 and great company with the other startups that were in there. It has been fantastic, the support that we've gotten, how easy it is just to reach out and to have immediate access to such influential people that can help us solve the issues that we're having, overcome the barriers. We've had an opportunity to meet with like-minded entrepreneurs that quite frankly, we wouldn't have even known existed without the platform. The connections that we've been able to make have been second to none. I mean, it's been so successful that one of the companies in our cohort were seriously entertaining a strategic relationship with moving forward. Exactly a year ago, we were in the process of securing around a million dollars of investment and over the past year that has really helped us get the team built and get the first projects on board and we're on track to raising a multiple of that amount by the end of this year, which will again enable us to once again scale up our impact in a really meaningful way. We did raise the two million pounds, actually. We had great funders, so we invested from the US, UK and Europe. It did give us a big lift at that crucial point in our development. On a monthly basis, we're channelizing about 20,000 metric tons of dry waste, focusing on plastics and electronic waste. We're all in the same space and it's just the mutual support that we can give each other and that can sometimes translate into real business dollars and real opportunities. Welcome to the 2021 Sustainable Development Impact Summit and this particular session featuring Uplink Innovators and it's entitled Entrepreneurs Who Could Save the World. My name is Alon Reyes. I am based in Johannesburg, South Africa. I work with entrepreneurs. I've worked with over 13,500 entrepreneurs over the last 20 years and currently with 500 and involved in a lot of pitching competitions and today is just one of those pitching competitions. So as you can see from the video, the Uplink, the Forum's open innovation platform is a very important journey to support SDG entrepreneurs and today this session is going to feature five of those incredible entrepreneurs and expose them to you and hopefully the rest of the world by allowing them to provide us with three minute pitches and hopefully they are impactful pitches and the purpose of that is so that you, our audience, can understand what they do and perhaps collaborate with them, connect with them and hopefully even invest in them. Now, it's important that you are involved as our audience and what we are doing today is we are inviting you to participate in a Slido survey. You'll find that in the chat, in the chat room, there is a link that you will see which will allow you to pose questions that we will hopefully be able to respond to and to two particular polls that we're gonna put out. The first one is that should be opening now if you go into the chat into the Slido right now is an invitation to think about which one of these entrepreneurs you would like to spend more time with. In the second part of today's session, we're going to allow you to go into more of a deep dive where you can spend time with one of the five pitches that you've witnessed today. So we're gonna ask you in one of the polls which one you would prefer to spend the 15 minutes. Of course, all the information will be available and you can possibly make contact with them the other four afterwards but today, unfortunately, you're gonna have to choose which one of the five. And then after the pitches, we're gonna actually ask you your opinion on who, in your opinion, has produced the best pitch for today. Now, in my opinion, and you know, of course, there are a lot of people and particularly the judges who I'll introduce just now who understand that pinching is just but the first part of understanding what an organization, what a business does and you need to unpack that a lot more but unfortunately in three minutes, we have to get across a lot of things and what I'm looking for as one of the judges today is, is the pitch clear? In other words, I understand what that organization does. Is it clear what problem they're solving, right? And for me, what's particularly important is it sustainable? Is that organization sustainable in the medium to long term and is it really making impact? So those are the things that I'll be looking out for but I'm not the only judge today. We have four incredibly impressive judges with incredible experience in financing, supporting and evaluating entrepreneurs. And so a big thank you to our judges, Marron, Kristen, Jennifer and Lasse and we look forward to your observations. So now it's time to get started with our pitches. Our first pitch is going to be Tom Lubeck from Arc Marine and if I can ask you to come up on screen. Tom, are you ready to pitch? Ready. All right, so you have three minutes and what's going to happen is that about two and a half minutes just for the audience, I'll pop up right next to you which is your 30 seconds queue that you've got 30 seconds and I will give you a hard close 30 seconds later to give everyone else equal time. So Tom, without further ado, let's hear what you do. Brilliant. Good morning, everyone. My name is Tom Burbeck and I'm the CEO and co-founder of Arc Marine. Arc Marine is an award-winning eco-engineering company and it was founded in 2015. Our business model is associated around three primary things. One is the manufacturing sale of a Portland cement replacement, which is low carbon and can even be carbon neutral. The second is in the manufacturing sale of nature-based solutions. So for instance, the reef QPC on the deck of the ship here. And thirdly is in the advanced monitoring techniques that we use to understand exactly what was going on in the marine ecosystem before and after we install our products. So my background is in commercial diving and agriculture. You can see from the picture on the bottom right-hand side. And the rest of my team have advanced skills in science, oceanography, marine conservation, engineering and manufacturing. So for instance, one