CATEGORY: Move

PERSON BEHIND IDEA: Vincent Chan

FROM: Hong Kong

Vincent Chan is an industrial designer from Hong Kong. After graduated from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, he seized a lot of opportunities to work in sporting, power tools & consumer electronic industries, which lead him to think more about ergonomics & other human factors. Vincent would like to involve more in this project and contribute his design concept to our living places, and make transportation system greener and smarter. To actualize the concept of Citi.Transmitter, Vincent says that financial and technical support with long term vision is required.

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CATEGORY: Live

TEAM: Emils Rode, Agnija Kazuša and Ieva Moore

FROM: Riga, Latvia

Emils Rode is a cross-disciplinary thinker and doer. Emils work with clients and partners in various fields, such as national and EU government bodies, municipal administration, universities, business, and NGOs. He is interested in applying design thinking and methods to business and societal problems. The greatest challenge for the idea according to Emils is to find, inspire and lead a team of local volunteers, with enough time and enthusiasm to carry the idea on.

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CATEGORY: Move

TEAM: Patrícia Pereira and Fernando Rosenbaum

FROM: Curitiba, Brazil

Patrícia Pereira graduated in International Relations and specialized in Education and Art History. Patrícia has a background in theater, dance and performance. Some of the future challenges are of a practical nature, such as recruiting workforce to attend the amount of services normally asked at the office. After the trip to Sweden, Patrícia hope to have more conditions to maintain the collaborative spirit as a sustainable organization on a long term basis.

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CATEGORY: Eat

TEAM: Nikica Marinkovic, Dragana Jevtić, Uroš Divac and Jelena Tasić

FROM:Belgrade, Serbia

Nikica Marinkovic is a project manager at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit where he is cooperating with municipal representatives on LED. When coming to Sweden, Nikica expect to check with experienced people from various areas among socially responsible companies. According to Nikica, one of the greatest challenges is research on potential markets across Europe and US and to develop chain of raw material suppliers.

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CATEGORY: Eat

TEAM: Mark Cleaver, Adrian Fisher

FROM: Manchester, United Kingdom

Mark Cleaver is a social entrepreneur and an environmentalist with a love of countryside and wildlife and its relationship with farming and food production. One of the greatest challenges right now is to secure land in order to be able to build the farm. As a winner i Smart Living Challenge, Mark hopes gain the skills to ensure that the farm is successful. In Sweden he wish to learn form other winner’s ideas and and to gain opportunities to create innovative farms in other countries

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CATEGORY: Live

TEAM: Mwila Lwando, Ray Willbern, Chisangu Matome and Lydia Chibambo

FROM: Lusaka, Zambia

Mwila Lwando is a chartered accountant with a Masters of Science Degree in Strategic management and Post graduate diploma in project management. He is CEO and co-founder of Fingertip Technologies, a Mobile app and Innovation company in Zambia and also CEO and co-founder of the Tech Hub Lusaka Innovation Village. Mwila says that they are looking at making this idea a reality and bring other partners on board to make this not a country project but a global project that will help and improve lives and to cut down their carbon footprint.

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CATEGORY: Move

TEAM: Jessica Tunon, Brendan Casey and Robin Tim Weis

FROM: Washington, USA

Jessica Tunon has background in finance, completed undergraduate degree with honors from Lynn University in Business Management and is founder & CEO of Netwalking SM LLC and featured in news media outlets regarding her work in livability. In Sweden, Jessica hopes to meet and build relationships with amazing and inspiring people and help create solutions to active living and transportation. Jessica and the team would need a sizable amount of seed money to develop the mobile platform. Additionally, a government funded tax incentive program for people to install EV charging stations at their homes would make the program succeed much more quickly.

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CATEGORY: Eat

TEAM: Julene Aguirre Bielschowsky, Jacky Chung, Jonathan Fraser and Aran Dasan

FROM: London, United Kingdom

Julene Aguirre has a background in product design, with a special interest to generate products that motivate people to make socially and ecologically sustainable choices. Julene and her team believe the greatest challenge will come when they turn ideas and designs into commercially viable, real-world products. Julene hope that the publicity and support from being a winner will help to share and promote Ento’s vision to build acceptance of edible insects as an everyday source of protein.

