 My name is Jonathan Cedar and I'm the co-founder and CEO of BioLite. BioLite is a product company that's on a mission to empower people and protect the planet by delivering access to renewable energy to the lowest income least electrified customers on the planet. We work with incredibly energy efficient as well as cost efficient solar and lithium battery technologies to harvest energy from the sun and store it really just a big focus on how do we deliver as much energy value to the consumer as possible. The inspiration for BioLite really came from personal experiences as a camper and as professional product developers. We really saw a tremendous opportunity to take these incredibly valuable skills that we had and put them to use. If you look at the needs of marginalized or ability impaired users you can understand the problem space more comprehensively identify pain points and make more universally beneficial products for a whole gamut of users. It's definitely super rewarding as a designer to you know work in an industry that you love and you're passionate about for me it's camping and outdoors but also have this this foot in a space of impact. First impact we see our product having in a customer's life is providing access to light. We take light for granted we don't think about where it comes from its value everything that it enables us to do. Access to light doubles the number of productive hours any person has in a given day. More hours being productive means more income for your family. It means more time to socialize and connect with others. We're helping some of the lowest income households in the world gain access to energy for all the benefit that modern energy can deliver. There's nothing like seeing a customer turn on a light for the first time. Someone who's never had a light in their home and they flip on a switch and have light for the first time it's like very very special. As a product designer I'm constantly inspired by the work of others and I think about how many people's shoulders I've stood on to build the perspective and skills that allow me to be an effective product developer in the world and it's just a huge honor to see our core design community recognize BioLight's work as innovative and pioneering. It's just tremendously flattering. It's like I said it's really humbling to be in the presence of these design legends and then be you know associated with with the Smithsonian and the Cooper Hewitt is incredibly rewarding. BioLight's trying to demonstrate a business model that puts people and planet on the same level as profit and if we can do that effectively we hope to inspire other businesses to think that they can put those same external benefits at the center of their operations and find innovations that haven't yet occurred to us and so how can we pave the path for the next generation of social entrepreneurs to have the same opportunity that we've had.