Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Hatch
Digital Marketing Consultant, Hatch
Founder, Praxium Education
Co-Founder and CEO, Wateroam
Mr Bryan Choong
Principal Consultant, Empact
Mr Benjamin Wong
Principal Consultant, Empact
Mr Arick Soo
Trainer, Reactor School
Mr Hugh Mason
Ms Elim Chew
Special Advisor, Young Social Entrepreneurs Programme
Chairman, I’m Kim Korean BBQ and Kingdom Food Group
Mr Russ Neu
Founder and CEO, Social Collider
Ms Wendy Chua-Sullivan
Founder, WAND Inspiration
Mr Albert King
Coach and Trainer, WAND Inspiration
Trainer, Reactor School
Special Advisor, Young Social Entrepreneurs Programme
Chairman, I’m Kim Korean BBQ and Kingdom Food Group
Founder and CEO, Social Collider
Founder, WAND Inspiration
Coach and Trainer, WAND Inspiration
Closing Remarks
Ms Amalina Abdul Nasir
Governor, Singapore International Foundation
Announcement of Shortlisted Teams
Executive Director, Singapore International Foundation
Chief Executive Officer, raiSE
Vice President, DBS Foundation
Partnership Catalyst, Spudnik Lab
Singapore Country Director, Conservation International
Founder, Fempreneur Secrets
Head for Government (Public Policy) and Corporate Affairs, Southeast Asia and South Asia, Expedia Group
Co-Founder, Cyber Sierra
Co-Founder & CEO, BillionBricks
Senior Manager, SEA Innovation, Deloitte Southeast Asia
CEO, Sustainable Living Lab
Director, Sustainable Impact Accelerator
Director, Material Resources Solution
Representative, Asian Philanthropic Ventures
Chief Operating Officer, Asia Philanthropy Circle
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Executive Officer, Wateroam
YSE 2015 Alumnus
Digital Marketing Specialist
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer
Digital Marketing Consultant
Special Advisor, Young Social Entrepreneurs Programme
Chairman, I’m Kim Korean BBQ and Kingdom Food Group
Founder and CEO, Social Collider
Head, Our Better World
Singapore International Foundation
Founder, Praxium Education
Founder, WAND Inspiration
Coach and Trainer, WAND Inspiration
Head, Our Better World
Singapore International Foundation
Jeremy leads Our Better World (OBW), the digital storytelling initiative of the Singapore International Foundation. He works at the crossroads of strategy, stories, and social impact and is passionate about the transformative power of storytelling to inspire action and drive movements for change. OBW’s stories raise awareness of social purpose organisations which work tirelessly and often unnoticed, inspiring passive online audiences who care about social causes to act. Today, OBW has told more than 350 stories from nine Asian countries and has grown an online community that is 778,000 strong. Through OBW’s stories, more than 1.2 million actions have been taken for good, including shares, comments, visits to related websites, volunteering, and donations to social causes.
Digital Marketing Specialist
Hatch
Anyā is a Digital Marketing Specialist at – a social enterprise that offers skills training and employability programmes in digital marketing, user interface and user experience design. Anyā believes strongly in building strong brands that do good & customers love to grow with. Her vision is to empower small to medium-sized businesses as well as startups to build their brand functions with confidence during times of uncertainty.
Taking an empathy-first approach, Anyā recognises that nurturing smaller companies requires a different approach from one that larger corporations take. This includes, but is not limited to, finding a product market fit through validated learnings, planning for growth through resource maximisation, designing for changing consumer behaviours, building brand narratives that are authentic, nurturing communities to build brand ecosystems as well as designing conversations and experiences for change.
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer
Hatch
Wan Qing is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Hatch. She hopes to bring her curiosity about systems and entrepreneurship to catalyse action and scale social impact. She oversees product design to drive Hatch’s vision of making digital and design more accessible a reality. In particular, she specialises in design programmes and experiences that introduce and incorporate innovation in a way that is bold, sustainable, and impactful across the private, people, and public sectors. Having immersed herself in the startup ecosystem over the past 4 years, she is excited by the possibilities of channelling product and business innovation into work that makes a difference.
Digital Marketing Consultant
Hatch
Eric started his career as a digital marketing consultant with a Melbourne-based firm before moving overseas to fulfill roles that are more socially impactful. His career has taken him to San Francisco and Southeast Asia, where he has worked with micro-finance institutions, startups, non-profits, and social enterprises to facilitate investment readiness, develop data-driven digital strategies, and drive community engagement.
At Hatch, Eric is actively involved in delivering digital and communications projects, including marketing campaigns and content writing for both online and physical platforms. Outside of work, he spends time on the mentorship and career platform Mentorfold.com, which aims to match university students with industry mentors and career resources. He was previously an editor at Newsweek, where he led a team of writers.