of our directors has experienced in manufacturing 12 million concrete blocks a year, giving us all the necessary skills we need to scale this business. Next slide, please. This is one of my favorite slides because it shows the global opportunity we have in particularly offshore wind. But other coastal defense projects, oil and gas sites, that sort of thing. So when building these offshore construction projects, there's a lot of man-made products that get put into the environment. So our competitors at the moment that we're trying to replace, put down high Portland cement products normally laced with polypropylene. And as such, those products normally have to be recovered during the decommissioning phase. Our products are designed with nature in mind and therefore can be left subsea. So to give you an idea, the marine mattress down the bottom here, it may typically cost 1,000 pound to produce and sell. It would cost 11,000 pounds to install, but the recovery of that product would cost 12,000 pounds. And to give you an idea of numbers, just in the UK alone, 80,000 of those mats have been installed around pipelines and cables. So with this big transition to offshore wind, we anticipate a lot more of these concrete products being installed. And therefore this is a huge opportunity to accelerate reef creation at the same time as transitioning to a renewable future. Next slide, please. So I'm really lucky to be able to have these images as our impact. So all of these pictures were taken around reef sites, some of them around agriculture, some around coastal defense, some around our offshore wind pilots. And this is really important for us because not only are we saving money during the decommissioning, we're also improving the impact. As for financial impact, we've raised half a million pounds in seed funding. We're generating 400,000 pounds from sales outside of any grants. And we're now looking to raise a seed to investment ground. So what we're looking to do is speak to investors, speak to like-minded individuals who may have projects for us. But what's really important for us is that we start implementing this technology now. As you can understand, when building offshore wind farm sites, there's a huge consenting phase. And one reason we're looking to scale quickly is we need to be in front of all the right developers now before they put in the construction. That's me. Thank you, Tom. Nice and concise. So two quick questions from me. In terms, I heard you speak about the cost of decommissioning, but price of your product versus the installation price without the decommissioning cost. If I was a buyer of your product, what I'm in for with the current technology and what I'm in for from your technology? So our CAPEX is approximately 20% more, but that's mainly due to scale. Once we scale it, we actually think we could probably be cheaper, which would be astonishing. But when you're taking the lifecycle cost overall, yeah, we are substantially cheaper. But CAPEX at the moment about 20 to 30% more. Okay, I think you covered both of my questions there, Tom. Let's move over to Natasha. Right, if we can have Natasha up in there. All right, Natasha, remember we got 30 seconds. I'm going to be right next to you at 2 minutes 30, which is your clue to close off. Natasha, are you ready to pitch? I'm ready. Thank you so much. Go for it. Great. Thank you. Hi, I'm Natasha Frank. I'm founder and CEO of Eon. Eon is fashion and retail's leading product cloud platform. So today I'm going to share with you one of the biggest barriers to a circular economy in fashion and retail and a seemingly far too obvious solution. So today, billions of products are produced annually. 90% of these products end up directly in landfill, creating an impossible wasteful cycle of production and consumption. At Eon, we digitize and connect every physical product to power at scale circular business model transformation for brands and retailers. You could think of this as the digital barcode for the circular economy. Digital ID is one of the single biggest leverage points to unlocking circular business model transformation, solving three main barriers. It delivers brands business incentives. It drives changes in customer behavior, and it enables policy and accountability. Next slide, please. So today, this is where we are today, and this visual is probably very familiar to all of you. You've seen this. This is what we call a rudimentary product identification system. This has enabled brands and retailers, though, to identify and manage products from production to point of sale. And this product ID system enables brands to treat these products as assets. However, these IDs are removed the moment that products are sold. Without an ID, it's impossible for brands to manage products and monetize them through resale. They can't ID them when they come back. It's impossible for recyclers to ID these materials because they don't even know the material content of these products. It makes it hard for consumer behavior to participate and for customers to participate in circular models because it's inefficient to resale and recycle. And on top of it, after point of sale, there's no visibility, data, or transparency. Next slide. So by digitizing physical products, EON enables every product to come online with a product identity. And basically, you could think of this very simply as a digital birth certificate and passport for every product. Now, this digital ID enables brands to scale circular business models. It enables brands to drive consumer behavior change and brings data and transparency to the entire lifecycle of every product. So EON leads this across fashion and retail with some of industry's largest brands and retailers, including Eucsenna Porte Group, H&M, Target, PBH Corp. And we license a software platform for the creation and management of digital IDs. Thank you. Thank you, Natasha. And I'm glad you touched on the sustainability or how you make money, which was my question is how does this produce revenue? But how many, let's call it large