Science, Technology and Innovation

Innovate Locally, Impact Deeply: Exploring how to support community-driven innovations successfully

 Thursday 17 October
| 16.00 -17.30 (CEST)

 Green Room

Explore how rural communities can be engaged as leaders of innovation agendas and co-developers of solutions and empowered to engage the other stakeholders necessary to operationalize and scale their solutions for more sustainable agrifood systems. This event will foster knowledge exchange among diverse participants through short stories, presentations from successful field initiatives, quizzes, and real-time drawings by a talented cartoonist.

Speakers

Astou Camara

Director, ISRA

Boniface Gomes

Bangladesh Association for Sustainable Development (BASD)

Eric von Hippel

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Gabriela Quiroga

Senior International Development Expert

Gina Lucarelli

Team leader, Accelerator Lab Network, UNDP

Gissela Davila Cobo

Director general, CIESPAL

Issac Mufoha

Senior Venture Builder ROOTICAL

Nzwaki Adonisi

Moderator
Impact Network Coordinator & Innovative Finance Specialist, WAI

Srinivas Mangipudi

Artist
Director Arts & Applications, Socratus Collective Wisdom Corporation