Featuring renowned entrepreneurs, investors and catalysts for innovation, this masterclass shares lessons and tips on spearheading and scaling up innovative entrepreneurship with positive social impact. Award-winning start-ups also share their stories on the successes and challenges that they have faced as a young business, and as well as a Q&A with the distinguished panel.

Panel:

Kimbal Musk is a chef, restauranteur, and philanthropist. He is the Co-Founder and Chairman of The Kitchen Restaurant Group and named a Global Social Entrepreneur by the World Economic Forum. His non-profit organization, Big Green, builds permanent, outdoor Learning Garden classrooms in hundreds of underserved schools across America reaching over 350,000 students every day. His tech-enabled, urban farming company, Square Roots, grows hyper-local, real food—year-round—while empowering the next generation of farmers.

Bill Tai is an Angel Investor; Partner Emeritus CRV; and Co-Founder, Extreme Tech Challenge. He has been funding start-ups as a Venture Capitalist since 1991 and has had 23 of his start-ups become listed companies. To name a few, Bill has backed Canva, Color Genomics, Dapper Labs, Safety Culture, Tweetdeck/Twitter, Wish.com and Zoom Video; He is co-founder of ACTAI Global, a community of Athletes Conservationists Technologists Artists & Innovators supporting environmental conservation and economic empowerment via entrepreneurship. He has served on the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneer Committee and is an Adjunct Professor of Innovation at Curtin University in Perth, Australia.

Nicole Shanahan is an attorney in California and a research fellow at CodeX, the Stanford Center of Legal Informatics. She is a California based attorney and the founder and president of ClearAcessIP, an automated patent management and valuation platform, and a legal technologist who specializes in the legal applications of neural networks, structured databases, APIs, UI/UX, automation and SaaS; and Bia-Echo Foundation, a private foundation that aims to invest in change makers at the forefront of innovation who are tackling some of the world’s greatest challenges.

This event will also feature start-ups from the Extreme Tech Challenge: FoodLocker (Nigeria), Sophie’s BioNutrients (Singapore) and Beewise (Israel).

Check out:
FoodLocker: http://www.foodlocker.com.ng/
Sophie's BioNutrients: https://sophiesbionutrients.com/
Beewise: https://www.beewise.ag/

This WFF Masterclass is co-organised with the Extreme Tech Challenge (https://extremetechchallenge.org/), a non-profit public benefit corporation whose mission is to empower the next wave of disruptive start-ups that can reach massive scale while having a meaningful impact on our planet. The goal is to identify start-up companies from around the world who are developing innovative technologies combined with market potential that are solving the challenges identified by the UN Sustainable Development Goals by collaborating with our global network of corporate partners, investors, policymakers, and thought-leaders.