 Hei everybody, good evening, welcome, i can see you all or most of you, my name is Nick Gowing, I don't really have to thank you for being here because you're also delighted to be here, to be recognized the new champion communities, that's the aim of this next hour, the six new champion communities and my job is to make this fun for you for the next hour along with those representing what you've all achieved, there are 500 of you actually but I don't I don't think there are 500 here tonight. All of you, and you love to hear this, you're forward looking, you're cutting edge leaders, my job is to impress you and make you feel tremendous for being here really. Let me tell you that age is not a requirement. You can be a young champion, you can be an old champion, you can be a very old champion or very young champion. Age is not an issue. And all of you are really well on your way to pioneering new technology, new business models, new solutions for the new global challenges and I think we have to add their uncertainties in this very difficult world at the moment. You've taken risks, you've innovated and you're here because you've succeeded. We're spotlighting really a new generation of entrepreneurs who are pioneering a new course for growth. Not maybe what you thought of when you set out on this path but that's the way you're being recognised here this evening in Dalyan and you're redefining what it means really to be entrepreneurs in this world and there are probably others who are not here from the current generation of entrepreneurs who've got a lot to learn from you. Your people, whether famous or not, who are paving the path for others to follow. Pioneers, you're changing the paradigm for business through your model that you've developed, your disruptive technology or even creating new markets at the same time. In many ways you've begun to change the world or you are changing the world at local, regional or global level in a new and positive way and you've all got inspiring stories to share. If any of you don't recognise yourselves here you're in the wrong place but I think all of you do we're delighted to see you. Maybe I could just have a little more light so I can see who I'm talking to which would be great. Now I've got to recognise that 500 of you many of you here sitting in front of me all of you could have been up here on the platform but as you can see we can really only have five up here we could have had 50 chairs but it would have got rather crowded and it would have lasted all night probably and then right at the end we will have a joint photograph taken here on the stage to prove that you've all been here officially. Who are the new champions? Let me invite those five representatives onto the stage in a moment. Let me underline the qualities that these panellists are really representing what they're showcasing. They're showcasing vision, risk-taking, persevering, convening and adaptability. We actually developed a sensor that measures your gaze movement so you can actually control a computer using your eyes only. It measures your eyes position space and where they're pointing. That's creating a machine that knows what you're paying attention to. We send those possibilities within gaming, in cars, just making your computers understand you better. Those who empower us to do more. I'm David Kingham, chief executive of Tokamak Energy and we're pursuing a unique approach to the development of fusion power. What we're aiming to do is to use spherical Tokamaks with high-temperature superconducting magnets to make rapid progress towards that elusive goal of the electricity from fusion. And we're aiming to do that to the point of producing electricity for the first time within 10 years. Those who design new ways of working. We have to think now about how do we grow in a way that's socially sustainable and environmentally sustainable as well as economically sustainable. And so in a sense there's an opportunity to reinvent everything, redesign everything. That's both incredibly exciting and pretty challenging. Those who give a voice to the masses. If we want to change this country we absolutely have to count on youth and work on involvement of youth in the Tunisian politics. This is the laboratory of democracy in the Arab world. If we succeed here it will give a huge hope to the other countries to succeed. Future growth will be generated by you. The champions of today. Cracking wicked puzzles. Changing the status quo. Questioning the unquestioned. Spurring global growth. Improving people's livelihoods. As a society, as a community and as a world we need to have difficult conversations to overcome the problems. There's no point going out then thinking we can change the world in a day. We have to start small. We have to think locally. We have to think about our cities first. Then talk about our states. Then as a group forum be able to implement it globally. With that excitement that people are coming together to really work on these problems. Brilliant minds, really experienced people are coming together to solve some of the world's most challenging problems. One of the most remarkable groups of people that I've ever interacted with. And yet actually having their feet to the ground. New champions. Charting a new course for growth. So welcome to you all. It's good to see you. Now as I say highlighting all of you are the five colleagues of yours and let me introduce them one by one. Andrew Furzman, let me invite you up here. First of all from Vancouver in British Columbia in Canada, chief executive officer of 1QB Information Technologies. Welcome Andrew. We'll be hearing more about you in a moment. Christine Richmond from the United States. Welcome Christine, co-founder and