 of the pandemic. We all wondered, is this going to be a moment when things will stand still? You all did not stop. So in addition to the participation that Yana already went through, I'll share with you that we had interest from 34 countries and over 43 universities. I think about that kind of connectedness in the midst of a global pandemic and I'm inspired. So I want to congratulate all of you finalists for making it to this stage. What you've done and what you've now contributed is truly remarkable. And yes, we'll be announcing two winners today, but I assure you, every one of you is a game changer. Every one of you is showing us how the power of technology can really deepen our human connections and make the world a better place for all of us. So with that, I'd like to turn things back to Yana and I look forward to hearing the exciting announcements. Thank you. Thank you so much, Barbara. And good luck. Good luck with today's major announcement in your family. Yes, we're staying tuned. All right. Well, with that, we are going to bring another incredibly supportive individual man without whose belief and support along the way this couldn't have happened, Mr. Thomas Costerbill, the CEO and Executive Director of ASME to share a few remarks. Yana, thank you. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. Barbara, good luck with the baby. Let us know what happens. And we look forward to another successful engineer being born. So ASME is proud to be working with Siemens in collaboration with Engineering for Change, which is a knowledgeable organization, a digital platform, and more importantly, a community. For me personally, being part of the hosting of this Siemens design challenge has been a lot of fun. It adds a component of engineering, which we all need to be doing. Innovate for Impact is a call to action to address, as Barbara said, two of the United Nations sustainable development goals, two that are most important, zero hunger and clean water. Today, four billion people remain highly vulnerable to environmental crisis threatened by basic human needs such as food and water. In a few moments, we'll recognize those teams who have answered that call to utilize engineering and technology to offer solutions in addressing our planet's vital needs for adequate food and supplies of clean water. Very simple. Very simple is the ideas that we'll see shortly. Now more than ever, as we navigate through a global pandemic, sustainable engineering has a greater impact on our ability to meet the needs of future generations without compromising our natural environment. I'd like to thank and congratulate each of the contestants for this incredible work, and I wish you all the best of luck to each of our finalists. I'd also like to thank our EPC research fellows, the team of design challenge judges, the expert advisors, and the Siemens steering committee members for making this year's challenge an amazing experience for all the contestants and leading our stores of a better world, truly a much better world. A very special thanks to Siemens, Barbara Humptons personally, Engineering for Change, and providing everyone a way for individuals to develop these solutions in a most cost-effective way. ASME's mission-driven work and commitment to advancing engineering sustainable development is another step in making the world a better place for all humanity. All of you are part of that, and I thank you for that. Yana, back to you. Thank you so much, Tom. Where would we be without your leadership? So now I'm very excited to invite one of our judges and an incredible individual, Ms. Malika Bandagar, who leads the United Nations Development Program's Emerging Finance for Nature portfolio as part of the Global Program on Nature for Development. She previously served as the Global Fund Manager for the UNDP Innovation Facility, where she managed to monitor the facility's portfolio across 165 experiments in 95 countries, raising $2 million in local resources for every dollar invested. Malika is an advisory board member of the GSMA's Big Data for Social Good Accelerator, UNFPA's Innovation Evaluation Reference Group, and the Measuring Impact Working Group of the International Development Innovation Alliance. A consortium of big players on innovation include DFID, SIDA, USAID, UNICEF, Gates Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. We're so honored for her time and her perspective. Malika? Great. Thank you, Yana. Thank you actually for the privilege to reimagine the world through your eyes. Thank you for building better everyday lives for the many. The top five risks identified by CEOs at the World Economic Forum in 2020 are all linked to environment. This underpins food systems, water security, and a world safe from zoonotic diseases. All of these have material impacts on a company's operational cost, risk, profitability, and reputation. Sustainability is a meta trend, and it's not just because the sustainable development goals set them. In fact, it's been found that implementing the SDGs catalyzes new markets for next-gen prosperity in the trillions of dollars. Our attitudes to consumption and production are being rewired and rewritten. We're moving from eco-status to eco-standard. For example, Adidas tapped into the circular economy turning plastic ocean waste into 11 million pairs of shoes. Ford and McDonald's are partnering up to create car parts for coffee waste. And this year, the European Investment Bank committed to mobilizing a trillion euros of financing to the circular economy by 2030. We innovate for the SDGs to transform life. We need both dreamers and doers to change the world. 