Aishwarya is a plant scientist and entrepreneur building Prithvion, a predictive disease intelligence platform for agriculture. Her background is in plant physiology and stress biology, where she studied how environmental conditions influence crop health and disease development. Before founding Prithvion, she worked in research and innovation roles bridging scientific R&D with business strategy, helping translate complex biological insights into practical solutions. Through extensive engagement with farmers, agronomists, and researchers, she recognized the gap between plant disease science and real-world decision making. Aishwarya is passionate about building tools that empower farmers with better intelligence to protect crops, improve sustainability, and strengthen global food systems.

Caroline Tiglao is a cleantech founder, investor, and community builder focused on people-first sustainability. She co-founded NEUUF to develop non-invasive, net-positive regenerative technology for mobility, advancing solutions that add value rather than simply reduce harm. A mother and global entrepreneur with experience across startups and corporations in Europe, Asia, and the U.S., Caroline brings a systems-level and intuitive approach to innovation. She is committed to building technologies and ecosystems that serve communities, empower women, and create lasting generational impact.

Gabriella Dweck is a founder and co-CEO of Oleo Public Benefit Corporation, a venture transforming wasted biomass into sustainable oil feedstocks for advanced fuel production. She was named to the 2026 Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Energy and Green Tech for her leadership in advancing renewable fuels. Before founding Oleo, Dweck worked as a process engineer at W. L. Gore & Associates in new product development and as a manufacturing engineer at Abbott Laboratories. She has an M.S. in engineering design impact from Stanford University and a B.S. in biomedical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Jumana Al Hashal is on a mission to protect access to food and medicine in a warming world. She built and scaled multiple systems that the intersection of AI and the Physical world. Jumana started working in a factory at the age of 12 and held executive and engineering roles at Google, Zillow, and Apple in addition to being part of 5 startup journeys (including 4 exits).

Dr. Kyra Sedransk Campbell is CEO and Co-Founder of Danu Water. She holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cambridge and a BS from MIT, and was previously a Professor of Chemical Engineering. Since founding Danu in October 2024, she has secured Letters of Intent with two leading European paper manufacturers, negotiated a Proof-of-Concept agreement with a leading Italian textile manufacturer, and built a sales pipeline exceeding $350M in the paper sector alone. Danu has completed prototype demonstrations of its core technology treating industrial wastewater for reuse onsite, and Kyra is now leading the industrial-scale pilot demonstrations planned for Q3 2026.

Liv Andersson is the Founder and CEO of Biozeroc, a venture-backed climate tech company developing biotechnology-enabled alternatives to decarbonise heavy industry, starting with cement.

With a background in architecture, engineering and industrial ecology, she combines technical expertise with commercial leadership to scale the next-generation low-carbon construction materials.

Dr. Margaret Lumley is the Founder and CEO of Roca Water, an ARPA-E backed startup rebuilding resource supply chains from waste streams. Roca’s battery-inspired electrochemical platform recovers ammonium from wastewater and returns it to the food system as fertilizer. Margaret holds a PhD in Materials Chemistry from UW-Madison and is an alum of the Activate Fellowship.

Mona Maleka earned her PhD in Chemistry from Michigan State University, where she specialized in ammonia cracking systems, synthesizing and characterizing catalysts for ammonia decomposition. In 2023, she co founded AmHyTech and currently serves as COO, leading operations, federal grant strategy, and fundraising efforts. She previously worked as a research scientist intern focusing on heterogeneous ammonia thermal cracking. Mona is a 2025 Aspen Fellow nominee through Ford and serves on the Safety Committee of the Ammonia Energy Association. Her work centers on advancing safe, scalable ammonia infrastructure for energy and industrial applications.

Pauliina Meskanen is the Co-Founder & CEO of Calectra, a DOE-backed thermal battery startup making up to 1600°C process heating cheaper and cleaner for the heavy industry, including cement and steel manufacturing. Before co-founding Calectra, Pauliina built a consultancy and media company on hardware energy innovation (Survivaltech.club), was an investor in Nordic VC funds (Lifeline Ventures, Inventure, Wave Ventures) and the fourth employee at a VC-backed health tech startup (Kaiku Health, acquired by Elekta). M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering.

Satpal Kaur is a designer, building science practitioner, and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in high-performance affordable housing. She helped deliver New York City’s first affordable multifamily Passive House projects, achieving significant energy reductions in urban housing. Satpal is the Founder and CEO of UnBOXED, a climate technology company developing prefabricated “second-skin” retrofit panels made from recycled materials to decarbonize existing apartment buildings without displacing residents. Her work focuses on scalable retrofit solutions that improve energy performance, affordability, and resilience in the existing housing stock.