clients, or corporate clients, will you need before you are at a break-even point as an organization? Yeah, so we actually, a lot of our brands have moved to portfolio-wide digital identification, which is also a forthcoming policy requirement. So we are generating revenue today. We have at multi-year contracts with our brands and retailers. And we are in those contracts profitable, but we continue to invest and scale into the business. But clients like Eucsenna Porte Group have already announced their commitments or rolling out product ID portfolio-wide leveraging the software. Great. Thank you, Natasha. We had a great pitch, also very concise on time. And just to remind everyone to go to the Slider poll in the chat and just also start to think about who you want to spend more time with in the part two of today's session. And on that, we're going to call up William Quinn there. We're giving us a chance to inspire you this morning with our solution. I'm William Quinn, the founder of Serious Shea and the Clarity Coalition. Serious Shea is based in Burkina Faso and we are working across Africa. And we are now focusing on transforming the Shea industry in the force for goods. Shea is important because it is one of the key ingredients into chocolate and also cosmetics. She uses 90% of the Shea butter produced, which is in the millions of tons in the Shea belt. It goes all over the world. In 2007, while I was in the field collecting the Shea and working with the women group, I noticed one of the greatest problem that we have and which, in fact, have led to the destruction of the Shea belt, which is deforestation because Shea requires boiling. And as such, they have been cutting woods and they have been cutting the trees in order to produce the Shea knot and export from Burkina Faso. Next slide, please. So our solution, as you can see here, how it's done, our solution basically calls for a novel value chain to be able to provide the industry with zero carbon, zero deforestation products. This will cover about 1.5 million of women and we are therefore designing and setting up the equipment. We were able, with the support of the World Bank and African Development Bank, to put together this set of equipment that you see here and we want to deploy that all across Africa for the women group. Next slide, please. So we are connecting deforestation and planting trees because we have to be able to protect the trees and to protect the trees, we have to allow the community to realize all their economic values so they don't have to cut the trees for their survival. So as such, we have some very innovative way of raising funds beside the usual fundraising that we do. And this is using NF trees. So we use NFT technology and our brand Serious Shea. William, is that the end of your pitch? Yes, that's the end of my pitch. Right. Just looking at the equipment there, the old equipment and the new equipment, what is the fundamental difference between the equipment you're applying versus what was historical equipment used? Yes, absolutely. And as you know, Alan, we approach energy from both sides, not only the substitution with renewable energy, but also with the energy efficiency side, which means that even if you want to use a similar equipment, you need to fundamentally change the engine. So you are going to use an engine that uses low energy that is highly efficient so that, for example, your solar infrastructure is not oversized. So we have a drastic difference between the equipment that is used today, even the mechanized one and the one that we are providing. And just also a very quick question, seeing as that you didn't use up all your time, is how does your organization become sustainable? What is your sustainability model? Or are you requiring ground funding in perpetuity? No, not at all. Not at all. As you know, we are producing an ingredient, which is a key ingredient for the equipment and cosmetic market. So you are actually the production. You are producing the results and selling that. Absolutely. We are connecting the markets from the infrastructure, so we call them the clean activity centers, where they produce shape butter and also they will produce dry mangoes and connecting them to our existing client, because as you know, I've been for more than 10 years exporting shape, especially to Asia to the chocolate manufacturers. Thank you, William. Thanks for your pitch. It's now time for Job from Nigeria from a company called StanLab. Welcome. Job, are you ready to pitch? Yes, I am. Thank you. All right. I will see you in two minutes 30. All right. Go for it. Hi, everyone. My name is Job Oyebisi, co-founder and CEO at StanLab. At StanLab, what democratizing assess the quality STEM education for all students. Focus first on solving the problem of lack of well-equipped laboratories in secondary schools. If you look right in the middle of your screen, that is your typical secondary school laboratory for public school in Nigeria. So about 90% of the secondary schools don't have well-equipped laboratories. Why so? Because it costs so much to build the labs, like $30,000, and you maintain it with like $3,000 to $5,000 annually. Now, these problems have big impacts on the performance of students in exams. Only one in five of the students who take exams are able to attend the grade that they need to get into further education. And U-turn employment in Nigeria currently starts about 37%. So this is not just the Nigerian problem. It's the same in Kenya. It's the same in South Africa. South Africa is the same in India. It's the same in Pakistan. Before COVID, it used to be a developing economic problem. But with COVID, it's not a global problem because schools are short and labs are now inaccessible. Next slide. So how are we solving this problem? We build a laboratory and put it on a computer to make it accessible to anyone no matter where they live or their background. Immediate benefit of our lab is that it helps students to increase student understanding and then their performance. So they are able to attend the grade that they need to go into further education. And for the schools, it's reduction in costs of running the lab and teachers' workload. Next slide. So why STEM? Why is STEM so critical? Look at these stats. 