chief executive officer of Revolution Foods, a young global leader and a social entrepreneur. We'll be coming to you first in a moment. Then to Helen High who joins us having done some remarkable work in Ethiopia and across Africa. Goodwill Ambassador and United Nations Industrial Development Organization Unido. You're from Shanghai, a young global leader. Leslie Mazdorp who's joining us from South Africa but he's now based in Shanghai and only very recently has he gone there. Welcome Leslie, vice president of the new development bank here in the PRC. Finally, Zhang Tai who has a remarkable record as a developer, a founder and chief executive of Jumping here in the PRC. More details about that. Welcome to all five of you. Now what I want to do is give you all a kind of pen portrait idea of why they're sitting here in their own words. What I'm going to do is go to Christine first. Welcome Christine. You did something remarkable because you realized kids were not being well fed enough in the United States. We've got a few images to go with your story but tell us how this all began and turned into something enormous. Thank you. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Revolution Foods and we started about nine years ago to give you a little idea of our journey. I co-founded Revolution with my co-founder Kirsten Tobi and we connected because we believed that every child and every family deserved access to healthy affordable meals on a daily basis. Let me just say we've got a comment up there the kids how they're loving the new Revolution food meals. In the United States about 50 million Americans live in food insecure households and in the schools and communities that we serve over 50% of the students we work with will develop type 2 diabetes if the trends continue. So we are in an epidemic and it is preventable. So like many, many entrepreneurs we started very small humble routes, six of us preparing, delivering healthy meals to schools across the Bay Area where we started and fast forward nine years we're serving 1.5 million healthy meals per week across 30 US cities and thank you. The majority of our meals are served to students who rely on school meals as their primary source of nutrition. So these are not optional meals for our students these are critical meals for our students. It's been quite a journey every step of the way. We realized that we needed to start from square one build a supply chain for real natural food which didn't exist at the price point and volumes that you needed to serve the communities we were focused on. We built seven culinary centers across the country designed a distribution center to deliver these meals daily. And a big part of what we've done as well is to create good jobs in economically depressed areas. So we are the second fastest growing city job creator in the United States right now. We have a team of about 1,500 people who make it possible every day. And we've recently expanded into retail networks into Walmarts and Safeways so that we can make these affordable meals and healthy meals accessible to families as well as to students. We're on track to be about 130 million dollar company this year. And have worked very hard along the way and I will say last but not least my co-founder and I have also become moms in the journey. So a big part of what we work with every day is learning how to be great parents and great business leaders and manage and balance all of that in the process of building our team. Christi, one million meals a day where does it go from here? I mean vast numbers of kids don't have enough good food and that kind of food that you're serving where do you go from here? Every day we are scaling rapidly both in schools and in grocery stores as well but it's not fast enough and just over lunch today I was talking with another entrepreneur here about scaling globally and how you do that effectively and so that's on our mind right now because again we set revolution foods up not just to serve our local community but to impact millions and millions of families given the magnitude of the problem and the opportunity. The potential to go globally remind you of that day back in the late to what 2006, 2007 when you were looking in your fridge and saying what am I going to do to help these kids? Well we knew the minute we started it may have started small like many entrepreneurs but the demand in the US we were getting calls from all over the country from principals, parents, administrators saying we've heard that we can feed our kids healthy, affordable, delicious meals that they'll eat, that will set them up for success in the classroom at a rate that we can afford so the demand was off the charts and we in turn designed the model to really scale as quickly as possible. Christine Richmond, thank you very much indeed a risk taker joining you this evening well done. Thank you. Now Andrew Furzman you're rather different we have very different success here in venture capital and there you are with some of your fellow venture capitalists in that deeply underprivileged place of Vancouver, British Columbia but we're showing you that because to show the kind of people you are but also what you're achieving particularly with not just watching the Pacific every evening which must be hell as well but actually also the fact that you've done a lot of work on venture capital and supporting PC and IT development. Yeah I think venture capital is a nice way to put it we really think of ourselves as an investment club we were originally just a bunch of guys with fairly modest means and our goal was to be able to get together and take the small amount of money that we had and instead of popping into a zero percent interest savings account