Judges and reviewers

Phase 1 review panel

Reviewers scored submissions according to the selection criteria. Top-scoring proposals will be advanced to the judging panel for further evaluation. The review panel, named below, included a global, multidisciplinary group of experts in AI, biodiversity conservation, sustainable proteins, power grid optimization, and climate and nature.

• Vivek Adhia, Boston Consulting Group
• Sacha Alanoca, Stanford University
• Maggie Aleksic, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
• Ronnie Alves, Vale Institute of Technology
• Sotiria Anagnostou, Soana Climate
• Ananth Aravamudan, Villgro
• Ed Bayes, General Purpose
• Norhan Bayomi, MIT
• Farah Benahmed, Breakthrough Energy
• Emil Bethe, Climate-KIC
• Amrita Bhandari, Acumen
• Irene Blanchard-Wu, Amazon Web Services
• Brandon Blasser, Ecosystem Investment Fund
• Leonardo Bravo-Thais, Nexa Resources
• JD Brown, Biophilic Cities Network
• Steve Brumby, Impact Observatory
• Legand Burge, Howard University
• Christina Cameron, Orsted
• Rafael Campos, Vox Capital
• Nathan Chappell, Fundraising.ai
• Inigo Charola, BioTech Foods SL (JBS subsidiary)
• Yi Jean Chow, Clean Energy Ventures
• Laura Valentine Chrobak, MBARI
• Dan Cliff, Going VC
• Sarah Cone, Social Impact Capital
• Beth Conerty, Illinois Fermentation Agriculture Biomanufacturing (iFAB) Tech Hub
• Maria Corradini, University of Guelph
• Ben Cox, Rakuten
• Nate Crosser, Blue Horizon
• Schuyler Dalton, World Wildlife Fund
• Charles Dawson, DOE Clean Energy Innovator Fellow
• Alayna Van Dervort, The Big Wild
• Stefan Dienstag, SOSV
• Lane Dilg, Open AI
• Linda Drabik, Marencik Solutions
• Sanjeet Dutta, Artificial intelligence expert
• Luthando Dziba, Wildlife Conservation Society
• Regina Ehlinger, Comcast
• Juara Elyas, Impact Playground
• Lisa Feria, Stray Dog Capital
• André Ferreira, Loka
• Megan Fisher, Energy Lab
• Kim Flores, Clear Current Capital
• Andy Forest, STEAM Labs
• Dr. Peter Fox-Penner, Brattle Group and Energy Impact Partners
• Daniel Francis, FGS Global
• Nimo Freitag-Bergström, Climate and nature expert
• Joaquim Garcia, PSR
• Matthew Gee, BrightHive
• Sam Gill, Sylvera
• Matt Goldklang, Man Group
• Laurens Gomes, Boropasi Consulting
• Brian Gong, Cameron Ventures
• David Groarke, Indigo Advisory Group
• Matthew Grohotolski, Nearly Human
• Sudhanshu Gupta, Boston Consulting Group
• Douglas Hague, UNC Charlotte School of Data Science
• Sheeraz Haji, Zipdragon Ventures
• Devina Hartono, Endeavor Indonesia
• Karl Haviland, Haviland Software
• Lennart Heim, Centre for the Governance of AI
• Katie Heineman, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
• Parker Hughes, Regen Ventures
• Anastasia Ignatenko, AnastasiaX Group
• Ghislain Irakoze, Wastezon
• Brook S. Jackson, Partnership for NYC
• Neil Jacobstein, Singularity University
• Ahmad Jadallah, Bionl.ai
• Nicole Janssen, AltaML
• Michael Jarrett, Duquesne University
• Kelly Jiang, Bright Power
• Taylor Johnston, Pfizer
• Gaurav K, Veradigm
• Srujana Kaddevarmuth, Artificial intelligence expert
• Mark Kahn, Ominivore
• Harry Kalms, CPT Capital
• Sonam Kanungo, Crusoe
• Panagiotis Kasnesis, ThinGenious PC
• Trevor Keenan, UC Berkeley
• Edwin Keizer, Greenpeace
• Dr. Harry Kennard, University of Texas
• Tahniat Khan, Vector Institute
• Shweta Khushu, Vector Institute
• Emily Kirsch, Powerhouse
• Kyle Kittelberger, University of Utah
• Mechthild von Knobelsdorff, Delegate Group
• Vishant Kothari, World Resources Institute
• Bjarke Kovshøj, Climate-KIC
• Conner Lachenbruch, Conservation International
• Alex Lavaee, Harvard
• Fion Lee-Madan, Fairly AI
• Lance Legel, Ecodash.ai
• Ka Yi, Ling Ph.D, Sustainable Kalture
• Orges Llupa, Tribe AI