75% of the fast-growing occupations require STEM skills. And if we could just change 1% of the workforce into STEM roles, we will have about $57.4 billion to national GDP. So in Nigeria as a market, for example, there are over 23,000 secondary schools with 4.5 million students. Imagine if we could enable millions of students who want to go into these STEM roles achieve their dream. And this is what we're doing at STEM Lab. The way we do it, we sell our solution to secondary schools in B2B. In terms of impact, we're looking at that in five years we want to empower over one million students, especially the girls child in Africa, to be able to attend their dreams of becoming our future scientists, doctors, and engineers by making STEM education accessible and fun. So we want you to join us. Thank you. Thanks, Rob. Just a couple of quick questions here. In terms of the software, you said you're selling the software to the secondary schools. If they can't even afford their current labs, what is the price difference between buying the software and actually having a fully equipped lab? Yeah, thank you a lot for the question. So if you look at how much you need to maintain the lab, you spend like $3,000 to $5,000. With STEM Lab, you use your $600 annually to get STEM Lab. So this is a scaled-down version of the lab, but still give you the same quality of learning experience that you get in the lab. Second question for me, if I was a terrible guy, watched this and tried to compete with you, what is going to be my barrier to entry to actually build the equivalent software very quickly with a lot more money than you have, and then compete with you quite well and take over? All right. So to compete with us, the first significant barrier is the technology itself. So you would see that there's certain kind of mobile tech that are very much available if you're building well but mobile. These requires a lot of deep expertise in game programming, in 3D simulations, it takes quite a while. A particular competitor, for example, in the US spent over $1 million and they were in stealth mode for like over a year. We've been able to do this with less resources. So there are those barriers and then the understanding of the market. So those are the barriers you will have. Thank you. It's time to bring our first and final pitch, Niveda, from Trashcon. Hi, Niveda. Hi, Niveda. Before you go, I just once again want to remind everyone about the poll which you can find on Slido in the chat section of your screen and then there we're looking to find out number one who would you like to spend more time with afterwards in a deep dive where we can go into far more detailed questions with each of the pitches and secondly, we're going to also talk to you about or ask you about which of the five pitches do you think should win today's competition. There's no prize money per se. It's just the glory of winning today's session and the exposure thereof. So, Niveda, with that you have three minutes. See you in two minutes, Teddy. Great. Hello, everyone. This is Niveda. I'm the CEO and founder of Trashcon and what I'm showing you on the screen on the left is how cities in India look like. In fact, this is not a past photo. This is a photo of today where when I go out of my house, this is how my street looks like and the one solution to this is segregation. Why? Because when you remove the degradables and the non-degradables, you can recycle them. Otherwise, when they are mixed, they have to end up in the landfills and on the streets. So, but despite laws and regulations and billions of dollars spent to create awareness, only 10% of the population in developing countries segregate their waste. And at the same time, there are landfills that are burning. People are born with respiratory cancer near landfills. All kinds of pollution are getting created. And of course, global warming is a direct effect. So, there needs to be an immediate solution which is to be powered by technology. So, we thought, why don't we come up with a solution that can take all that trash that you're seeing on the left and sort it automatically into kitchen waste and plastic waste after which we can recycle so that it does not have to go back to the landfills. This was the thought process as simple as it sounds, it was next to impossible because we were trying to create a black box that can take anything and give out non-vegables. But that's exactly what we did. What you see on the right is three years of working in the dump sites with dead rats, dead pigeons, I don't know, I mean food waste, plastic waste, metals, glass and whatnot. But ladies and gentlemen, next slide please. We finally made it. We created patented solutions that is currently processing 500 tons of waste in India in just one year. So, what you see on the left is what I showed you in the beginning, the complete mixed waste with the bag and plastic and food and everything mixed. It goes into our automated sorting unit which is patented, extremely modular, extremely scalable, can be put in a village, can be put in a city, can be put in an entire town. It gets sorted into kitchen waste and plastics automatically. The kitchen waste is converted to compost and the plastics, again, we face the problem. It was made with biscuit wrappers and chips wrappers, you know, with a layer of aluminum sticking onto it. These cannot be recycled. But we again made a solution that can further recycle it into recycled sheets. Like you can see on the right most corner which look like plywoods from which we make benches, desks, tables, chairs, bathrooms and whatnot. We have been awarded globally. We are working with some of the largest customers and we have made a million dollars in this year. We are making 3 million dollars as well in projections. But can you go back once, but with all of this, you know, the best case study that we could possibly, and