look at putting our cash into things that we really wanted to see exist and so for us looking around the local Canadian economy there were companies in infusion in synthetic biology nanotechnology artificial intelligence machine learning robotics and quantum computing and really for us the idea was let's try and actually band together and if we all put a little bit of money together we can put that into something that really might not succeed if someone has to do it and that really was what started we called ourselves minor capital because we always knew we were going to be the smallest check in any of the deals that we were participating in. Is that the way it turned out to be? It did I mean it's absolutely but part of what's been so great is we managed to invest in a company on the street from us in Burnaby they made the first commercial quantum computing hardware and because we were able to have that perspective of viewing into them from a very early stage we could see that they were doing really amazing things and it was from that perspective that we saw we could continue to invest but if we really wanted to invest and to make these things happen we could put our time in so one of the minor capital guys and myself co-founded OneCubit which is our software company dedicated to building software for these quantum computers and connecting the power of quantum computation to real world applications both sort of helping quantum computing build up and find its niche and reaching industry but also helping real world applications get connected to the power of this hardware that can really transform them. How much of a risk was it what you were doing? I guess only as much as the money we put in. Did you lose anything? You know the nice thing is you've never lost anything until you give up. How often did you give up? Well we haven't given up yet. The thing that's great is we started this a couple of years ago probably four or five years now and all of the companies that we've invested in are still around. The company D-Wave I was just speaking of did a great job of really growing very substantially in that time. I've been focused on OneCubit where I'm the co-founder and CEO and we've grown from nothing to much larger than nothing over the last two years. We now have a team of about 30 PhD scientists and researchers working with us trying to put these things together and we're happy to welcome in groups like the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Royal Bank of Scotland as investors in us now helping us fulfil our dream. And quickly, where do you think you're going in the next year or two after all that's a long period for you? Absolutely, that'll be a whole other lifetime of OneCubit, but we'd really like to see as this technology matures and we believe it's just reaching an inflection point where it's crossing over what's possible with classical machines alone. So we think that this is going to be an excellent opportunity to be able to interface with our partners who are both our investors and our clients be able to help them build up the expertise necessary in order to take care of this and certainly we'd love to be able to see the first applications really paying dividends to the people who believed in us from an early stage. Andrew Firstman, well done. Welcome here. Right, let's talk to Helen Hy now. Who has a remarkable story. Not just a goodwill ambassador, Helen, but also what you've achieved particularly starting in Ethiopia. What have you done there? I came to Ethiopia in 2011. It took me three months from deciding investment to actual production. In the following six months I doubled the export revenue in Ethiopia in the shoe sector. By the end of year one we recruited 2,000 local workers. By the end of year two we recruited 4,000 local workers. The question you met wondering, why did you pick Ethiopia in the first place? The answer is I did not pick Ethiopia. It was Ethiopia who picked me. And why shoes? And then this actually the story started back in March 2011. When the late Prime Minister Meleis had a meeting with the chief economist of the World Bank, Professor Justin Lin, Lin Yi Fu and asked for his advice in terms of poverty reduction and economic transformation. Justin advised him three things. Number one, job creation it is the key for poverty reduction. Secondly, the fundamental secret for China in the 1980s and the Asian for Tigers and Japan in the 1960s for their economic transformation because they captured the window of opportunity during industrialisation shifting and get into global value chain which created millions of jobs and that enabled a gem start in their economic transformation. And now after 30 years golden manufacturing in China China is moving from a more labour intensive economy to a more capital intensive economy. It's about 85 million of the jobs going to be relocated out of China. So this is a golden opportunity for Africa. So the last thing actually he advised the prime minister of Ethiopia, what are you going to do? He said, you need to create a quick success because that will bring inspiration, leadership confidence to the country and to the continent. Let's pick up on that confidence for the continent because actually things have developed amazingly quickly in the last three or four years. Let's go to Rwanda and up there we've got the profile of Felix Mohera who's sent you a note on the left and I'm in Rwanda, I've been very impressed about your trust to my country and he also has written this, hello Madam Helen how are you doing? Tell us the story of him and what was set up in Rwanda as a result of what you did in Ethiopia. A little bit to finish on the Ethiopia story. Before I came to Ethiopia Ethiopia have an industrial