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CATEGORY: Live

PERSON BEHIND IDEA: André Nel

FROM: Johannesburg, South Africa

André Nel has a masters degree in angineering is innovating for the betterment of mankind and promote sustainability and the

green economy. According to André, the greatest challenges are to secure seed funding to commercialize the product

and to ensure that the working prototypes achieve the targeted energy savings. In Sweden, André hope to obtain seed funding that will serve to accelerate commercialisation of the Green Tower.

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CATEGORY: Live

TEAM: Tanmoy Bari, Mohammed AlAbassi, Fredrik Hagblom, Simon Kalicinski

FROM: Stockholm, Sweden

Tanmoy Bari is a civil engineer from KTH Royal Institute of Technology; where he’s conducted a minor field study in Kenya and done research in Rio de Janeiro. During the winners’ trip he wishes to access to a broad network, possible funding opportunities to develop our business, meet with other entrepreneurs and experts that can help us forward. Within the next six months, Tanmoy and his team hopes to get their front-end and back-end ready and start testing our application with live households

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CATEGORY: Eat

TEAM: Rahel Belatchew Lerdell, Emma Ståhlberg, Kayrokh Moattar, František Orth, Lina Gustafsson Moberg, Niels Pettersson and Maja Claesson

FROM: Stockholm, Sweden

Rahel Belatchew Lerdell is the founder of Belatchew Arkitekter. She has a Master’s Degree in Architecture from Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris, and has worked as an architect in Paris, Luxemburg, Tokyo and Stockholm. BuzzBuilding is still at the idea stage, and Rahel says it would be great to discuss possibilities with actors that have knowledge in; the food and restaurant industry (how can we open up the inhabitants of Stockholm, or Sweden and other Western countries for that matter, to the idea of eating insects); farming (are there actors interested in handling everyday operations) and real estate (would anyone be interested in financing such a building and project).

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CATEGORY: Eat

TEAM: Warren Chia, Zhen Kai Peh, Xu Wen Ng and Tan Yan Mei

FROM: Singapore

Warren Chia is a student from Nanyang Technological University, currently pursuing a degree in accountancy, a second specialisation in Banking and Finance as well as a Minor in Entrepreneurship. The greatest challenge according to Warren is to

source for the funds required to start the project. One of the things he wishes to bring back from Sweden is applicable knowledge and pitching skills and share them with the rest of the team.

CATEGORY: Move

TEAM: Neo Hutiri, Vinu Nair

FROM: Johannesburg, South Africa

Vinu Nair graduated as an Electrical and Computer Engineer from University of Cape Town in 2010. Vinu strives to maximise impact and he believes in achieving this by driving social and industry change. In Sweden, Vinu hope to learn, network, share entrepreneurship community values, meet awesome people and have fun. Among the greatest challenges in the nearby future is finding the right investors and capture objective feedback from clients and customers to improve GenBox.
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WINNING IDEA: The wastewater treatment process
CATEGORY: Live
PERSON BEHIND IDEA: Edwin Permana
FROM: Jakarta, Indonesia
Edwin Permana work as a young lecturer and use his engineering skills to pursue his interest in treating wastewater. One of the challenges ahead is to build a wastewater treatment that is easy, cheap and sophisticated technology. Edwin hopesthat the winners’ trip to Sweden opens up for opportunities to develop and apply his technology in Europe.

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WINNING IDEA: We Deliver Taste
CATEGORY: Eat
TEAM: Pavlos Georgiadis, Petr Jiskra and Nicola Robecchi
FROM: Athens, Greece
Pavlos Georgiadis is a ethnobotanis, food author and serial startup entrepreneur in the sectors of sustainable agriculture, food and gastronomy. Next on Pavlos agenda is to launch a first pilot and promote the concept around Europe. In Sweden, Pavlos wishes to get exposure to the entrepreneurial and investment ecosystem of Sweden/Scandinavia, in order to complement their north-south approach in their business development.