Agenda

Mneesha Nahata is Senior Vice President, Legal & Chief Sustainability Officer at American Tower Corporation. Ms. Nahata joined American Tower in 2005, where she focuses on corporate governance and compensation matters, sustainability, public disclosures and investor outreach, securities law matters, risk management and public affairs initiatives. Prior to American Tower, Ms. Nahata was a business law associate at Locke Lorde, working with public and private companies on equity and debt financings, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and other general corporate and securities matters.  Ms. Nahata holds a Juris Doctor from Northeastern University and a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from Tufts University. She is a frequent panelist on sustainability, securities law and governance matters. Ms. Nahata serves on the Board of the American Tower Foundation and its Social Justice Committee, and is a member of Nareit’s Social Responsibility Council. In addition, she serves on the Advisory Board of the Brookline Education Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving excellence and innovation in public school education and the Board of Governors at Longwood Cricket Club.

Sergei Dutov is a business development director of Skolkovo Foundation, the biggest startup hub of Russia. He develops and executes open innovations initiatives of large corporations such as Huawei Technologies, Mail.ru Group (the largest Russian IT holdings), Russian Post, TCS Group (one of the world’s biggest online banks). He has organized hi-tech roadshows and business missions to China, Singapore, Switzerland and Italy. Being the first citizen of the Skolkovo Innovation Centre campus, he builds a sustainable ecosystem for hi-tech development and commercialization. Sergei is responsible for R&D facilities of IT corporations. He leads international projects with UN’s subsidiaries and international startups’ ecosystems. Under his guidance Skolkovo Foundation has become an official member of Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and Global Compact.

Sergey is the founder and CEO of the Global Challenge initiative that aims to promote Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) among the hi-tech community around the world. Starting from 2019, he launches programs, tools and road shows of technologies supporting SDG’s. In 2020 more than 280 technology startups took part in SDG competition, 24 startups presented their solutions across Switzerland, China, Russia and Singapore. In 2021 he initiated SustainTech Map - the map of technology companies that are addressing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. SustainTech Map allows to gather and to visualize innovative technologies for SDGs and to provide ongoing multi-stakeholder communication and public-private partnerships between technological community, corporate world and global SDG players: UN and World Economic Forum. 

Visual Artist, photojournalist, activist and writer, with 35 years of experience with international projection, particularly in the area of the environment, human rights, scientific and Mexican traditions, which has received national and international awards, he has been recognized by the United Nations, the Queen Elizabeth II, Government of México, etc.

His work has spread throughout the world, with 120 winning prices,  350 exhibitions, and 100 publications in books and magazines in 26 countries around the world.

A high-speed optical transmission and standards expert. He is currently the president of Global Plan Inc. and the developer of the "Okamura Model," a low-cost optical cable solution for remote areas that is already being used in Japan and is now being implemented to bring free WiFi to the Mt. Everest and Annapurna region of Nepal.

Adjunct Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Columbia University in New York. Geeta received her M.S. in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University in New York and her PhD from the University of Tokyo.  She is the president of AI and her duties include the management of daily operations and relationship between the foundation with its local partners and outside vendors.

Professor at Kuwait University from 1998 until present, Salah is also the founder and CEO of Information Age Consulting (www.information-age-consulting.com). He received his Master’s and PhD degrees in Computational Linguistics from Essex University in England. Dr. Salah also worked as a consultant at the National Assembly (Kuwaiti Parliament) (From 2015 till 2017). He also worked as a consultant for the Vice President for Academic Affairs at Kuwait University (from2004 till 2016and from 2013 till 2015). He is a consultant for the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (from 2013 until 2014). Dr. Salah has 24 years of academic experience in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language processing. This experience forms a solid ground utilized in delivering our products and services.

As the Principal Research Fellow at United Nations University Institute in Macau, Hannah leads the Migrant Tech Research Project. Since 2016 she has led a multi-disciplinary team, innovating and inventing ICTs to support proactive and consistent screening of workers in situations of labour exploitation and human trafficking. She has over 15 years’ academic and practical experience in the area of mobile computing, ICT for development, and human-computer interaction.

Karla holds a BA in International Relations from the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM). She was one of the 15 people selected for the programme "Innovation for Equality" organised by Berkeley University and Prospera. She regularly participates in international telecommunication forums, as she advocates for the development of a regulatory framework for community networks in Latin America. Through her participation in Permanent Consultative Committee 1 of the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission of the OAS, she coordinated a questionnaire for the report Community Networks in Latin America: Challenges, Regulations and Solutions, which offers an analysis of the existing regulations on community networks in Latin America.