zone called Eastern Industrial Zone. I followed five years to attract a single international manufacturer to become a residence after I created 4,000 of jobs and being asked by the prime minister to become the advisor to the government my first role actually is to promote the first government owned industrial zone with less than three months without any advertisement all 22 factory unit they all listed out to international manufacturer. Can I persuade you to shift to Rwanda now? I know you're here for your perseverance but I've got to persevere too. No problem. But it is also the first time. So can we persevere to Rwanda? So after the success actually in Ethiopia which being the successful example for Africa Rwanda the president of Rwanda came to me. Helen your time is going to be up and you will not talk about Rwanda I'll have to get you to brief about it after we finish. Can I persuade you to go to Rwanda? So later on after the success of Rwanda president Senegal they came to me and then asked for our support in Rwanda and then this is actually I've got I went to Rwanda and this is what we created with less than two months we hired 500 workers and then this is actually Rwanda being a small landlocked country we are taking cultures from Burundi we are taking textiles from Uganda through industrialization we are exporting the goods to the global market so we are taking Rwanda small landlocked country to a land connected country because of industrialization. And finally the potential of what started back in Ethiopia with those shoes and now we are seeing in Rwanda how can this now be cascaded elsewhere in Africa? The point is I never approach the president but you know it's always the president approach to me saying Helen can you help me on the industrialization and this year the president of Ghana president of every coast they all follow this path industrialization in Africa so what I'm saying is 85 million of the jobs is going to relocated after China and most importantly China lifted 600 million people out of poverty in the past 30 years and if Africa can capture this opportunity there's a huge development impact to this And there are a couple of other images of what is happening in Rwanda as well as all of them celebrating and also some of them writing notes to you Helen thank you very much indeed and congratulations on what you have achieved Right, let's now move on to Leslie Mustop who is South African but now finds himself in Shanghai but actually we're going to go to Shengtao I beg your pardon Leslie let's go to Shengtao next who is an extraordinary entrepreneur particularly in the IT business and what we have is a leader of jamping.com there is the graphic which we've got which is very clear it's on the website serving 10 million stores 1 billion consumers and those numbers are rising so Shengtao what about what you do and we have a screen grab here of the kind of thing on your website yeah the meaning was DMP was founded 12 years ago 03 and so we started as not as exotic as Helen just said just from personal interest because I was myself a foodie I like to go to restaurants enjoy the good life but when I was in the US for 10 years enjoy a lot of good life but come back to China and you find it very hard to go to restaurants around or find it from the media they tend to be advertisement sponsored when they do recommendations so I just want to find good places and so I combine that with internet so I think internet is just a place is really good at you know just get the reviews from what people say on the restaurants you've been described as the Yelp of China because I say that now we all call UGC and everybody know about Yelp but when we started Yelp was not there yet so we started about 2 years earlier than Yelp we are the first company in the world to use this kind of interactive UGC concepts to build really good tools for people to find good life in the world so that was 2.03 and now our vision is really on the page we really try to move deeper on the business side so we used to start on a consumer to let people to generate contents and make good choices but we found this is not deep enough for example we are good at help people to find a good restaurant but we are not that good to help people to pick a dish in that restaurant to do that well we want to connect our database with every restaurants database in China put their menu digitally get them online so that's the content side in terms of helping the business to do their marketing to get new customers to have customers come back so we move from Coupang another company people familiar with Groupon and we actually move beyond that so we have a new product called a Sanhui it's really kind of using the payment the mobile payment in China which is by the way grow incredible for this I almost don't use cash and credit card anymore I do all my payments through my mobile phone so where are things moving now do you believe where is the trend where is disruption taking your business the trend is several trends one is really the mobile payment the mobile payment offline mobile payment is growing very fast in China and that change how we can make a restaurant to do the marketing side so we are actually combining the mobile payment with the membership and with the deals together just on the phone and that's going to be very transformative finally what kind of prediction do you have then as you build a business at amazing speed given those figures that I just quoted with the handshake they're serving 10 million stores with 1 billion consumers where do you think you'll be in a year or two that's all vision for the 1 billion so currently we are serving about 200 million users per month and we have about 15 million business