70% of the 169 SDG targets can be further enabled by applying new technologies already in development and being deployed. For example, Mercy Corps found sensors helped to better report on the actual use of latrines and hand washing versus the in-person evaluation survey which had a huge self-reporting bias of over 40%. Using locally built drones for precision agriculture in Indonesia, local farmers were able to save 60% of their expenses by helping to spot treatment areas with issues of soil fertility, crop disease or water need. And when IKEA Israel worked with product designers and the physically disabled to create a new product line, they were able to access and empower a new market creating revenue and increasing revenue by 33%. For our world in which 15% of the population experiences disability, that's a billion people. And we are grateful every time that technology, business, finance, engineers and civil society come together to solve wicked challenges. For companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025. During COVID-19, disruptions that occurred across sectors in just one quarter were actually projected to occur gradually over a decade. So the new expectations and customization, instant feedback, autonomy and deep sustainable practices are taking root in retail, finance, food and more. And once created, these new expectations spread across demographic, market and sector. Consumers demand relevance and it was wonderful to see that the Siemens Innovation Challenge places human-centered design at the core of the challenge, requiring all entries to co-create with end users and embrace technology to create impact, all while tackling the issues of infrastructure, governance, upscaling and commercial incentives for scaling. This pandemic has been the ultimate stress test of our local, national, global and corporate system. We the world are sliding back at a time when we can little afford to do so. The COVID-19 crisis and resulting socioeconomic impacts are an unprecedented opportunity to regenerate economies and ensure growth happens within our planetary limits. I'm so happy to be with you here today to be part of the community that makes bold decisions to assertively direct technology to society's biggest challenge, deepening the pool of solution, making progress on the SDGs as possible when sustainable alternatives are widespread, affordable and just as good, if not better than the legacy option. So once more, a big thank you to Siemens, Arsenal, Engineering for Change and the finalist for building community resilience by making access to safe water and food simple and affordable. Thank you for helping to create a prosperous world by putting equity and equality at the heart of your design. Thank you and back to you, Yana. Thank you so much, Malika. Thank you Barbara and thank you Tom for these inspiring words. It's really exciting to be here today. And I have to say that Malika is a representation of the incredible judges that joined us for this challenge who contributed their time and their expertise in reviewing all of our submissions in also sharing their feedback to enable our competitors to integrate those expert perspectives into improving their designs. So for those judges who are here today, I would like to give them the opportunity to say a quick 30-second hello. We've already heard from Malika. I'm going to pick it random from my screen. So let's go ahead and have Mark Verhoff say a quick hello. Hello and I'm excited to see who the winner is now. One thing I want to point out is I was really impressed with the people here at a time when there's so much difficulty in the world. It's really awesome to see the enthusiasm from the people working on this project. Amazing. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. And now Jason Sido. Hello. Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, everyone. Thank you so much for such a large group attending. Looking forward to seeing the results and hearing the reactions. I was really inspired to work with this group of design challenge applicants and startups is really how I view them. I do venture capital work for Siemens and was very proud to be part of this process as a representative for Siemens and see some of our tools, as Barbara mentioned, brought to bear on such global challenges. Siemens is a very long history around the world trying to provide engineering solutions to make people's lives better. And that, of course, is the core of what this project and competition has all been about. And thank you very much for your participation. Thank you, Jason. And now Danielle Mearnberg. Hi. I'm sorry I can't join my video, but I just want to say what an honor it was to be part of phase one and phase three and look at these exciting innovators and see all the change that they're making in the world. And the group of judges, they were just fascinating. So again, what an honor to be involved in this. And I want to thank Siemens and everyone who was involved. Thank you so much, Danielle. And Christian, I don't know if you are with us. I know the audio was a little tough. I am. Let's see if you can hear me. We can. Apparently you can. Okay. We're good now. You can also see me. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for the chance for being a judge in that great, great challenge. I really loved it. It was really exciting. And it raised my confidence that together we can really tackle the big challenges of the world. Thank you, Christian. And we have Alina Dimi. I'd like to quickly congratulate everyone involved in this challenge. I was honored to be involved in many phases of this challenge. And I was quite impressed with all the designs coming together, especially in the CAD aspect of all the designs. And I'd like to congratulate everyone and tell everyone that everyone's here making a big difference in the world today. Thank you so much. I think that's all the judges we have on. I know we had some conflicts. We have Daniel, Dan Benna, but he's going to speak shortly. So I'll leave it to him in a little bit. Marilin can let me know if I've forgotten anybody, but in order you can feel free to raise your virtual hand. I'm trying to scan through quickly on your Zoom, but it is a bit challenging. I do want to, we're moving on time, so I'm going to have to move us ahead. I also want to extend my thanks sincerely to all of the Engineering for Change research fellows from India, Kenya, Uganda, Spain, Columbia United States, who worked with us to also make this challenge a reality. If you can just quickly say hello, I'm going to call you again as I see you on the screen. Krista? Hi, I'm Krista Ligori. I was an University Fellow in 2015 and Expert Fellow in 2017. And I'm currently a PhD student at Virginia Tech in Environmental Engineering. And it was a lot of fun seeing how the teams progressed over the course of this challenge. So thank you, everyone. Thank you, Krista. Kathleen? Hi, I was an EFORC Fellow in 2019, and I'm currently a PhD student at CU Boulder. Huge thanks to the team for putting this together and congratulations to the winners. Thank you, Kathy. Ignatius? Hi, guys. My name is Ignatius. I was an EFORC Fellow in 2018 in the energy truck. I currently work as a research assistant at Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya. I really enjoyed the challenge and actually seeing all these different projects transitioning to the end. Thank you. Thank you. Benson? Oh, Benson, can you unmute? Oh, perhaps not. All right. Not to worry. I'm quickly getting through. I'm hoping I didn't forget anyone. I believe I didn't. If I did, I do apologize. Please forgive me. Doing this on the screen is a bit of a challenge, but you need to say we had an incredible, incredible Sormina Fellows. All right. So with this, I am excited to introduce you all to our finalists. We are going to go through and provide our finalists an opportunity to share with us their elevator pitch. One minute of introductions. We're going to start with a zero-hunger truck and with Mubalaji or Mubawale. All right. So I'm Mubalaji Mubawale from Nigeria, representing the Post Office Lost Reduction Team. Our work was on the multi-crop greenhouse dryer, and it's a solution that is related to drying. Now, in Sub-Saharan Africa, we understand that there are lots of losses. There's a lot of losses all over the world. But in Sub-Saharan Africa, it accounts for about a quarter of the total number of people who are hungry all over the world. And drying, we have recognized drying as a method by which food can be preserved. And based on this, our solution looked at providing the much needed facility for drying, especially in off-grid communities. Now, the solution, which is the hybrid multi-crop greenhouse dryer, utilizes the energy from the sun and as well as the byproducts of agricultural production, such like biomass from maybe corn stover and all other things for drying. Because it allows drying to continue even on cloudy days or during the night. A typical solar dryer will do any work during the day. But with our technology, the foods can be dried both during the day and at night or on cloudy days. And the specific target are people in off-grid communities. During our survey, when we went out to meet with the needy, the people who need this technology, we discovered that a lot of them work several kilometers to get to the nearest hard road to spread their products. Some climb on mountains. And this affects a lot of women and children. But with our technology, which is the hybrid multi-crop greenhouse dryer, the greenhouse dryer can be located, built, constructed within their communities. They don't have to trek distances before they're able to use it. And the hygienic nature, it's able, the technology provides a means of making sure that the crops are dried in a hygienic way. Currently, the sun drying method used by most agrarian communities in Africa and in many places in the developing world leads to a lot of contamination. But our technology solves this problem. And to capital, the technology is sensor controlled such that as soon as drying takes place and water is evaporated from the crops, the sensors are activated to extract the moisture so that the drying can continue. