Courtney is a global senior innovation advisor to the United Nations, co-lead of the Collaboration for Complex Challenges (C3) Labs and Oxford Climate Tech Initiative, co-founder of Bangkok based Circular Design Lab and published co-author of 'Inclusive Innovation'. For over 15 years she has lived, worked and traveled across more than 70 countries with a focus on sustainable and regenerative development, inclusive climate innovation and systems transitions. Courtney has been named by Climate Insider as '20 Women Leading Climate Tech and Innovation'. Her practical experiences spans working across the grassroots, public and private sector spectrum. From founding a variety of social enterprises in Asia and North America to co-leading policy campaigns, she is always prioritizing learning and following curiosity. She earned her MBA from the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School (UK), holds a Masters in Sustainable Development from the United Nations University for Peace (Costa Rica) as a Rotary Scholar, and has conducted resarch and taught at the university levels with MIT D-Lab (USA), the d.School at Stanford University (USA) , Thammasat University (Thailand) and Hiroshima Jogakuin University (Japan). She cherishes time with family, surrounded by nature, and has completed a 200 hour yoga teacher and Reiki level one training.

Praewa is the Associate Director of Ecopreneurship Programs at Stanford University, where she designs and leads programs that advance sustainability-focused innovation and entrepreneurial learning. To catalyze impact-driven solutions, Praewa has co-directed a university-based social innovation lab, led policy innovation initiatives in collaboration with governments, and co-founded the Circular Design Lab, a citizen-driven open innovation lab dedicated to co-creating solutions to pressing sustainability challenges. As an educator, Praewa taught social innovation at Thammasat University and led an impact-focused innovation program for students from seven University of California campuses, engaging communities at the Thailand-Myanmar border. Working at the intersection of innovation, sustainability, and education, Praewa applies systemic design, systems leadership, and awareness-based systems change to enable meaningful, scalable impact. Praewa holds a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard University and an MSc in Global Innovation Management from the University of Strathclyde and Hamburg University of Technology. She enjoys spending time in her family’s permaculture garden, where she deepens her understanding of regenerative systems and the reciprocal relationship between humans and nature.

Kaz McGrath is Co-Founder of PLAI (Purpose Led AI), helping mission-led leaders and teams use AI in simple, joyful, and transformative ways. A seasoned fundraiser, she co-founded the Ration Challenge, a global campaign that grew from a small idea in rural Thailand to raise over $80 million across four international markets, earning her multiple honors including two-time Australian Financial Review Woman of Influence and Third Sector Emerging Leader of the Year. Kaz has worked with organizations such as UNICEF, Save the Children, Google, Tesla, Oxfam, and The Great Barrier Reef Foundation, bridging nonprofit and corporate sectors through community-driven impact. Through PLAI, she is empowering the next generation of fundraisers to see AI not as a challenge, but as an opportunity to redefine what’s possible for mission-driven organizations worldwide.

Laila is a board-certified Ayurvedic Practitioner, teacher, and intuitive guide with a background in international development, refugee resettlement, and social enterprise. A decade of work within complex humanitarian and cross-cultural systems shaped her understanding of leadership as an evolving practice of internal coherence, presence, and right relationship to self, others, and the living world we’re a part of. Rooted in the sacred traditions of the SWANA region and Indian subcontinent, Laila brings ancestral, earth-based, and trauma-informed practices into her teaching. Her work centers on somatic intelligence, intuitive ways of knowing, and the remembering of wisdom that lives beyond the mind. Laila has studied with master teachers in Ayurveda, Yoga, shamanic and energy healing, plant and flower medicine, and Ayurvedic birthwork. She’s devoted to bridging systems change with embodied wisdom, supporting leaders to navigate uncertainty with integrity, resilience, and deep inner alignment.

Akash is a collaborative systems change strategist and educator dedicated to fostering collective action toward a more sustainable and equitable world. For over 15 years, he has partnered with systems change leaders and young changemakers across sustainability, entrepreneurship, and social innovation to build capacity for systemic impact. As a thought partner at Ashoka, Let's Enterprise, Pachamama Alliance, and Climate KIC, Akash has supported over 150 organization leaders in developing strategies using systems thinking, design thinking, and participatory techniques. At the University of Iowa Let’s Enterprise, Ashoka and EcoFriends Community, Akash's changemaker education work spans hands-on mentoring with 349 youth and designing experiential learning processes for over 8,000 young people and over 200 leaders from companies like HSBC, IKEA, PwC, McKinsey, Philips, Boehringer Ingelheim and Microsoft. Before all this, Akash is a tree hugger, and a big foodie, and along side his brother serves as the Co-Chief Entertainment Officer for his grandparents, and Co-Chief Longevity Officer for his Parents.

Irina specializes in solving coordination problems at the intersection of technology, governance, and culture. She holds an MSc in Organisational Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Copenhagen Business School and designs infrastructures for collective intelligence across startups, international development, art collectives, and cultural organizations. Her work starts from a core conviction: most hard problems are coordination problems that require connective tissue—the systems, mechanisms, and stories that help people with different perspectives move forward together. That's what she helps teams design and implement. As a researcher, writer, and consultant focused on decentralized systems and coordination technologies, Irina collaborates with international agencies, climate-focused organizations, and advanced tech projects to prototype new models of collective decision-making and digital-physical coordination. Her practice spans organizational design, protocol economies (blockchain, DAOs, cooperative governance), storytelling, and cross-functional project leadership—helping organizations adopt new methods while preserving what works. Active in the Nordic/Baltic Web3 and cultural scenes, she has written on urban cultural-district development and Web3 topics, and her curatorial work cultivates experimental projects combining art, sound, technology, and civic coordination.

Natalie is a Costa Rican multidisciplinary designer and facilitator working at the intersection of regenerative design, systems change, and place-based learning. With over 14 years of experience as a design practitioner, she has led projects in Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Southeast Asia, partnering with communities and institutions on initiatives ranging from climate policy and women’s health to circular fashion and rural livelihoods. She brings embodied and relational approaches to convening and learning, grounded in more than a decade of teaching yoga, meditation, and breathwork and more recently working as a doula. Natalie is passionate about cultivating reciprocal partnerships and designing experiences that honour the bio-cultural uniqueness of place and support life in all its forms.

Stephanie is a facilitator and experience designer who creates immersive gatherings, learning journeys, and programs to strengthen community, systems thinking, and social innovation across the Asia‑Pacific. She co‑founded Impact Hub Jakarta and has held regional leadership roles within the Impact Hub network, focusing on ecosystem building, strategic partnerships, and entrepreneur-support programming. With over a decade of experience in international development and innovation, Stephanie designs cross‑sector initiatives including regional conferences and donor-supported innovation programs. Her work emphasizes systems change, co‑design, inner development, and wellbeing, and spans projects such as community investment models, regenerative retreats, and collective‑intelligence initiatives. Born in Jakarta and raised in Perth, she operates internationally from bases in Southeast Asia.