterprise, especially female owned, in Ghana and beyond.
• Aiming to help SMEs grow well by helping them increase sales and profits consistently.

• Connecting cleaners living in the slums of Nairobi with their clients in need of their services.
• Aiming to give decent jobs to less fortunate women who are forced to raise children in harsh conditions.

• Creating a network of First Responders, emergency vehicles, and hospitals, and connecting people in urgent need to help, using technology.
• Dedicated to making healthcare accessible in Africa.

• Providing online education and job opportunities for mothers in Indonesia and beyond.
• Empowering mothers to pursue and achieve their dreams.

• Connecting farmers in Uganda with business and financial services.
• Ensuring that farmers and rural people have visible and authentic data that enables them to get different services such as access to finance, insurance, micro-health, and markets.

• Transforming healthcare by offering digital services for patients, healthcare professionals, caregivers, and family members.
• Aiming to change the traditional approach to healthcare towards comprehensive care.

• Providing digital healthcare solutions for organizations serving under-resourced communities around the world.
• Aiming to ensure that high-quality healthcare is a right, not a privilege.

• Connecting Africans at home and abroad to enable them to meet their financial obligations.
• Aiming to make International money transfers affordable and convenient for Nigerians all over the world.

• Supporting women that work from home with training and consultancy, as well as helping to resolve psychological issues which can impact their work performance.
• Empowering women by upskilling and providing remote work opportunities.

• Creating a Data analysis and programming school for ambitious learners.
• Aiming to build accessible tech education and help every person find a tech job globally.

• Providing upskilling and entrepreneurship programs for women of Pakistan.
• Ensuring that women have an equal opportunity to succeed in the entrepreneurship and STEM world.

CaterpillHERs, edtech project with training and job marketplace

• Connecting small and medium-sized producers and artisans from Africa with retailers and business owners from Europe and North America.
• Enabling African handmade brands to expand their presence on a global scale.

• Providing comprehensive guides with a focus on enabling students with learning disabilities to study independently.
• Aiming to create equal learning opportunities for marginalized students by leveraging technology.

• Connecting refugees to ethical data labeling work for Artificial Intelligence.
• Providing digital work and trainings in the skills of the future to conflict-affected communities.

• Empowering pre-K–12 schools to provide high-quality education in the metaverse.
• Aiming to revolutionize learning into an immersive, adventurous experience.

• Connecting local community of women with diverse global opportunities that promote career advancement, entrepreneurship, and financial growth.
• Empowering women of Nigeria to be financially independent.

• Building a ride-hailing service exclusively for women passengers and drivers. 
• Helping women experience safe and anxiety-free rides.

• Using smart technology for the early detection of crop diseases mostly caused by climate change.
• Aiming to increase farmers’ crop productivity by diagnosing diseases in plants that are difficult to diagnose physically or manually.

• Creating a food delivery marketplace that connects local farmers and consumers.
• Aiming to create an Africa where everyone has easy and quick access to affordable fresh food.

• Enables efficient and reliable logistics operations for businesses in Africa through automation.
• Aiming to simplify logistics for every African business.

• An empathetic leader with 10 years of consulting experience.
• Providing an education-based solution focusing on empowering educators.
• Empowering Indonesian teachers to be as creative, innovative and knowledgeable as they can be.

• Сreating communities of practice for teachers and parents, both in-person and digitally, using accessible technology and engaging content.
• Transforming Early Childhood Development (ECD) across India.