Founder, Praxium Education
YSE 2016 Alumnus
Louis is an alumnus of the SIF Young Social Entrepreneurs Programme (2016). His social enterprise Praxium focuses on helping young people pursue a life of fulfilment and impact. He is passionate about educational change and hopes to enrich the lives of students through education, instead of focusing only on test scores. He has a background in user experience design and has worked in both the public and private sectors. His latest innovation project involves creating a co-working space for social entrepreneurs inside high schools to bridge the gap between school and the working world.
Chief Executive Officer, Wateroam
YSE 2015 Alumnus
David is a social entrepreneur who believes in harnessing the power of business to drive social change and solve the world’s toughest problems. Having witnessed rural villagers across Asia who remain burdened by waterborne diseases even in the 21st century, David co-founded Wateroam in 2014 to design and build innovative water filters that can provide safe drinking water in rural and disaster-hit regions. These water filters are built to be easy-to-use, swift to deploy and distributed in a manner that can help promote social change.
Since 2014, Wateroam has provided clean water to more than 250,000 people across 42 countries globally including Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, and the Philippines. Wateroam's innovation has been recognized with multiple international awards including the World Economic Forum’s Uplink Global Freshwater Challenge Top Innovator Award (2023), the Zayed Sustainability Prize (2022), and the ASEAN Business Award (2019). David received the Citizen Ambassador Award (Good Business) from the Singapore International Foundation in 2021 for his continuous contribution to and support of the Young Social Entrepreneurs Programme.
Principal Consultant, Empact
Bryan Choong is a Principal Consultant with Empact. He specialises in programme development and implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and volunteer training and management.
He has led consultancy projects with clients such as Singapore’s Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, National Youth Council. DBS Foundation, Johnson and Johnson Foundation, National Council of Social Service, SG Enable, Community Foundation of Singapore, Rainbow Centre, as well as MINDS.
Bryan received a Chevening scholarship from the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2017 for his work in the non-profit sector in Singapore. He holds a master’s in counselling from University of South Australia and a master’s in public health from the University of Edinburgh. Bryan also has an Advanced Certification in Learning & Performance (ACLP) from the Institute for Adult Learning.
Benjamin is a Consultant with the Impact and Strategy team at Empact. He previously worked as a social worker. He has done casework and counselling at the AWWA Family Service Centre and AWWA Transitional Shelter and piloted a programme for youths at risk. He has also held training and development roles at SingHealth Residency and the National Dental Centre of Singapore.
Benjamin’s experience has provided him with a first-hand understanding of societal needs, both from the perspective of the community and the social organisations involved. He is skilled in programme evaluation design and the implementation of data collection and analysis. Having been involved in various programme evaluation and impact measurement projects, he has helped his clients to better understand and articulate their social impact.
Benjamin holds a Graduate Diploma in Social Work from SUSS, a bachelor’s in business management (Human Resource Management) from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and an Advanced Certification in Training & Assessment (ACTA) from the Institute for Adult Learning.
Bamboo Builders is a social enterprise that nurtures youth to tackle societal problems through social entrepreneurship.
Since 2017, it has partnered with international foundations, companies, governments, schools, and nearly 100 social enterprises across all ten countries in ASEAN. It has built hundreds of social projects – of which 20 have become social enterprises that are still in operation today. These have, in turn, impacted youths in their own communities, and empowered them to lead change within their own communities.
Migrant x Me seeks to build an inclusive Singapore for the migrant worker community. It does this through experiential programmes and volunteer opportunities for local youths, in the hope that they will learn to treat migrant workers with dignity and respect.
Trainer, Reactor School
Arick Soo is a passionate technopreneur who is committed to making a positive impact through innovation and entrepreneurship. He draws inspiration from companies like Grab, Airbnb and Tesla, whose innovative approaches enhance efficiency, increasing utilization for under-used assets, and reducing carbon footprint. Arick possesses a track record of entrepreneurship, having founded several startups.
Hugh has led successful ventures and built innovation communities around start-ups for over 30 years. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Canberra and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the National University of Singapore. Hugh co-founded JFDI.Asia in 2009 – after moving to Singapore from the UK to raise his family.
As the first business accelerator in Southeast Asia, JFDI proved pivotal in kick-starting Singapore's entrepreneurial ecosystem and deployed approximately USD3m into a portfolio of 70 international start-ups. Prior to this, Hugh co-founded Pembridge Partners – a London-based investment and advisory firm that worked with more than 300 technology media and marketing firms. His books – “Facing Down Failure” and Brainfruit” – which he co-edited and co-authored respectively tell the stories of eight Singaporean start-ups and captures his insights from Pembridge.
Hugh is also the co-founder of UK education charity, UAS, which has enabled hundreds of STEM undergraduates to explore a career in teaching.
