Ling is General Partner at Sea Lane Ventures, managing 100M USD of investments at the intersection of life sciences, healthcare and technology. She was an investor for the Gates Foundation and administrator of their $200M Grand Challenges Explorations Initiative. Ling holds degrees from MIT and Harvard educated.

Severine is board president of the Agrarian Trust, supporting land access for next-gen farmers through commons land trusts and reform. She Founded The Greenhorns, a grassroots organization for young American farmers. She also co-founded Farm Hack, an open-source platform for sharing farm tools and technologies.

Lani leads the Vodafone Foundation, a youth development funder in Aotearoa. She’s co-founder of Thankyou Payroll, online payroll management services, and Thankyou Charitable Trust, redistributing a percentage of Thankyou Payrolls’ revenue. Activist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.

Art is co-founder of Holochain, an energy- efficient distributed ledger technology for Holo.host. Art designed alternative currencies since the 1980s, including the MetaCurrency Project. He started an alternative school using Agile methods, a collective of socially minded software engineers, and a social enterprise incubator.

Mike is CEO of Sierra Energy, using FastOx gasification technology to turn most forms of waste into inert solids and syngas, which can be converted to fuel. His mission is to create a zero waste future. He founded Sierra Energy to develop a carbon-negative pathway and make fuel for Sierra Railroad, a locomotives company he currently leads.