 Hi everyone, I'm Sam. I already feel like I've told my story to 100 people over the last day and a half. So for the rest of you, hopefully I tell a consistent story. I've got a few who are going to pop up and say, no, you're wrong. I'm the founder of an ed tech start-up called Notifier, which was sort of inspired by two things. The first was that, at least in New Zealand, and this is a global trend, we've got a growing gap between high-achieving and low-achieving students and more and more slipping through the right-hand tail of the education system. And the other bit is I grew up with a sister who has cerebral palsy. So I saw firsthand the effect of having a physical and learning disability going through the education system. So that sort of sparked my curiosity from that. And in my background, before starting Notifier, I was helping start-ups, young early-stage teams, build the first and second iteration of their product. So I thought, how can I apply this in the education sector? And I spent a year surrounding myself with what's going on, understanding the problems, and even teaching classes in intermediate and high schools, so that'd be elementary, sorry, middle and high schools for the Americans in the room. And we started picking apart what is a successful student, and as a result of that, what's a successful classroom and a successful teacher. And what we found with teachers is that, yeah, there's a lot of things going on, but what a successful teacher does more than somebody who isn't put up on a pedestal is they check in with their students more often. They ask them what's going on, and because of that whole culture of checking in, they're able to experiment, try new ideas and initiatives. So we sort of started looking at, well, how can we productise this? How can we make it easier for any teacher and anybody, actually, in an educational organisation to check in with their people more often? And that's how Notifier's come about. So the journey's sort of gone a year since then. We've launched in India last month, we're about to go live in Singapore and do buy this month with a few schools. And what we're seeing now that more people are checking in is there's all of this data within these organisations, and it's probably not a good follow-on to talk about education data, but we're able to see what's working and what isn't on the ground and we're able to see what makes champions, whether that's staff, students or an education, nonprofits, volunteers. And because of all of that, we can now focus our PD training better. We can try and replicate this success throughout an entire organisation. So that sort of sums up my journey with Notifier so far and why I'm passionate about education and I'll let someone else talk about something totally different. Hello, I'm Brianna West. I've been self-employed starting several businesses since I was eight years old, the first being a pet detective agency, which was pretty cool. And we did find a cat, too. Anyway, and the first two real businesses I started, when I was 19 and still in university, and it was more out of a distaste for working for anyone else than being told what to do. It was kind of a hobby for probably four years or so, and I lost interest quite quickly in both of them. They didn't have any point beyond selling a product. So, yeah, I lost interest very quickly. I sold them both, went back to university and ponded what I wanted to do. My passion is the environment and annual welfare and I think the way we treat both is horrific and I want to do something measurable, something that I had experience in that would have an actual impact. So I thought, I know the cosmetics industry because that was one of my previous businesses. How can I make it different? And the answer was getting rid of water, which might seem odd. But my company, Atik, when I'm three years old, we produce solid cosmetics, so solid shampoo, solid conditioner, self-tanning bars, pretty much everything you would use in your bathroom, we have a solid version for it. We do that because we don't have to have plastic bottles. We don't have to have water and often we don't have to have preservatives. We have thus far saved 50,000 bottles from going to the landfill or recycling facility, which is arguably not any better. And we package it in compostable, cardboard packaging without any laminates, without any chemical coatings or anything. So it is actually compostable. Yeah, so we've just produced a waste-free product. We're also a certified bee corp and for all you Wellingtonians out here, I don't believe there's any Wellington-based certified bee corps, which is... you need to work on that. Because there's five in Christchurch. Yeah, so that's my little social enterprise, yeah. Hi, I'm Dimitri from Auckland, originally from Soviet Union slash Russia. The three things on my card are universal access, brains plus computers and social enterprise. And I get to do all three or work on all three in a venture called ThoughtWired that I started several years ago with a couple of other people, where we are developing a thought-controlled communication tool for people who are locked in and unable to speak because of physical disability. So an overused example would be Stephen Hawking. But actually there are thousands and thousands of people in situations way worse than Dr Hawking who have a functioning mind but are locked into the bodies that don't function. The way it works, we use devices like this. This is a headband that has a couple of electrodes in it. It goes on a person's head and reads the brain activity that our brains produce and turns it into signals. We then use our software and guiding practices that we develop to teach people how to produce certain types of brain activity that would follow patterns. And then that person would produce those patterns at will when they want to perform an action like press a virtual button on the screen or simply say yes or a no. So that's, in essence, what we're doing. We are still pre-market, so we're still developing this product. We're aiming to get to version one by the end of this year provided that we attract the funding that we need to get there. And, yeah, in that version one, a person will be able to say yes or no reliably which is going to be a huge step forward for several hundred people in New Zealand and many thousands overseas where at the moment they either have no ability to communicate or they rely on low-tech methods which often have an accuracy close to chance where it's basically you're trying to say something and you have a 50-50 chance that you'll be understood. The reason I got into this, I'm not a neuroscientist. One reason was that I have a younger cousin who is completely paralysed and locked in because of severe cerebral palsy and the other was because I was procrastinating at uni and I came across a video of one of these devices or a more complicated one that showed that you can read a person's brain activity and turn it into useful data and I kind of put the two together. They've got an unhealthy amount of encouragement from people and there I am. Hey, everyone. I'm Bonnie. So I've always been incredibly passionate about a lot of things and I am two years out of high school and quite often this passion did come out and were volunteering for big NGOs like UNICEF, World Vision, and that was an awesome stepping stone. And now I live and work in Wellington, working a little with the Inspiral crew, but mostly on my startup, Indigo and Iris. And Indigo and Iris is a sustainable make-up company with a mission of curing treatable blindness in the