Laura’s ambition is to make Helsinki a carbon neutral and sustainable city. She’s in charge of an ambitious and innovative project to find sustainable solutions for urban heating (the Helsinki Energy Challenge). Her passion is to contribute to making her city a sustainable city – environmentally, socially and economically – in a way that it … Continued
Cristian Stiven Parra Gonzalez is a psychologist with experience in coordinating research projects, clinical support in catastrophic cases, psychological first aid care, and psychosocial support for infants in the educational field. He’s passionate about generating a social and environmental impact in each of the people and organizations that he has met and had the opportunity … Continued
Heikki Mäkinen describes himself a water manager. Finland is a country of nearly 200.000 lakes. Almost every town and city has been established along the shoreline of the Baltic Sea or one of those lakes providing facilities for recreation or business. By water protection actions they take care of lake ecosystem and provide local people … Continued
Hellen Daniela Ladino Escobar soon realized that she likes to take care of the environment and work with children. She decided to be part of the positive change by using the bicycle and also to be an example teaching the future of the world which focuses on children. Currently, she’s focused on giving her best … Continued
Tomi is the CEO of Kempower. He is one the rare cleantech professionals in Europe with over 20 years of experience in electrification and over 10 years of experience in electric mobility. Tomi is passionate about making the world cleaner and more sustainable by enabling the electrification transition. Tomi says: “As a kid I was … Continued
Anna Nicol is the innovator behind building a new Xylitol factory producing healthy sweetener from side stream of oat mill, oat hulls in Lahti. With this circular economy innovation, they reduce food waste and also CO2 emissions by burning the oat hull cake from Xylitol production to bioenergy. Her current focus is to start the … Continued
As a foreign correspondent-turned social impact strategist Julia May knows the power of storytelling and influence to change the way we live, lead and see the world. She’s passionate about supporting a new breed of leader into the world, using visibility as an enabler of accelerated, positive systemic change. She gets behind change-makers and movement-makers … Continued
Sarah Anderson believes that we can all influence global systems change by leading where we are. An award-winning visibility expert, social impact strategist and mindful leadership facilitator, she has mentored executives and change-makers globally over more than two decades, to enable future-focused leaders to connect with their purpose then ripple that into global impact. She … Continued
For 26 years, Tuula Honkanen has been the CEO of Salpakierto Ltd (formely known as Päijät-Häme Waste Management Ltd, PHJ). The municipalities in Lahti region incorporated PHJ in 1993 and Tuula was the first CEO in the company. Together with her employees and the people in the municipalities, she both planned the new waste strategy … Continued
Walther is professor for city logistics at the university of applied sciences in Amsterdam. His focus is on sustainable zero-emission city logistics using innovative light electric vehicles, micro hubs, and smart planning based on traffic data and public private partnerships. His future city logistics projects will look at car free residential zones, campuses and circular … Continued