listed and we are working with about million businesses right now so there's still a long way to go amazing well thank you very much indeed congratulations on being here and being recognized for this achievement now finally to Leslie and welcome because you're from South Africa and with a remarkable background but you're now working in Shanghai as vice president of the new development bank and perhaps I should just remind people that that's how it all began not so long ago but you're now in Shanghai what about what you believe you've achieved because 30 years ago you were in South Africa with the ANC and spent a bit of time behind bars because that was the way things were going for the ANC and you've been through banking through Goldman Sachs through Barclays and through several other incarnations but here you are now in the PRC for this bank what about what you've achieved and how you've done it thanks very much Nick 30 years ago it's a very long time now but you know I grew up under part 18 South Africa 30 years in my early and late teens many of my generation were inspired to get involved in the anti-apartheid struggle and as it were in about 1985-86 I was rested alongside thousands of people during the state of emergency never tried but spent 15 months in prison and many other people spent several years in prison and never having the chance to go to a court because I think we were driven by a desire to remove the social injustices which was represented by the system under which we grew up I do feel very privileged though Nick having had the opportunity to then in the early 90s be part of the reconstruction period of the new South Africa as you know the organizations like the ANC and others were unbanned in 1990 and I was very fortunate to be part of the if you like the engine room of the teams of people who were designing policies for a post democratic South Africa spent a number of years in government in a number of roles and then progressed to spend 13 years in investment banking but now have a very unique opportunity to together with my colleagues to set up a new development bank and the new development bank is really a start-up and I was joking earlier on that I should be wearing a t-shirt and jeans like Andrew because we are a complete start-up What would the t-shirt say? I think the t-shirt would say something to the effect that I hope we can preserve elements of the excitement of this beginning two, three, five and six years and maybe even ten years down the line because right now all of us have six year contracts we are here to build this massive new development institution however we are starting at a phase where we are almost overwhelmed by the excitement of doing something fundamentally new and in some ways I'm hoping that we can preserve elements of the DNA of that secret source of the beginnings of anything Is it daunting for you? It is quite a daunting process Nick because we've got 100 billion dollars of capital that we eventually will need to deploy right now we are a small team of 20 people eventually in three years time we'll have a full headquarters here in Shanghai but our aim is to add to the available pools of capital to build infrastructure in the developing countries in Brazil, in Russia, India China and South Africa and down the road I think we will become if you like an emerging markets or bank anchored in emerging markets because I don't think this is too impolite I mean there are banks around the world who are very conservative who are being told to be more conservative you've got to take risks and several development banks do tend to be pretty clunky pretty heavy and slow and deliberative Since yesterday and today and also listening to the premier Lili Qasheng this morning there's so much talk about innovation as you know it's very difficult for large organisations for large companies to do new things right so the fact that we are new at one level it's a huge responsibility and there is also a burden because our name is New Development Bank we will still be New Development Bank in five years time so we have to demonstrate our newness by going about our business in new ways and we need to learn from the established institutions whilst they become bureaucratic I think there's a lot we can learn but our aim is to go beyond the jargon is called best practices because best practices of today can lead to dead ends tomorrow we're hoping to design next practices what should a bank of the future look like in terms of building infrastructure and get rid of the layers of bureaucracy that is typically associated with doing that kind of work so we want to remain agile and nimble as we grow we'll hold you to that agile and nimble do you reckon seriously do you reckon you can achieve it I mean you've been in agile and nimble places also being confronted with some really smart challenges I have huge hopes that we will be able to do that I think the court team led by President KV Kamathra from India has stated as a vision that we want to build a bank of the future that's lean where we get rid of the bureaucracies and we have young people who are inspiring who want to make a difference in the world to come and work for us so we're aiming to have a very youthful workforce have an informal culture and build an organisation that is dramatically new Do you reckon you can do that in an international bank there are no great precedents for that there's something which in the book 0 to 1 is called last mover advantage we do have last mover advantage all the other banks have been established in the last 70, 60, 50, 40 years we can learn from them so would you like a bank full of champions exactly they're all innovators they're all risk takers, they're all disruptors