Special Advisor, Young Social Entrepreneurs Programme
Chairman, I'm Kim Korean BBQ and Kingdom Food Group
Elim is the Special Advisor of the SIF’s Young Social Entrepreneurs Programme. She is the Founder of 77th Street, an iconic streetwear retail brand in Singapore. After retiring from retail in 2016, Elim and her siblings ventured into the Food & Beverage industry, where they currently own seven restaurants. Elim sits on more than twenty boards and committees of public service, youth, and community organisations, and has received numerous awards in both entrepreneurship and philanthropy. During the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, she assisted many businesses in their transition to e-commerce – particularly in the areas of logistical support. She is also humbled by the opportunity to have helped some of these ventures deliver much-needed medication to patients.
Elim is currently an advisor for Seed Ventures, which aims to help start-ups raise funds to start and scale their businesses. As a mentor and friend to youths, aspiring entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs, Elim hopes to encourage more people to rise to be the change they want to see. Her YouTube channel 'elimchewtv' features changemakers from all walks of life who are making a positive impact in society.
Founder and CEO of Social Collider
Russ Neu is the Founder and CEO of Social Collider, an aggregator of resources for impact organisations. He is also a partner for impact at Quest Ventures, a leading venture fund to scale and replicate technology companies in large internet communities. The impact fund, which is the first in Asia to come from venture capital, focuses on the base of pyramid issues in Southeast Asia.
A graduate of the National University of Singapore, Russ received a scholarship from the Korea Development Bank to pursue his master’s in business administration from Tsinghua University in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Russ enjoys reading and writing. He has chronicled his experiences of volunteering in Laos. His publication 'It Made a Difference to This One' narrates the experiences of an NGO that has helped more than 20,000 children impacted by AIDS in China.
He received the Singapore International Foundation’s Citizen Ambassador (Good Business) award in 2019 for his steadfast support of the Young Social Entrepreneurs Programme.
Founder, WAND Inspiration
Wendy Chua-Sullivan started WAND Inspiration in 2003. She has over 20 years of experience as an educator for personal transformation, applying psychology to help leaders and teams build resilience and better performance. Her WAND approach emphasises the use of relevant questions, effective actions, acknowledgement, being neutral and non-judging, recognising individual differences; and making a difference.
Through her workshops, talks, books, and shows, Wendy has made a difference to thousands of executives, leaders, consultants, educators, students, and parents in Singapore and around the world.
She has written 23 books based on the Theory of Multiple Intelligences and developing resilience. She also volunteers in youths and families-at-risk programmes and is an advocate in the Singapore Mental Well-being Network.
Coach and Trainer, WAND Inspiration
Albert King is a coach and trainer with WAND Inspiration and the Founder of The Coaching King. He has over 30 years of finance and business experience and has delivered more than 1,000 programs across the world.
Some of his career milestones include establishing the Lions Club of Singapore CyberCare and spearheading its Leadership Service Learning Mt Everest Expedition. There, he sponsored under-privileged youth from Singapore, Malaysia, and Nepal to trek the foothills of Everest. He has also raised funds for the Make-A-Wish Foundation by trekking to the Everest Base Camp to support the NATAS Singapore Women’s Everest Team in 2009.
Vietnamese Anh Ngoc Dinh Nhu
Sector: Education & Training | Public Services & Volunteerism | Technology & Digital Platform
V.P.R.O.M.I.S.E. is a social enterprise that aims to help 1 million Vietnamese attain an advanced level of English proficiency, i.e., a score of 7 and above on the International English Language Testing System (IELTS). It aims to do this through an educational entertainment programme with interactive quizzes and games, accompanied by a built-in app that tracks engagement and learning efforts from students and learners across the country. In the long run, it hopes to create a learning movement across Vietnam, whereby millions of people can learn at the same time and in their own ways.
Indians Dilip Suthar and Sakshi Srivastava
Sector: Education & Training
Anubhuti aims to provide children in India with access to quality education, thus empowering them to become empathetic and active members of society. Its fellowship model serves to bridge existing gaps in India’s education system by engaging talented youth to work at the grassroots-level. In the long run, it hopes to nurture change-makers and reformers who will drive systemic change towards educational equity in India.
Indonesian Muhamad Rizaldi Bin Nuryasin
Sector: Environment & Energy
Biojel is a social enterprise that focuses on domestic organic waste management from local resources in the rural areas of Indonesia’s southernmost province, East Nusa Tenggara. It aims to build a circular economy by turning organic waste such as farm dung, biomass, and food waste into renewable products that that can be sold.
Singaporeans Tan Hooi Chien Joylynn
Sector: Education & Training | Healthcare | Technology & Digital Platform
BRB Selfcare is a personal mental health app that aims to provide anonymous online therapy and solutions that are personalised, accessible, and backed by science. By affording a safe online space for those who suffer from mental health issues, BRB Selfcare hopes to reduce the stigma associated with the condition while enabling patients to seek help quickly and easily.