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right. And next we have Ecolife Polaroop. Is Kyle here? Yes, hello everyone. I'm here. My name is Kyle Geiser, and I am representing the Ecolife Foods Social Enterprise in Uganda. In Uganda, farmers can lose up to, I'm sorry, actually, I'm going to go ahead and share my screen if I can. Perfect. So this is our team right here that you can see. And so in Uganda, farmers can lose up to 40% of their harvest due to poor handling and storage. This leaves farmers with less profit and bargaining power and consumers with less nutritious food. So at Ecolife, we are co-creating an energy efficient solar-powered cold room for off-grid farming cooperatives. I'm sorry to bother you. Can you please share your screen? We're not seeing the whole thing. Oh, I'm sorry. There we go. You might have windows in front of you. I'm sorry. This way we have a great visual. Thank you. Yeah, thanks for letting me know. Hopefully that is working this way. Yeah, and just remove that box on the right hand side. It's probably, probably have a picture of all of us. Okay. Yep, there you go. Is that okay? Working all right? Yes, that looks great. Thank you so much. Okay, sorry. Thanks for letting me know what you're doing on your end. Okay, thank you. I just want to be able to present the there. So at Ecolife, we are co-creating an energy efficient solar-powered cold room for off-grid farming cooperatives. Our innovation lies in our wall and ceiling panels, which provide structural insulation and built in thermal energy storage. This thermal storage is achieved with upcycled plastic and biodegradable materials, which freezes during the day and keeps the cold room cold at night. Unlike other options, our room is developed and fabricated in Uganda from locally available materials. So it's affordable and it's easy to maintain. Our impact to farmers and traders is substantially increased income. To communities, it means more nutritious food and new employment opportunities. Environmentally, less energy waste means reduced greenhouse gases and batteries are replaced with earth-friendly materials at night. Thank you. Thank you so much. All right. And next up, we have only fresh, Chuma Azusa. I'm trying to share my screen. Oh, I'll stop sharing mine. Go ahead. Okay. Thank you. Good morning. My name is Chuma and I like tomatoes. More than half of the tomatoes grown in Nigeria goes to waste. Usually lack of cold chain storage and bad packaging, resulting in food insecurity and significant financial losses for farmers and distributors. Our solution only fresh is a standalone refrigerator unit that can be assembled onto trucks or pulled by a vehicle. We've designed it to be powered by batteries, which are charged using a combination of solar cells, the truck itself or mains power when parked. The unit is modular and is designed to be loaded using recyclable plastic crates. Our technology is unique because only fresh can transport food stored at different temperatures at the same time. I will be manufactured locally, which results in ease of repair and prompt service. Our overall goal is to reduce food waste, enable agribusinesses, improve revenue, and employ local talent. Thank you. Thank you very much. All right. And next up, we have solar thermal absorptive refrigerator or star, Brianna Doge. Hello. I will just share my screen. Okay. Hello and thank you for joining. My team's design is for a solar thermal absorptive refrigeration system, also known as star. In the small remote town of Uero located in the high jungle of Cusco, Peru, most of the population works in the agricultural sector and have fallen victim to high poverty rates and minimal access to electricity, leaving the most vulnerable without quality food products. Every year, over 127 million tons of food are wasted in Latin America alone, almost half of which is lost during transportation and storage. This amount of food is enough to feed 300 million people. Star will provide a reliable and sustainable refrigeration technology for farmers in this region by using solar energy, activated carbon, and ethanol to create a refrigerated environment. Accompanied by an advanced business model, star will revolutionize food storage in developing communities by improving food security and increasing nutritional quality, contributing to the progress of SDG2, zero hunger. Thank you. Thank you. All right. I'm going to, there you go. So now we are going to move to our clean water track finalists. And we're going to start with the team whose name I continue to struggle with throughout the entire challenge. So I apologize in advance. Apuya Wien, the guardian of water, and Monica Andrea Guitres. Yes. Hello. You say it perfectly. Thank you. So we are excited to be here and we are really happy. We are at this stage of our, of the contest in general. I hope you enjoy our presentation. So the Apuya Wien initiative comes from the goal of developing an accessible solution to provide safe water for the Parinska community and potentially more than 140 communities in the northern coast of Colombia. We propose a technical solution for an easy-to-use solar designator that can produce up to eight liters of drinkable water per day. All parts are of the shelf components and they fit in a screen or shipping box. The device can be assembled and maintained by any person without any special rules. We also propose an educational approach working along with the community so they can fully understand the constructed features of the device and the physical principles behind it. This is the second version of the device as we tested it and improved it along with the community. The technology does