would you like a bank full of disruptors I would hire probably half of them in this room if they apply I can't see any hands going up at the moment anyway congratulations for being here and to all five of you we started about 10 minutes late so we'll finish probably just after half past but I'd love to engage some of you as well Louie could I just have a little more light please so I can see faces certainly at the front would anyone else like to come in we don't want you to feel it's everyone up here talking to you anyone else want to come in please I can't see any hands going up who'd like to help us understand what you've done and achieved while you think about it because I'm not going to let you get away and we have microphones there when you listen to your colleagues on the platform what's your feeling about how much of what you've achieved is now reflected in the next generation when it comes to risk taking and understanding it's better to take risks rather than take a predictable path in your career Christian I think for us risk taking has been present since day one we entered a world where there was no solution in our case to bring healthy affordable real food meals to kids in low income communities in low income schools in the US so again just tackling those problems with gusto from how do you build a supply chain from scratch how do you attract talent when you don't have much to offer but just a vision and a passion I've always said you can punch above your weight with regards to recruiting great folks who believe in your mission but there's so much there's so much risk there from a personal and a professional standpoint could I give the microphone to Ylby Benjamin I'm going to pick out a couple of people here down here I'll come to you in a moment Ylby but again just picking up on that do you think risk taking is now something which the next generation and we shouldn't really be talking about generations are understanding that there's better opportunity almost than the normal assumptions of work and jobs Helen Talking about risk taking before I come to Africa I spent 12 years in Europe and then having my executive MBA from the best European school but if you ask me to compare the entrepreneurship between Europe and China I will say the following if you have a tiger in front of you the western entrepreneurship will tell you you get your laptop you study carefully the correct risk of the tiger and then you decide how you're going to jump on top of the tiger to conquer it but the problem is once you finish all the study the tiger might be gone and then when I return to China what I learned from the Chinese entrepreneurs you have a tiger in front of you you jump on top of the tiger you ride it so it's really up to yourself to figure out what is your own entrepreneurship the way of risk taking Andrew you wanted to work because obviously what obstacles are you seeing out there whether it's in the mindset or actually in the way people are being encouraged or discouraged Well I think one of the nicest things for us was we felt there was a huge opportunity to do what we did by putting very small amounts of money to work because the orientation toward risk was I think very poorly managed among most of the investment community that was especially locally where we were but I think this is something around the world where you think the risk that exists in putting your money into something you'd really like to see happen I mean obviously the downside is maybe you lose your investment but when you think about these especially these amazing new technologies these pioneering technologies that are being championed by most of the people here today the payoff if these are successful is massive and so if you really look at the probability of losing your money and then the payoff that comes at the other end it's kind of a no-brainer to put your money to work into these things and I think that that's a very under-serviced investment opportunity especially at the very early stage and yet it's at that very early stage when there's the most opportunity to really change the world by helping people get that first little bit of traction Shang Tao, obstacles for you in any way you've had the most extraordinary development but have you faced obstacles too obstacles for us always coming from people usually the talent side usually is the most difficult you always find you don't have enough people you can take the work can be done and also for us particularly but we did a kind of transformation a company we did a big change around 2010 we used to be more like the media content company and then moved to a more transaction company so that's created a big in terms of ability building and execution abilities right let's go to you'll be a Benjamin welcome I hope we can see you in the dark but tell us about yourself what you've done as a tech pioneer microphone please try the other mic hello hi my name is my company is named my company is named I think the most important thing that we bring to the table here is a lot of the things that we've done here are things that people say you can't do it it's impossible it's not doable and nobody's ever done it actually I think speaking I can safely say speaking for everybody here tech pioneers social entrepreneurs we all did it when everybody says you can't do it that's when we do it when everybody says you can't get funding for it we got funding for it when everybody says you can't ship product we ship product and so this is I think the inspiration of this entire group and you know I can't thank you know the Schwab's the world economic forum and everybody else were inspiring not only myself but everybody each and everybody here thank you very much anyone else