Indians Aditya Kulkarni, Siddhi Adhikar and Vikas Taklikar
Sector: Healthcare | Technology & Digital Platform
CareNX is a healthtech startup that delivers antenatal care and monitoring to pregnant women in underserved and resource-poor areas in India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Kenya & Nigeria. Since its founding in 2015, it has worked with over 500 healthcare partners - including hospitals, governments, non-governmental organisations, and health centres. It does this through a suite of technological products that increase the identification rate for high-risk pregnancy complications, thus enabling patients to seek help quickly and effectively. It also upskills medical professionals and clinical facilities with digital tools to enhance the quality of care for women with complicated pregnancies.
Singaporean Jervis Lu and Filipino Jessica Gan
Sector: Healthcare
Castomize aims to make healthcare more accessible, effective, and less invasive using proprietary 4D-printing technologies. Specifically, it creates resource-efficient orthopaedic casts that can be deployed in disaster zones and under-resourced countries – thus helping them to overcome the relative lack of medical proficiency and facilities.
Chinese Huang Hongxiang and Wu Haiying
Sector: Education & Training | Public Services & Volunteerism
China House hopes to cultivate a sense of global citizenship among Chinese youth by helping them to learn about and engage in global sustainable development. It works with non-governmental organisations around the world to develop youth learning programmes on, among others, conservation, gender equality, quality education, and culture preservation.
Thai Keerati Panyapitisophon
Sector: Agriculture | Food and Beverage | Technology & Digital Platform
Cofarm aims to connect farmers with restaurant operators through innovation and technology. By using data to better understand market demand and supply, it hopes to create a more efficient and equitable supply chain that benefits both farmers and restaurant operators. Its "Farm for Local" web application helps farmers to better manage supply and demand, while teaching them to grow hydroponic crops that can be sold to restaurants.
Singaporeans Nuryanee Anisah Binte Mohamed Noor, Nurul Hanish Syuhada and Myanmar Linn Ye Htut
Sector: Consumer Goods | Environment & Energy
Commenhers aims to promote sustainability by upcycling unwanted fabric into bags and accessories. It also engages in business-to-business projects, such as workshops that teach fabric painting and upcycling to primary school students. Finally, it partners other non-governmental organisations in Singapore by providing upcycled materials to them for charitable purposes.
Singaporeans Xie Jiarong and Tan Xuantong
Sector: Arts & Culture
Crafty Crafty is dedicated to revitalizing and reimagining traditional crafts in Southeast Asia. It aims to work with a pool of traditional craftsmen to produce workshops, products, and consultancy services, which it will connect to clients – including business organisations, schools, and government organisations – through an online platform.
Indian Mohanish Borana
Sector: Agriculture | Environment & Energy | Healthcare
Ethnohuman Foundation aims to provide equitable, inclusive, and sustainable socio-economic development for tribal women, who make up some of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged communities in India. It works with these women to produce natural soaps, shampoos, and exfoliants from plants that are locally available. It is also committed to re-using the waste from these agro-forest products.
Singaporeans Carlo Charles, Pranav Krishna Prasad and Indian Pankti Shah
Sector: Consumer Goods | Environment & Energy | Transport
Flint aims to build a sustainability-driven lifestyle tech brand that puts people and the planet first. It hopes to create products that can amplify the environmental impact consumers bring to the world – with its first product offering being a completely-sustainable paper battery.
Singaporeans Divya Nanthakumaran, Noor Sarrah Rafi
Sector: Education & Training | Technology & Digital Platform
Forte360 aims to maximise the well-being of students and help them to attain an optimal lifestyle. It provides schools with a centralised data system that enables them to monitor and analyse the state of students’ emotional, vocational, intellectual, physical, and social well-being. This is complemented by Forte360’s workshops that are customised specifically to improve well-being in students.
Indonesians Rahmawati Sa'diyah, Rizahan Mahesa Indra Yusuf and Yudha Dwiputra
Sector: Consumer Goods | Environment & Energy | Technology & Digital Platform
Freshfill is a sub-business of Indonesian online retailer, Kecipir.com, that distributes local healthy food products in refillable packaging. It aims to be a production centre for quality and affordable food that is also environmentally friendly.
Vietnamese Vo Gia Bao and Nguyen Nhat Dinh
Sector: Education & Training | Environment & Energy | Public Services & Volunteerism
Frogsleap Vietnam aims to promote sustainable and voluntary tourism in remote regions of Vietnam. Its tours are designed to showcase local culture, specialty, and traditions while also promoting the use of renewable energy through activities like learning how to install solar panels.
Singaporean Zhu Manyun
Sector: Healthcare
Full Circle Family aims to help parents be at their best - from the perinatal period through the early years of a child’s life - so that their children can thrive in an environment of responsive, sensitive & respectful caregiving. It does so by providing digital coaching, making lifelong learning, improvement, reflection, and wellness possible to busy parents in Singapore.