• Mai Ly, Regen Ventures
• Matt Lythe, Lynker Analytics
• Cecilia Ma, Norrsken VC
• Dr. Mojdeh Mahdavi, US Ignite
• Erik Maroney, Hudson Pacific Properties
• Edward Isingoma Matsiko, Pearl Capital Partners
• Charlotte Matthews, CMat Advising
• Melodie McGeoch, Monash University
• Sheila A. McKenna Ph.D., National Park Service
• Angela Mecha, Nature Kenya
• Helena Merk, Streamline Climate
• Milind, Mercedes-Benz Singapore Pte. Ltd.
• Caio Maciel, Nexa Resources
• Abraham Miller-Rushing, National Park Service
• Gabriel Millien, AI and Technology Advisory
• Craig Mills, World Resources Institute
• Katherine Moldow, Powerhouse
• Steve Molino, Clear Current Capital
• Arne Mooers, Simon Fraser University
• Topaz Mukulu, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
• Dylan Muscat, Plotly
• Sanjay Nadhavajhala, Acorn Labs
• Madhuri Nanda, Rainforest Alliance
• Victor Ndiege, Kenya Climate Ventures
• David J. Neff, Ecliptic Capital
• Lorena Neira, Blusink
• Brendan Ng, Everbridge
• Mikkel Krogsgaard Niss, C4 Carbon Capture Cluster Copenhagen
• Carlos Nobre, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of São Paulo, Brazil
• Miguel Nogueira, CO2offset.ai
• Linus Okoro, College of the Marshall Islands
• Phoebe Oldach, Basecamp Research
• Ana Oliveira, CoLAB +Atlantic
• Cecil Ouma, African Institute of Mathematical Sciences – Research and Innovation Center
• Norma Padron, Nayya
• Stuart Pimm, Duke Nicholas School of the Environment
• Hugh Possingham, University of Queensland, Accounting for Nature, Biodiversity Council
• Chandler Precht, Columbia University
• Vishnu Rajeev, Avaana Capital
• Ram Rohan Ramanathan, US Ignite
• Lubaina Rangwala, World Resources Institute
• Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (USI-SUPSI)
• Kevin Rodrigues, Venture capital investor
• Dr. Anna Rumyantseva, Databricks
• Vivek Sakhrani, Atlas AI
• Fernando Seve Salud, EY Philippines
• Dr. Costa Samaras, Carnegie Mellon University
• David Sandalow, Columbia University
• Eric Sanderson, New York Botanical Garden
• Friso Schmid, Rainforest Alliance
• Maddie Segal, PBFA
• Senthujan Senkaiahliyan, University Health Network
• Payal Shah, PwC
• Var Shankar, Enzai
• Dean Sherry, De Novo Foodlabs
• Federico Restrepo Sierra, Impact Hub Medellín
• Leehee Skuler, GITA – the Global Impact Tech Alliance
• Alexandra Soezer, Climate Action Center of Excellence
• Michelle Solomon, Energy Innovation
• Anu Sreedhar, Partnership for NYC
• Aishwarya Srinivasan, Microsoft
• Dionysios Stamatiadis, piq energy
• Adam Stinelli, CEBA
• Ria Stout, Rainforest Alliance
• Jennifer Sullo, Antheia
• Rashid Sumaila, The Institute for Oceans and Fisheries and the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia
• Peter Sun, Climactic
• Kevin Sutherland, Isometric
• Kristen Tadrous, Aspen Institute Business & Society Program
• Mahlodi Tau, The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI)
• Elizabeth Taylor, Future Brain Trust
• Dakshesh Thacker, Climate and nature expert
• David Thau, World Wildlife Fund
• Hendrik Tiesinga, Climate Edge
• Tushar Tiwari, Infrablok
• Rodrigo Rodriguez Tornquist, Revolucion21.org
• Marissa Valley, New York City Department of Transportation
• Alexis Vanderhye, Material Innovation
• Sinclair Vincent, Verra
• Jan David Mueller Vollmer, Regenerative Impact Ventures LLC
• Ari Wallach, Longpath Labs and Futurific Studios (Futurific.com)
• Neil Walmsley, Climate-KIC
• Kevin Webb, Super Organism
• Dr. Michael Webber, University of Texas
• Rain Runxia Wen, Milkomeda Capital/Stanford University
• Jeannette Wing, Columbia University
• Christian Schroeder de Witt, University of Oxford
• Zona Xu, Advance
• Sam Young, Energy Systems Catapult
• Juliane Zeidler, WWF Namibia