anyone else yes over there please can we move the microphone quickly can we move the microphone quickly over there please thank you anyone else because I've got two microphones hopefully they both work hi I'm Saif Kamal I'm a global shaper from Dhaka Bangladesh everyone forgot to mention us so we're the global shapers I think my company in Bangladesh we work with early stage social innovations and as you are saying that it's people told us that you can't do it and we have done it and we are still doing it but what I would compliment is not just me but the colleagues of a global shapers community who are here and these are people under the age of 30 who are making things happen in their country and communities so I would like you all to give a round of applause to yourself and to my colleagues please thank you what about where's Pablo from Idyas in Actheon please yeah that was easy so I guess I'm from Costa Rica I'm a 2015 young global leader and one of the things in that topic of innovation is trying to break trade-offs that often pioneers have to do and almost everyone has done one of those is in emerging markets investment and risk and learning from failure are not common tools one thing that I think this community has to improve the state of the world is develop talent very fast I saw coming in collaboration happening almost instantly one of the things actually with a white gel that almost never comes to this kind of meetings is most of the time at Carnegie Mellon coding by 2016 he had sold two companies with enough money to not worry about his grandchildren but I reached out to him and said like what do we do to really change learning let's do a really big partnership where we can take a tool to say take language learning to up to 100 million people we'll work on helping the functionality for teachers and stuff where you don't have the patience and time to do it you help program this at scale and have it for free and that sense of you know innovation requires competing in a way to do something very valuable that someone cannot do and yet this community has a lot of collaboration and trust and in my mind you often think money is what pioneers need and they often think that's what they need but it's mostly trust and it's people that are willing to collaborate often on an act of faith because you often get very little information and I think this community has lots of that great because what we want to do is work out who the next champions are going to be and what kind of message needs to go from this celebration of you and yourselves Mark Oscar where are you please Mark you have a mic hi tell us about yourself please my name is Mark I'm a social entrepreneur this today and very pleased to be here my journey started 31 years ago when I read about a predicted problem in health care and sadly it's turned out to be true the reuse of syringes for medical injections by medical practitioners is actually the ninth biggest cause of death in the world 1.3 million deaths and 20 million infections of hepatitis every year so I designed a syringe that can only be used once but it's made on existing machinery for the same price and used without any training and that means that they can't be shared and therefore we stop that problem we're the biggest supplier to UNICEF and the government of India we've got 13 licensees but it wasn't as easy as that 17 years to sell the first product into the market place which we sold to UNICEF and since then things have rolled on and in the immunisation space we've had a fantastic success however immunisation is less than 10% to the world injections so the 90% which we call the curative market didn't have this push so I was very fortunate enough to meet Dr Margaret Chan who is the DG of the World Health Organization and bent her arm twist her arm to put in policy for the whole world which has now been launched February this year and we'll be able to complete the cycle by 2020 where every syringe and needle in the world has to be what they call safety engineer to prevent this I'm not a great just to finish off on the moral behind this I'm not a great team player there's only five people in my company and only two people in our charity but it's really trying to coalesce it's a team in terms of a partnership of getting the supporters around the world and once they start buying into that that becomes your motivation to keep going all right well done Mark one more at the back can we get the microphone anyone else I can't see remember these stories are emblematic of everything that you either individually or together have and are achieving hi my name is Jonathan Barker and I'm a global shaper from Port of Spain I'm an engineer and entrepreneur and until recently I didn't actually know what the term social entrepreneurship meant now I do but I just wanted to like it's a comment and a call for you guys's thoughts on it that some of the biggest successes that we're seeing and especially amongst all of you up there are that the biggest successes are coming from helping other people and that instead of focusing on profit and gain that just by focusing on helping other people that's where the biggest successes are going to come from so I was just curious about your comments on that you're asking a question are you I just wanted to hear about you really okay well look I noticed that none of you women in the audience have said there is a lady at the front and I am going to just come to you because I chaired a session earlier about robots and the future of gender equality in robots so I'm determined to have gender equality here just tell us a little bit about yourself please stand up thank you hello my name is my name is Helenty Hillman from Indonesia I'm a social