not belong to any commercial business. It belongs to the community. Our designator does not require positive use of electricity taking care of the environment. Additionally, the community could save 90% of the money they are spending on buying water ensuring an important social impact. We are looking for funding to be produced and distributed also sustainable solar designator in these and more communities with similar conditions. Thank you. Thank you. Apologies if I didn't switch to your screen in time but it was a beautiful presentation. Thank you so much. All right. Next up we have a desalination battery for electrochemical brackish water treatment. Lucas Hackel. That's right. Hi everyone. My name is Lucas. I'm the CEO and co-founder of H2O and the technology and I'm speaking to you from San Francisco, California, which is where my entire team and I are located. If you've been following the news, California is currently battling some of the largest forest fires in its history, fires that are a direct consequence of climate change induced droughts that we've been living through in the last decade. And as such, these fires serve as a both perfect and terrifying reminder of how the question of water security will undoubtedly become one of the most central engineering challenges of the upcoming century, both for developing but also fully industrialized, fully developed nations like the United States. Agriculture accounts for about 70% of global freshwater supplies and at the same time salty or so-called brackish groundwater, which is far more abundant than fresh groundwater, especially in arid regions of the world. And this is true for California but also Northern India, for example, is not used at all. And it was this exact fact that motivated my co-founder and I to build a technology that could effectively turn brackish groundwater into water that's useful for irrigation. Given our backgrounds in energy storage, environmental science and battery science, we have termed our system the desalination battery and we built it for the exact needs of our customers, California, Cashew and Almond Farmers. They are of course other technologies, all of which rely on reverse osmosis in some way, shape or form that could be used to desalinate brackish groundwater, but our system is better in three specific dimensions. Firstly, our modular stackable design allows for us to produce water at virtually any scale. Secondly, our system can be targeted and be made selective for the ions that are most toxic to crop development and we do that by carefully tailoring the surface chemistry of our active ingredients or materials. And lastly, we can squeeze far more water out of a liter of brackish groundwater up to 90% than in our system can. So thereby, we minimize brine management costs and the overall costs of this treatment process. As I said, we plan to deploy and test our technology here in California first, but we hope that after reaching maturity, our innovation will spread to other dry regions of the world and help communities globally to not just sustain but thrive. Thank you. Thank you. All right. And next up we have desalination for Santa Elena communities and Real Francisco Plaza. Thank you, Diana. Yeah, I'm really honored to be here representing the team. I'm just going to go right away and present our pitch. So due to the lack of reliable water sources, only in the community of El Real, more than 9,000 acres of land are unproductive. Beyond this specific case, this is indeed a worldwide concern. As a very culturally diverse country, it is important to adapt to particular challenges and necessities that different populations face in Ecuador. As a case in point, we design wheel through constant interaction and dialogue with the coastal community of El Real. Wheel's technology allows for reliable and sustainable sea water desalination for agricultural production. Our design reduces our implementation and operation costs to only 81 cents per cubic meter of water produced. Wheel is a product from holistic collaboration of different fields of knowledge, which proposes a soil and ecosystem regeneration program. Concurrently, it strives to contribute to the integral development of the community through educational and cooperative initiatives. Thank you and vouch for El Real. Thank you so much. And last but not least, water, water everywhere. Daniel Hodges. Hello. Am I coming through? Yeah. Excellent. I'm going to share my screen. Did you know globally, water scarcity is common? What does that mean? It means that commonly underserved populations lack access to safe drinking water. And in third world communities, women and children defer their dreams, spending their time gathering groundwater, which is often polluted. Or if there's a delivery service, people may fight for it. Today's water distillation is dated, expensive, and can't keep pace. Finding solutions is key. Safe drinking water changes everything. Hi, my name is Daniel Hodges of the Water Water Everywhere team, and we've got the answer. A cost effective standalone device, easy to install and maintain, called the Advanced Diffusion Station. The secret, green energy, no electricity, wave, wind, and sun drive water and vacuum pumps together and distill seawater. Added vital nutrients for health, designed for ease of manufacturing and assembly. Mostly off the shelf components in a sustainable