Singaporean Tanvi R Thombre
Sector: Education & Training
Girls' Empowerment and Educational Transformation (GEET) through targeted achievements aims to provide free coaching in NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, India’s pre-medical university entrance exams) to young girls in rural parts of the country who aspire to a career in medical sciences. It leverages a blended learning model that involves best-in-class digital content and an in-person teacher-facilitator who imparts the lessons at local schools. It is currently piloting a programme at a village in Ajmer District, Rajasthan, with a group of 60 female students.
Singaporeans Anya Gupta and Shayne Ho Jia Xuan
Sector: Education & Training
Greenairy aims to address air pollution in developing countries with its affordable and carbon-capturing air-purifying plant towers. It utilises technology that speeds up the air purification capability of plants by more than ten times – the power of each Greenairy air-purifying plant tower is equivalent to that of 300 traditional plants with 1 Greenairy air-purifying plant tower. This allows developing countries to sidestep the use of conventional air purifiers, which are often costly and utilise non-recyclable filters that end up in landfills.
Singaporean Ian Chew
Sector: Education & Training | Environment & Energy | Technology & Digital Platform
Greenie Web is a Climate Tech startup with a mission to build the green internet. The two main pillars of its work are digital decarbonisation & sustainable digitisation – which it utilises to reduce energy consumption, data usage, as well as digital carbon emissions. Working on these fronts, it hopes to empower governments and businesses to succeed at the intersection of energy, digital and green transition.
Indian Ronak Mistry
Sector: Environment & Energy
Greenovate Solutions aims to combat climate change by using low-cost carbon capture systems to reduce and prevent CO2 emissions from industries that are highly polluting. It helps these industries achieve net-zero with its proprietary technology, TubeCCU, which is compatible with various industrial applications and operates on zero power.
Vietnamese Bui Mai Phuong, Nguyen Thu Thuy and Tran Thi Mai Ly
Sector: Healthcare
Heart Gym aims to connect young people and improve their well-being through community-based, creative experiences that are accessible and affordable. It provides courses and experiential arts workshops that promote authentic connections with people and the surrounding environment through mindfulness and self-expression.
Chinese Chen Hong Wei and Singaporean Lai Hoi Bing
Sector: Consumer Services | Healthcare | Public Services & Volunteerism
HomePal aims to empower seniors to age gracefully in their residential homes while providing peace of mind to their caregivers. It does this by using emerging technology to enable decentralised senior care. HomePal is currently building an Internet of Things (AIoT) system that can provide privacy-preserving home monitoring and safety solutions. It also collaborates with community partners to establish a network of caregivers.
Indian Pranav Gupta
Sector: Consumer Goods | Education & Training | Environment & Energy
India Recycles aims to build a circular economy, promote sustainable living through recycling fabric waste, and uplift the lives of marginalised women who work as informal labourers in slums. Its brand, Revibe, hires these women to craft products from fabric waste – thus providing them with livelihoods and skills development while honouring their dignity and employment choices.
Chinese Ella Zhou Yazhi and Cora Xia
Sector: Education & Training | Technology & Digital Platform
InfoX is a comprehensive, one-stop information platform in China that provides a full range of opportunities for university-bound school leavers and young professional free-of-charge – including scholarships, fellowships, internships, jobs, conferences, competitions, certification examinations, volunteering, and training. The platform also offers search, filter, and reminder functions, as well as application tips that help users to better locate suitable options.
Indonesians Aditya Benyamin, Alvin Theodorus and Devika Nur Shabrina
Sector: Consumer Services | Education & Training | Technology & Digital Platform
kluarga.id aims to increase the capacity of young adults in Indonesia to develop strong marriages and families physically, socio-psychologically, and financially. It does this through three prongs, namely: developing multi-media content to build awareness and knowledge in young adults; providing pre-marital and newlywed training for couples; and working the government and other agencies to strengthen research on families.
Laotian Manithip Vongphachanh
Sector: Arts & Culture | Consumer Goods
LeLao improves the livelihood of vulnerable communities by working with them to produce affordable and sustainable fashion products that showcase the rich cultural heritage of Laos. Its products include, among others, clothing constructed from deadstock fabrics and up-cycled purses made from fabric waste.
Filipinos Janelle Allyza de Castro, Kamille Elineth de Castro and Kyra Elysse de Castro
Sector: Agriculture | Environment & Energy | Hospitality
Liblib Garden Homes and Eco Park is an integrated farm resort in Romblon, Philippines, that aims to promote a greener and more sustainable form of lifestyle through a regenerative agricultural system. At Liblib, guests can partake in crop harvesting, farm-to-table cooking, as well as other island activities.