Pacific Islands. So we're pre-launch as well, but the idea is that we're going to give all of our profits to funding eyesight restorative surgeries in the islands and funding scholarships for Pacific Islanders to study ophthalmology and nursing. So my trigger point is what I wanted to talk about and I wanted to talk about it quite honestly. So I came to Wellington for a nine-week course called Live the Dream and basically you explore your passions and come up with a solution for a social problem and I had no intention of going further than these nine weeks, but I met this Wellington community and a lot of you are actually in the room today. And for the first time in my life, I wasn't reminded of my age. I wasn't told to calm down and not make decisions. It's so young and like, in fact, it was the opposite. I was judged only by my actions and by the kind of person I wanted to be and the kind of person I am. So, yeah, I'm incredibly passionate about changing the way beauty industry speaks and treats women and I'm incredibly passionate about access to healthcare for everyone, but the thing that made me feel empowered and able to actually take action is this community and feeling like I'm valued and I'm heard and understood. Well, I don't know about you, but, I mean, I think I can sleep easier at night knowing that there's people like this and through support in this room that we can scale the impact and numbers of younger. I've been told I'm not allowed to say young people. Younger people. We had a chat earlier, younger people. So, just on that point in speaking to what you were saying about age. So, Sam, you guys are like 19 and 20, right? 19 and 20. So, just before we open it up to questions, I'm just wondering, you know, do you see any specific challenges from being a younger person in the impact space? I'm a double-edged sword there and I think there's always challenges in the impact space. So, it'd be silly to say they're unique or some of these are unique to young people. I guess the biggest challenge to being young is simply being young and not having spent as much time on this earth, observing the social, environmental and cultural problems and issues that are going on. So, I've seen and helped a lot of young people who are working on a variety of ideas and we've opened up some space for them to come pick up the talent out of our team and be around themselves with that. And what we see is that a lot of them haven't latched onto the externally facing problem and haven't, a lot of young people, at least starting off that I've seen, haven't delved deep into the why or trying to build a solution for a problem that they haven't truly gone and understood the root cause for. And I think that that is part age and part experience. And that, to me, is the biggest challenge of being young. I'm not really that young anymore, but I think, to meet you and I, we were discussing it earlier and the biggest problem with being young is that you don't have the networks you do when you're older. It's been integral to my success thus far that I've partnered with much older, slightly older, much more experienced, much clearer people who have got these networks and these contacts in this experience so that sort of bounces out our weaknesses. Just another question that we talked about that we wanted to have a bit of a group discussion is if, you know, there's been a lot of talk this week new frontiers about the creation of Incubation Nation and our individual and collective roles in doing that, we had a discussion earlier as if we are going to truly create this Incubation Nation, we need to multiply and scale the numbers of people who are entering into this space of creating ventures for positive environmental and social change. So my question to anyone on the panel and not necessarily all of you, because it interests of time, is how can we encourage new people into this space? One thing that actually came out yesterday in one of the breakout sessions was having some recognisable safety nets because really having an idea or recognising a problem is only one part of what lets you or sets you on a path of actually trying something, the other one, not for everyone, some people just go and do it regardless but I think to encourage more people to try, we need these recognisable safety nets and it doesn't have to be, you know, that you get a chunk of money and, you know, a disability to go and do something because of that but it's a very multi-dimensional thing it may be that you get some support that you can go and do that or even just more of intangible thing that actually it is okay to go try, see what happens, if you fail then, you know, we'll help you out and set you on a path because for me it was my family and some of the other networks that I had that basically said give it a go and that's what helped. Building off what Dimitri was just saying, I prefer working with people who have taken that first step, that first step towards creating some impact and that's where I think they're ready and I think as an incubation nation, I'd prefer if we flipped that round and said, let's be an accelerator nation, let's accelerate their personal growth and their venture or impact growth and I think, I look at what the definition of philanthropy is and one of those definitions that I really like is simply being generous and I look at what was the generosity that was given to me and the greatest impact that's helped me grow myself has been simply people spending their time with me and I've had some amazing mentors and some amazing supporters, one of whom is clicking their fingers at the front here, Anna, and they're the ones that are probably influenced and accelerated my growth and my ability now to scale what I'm working on. Cool, that's awesome. You pretty much covered the third question that we had, which is the best means of scaling impact, but did anyone else have anything to say on, as a country and as individuals in this country, what do you think the best means of scaling impact is it through supporting younger entrepreneurs or any further thoughts? I think the best way and the quickest way to create any kind of impact is through business because it doesn't have to be a younger entrepreneur, obviously, but business has the reach, the money sometimes, and the lobbying power to get shit done. Sorry to come up again. Holding the mic here, but I look at, again, what an entrepreneur is and what an impact entrepreneur is and I don't think they're that different. I think an entrepreneur or an entrepreneurial person by default who cares about something that matters, whether it's this problem associated with injustice and the bit that makes them an entrepreneur is that they scale some sort of solution for it, right? So then if we look at what scaling a solution is, is that I think there's three really great vehicles for that and one of them is business. That's a great means of scaling, but it's not the only one and I know entrepreneurs and one of them that instantly comes to mind is Sir Ray Avery. He didn't start off by creating a business but he was able to scale his impact dramatically by operating within a wider environment. The other two vehicles that I think are really powerful is technology and also models around people. If you can figure out a model around people and you look at social virality is one of them, one way of spreading word of mouth, one way of spreading a message that I think is the third big vehicle for scaling impacts through entrepreneurship. Cool, awesome. Well, how about we give a big round of applause for these guys? Thank you.