circular economy, selling the waste to Brian. Addressing multiple United Nations sustainable development goals. Advanced diffusion makes water scarcity scarce. Thank you. Thank you so much, Daniel. Do you mind stopping to share your screen now? All right. Thank you. This is truly remarkable. Thank you so much for all of our finalists. In the next few years, the technologies you are seeing here on our virtual stage will be making their way into communities all over the globe. They'll be providing tangible improvements to quality of life, making agriculture more productive, and simplifying the process of securing clean water, and transforming our world in countless ways. It's been such a pleasure working with all of these finalists, and we wish we could move you all forward. But for each track, there can only be one. So with that, we're going to now start on our announcement, starting with our zero hunger track. And I would like to welcome to our virtual stage Camille Johnston, who is Siemens' Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs, where she leads the company's integrated communications and brand strategies across the United States. She serves as a member of the board of the Siemens Foundation, which sustains the STEM workforce and tomorrow's scientists and engineers. Prior to her time at Siemens, her impressive track record includes communications roles supporting First Lady Michelle Obama, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Entertainment Industry Foundation, amongst others. Thank you, Camille, for setting aside some time for us today and for championing this challenge right from the start. Over to you. Thank you very much, everybody. It was like such an impressive round of finalists. I know that as a member of the steering committee and after many months of the planning, we're all excited to be here today. As you just heard, all of the teams and their respective solutions are incredibly impressive, which is part of the reason the Innovate for Impact Design Challenge has been such a passion project for Siemens and all of those who've been involved with it from its inception. We've all enjoyed watching this initiative grow from a German idea to a worldwide event and to the conclusion of it here today. I'm honored to present our zero hunger winner. To pick just one was a painstaking decision for the judges. All of these designs really shined in terms of their real-life applications and ease of adoptability, which of course is the crucial element in bringing solutions to communities in need. The winning team successfully met the challenge of designing a post-harvest off-grid preservation solution. They set out to mitigate the loss farmers face as a result of poor post-harvesting handling and storage techniques. This team's unique approach to cold storage, which utilized wall panels made of locally available materials, creates an affordable, easy to maintain, and off-grid compatible solution. I am so proud to present the Zero Hunger Design Award to Equal Life Foods, which created the Equal Life Cold Room. Congratulations to Kyle Geiser, Ian Williams, and Hadesha Nantambi representing the U.S. and Uganda. Thank you, Camille, and let's all give them a round of virtual applause. I would like to invite Kyle to our virtual stage to say a few words. All right, let me walk on up. Just give me a second here. This is truly an honor and speaking on behalf of Ian and Hadesha. In fact, Hadesha, even being the co-founder of Equal Life Foods, is also representing a whole swath of other team members are on the ground in Uganda and farmers. And so just speaking on behalf of all of us, we are extremely excited and honored. In fact, I don't have anything really prepared, so I'm speaking a little bit off the cuff here, but I think I can speak for all of us to say that we are extremely excited because what we really are passionate about is the fact that this technology is co-researched and co-developed and then built in country. And that's the reason why we join this challenge is that's the reason why we're doing what we're doing. As was mentioned, I think earlier before by Barbara, that nowadays research can take place anywhere, really, and that's one of the things that we are making a very large effort to do. We have farmers who are there on the ground who are helping us test different materials, who are doing this research, and then we're also partnering with universities too. So we kind of span that entire gamut. So that's what I have to say. We have a lot of work ahead of us. We're really excited. This will propel a lot of those research needs to take our prototype into the next stage. Thank you very much. Thank you, Kyle, and congratulations. All right. Now to announce our clean water track winner, I'd like to invite one of our judges, Mr. Dan Benna, who most recently led the Sustainable Development and Food Safety Agenda for Pepsico Global Operations, the world's second largest food and beverage company. He now serves and has served in various board and other capacities for the Safe Water Network, where he is now a senior consultant, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, the Steering Board of the World Bank 2030 Water Resources Group, the United Nations CEO Mandate, the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Water Security, the U.S. Water Lines, and the list goes on and on. Dan, I welcome you