Daniel is the Chairperson of the Uganda Financial Literacy Association (UFLA), a multi-stakeholder membership platform with over 2,500 trained members across the country. The UFLA creates strategies for financial literacy and inclusion for underserved populations such as youth, women, rural communities, and people with disabilities.

While the UFLA has a head office, the flagship initiative of the organisation is Project Take UFLA Home which encourages trained volunteers to run chapters of the organisation in individual districts. UFLA has also introduced mentorship programmes for students, families, refugees, and vulnerable communities.

Since 2022, UFLA’s programs have reached over 85,000 Ugandans through direct community training sessions, school programmes, mentorship sessions, and institutional partnerships. UFLA has also shared awareness of financial literacy with over 20 million Ugandans through various media channels, including print, social media, television, and radio.

Nkhesani Jessica is the Director of DreamGirls Academy, an organisation that helps women and girls achieve economic self-sufficiency through mentorship programs, personal development coaching, and financial advice. Through these programs, Nkhesani Jessica supports young women to take action, achieve excellence, and build a thriving society.

DreamGirls Academy was founded by a group of Black South African women in Johannesburg. By 2021, the Academy had successfully expanded its mentorship and empowerment programs to include locations such as Cape Town, Welkom, Polokwane, and Durban, with over 1,230 women and girls having completed or graduated from at least one DreamGirls Academy program. For 2025, DreamGirls Academy is strategically focusing its programmes within Gauteng, deepening its impact in the region.

In addition to her work with DreamGirls Academy, Nkhesani Jessica has championed significant social impact partnerships, including Nestlé's WhatsApp Mathbot, Reckitt’s Connect-ED, and L'Oréal South Africa’s initiatives such as Armani Acqua for Life, Lancôme Write Her Future, and YSL Beauty’s Abuse Is Not Love.

Ganeshan is a volunteer at Thuvakkam, an organisation that improves societal wellbeing through education. Thuvakkam provides free English, math, and robotics education to students in government schools. In return, students pledge to support future initiatives, including Indian-made robotics programmes.

The organisation also leads awareness initiatives to promote education, encouraging participants to share their knowledge with their communities. Thuvakkam hopes this will drive sustainable development, innovation, and contribute to a greener future in Indian communities.

To date, the organisation has educated 368,000 people and hosted over 630 events, with the support of more than 16,500 volunteers who have contributed over 71,000 hours of service.

Ali is a Senior Director of Heritage Lab, an organisation pioneering community-owned AI solutions for Indigenous language preservation and cultural sovereignty. Their flagship project, ᐁ! (Ai!), develops locally-hosted AI models specifically for Inuktitut communities in Nunavik, Quebec.

Unlike mainstream translation tools that homogenize Indigenous languages, their platform preserves distinct regional dialects while ensuring communities maintain complete ownership of their linguistic data. The system provides grammar correction, translation services, historical archives, and educational tools that serve real community needs across healthcare, education, legal documentation, and cultural preservation.

The platform has collaborated with over 14 Nunavik communities on AI model development. It was also presented to over 700 international attendees at a UNESCO language event and featured in UN General Assembly discussions on culture and language preservation. To date, Heritage Lab has also digitalised over 3,500 pages of local history documents.
 

Bjørn is the CEO and Founder of Revontulet, a counterterrorism company that uses data analysis to keep infrastructure safe from violent extremism. The enterprise works with infrastructure providers to ensure terrorists cannot use online and offline spaces to spread propaganda, recruit, fundraise, coordinate, and execute terrorist attacks. Revontulet also provides safety services to companies, communities, and individuals.

The private sector is heavily impacted by safety threats. Regulators are increasingly shifting the burden for safety to companies. Still, companies have limited access to intelligence to make informed safety decisions. As a response to this, Revontulet intelligence empowers clients to make informed decisions to protect themselves from safety and security risks.

Revontulet has prevented one major terrorist attack and assisted in the arrests of multiple terrorist and extremist offenders in partnership with Europol and global law enforcement agencies. In 2024, they conducted 15 counterterrorism investigations.

Steph is the Marketing and Communications Manager at Future Leap, a sustainability consultancy that measures, manages, and reduces emissions for small and medium-sized businesses in South West England. They host the annual Festival of Sustainable Business, an extravaganza that brings together sustainability leaders to enable action towards net zero carbon emissions.

This festival highlights success stories in sustainable business and allows attendees to work through challenges and barriers to sustainability through action-sessions. Featured companies at the 2025 event included Ecotricity, Pieminister, Bristol Beacon, SBTi, National Grid, Bristol Energy Cooperative, Renishaw, and Toyota GB.

In total, the event hosted over 45 exhibitors and more than 450 attendees from organisations across the sustainability spectrum delivered on a 4-month timeline from event confirmation to delivery. This new challenge has built on Steph's 6 years of experience at Pfizer, most recently in sustainability strategy which led to her listing as a Woman of the Future, Rising Star in ESG in 2023.
 

Janielle is a recipient of the Jim Polk/Carol Shields Prize Scholarship in Creative Writing from The Carol Shields Prize Foundation that celebrates women and non-binary writers by providing them with funding, scholarships, and mentorship. Currently pursuing an M.A. in Creative Writing at the University of Toronto, Janielle is working on As Thyself, a novel on Caribbean immigrants and their diasporic identity inspired by her upbringing in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

At her university, she is also a Teaching Assistant and was nominated for the Teaching Assistants’ Training Programme Teaching Excellence Award in 2025. She has helped students have their work published, including in Ricepaper Magazine. Janielle also advocates for equitable, safe, and enjoyable alternative educational opportunities for creatively inclined and neurodivergent students.

Janielle has taught over 170 students creative writing. Her own poetry and prose exploring injustice, gender, racial issues and abuse, have been published in multiple regional and international magazines.

Liliana is the Director of Amimemima, a textile company where she designs attractive and highly functional products that transform everyday life. One of her projects is El Edredoncito de Ana, a picture book about a girl named Ana, her magical quilt, and a curious hummingbird. The book comes with handcrafted quilts printed with the same hummingbird pattern from the story, made entirely with Paraguayan cotton and produced by local artisans.

Supported by the European Union through the MiPYME Compite Programme, El Edredoncito de Ana was created to promote local biodiversity, celebrate Paraguayan textile identity, and make reading a cherished ritual in early childhood. The project is the result of a collaboration between creatives, educators, and entrepreneurs committed to innovation with cultural depth.

Since its launch in 2023, El Edredoncito de Ana has distributed over 2,500 books and 100 textile kits across rural and urban Paraguay. The project has partnered with more than 10 local schools and early education centers. It has also been approved for use in classroom libraries in 26 public schools nationwide as part of the Paraguay Ministry of Education’s National Reading Programme.