Agenda

Lara Rudar is an 18-year old artist, filmmaker and environmental advocate. As an Official UAE Ambassador for Nature, she works with Emirates Nature-WWF and has attended the Pre-COP26 Summit in Milan as a youth delegate where she met with 400 youth from around the world to create a collective declaration that was presented to ministers attending Pre-COP26 and COP26.

With an interest in film and emerging technologies, Lara’s Virtual Reality artworks centered around the environment were exhibited at the Warehouse421 Gallery in Abu Dhabi and she received the Nikon and Emirates Airlines ‘Young Filmmakers Award’ in 2019.

As the Education Coordinator at the Re-Earth Initiative, Lara is now working to promote a wider understanding of climate change by organizing environmental campaigns and creating educational toolkits with her team.

Nala Amirah is a 17 year old youth activist who aspires to create meaningful and prosperous change in the climate movement and global agricultural food systems. She has founded Green Welfare Indonesia; Indonesia’s first youth led non-profit organization that primarily strives for environmental and social sustainability through advocating against unethical livestock farming and unsustainable agriculture with plant-based approaches and climate education. Recently, she was also appointed as a project officer for the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network to work towards SDGs solutions and as well as a core team member in Re-earth Initiative to champion for intersectional environmentalism.

Joanna is a WSIS Youth Campaigner and have been coordinating activities of the WSIS ICTs & Youth Track. A final-year student in International Relations in Geneva, she is passionate about Youth Empowerment and the role of ICTs in this process. 

In the past, she has led GIMUN (Geneva International Model United Nations), a student-run NGO as VP, and co-founded Popaedia, an online media project aimed to bridge multicultural understanding.

Pamela EA (born in Mexico) is a documentary photographer and climate justice organizer focused on gender equality. She has founded Be Someone world and is currently also the co-founder of Latinas for Climate and Climate Words. She studied Photojournalism (MA) at London College of Communication and Product Design (BFA) at Parsons School of Design.  Based in New York, she is available for freelance editorial, commercial and design work.

Ghislaine Fandel is Science Communication Lead and Content Co-Director at ClimateScience, a youth-led educational charity with a focus on climate change and climate solutions. She is a youth climate activist and McGill University graduate with a degree in Economics, Environment, and International Development.

Sabian Hansel is one of the staff at Department of Environment Student Executive Boards University of Indonesia 2021 (DLH BEM UI 2021). It is an organization focused on environmental issues. One of its visions is to become a catalyst for environmental change, particularly in the area of climate change. DLH BEM UI 2021 consists of 5 programs and functions such as: UI Youth Environmental Action, Green Rangers, Waste for Scholarship, Research and Advocacy, and  Greener Action.

Naifah Uzlah is the coordinator of Fossil Free Universitas Indonesia (FF UI), a campus-based and student-led community working on energy transition and climate justice. FF UI itself is part of a worldwide network of the fossil-free movement initiated by 350.org. Launched during the pandemic in early 2021, FF UI has been advocating for renewable energy, climate-resilient policies, and fossil fuel divestment in the scale of university and the country. The community is currently working on the #GaPakeNanti (Now, Not Later) movement, campaigning for the divestment of a state-owned bank that has been the official financial partner of the university where it’s based.

Fiza Khan is the chief officer of creative communications at Green Welfare Indonesia; an organization which focuses on zero hunger, food security and sustainable agriculture. She has been active in the world of environmental activism for the past 2 years. She hopes to encourage people of all different backgrounds to be more conscious and aware of how their choices impact the planet; As it is our duty to take care of the Earth.

Khadija Khokhar is a 21-year-old environmental organizer who works in DC and Metro Detroit to address environmental racism and intersectionality in the fight against climate change. Currently serving as the social media lead for the national Zero Hour movement,  she has been a leading organizer in local and national environmental efforts since 2018.  She has served as the Detroit fellow for the #Vote4OurFuture campaign, D.C. lead organizer of Fridays for Future, as well as legislative intern fighting for climate justice at the US House of Representatives. Khadija is a junior studying International Affairs and Peace Studies with a concentration in international development at the George Washington University. Through her activism, she hopes to push for legislative accountability and intersectional dialogues in the environmental movement.

Asiwaju Samuel is an Erasmus Mundus Scholar studying the interception of ICT and sustainability, with experience studying in different countries. He looks beyond developing “just digital technologies” but making sure the technology is sustainable and energy-efficient to the minimum level. He is a keen researcher in the field of Green ICT and how current and future digital technologies can be sustainable in line with SDG 7, 9, and 13. He has served as a volunteer in different organisations in different capacities. His current research is 5G, 6G, Machine learning and AI, and embedded systems. 

Dhwani Trivedi is a masters student of Data Analytics at Northeastern University in Boston. She pursued her undergraduation in Electronics & Communication Engineering from BVM Engineering College, India. She has developed various ICT and AI-based applications for social good such as AI Enabled Primary Diagnosis tool using Tongue Image Capture and Prescription Generation, have been featured at conferences such as UNESCO’s Chair ICT4D Non-Conference 2020, UNESCO MGIEP TECH- 2019, was the youngest presenter at UNESCO MLW 2018 where she talked about AI in Education and Ethics. She was a part of India's largest Open Source Collective "The M19 Collective" more than 350 M19 Face Shields were donated to the frontline healthcare workers during the pandemic in 2021. She has been a part of ITU’s WSIS Forum 2021 as a panelist and youth speaker on Girls in ICT Day where she talked about her innovation Contactless Infrared Camera Enabled Thermal Scanner to tackle Covid-19 using ICT.

I am Raymond Liang, a dual master student graduated from Tsinghua University and University of Geneva, in the major of public policy, with a specialization in sustainable development. I am currently working for WIT Energy, a energy technology company in China. As the concept of  carbon-neutrality trending, enterprises and businesses are seeking for the solution to reduce carbon emission and make a transition to sustainable development. My passion is to help achieve this goal in private sector with ICT solution.