of course all of this at one tender cost of anything out there. Can you go to the next slide please? But this is the best thing that we have seen that what you saw on the left was a village that was completely filled with waste and we made it completely zero waste. Can you please bring up the screen and from that plastics we made benches and desks and gave it to 18,000 government school kids. That's what we made and our vision and our vision is that 20 years down the lane when I'm telling a story to my daughter saying beta, once upon a time there was trash. My daughter should say mama, what is trash? Thank you so much. Alan, off to you. Thank you, that was a very passionate pitch. Just in your segregation technology in the units. What is your distribution strategy? Are you selling them as franchises? Are you relying on the organizations you had in the slide in order to purchase them and give them to communities? How are you distributing this and how does Nevada remain or trash fund remain sustainable? So Alan, our model is we sell our technologies of course as franchises or to the customers themselves who have a real pain point and we buy back the output because they do not have the bandwidth to sell it on their own so we buy back the output and sell it in the market. So for us it's two major revenues. One is sale of products, the machinery, the technology and two is sale of the recycled products and we sell it to everybody who has waste. Great, Nevada, thanks for your pitch. That is all our five pitches today. Now we've heard from all of the entrepreneurs. I'd like to return to the slider question if the forum team can display the results which was which of the entrepreneurs sparked your interest to dive deeper with the follow up conversations. Could you put that up please? Is it just me that's not seeing the slide? While they are trying to get that up I want to also remind you that we're also going to be launching straight after this. We're going to be launching the second poll which is who do you think out of the five was the best pitch for today. But I'm going to give it far more seconds otherwise we're going to move straight along to hear from our judges in terms of their view of today's five pitches and I've been asked to start off. So still no slide. All right. Let me just give, here we are. All right. Which sparked your interest to deep dive looks like Nevada with your passionate pitch. Most of the people want to spend time with you followed by William Tom Natasha and John. I will be spending my time with you. Now we're going to go to the judges, bring up the judges but before we bring up Jennifer with her insights in what she witnessed in the five pitches and maybe some tips and insights. A couple of things that came across very strong for me were the fact that all five of you are solving very, very important and big problems and that came across in all the five pitches. I particularly liked some of you used your authority. Some didn't use your authority in the industry. Tom, you spoke very much about the authority of your team. In other words, why should I believe you can execute on this? Is the real question that's going on in the investor's mind is a great idea big problem but as most investors in startup businesses we're always worried about the ability to execute and so by bringing across either as some of you had put across that you have already doing it, in other words, proof or the fact that you have authority in the space it makes it easier for us to believe that you can execute at scale. What's also very important to get across my last point is that very often what I've seen with businesses that move to scale is that they think that there are economies of scale but indeed there are not economies of scale. As businesses scale they require management layers, etc. which have not been costed properly and in fact I see many businesses as their scale actually collapse as a result of scale. So just more thought in perhaps when you go into the deep dive more thought around how the businesses scale across the globe. That's it from my insights Jennifer, perhaps we can hear from you, your insights around the five pitches today, thank you. Excellent, thank you very much Alon and I have to say I feel maybe more like a cheerleader than a judge right now given how inspiring as you said all of those pitches were I have to say you guys are working on issues that keep me up at night so keep going forward. In terms of something that inspired me in particular it's the idea if you think about scale and the fact that these are these sort of big hairy questions so to speak that need to be dealt with that there are really interesting things coming out of India, out of Africa that can then have a huge impact I think in other parts of the world we love this idea of the innovations that are then exportable to advanced economies who are maybe not thinking as hard about some of these challenges these are all pretty small companies still and yet I think with massive opportunity the only thing I would say with that and this is both I think maybe for the entrepreneurs but also for the World Economic Forum is that one of the reasons they stay small is that it's so hard to scale. In terms of the regulatory environment in terms of the ecosystem these are incredible young people who basically have to figure things out and navigate in an environment that is there's nothing bespoke for them, there's nothing made for them they have to find their way in between and I think there really needs we need the shift that we're seeing we need these sorts of businesses rather than the traditional ones in order to basically solve the problems of the world and how do we basically make it easier for them I would love it if the World Economic Forum takes that on I know they already do but really listening to the social entrepreneurs and the things that they need so that these incredible ideas can be scaled so congratulations to all of you I'm super inspired you've made my day right thank you for using me thank you sorry I've got one of these