Indonesians Muhammad Fathiyakan Ramadhan, Muhammad Nazmi At-Thaibi and Tesdiq Prigel Kaloka
Sector: Education & Training | Financial Services | Public Services & Volunteerism
Modalin aims to address the issue of poverty among low-income communities by offering grants and microfinance loans to individuals who may lack access to traditional sources of funding. It also hopes to provide business guidance on product development and marketing to help these communities improve their livelihoods.
Vietnamese Le Mai Linh, Nguyen Thi Lan Phuong and Pham Minh Thy
Sector: Healthcare
Moodsing is an application that aims to improve the mental health of users. It creates unique, mood-enhancing, and personalized music for each user while analysing their moods through a diary-function. Moodsing also allows its community of users to build empathy and understanding by interacting anonymously with one another.
Indonesian Ginanjar Widya Pamungkas
Sector: Agriculture | Environment & Energy | Consumer Goods
Moringa Good is a food technology startup that aims to create sustainable and healthy food products. Its moringa-based noodles are made with high-quality, nutrient-rich ingredients sourced from local and ethical suppliers, which helps to support sustainable and responsible farming practices.
Indians Arnav Agarwal and Siddhartha Mandava
Sector: Agriculture | Environment & Energy | Technology & Digital Platform
Nayasa aims to become the world's leading platform for holistic food, setting new standards in sustainability, biodiversity, and nutrition without sacrificing quality. Its vision is to create an Amazon-type platform that will offer consumers a diverse selection of healthy and sustainable food options.
Indian Jitendra Singh Choudhary
Sector: Environment & Energy | Water & Sanitation
New Unnat India Techno Solution & Innovation Pvt. Ltd. aims to provide sustainable clean-water solutions to rural communities. It utilises filtration technologies to purify and cool turbid water from sources like rivers and ponds, thus rendering the water potable.
Indians Muhammad Ali Azher, Saba Furqan and Saima Furqan
Sector: Healthcare | Public Services & Volunteerism
Pal Care Foundation aims to provide pain relief and palliative care in India, while providing education in these areas. Its areas of focus include direct services to patients through its New Delhi clinic, affordable in-patient facilities at existing hospitals for those living below the poverty line, homecare and teleconsultations, capacity-building in palliative, as well as fund-raising for communities in slums and conflict areas. Ultimately, it aims to improve the overall quality of life in India by making basic healthcare accessible to all.
Chinese Tang Chenxi
Sector: Consumer Goods | Consumer Services | Environment & Energy
Paples is the first digital receipt platform in Southeast Asia. It hopes to reduce paper waste by removing the issuance of physical receipts and providing real-time smart receipts to customers.
Malaysians Abdul Hafiz Ahmad Naziruddin, Anis Sofia, Lim Su Yen Naomi Joy and Rathysri Lorchana V Ganesh Anand
Sector: Education & Training | Hospitality
PeeCK aims to bridge the linguistic gap for youths in rural communities of Malaysia, while facilitating their cultural exchange with foreign academics and researchers. It assists academics and researchers who wish to conduct fieldwork among these communities, by providing them with logistical arrangements and connecting them to the locals. In return, researchers and academics will be expected to teach their native languages to these locals – thus improving their language capabilities and facilitating the ease of research in the long term.
Singaporean Valerie Teo
Sector: Technology & Digital Platform
Project possible believes that flexible job opportunities are key to helping low-income families achieve financial stability and independence. To address this, it works closely with employers to encourage the creation of flexible job opportunities that can accommodate the unique needs and circumstances of these families.
Chinese Zeng Jingqiang and Zhang Yaqian
Sector: Technology & Digital Platform
People Strong-Meditech aims to improve the independence of the senior citizens, while relieving the pressure of elderly care on their families, communities, and governments. Its smart pillbox for the elderly is a user-friendly and affordable device that uses AI and sensor technology to provide medical reminders, one-key calling for medical emergencies, as well as GPS positioning.
Indonesians Azhar Isti Hanifah, Ilham Dhiaputra Hermawan and Sabrina Farah Salsabilla
Sector: Environment & Energy | Water & Sanitation
ReservoAir aims to enable the restoration of the natural water cycle in reservoirs. It produces porous paving blocks with an infiltration rate that is 100 times faster than conventional paving, as well as infiltration wells that can reduce water run-off and build groundwater reserves. These technologies also help to reduce damage to reservoirs caused by flooding.
Indonesian Mahdiyyah Ardhina and Putri Rizki Ardhina
Sector: Consumer Goods | Environment & Energy
Rumah Briket aims to reduce waste while promoting greater awareness of its problem. It works with households to process waste, turning them into organic charcoal briquettes and paving blocks, which can be sold for income.
Malaysians Tan How Ming and Zien Lew
Sector: Agriculture | Financial Services | Technology & Digital Platform
Sebijihub aims to connect smallholder farmers in Malaysia with capital via crowdfunding. By doing so, they hope to improve farming operations with capital raised through mechanisation and digitalisation, while providing farmers with a platform to share their unique products with potential funders.