to our stage. Thank you, Jan. I should have told you that I kind of detest introductions, and if you had said that I love my wife, my family, and my pets, I think that would have been fine. I want to thank you for this remarkable opportunity. In particular, I wanted to thank Engineering for Change and ASME. Somehow, you guys have managed to marry, you have the secret sauce, to marry indigenous wisdom, developed world engineering expertise, together to solve intractable challenges in the developing and emerging world, and that is remarkable. In addition, let me just thank Barbara and Siemens. When I was a PepsiCo, we bought a lot of Siemens technology for water treatment, and I was asked to speak to Siemens senior leadership team years ago in Berlin, and the one thing I learned about Siemens that I did not know is corporate social responsibility, social conscience, has been embedded in that company literally since it was founded over a century ago. Why do I bring that up? Because it's important to have the authenticity of the hosts and the sponsors for any challenge like this, and you don't get more authentic than E4C, ASME, and Siemens. I did want to talk a little bit, you know, the previous speakers did my work for me in talking about the SDGs, which is remarkable. I want to talk just a bit about the urgency of why the clean water track is so critically important. And even before the SDGs were ratified by 193 countries, there was something called UN Human Right to Water. And in fact, this year is the 10th anniversary of human right to water. And that right defines safe, sufficient, accessible, acceptable, and affordable water for all. That's a mouthful both to say and to reach. But it's because of challenges like this and innovation like this that I see there's a light at the end of the proverbial tunnel. Let me just calibrate everyone. Today, as we sit here enjoying this remarkable event, over 200 million people, mostly women and girls, spend 30 minutes round trip to collect water from an improved water source. That's not even safe. That's just an improved water source. Over 2 billion people today lack access to safely managed water supplies. Equally over 2 billion people drink water contaminated with feces. It's remarkable, right? When you think about the unbelievable innovation that we have, the technology that is allowing us to connect all over the world, and then you hear things like that, that's a disconnect, right? And it's not only the developing and emerging world. It happens in the USA. I mean, several years ago, the last infrastructure report card that the U.S. drinking water infrastructure got from the ASCE was a grade of D. And that wasn't the first time we got a grade of D. The million miles of pipe in the U.S. for drinking water is in sorry need of upkeep at the cost of about a trillion dollars over the next 25 years. So this problem, this urgency, is not just a developing and emerging world problem. It is a global problem. And let me tell you one last statistic. When we shift to solutions, and there have been a tremendous amount of organizations that have focused on solutions, 50% of projects fail in the first five years because they lack looking at the deployment ecosystem. They focus exclusively on the technology and not everything that is needed to advance the technology. Well, this challenge is different. You made sure that through the phases, all of those things within the deployment ecosystem were focused on supply chain, regulations, community engagement, everything that is so critical to sustained success is part of this challenge. And I applaud all of the finalists. I applaud the hosts, the sponsors for that. It has been remarkable. Now, if I had a drum roll, I would love to be able to use a drum and do that because I want to announce the winner. Before I announce the winner, though, I want to share just a little bit of a distillation of what the judges comments were across all of the phases. There was one thing that was remarkable that the winning team did. Every finalist did technology really well. Every finalist to some level talked about regulations, which is really important. This team in particular focused on community engagement and not only as a single snapshot. They didn't only go into the community and do a survey. They literally made the community part of the process from the beginning all the way through to the community actually co-creating and co-owning improvements to that process. And why that's important is all too often we tend to impose what we think communities need on those communities, and we don't think of asking the communities what they want. This team did that. So it is my absolute pleasure on behalf of all of the judges of the Clean Water Track to announce the winner, which is team of Puyawin, the Guardian of Water, represented by John Aguilar, Manuel Mejia, Monica Gutierrez, Aliex Trujillo, and Sebastián Rodriguez. With that, let me turn it to them for their acceptance speech and let's give them a round of applause. Hi. You cannot believe, I don't know if you can see us. There is a whole production here behind everything. We are pretty happy. I mean, we are really excited with this project for us. The engagement with the community and the active participation with them has been such a learning experience for us and we are really eager to keep on developing it and the fact that we