entrepreneur in 2015 so the youngest probably thank you so much but I have to say that coming here actually I was scared I was scared because my work is from one remote island to another I am not used to this kind of environment and I don't know whether I will get something out of it and I probably most of the topics is really for me it's like out of the world but I'm happy to be here I'm happy to be here it's amazing that even with out of all my blindness with all this technological and everything I found a lot of discussion that gave me a giant lips to what I do so what I do right now is I'm helping the indigenous community that keep alive the food biodiversity to have a stage in the global market thank you wonderful I hope we haven't scared you and I hope you've learned a lot and met a lot of new friends because this is a big global community so I hope you're feeling relaxed and we haven't made it more difficult for you tonight thank you very much indeed I'm not going to try and summarise what's been happening your take away your own conclusions from this but let me just remind you this is about vision this is about risk taking it's about perseverance the kind of things you've been hearing there and the impactability of course there are others who were doing this a long time ago or have been doing it in the recent decades as well and let me introduce you to Murat who's going to come up onto the stage Murat Sommez who's from Turkey but he's now a managing director of the World Economic Forum but we'd have him up here anyway because of the amazing success he generated for himself in Silicon Valley Murat welcome you need to explain what you did and the impact you made which is actually reminiscent of some of the stories we've been hearing here thank you it's a privilege and an honour quite humbling to be here Nick we founded a software company in the mid 90s we focused on real-time data distribution and when internet was just about to take off and we built trading systems and a guy named Jeff Bezos knocked on our door and said I wanted to look at clicks in real-time and make recommendations then we adopted the same technology into other sectors like electricity where in one network we doubled the consumable electricity amount doubled it without adding generation they saved $2 billion a year and the energy we made available is the equivalent of Keystone Pipeline every year just using software so the company grew we took it public I was the head of operations globally for 60 public quarters and about a year and a half ago I was the privilege of being invited to join my colleagues at the forum and when that happens you don't say no, it was a question of when and I'm happy to be here and I took some lessons during that process if I may share them for the next one minute they're not ten minutes ten of them in one minute so here's the top ten list, number one don't ever ever ever ever give up so keep going and the number two reality get in the way you will eventually catch up with you number three, don't worry too much about market research because the customers will know that they don't want something if they haven't seen it before people were looking after the faster horses until Carl Benz in 1885 showed us the automobile so bring the automobile number four, in terms of funding be frugal, starve your teams of time and money to spend and that's when the magic of human ingenuity comes out number five, there's no better market validation than a customer who's willing to pay a lot of money for a product that you do not yet have if you're looking forward to going for a public offering IPO have at least two quarters of a dry run because when you go public you will be faced with the immense pressure of doing the right thing in the long term but hitting the short term results and the upside is you'll get a lot of money to invest and laser sharp focus on quarterly results number seven, cannibalise your own products if you're successful that means somebody else is right behind you if you don't cannibalise your own products somebody else will, number eight it applies to here, be social talk to as many people as possible as randomly as possible obviously the best place to do that is at the forum events the next place is the airport queues stop posting your social status next to you I'll give you one example, two weeks ago we had some of your colleagues in Geneva with some business executives and I talked to a guy named Jorge Soto he's a founder of Data4 it's a micro RNA chip company he looks at RNAs on a chip to detect cancer early on before you get sick and I started pushing him and I said look what's the ultimate application of this he said I need as many samples as possible as widely as possible on a large scale and I said what's that he said toilets so I we have a strategic partner called Lixel Corporation which manufactures toilets Fujimorosan happened to be there I called him and said Fujimorosan you had been talking about a smart toilet here it is so what they're going to do is they'll put this chip in Fujimoros toilets especially in an aging society like Japan where they will collect samples of time the toilet will recognize something is wrong and send the data to the doctor for validation and if the doctor says something is wrong they will invite the patient before he or she feels any symptoms so there's no need for samples the data is there so smart toilet is coming to Japan just random event number nine ignore expert advice including mine number 10 finally I feel like David Letterman number 10 if your heart and mind are saying different things follow your heart because your mind will be changed by facts but your passion will pull you through the toughest times thank you thank you Barat