SmartPrice
Singaporeans Aron Lee, Sharryl Seto and Jon Yiong Lon
Sector: Consumer Goods | Environment & Energy | Food and Beverage
SmartPrice aims to develop innovative solutions for the retail industry, while promoting both sustainability and profitability. Its flagship product is the Internet of Things (loT) Dynamic Price Tag that uses cloud-based and Al technology to help retailers manage inventory and pricing in real-time. This, in turn, contributes to waste reduction, decarbonisation as well as increased profits for businesses.
StandWeSpeak
Indian Priyal Agrawal
Sector: Education & Training | Healthcare | Technology & Digital Platform
StandWeSpeak is a social sextech venture based in India. It runs an anonymous, one-stop sexual and reproductive health platform that helps individuals make informed decisions about their body, relationships, and lives using AI. It aims to build a 21st century Sexual Health Ecosystem for Millennials and Gen Z that is affordable, accessible, and gender inclusive.
Singaporean Elizabeth Tseng
Sector: Consumer Goods | Environment & Energy | Food and Beverage
Sustainable Innovations creates bioplastics and bio-styrofoam packaging alternatives that can degrade more effectively and naturally in landfills, oceans, and homes – compared to current plastic offerings. In doing so, it hopes to empower communities around the world to accelerate the adoption of solutions and practices that contribute to greater sustainability.
Singaporeans Foo Zhi Jie and Jamie Yeo
Sector: Education & Training | Environment & Energy | Public Services & Volunteerism
The Climate School aims to help children better understand climate change through play, while allowing them to develop in a fun and holistic manner. It does this through a series of outdoor workshop programmes and partnerships with educational institutions.
Singaporeans Dione Keh, Isaac Chia, Sandra Tan
Sector: Arts & Culture | Consumer Services | Public Services & Volunteerism
The Glass Hut (TGH) is a multidisciplinary collective consultancy that aims to lower the barriers of entry for emerging creative professionals. TGH fosters synergistic collaborations across various art forms to push creative frontiers, create new experiences, and develop creative networks. It hopes to create flywheel for a thriving, organic arts industry that holds weight in Singapore’s cultural economy. In the long run, TGH envisions a future whereby arts and culture are intertwined with the Singaporean’s everyday psyche.
Singaporean Varden Toh
Sector: Consumer Goods | Consumer Services | Food and Beverage
the moonbeam co. is a sustainable food tech startup. It aims to minimise food loss and enhance food security by upcycling food by-products into edible ingredients and products.
Vietnamese Bui My Huyen and Vu Hai Nam
Sector: Environment & Energy
tMonitor aims to improve indoor air quality while mitigating the risk of fire and harmful gasses. It provides real-time monitoring through a software that can collect, monitor, and analyse air quality using artificial intelligence. The software also provides appropriate real-time responses – such as safety protocol alerts -in response to the data. tMonitor’s software may also be integrated in a smart, centralised system with other home devices.
Singaporean Navaneetha S Nath
Sector: Education & Training | Healthcare | Technology & Digital Platform
Togather for Good is a collective that aims to build a more conscious, capable, and compassionate society – starting from the individual. It empowers individuals to live more intentionally by normalising help-seeking and equipping them with the relevant tools and resources – including a digital health-tech platform. It also seeks to engage different stakeholders by driving conversations and improving awareness around the intersections of mental well-being.
Indonesians Fatimah Nurul Izzah, Muhammad Alan Nur and Wajihan Bidatin Nur
Sector: Education & Training | Healthcare | Technology & Digital Platform
Tulibot aims to promote social inclusion, reduce isolation, and bridge the gap between the deaf and hearing communities. Its AI-based platform features a specialised microphone for better accuracy and uses speech recognition to convert spoken words into text – thus helping both parties to communicate, by using speech recognition to convert spoken words into text. By addressing communication barriers for the deaf and allowing them to partake in a greater range of activities, Tulibot improves their quality of life.
Malaysians Khoo En Hui Emilie, Muhammad Idrus Bin Artoadi, Nursyamieza Binti Sofi and Nur Haslin Binti Mohd Hassan
Sector: Education & Training
YouCan! aims to help people with disability (PWD) find suitable employment that will better utilise their skillsets, aspirations, and interests. The social enterprise hopes not only to encourage the disabled to find employment, but to increase awareness among companies and recruiters about the employability of PWD.