just want to push us further in the development of the project. I want to thank all the members of the team, Aliex, Manuel, Sebastián, John, and no, I don't know what to say. I am ashamed of you. So really, thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. We are so proud of all of our finalists. We want to thank all of you. It's been an honor working with you so far. I'm going to go ahead and there we go. I can see you all. We're going to do a quick photo, virtual photo altogether. We will try. So I encourage you to go ahead and give yourselves a round of applause. We are so honored you have made incredible strides. We want to congratulate all of you. We want to thank you all for taking the time to work with us to continue to invest in your innovations. We are going to continue to tell your stories. We encourage you to take a stay tuned, not stay tuned, but stay connected to us on our on our platform. Please know that your stories will continue to be shared. We want to thank everyone again, the judges, the experts, the fellows are also catapult design who support us in this challenge. None of this will have been possible without your support. With that, I want to wish you all good morning, good evening, and I'll let you enjoy the rest of your day. I do want to ask a Pooja and also would like to ask you like to stay with us for a couple minutes after the ceremony. We will make this recording available to everyone afterwards on our site and there's going to be more videos to come, but for now, congratulations. You are all winners in our eyes. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you so much for your intelligence, and please continue to do the good work that you have showed us here today. The world really needs your spirit, your intelligence, and your capacity. Thank you. Thank you. Great job. Thank you so much, Tom. Thank you for staying on with us. I'm so thrilled you could stay as long as you could. Brilliant presentation and just a dynamic group of individuals. Congratulations to you and the team. Congratulations to Siemens for their continued support. It's a great, great morning. Thank you. Thank you. It's a great way to start the day. Yeah, on behalf of Siemens, I want to say thank you too. It was an incredibly impressive event, and despite all of the limitations on engagement considering COVID, I think that this was really, really special and important for everyone. Thanks again. Thank you. Thank you so much, Camille. We really are grateful for your support from day one. Again, my congratulations to all of you. Brilliant designs. The hard part is it always has to come down to one or two, so congratulations. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. You too, Tom. You too, Camille. Thank you so much. Thank you to the judges. Kyle and Monica, I believe you received, should have received the invitation from Mariela, Mariela Marilin. No, not yet, but I will send it right now. Okay. And Ashley, I think is on the line. I don't know if she's still there. All right. So, Marielin, if you could please provide Monica and Kyle with a private chat also, just to make sure that they join us in the appropriate Zoom room. Thank you, Ayana. I just want to say thank you for everything. Day for See Challenge was a huge thing for us. We're a disjunct community of people that really did not have the much experience of the other contestants in the contest. We're just super honored to be here and just want to, like, you gave us a framework to keep developing and we're going to keep up with a good job. I just want to say thanks for everything. I am a huge fan of the Day for See work and looking forward for competing and keep going with Day for See efforts. You know, thanks for that. Thank you, Francisco. No, I think that means the world to us. Our goal here is not just to, you know, go through this challenge but to equip you with the tools and the resources to succeed. So, thank you for those words. It really means a lot to us and to know that the work we're doing is helping you. So, thank you so much. And best of luck. Please stay connected. There will be more opportunities in the future. I guarantee it. And please, we will be hearing about those as an Day for See member through communication. So, please do stay in touch. I'm being very, very authentic about that. There's more to come. This is just the beginning. I'm looking forward for that. Thank you again. Thank you. Congratulations. Ciao, Francisco. Thank you. Bye-bye. Ciao, ciao. Thank you, Daniel. Thank you for that wonderful pitch. It was really exceptional. Lucas as well. Thank you so much. Again, I wish you could all be winners. It's being in the judges' deliberations as a facilitator. It's a nail biter and you want to advocate for everybody. But it's obviously, there can only be one. But again, keep it up. You guys are doing such incredible work and we're so deeply impressed. All right. And Malika, thank you for those incredible remarks. You are a rock star. Great. Thank you so much. All right. I'm going to go ahead. Marilin, are we all set in terms of everybody knowing where they need to go? Yes, Yana. So, Abuya, they'll have already the link to connect now at 11 and then given Kyle the link to connect at 11.30 possible so that we can further talk to them. Okay. So, we will join you on that line. Thank you, everyone. I'm going to go ahead and leave the meeting.