I put these up because still today but I couldn't send that to myself I had to send that to the web team who wouldn't allow me to unmute but thank you Jennifer for those cheerleading words and I completely agree with that I think what we hearing today is so important for the world right now and you know after what we've been going through just to have hope again that there are incredible young people with incredible ideas that could really have an impact on you know the whole world not just their economies now to you Maren I don't know if you are going to be a cheerleader or a judge today either one you can choose or you can be both perhaps thank you Alan and first and foremost thank you to all these founders that are working on so important problems I think you all presented well your solution and the positive impact I would love to see examples of commercial traction and endorsement from customers and also I think this is a great opportunity to share also some of your challenges like Jennifer also mentioned it's really hard to scale a company and this is an opportunity for you to say to put forward and ask say you know we need investment we need new partners to support on this or that and really ask the people here in this session to support you on this because I think a lot of people are really inspired by what you do and this is a great opportunity for you to ask for support that's also why we are here thank you Maren the sound quality here wasn't that good but I think I got the message that really to share for those of you who couldn't hear to share the challenges that you experience and what you want to say to the people particularly in the deep dive with that Lasse over to you cheerleader, judge, both I'm going to choose all of the above I think this is really inspiring and I personally felt like or I personally could feel the passion of the founders and of the presenters that they really have for these important causes and I thought a few thoughts in addition to what the other judges were saying because I think the technological work is really great and also I think when you start scaling up your solutions talking with your customers and so on I think the how well you crystallize and synthesize your story is really important I think especially with the trash con you know what is trash I thought that was particular particularly well verbalized because it's not enough that you have a great technological solution but how you crystallize your story how you tell your story super critical so I think that's everyone all the presenters were very good at specifically with the trash con maybe the one topic that I would love to hear more about is that what is your go to market strategy I think you know with different value chains that you're really tapping into you have a lot of options where do you really who's your customer and how do you focus in getting to know that customer inside out so that you can really be successful financial collaboration partner with that with that part of the value chain so that's my addition to this conversation at this moment thank you last day and before we bring on Kristen just to remind the audience from from a voting point of view is to the which you can get in the chat room in the slider question there who you think won today's pitch and now if I can bring up Kristen all right hi there all right judge cheerleader both what are you I think it's difficult not to be a cheerleader with this group I mean I just have to say due to so many of the comments before me about inspiration passion important ideas much needed solutions I'd also follow up on the narrative the importance of that narrative as well as the energy surrounding these ideas and these really incredible new marketable approaches I think especially in the space of trash and rubbish we have a hard time trying to find a way to market it right how do you create that that opportunity I think the big question I come back and I know I keep hearing about scale we don't always need scale necessarily but I would be really curious to ask each one of the competitors what does success look like in the short to the medium and longer term and then we can build that narrative for each of those customer outreaches and build from there oops sorry I wanted to treat on time thanks thanks Kristen and while the web team bring up the results the drum roll results maybe I can there we are so our number one pitch today is Nevada from trashcon congratulations and followed by William and you know it's still growing now I can still see people or maybe it looks like a horse race as everyone and whoa the horse race is on there are you going to remain the number one today looks still looking good still looking good alright somebody unvoted there alright I think that's it well done Nevada very passionate pitch by you and yeah I think what everyone is doing is incredibly important and you know just to just once again reiterate what all our cheerleaders slash judges have mentioned if I can just summarize so first of all I think the message is what everyone's doing here what from each and every pitch whatever you're doing is incredibly important for the world number two about vulnerability about sharing your challenges we heard from married men about sharing your challenges and needs particularly in the deep that we're going to go to in part two last very rightly pointed out what's who is your customer and how do you get to that customer I think that's very important for us to unpack and Kristen of course talking about the around also reiterating about tightening the narrative and yeah and what does success actually mean to you I think all very very valid points from our cheerleaders slash judges I'm going to use that from now on alright so congratulations to Nevada we're going to close off the first half thank you for watching from around the world we've got people from around the world and if you've been inspired by these entrepreneurs visit the uplink platform and uplink.wefforum.org to get to know a more impactful SDG entrepreneurs just like them