Pooja Saxena is the Chief Executive Officer of Innovoidea, India. Her mission is to build capacity resilience programs for disaster preparedness by training local communities on equipment and safety gear.

Raimi Olaide Basirat is the founder of Plastic Entrepreneurship Ventures (PEV), a social enterprise committed to reinventing, recreating and reengineering plastic waste in Nigeria. Her mission is to educate the next generation by sharing the social and economic opportunities of using plastic waste as a resource material.

Today, OneMillionSparks is celebrating Sascha NICK, a serial entrepreneur, a scientist, a professor and a true professional. Sascha will be joining the headline keynote speakers at the 10th Edition of GoodFestival on the 11th of October at The Olympic Museum, Lausanne. The topic of his speech is “Female leadership, male leadership, or good leadership?”

Sadique Yusif is the founder of SIDIQ AGRI-FIRM. His mission is to encourage the adoption of climate-friendly farming techniques by the Ghanaian farming community and to address food security issues.

The Science of humans. What happens when we use Engineering to improve people’s lives?

Fernanda Deister Moreira

Transcending technology, pedagogy, and arts. What happens when we let the vision of a new sustainable world take the lead?

Sascha Nick

“When I was five years old my parents lived in India for one year in Varanasi, which is a very intense place. My memories as a child start from India. I don’t remember my life before, so it really had an impact on me

"The world water crisis is ineluctable and will affect more than half of the world population by 2025. We need to act now and raise global awareness about the crisis."

“Success looks like thousands of people living in a happy, healthy conscious state.”

Elisabeth and Nicolas, a young French couple, were travelling in Malaysia when they came up with the idea for My Green Trip. What is My Green Trip you may ask? A way to connect environmentally-concerned travelers with locale, nature-friendly tourism organizations aimed at cleaning beautiful places plagued by our rubbish. These tourist organizations are our partners that make the whole system work.

A better understanding of the oceans and a rational managementof their resources, that is what the European Marine Information (EMI) strives for. Founded in September 2016 by two engineer students specialized in marine sciences, the project aims to combine innovation and oceanographic research by bringing together students and experienced scientists. 

Laurence de Bure, a French born immigrant,brought an agricultural background from farm life in the Pyrenees Mountains in southern France to Tucson Arizona. Her appetite to learn of the tribal life near her new surroundings led her to discover traditional indigenous water harvesting techniques.