Chief Executive Officer, raiSE
Alfie is the CEO of raiSE (the Singapore Centre for Social Enterprise), a sector developer and membership body for aspiring social entrepreneurs, existing social enterprises and other individuals and organisations that are interested in contributing to the development of the sector in Singapore. He began his social entrepreneurship journey in 2014 by setting up an industrial catering kitchen that provided jobs to workers from marginalised sectors, including ex-offenders, single mothers, and persons with disabilities. In 2011, he initiated and headed the first urban microcredit scheme in Singapore. In 2012, he joined Numoni – a financial service provider for the underbanked in Southeast Asia – as its regional business development director. Alfie is a Fellow at the Singapore University of Social Science for Financial Inclusion. He is also an advisor to BMT Ventura, an investment venture company that manages a micro-finance co-operative with a membership base of 3.2 million households in Indonesia. Prior to his foray into social enterprise, Alfie had a successful banking career for over twelve years. He has also devoted time to the public sector and civil society.
Vice President, DBS Foundation
Christine brings with her over ten years of experience in the banking and finance industry, serving both private clients and corporate entities. She believes that the future of business is one that seeks sustainable financial returns, along with social and environmental impact outcomes. At DBS Foundation, Christine nurtures impact enterprises across Asia through grant funding, building connections within the ecosystem, and opening doors for financing. She has worked with over 100 impact enterprises including, among others, waste-to-energy, healthcare, accessibility solutions as well as food and beverage. Christine graduated with a Master of Science in Applied Finance from the Singapore Management University and has a Bachelor of Science in Life Sciences from the National University of Singapore. She finds running the best way to decompress and clear her mind after a day’s work. On weekends, she enjoys riding her road bike around Singapore, and even Malaysia.
Partnership Catalyst, Spudnik Lab
AYF 2022 Alumnus
Farah H. Sanwari is a social innovation leader with an interest in sustainable development and learning communities. She works on partnerships for SpudnikLab, a frugal innovation company that addresses the needs of marginalised communities. She is also a Singapore Futures Fellow for the NUS Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Executive Education, where she teaches futures thinking methodology to those interested in strategic foresight. She founded a nation-wide initiative, Repair Kopitiam, to address the buy-and-throw away culture in Singapore in 2014. She was also a sustainability strategist looking into issues such as waste management, training and vocational education in the renewable energy sector and food waste. Her service in the environmental and sustainability field has earned her the Eco Friend Award 2019 by the National Environment Agency of Singapore. Farah currently volunteers at FiTree, a Muslim environmental advocacy group that she co-founded in 2014. She also sits on the panel of advisors for the National Youth Council and the Environment Youth Circle.
Singapore Country Director, Conservation International
Geraldine is the Country Director for Conservation International (CI) Singapore. She is responsible for ensuring that programme strategies, initiatives, and outcomes advance CI’s human development and conservation priorities. Geraldine has over 20 years of experience in various government and non-profit organizations. Prior to joining CI, Geraldine managed programmes and partnerships that focused on youth social entrepreneurship as well as arts and culture at the Singapore International Foundation. She spent six years in Thailand in the field of humanitarian aid, specifically in project management, monitoring, and evaluation of refugee education and social support programmes. She was formerly a civil servant in Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Transport. Geraldine was a recipient of the Singapore Government and Monbusho scholarship for undergraduate studies and holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan.
Founder, Fempreneur Secrets
YSE 2020 Alumnus and AYF 2022 Alumnus
Huda is the founder of Fempreneur Secrets, an online community that empowers women to lead purposeful businesses online. Huda believes in the value of education and aspires to equip women with business knowledge as a survival skill. One way she does this is through the Fempreneur Secrets Podcast, a show that Huda hosts with over 3000 listeners from around the world.
She was nominated for The Most Compassionate Womenpreneur Award in Singapore (2019) and has also been invited to speak at events supported by Google Singapore, the US State Department, and the State Department of the United Arab Emirates. In her free time, Huda mentors young female leaders to help them achieve their desired career goals.
Head for Government (Public Policy) and Corporate Affairs, Southeast Asia and South Asia, Expedia Group
AYF 2022 Alumnus
Matin Mohdari is the Head for Government (Public Policy) and Corporate Affairs, Southeast Asia and South Asia, Expedia Group. Matin was previously Strategy Director at the Tech for Good Institute, a not-for-profit think tank established by Grab. He also held the position of Deputy Director for Public Policy and Affairs at Grab’s headquarters in Singapore.
Prior to Grab, he worked at the Singapore Tourism Board, an agency under the Ministry of Trade and Industry. There, he supported and led efforts to grow new market segments from Southeast Asia, drove economic growth through a range of tourism software products, attracted Foreign Direct Investments, and designed funding policies to develop the growth of tourism businesses in Singapore.
Matin holds a master’s degree in media and communications from the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, and a Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree from the National University of Singapore. He was appointed an ASEAN Youth Fellow in 2022.
Co-Founder, Cyber Sierra
YSE 2014 Alumnus
Pramodh Rai is Co-Founder of Cyber Sierra, a tech firm that helps global businesses grow their security posture and insure against cyber risk. He has built and scaled both technology products and teams for companies across Asia Pacific. Pramodh previously served as Chief Technology Officer at proptech company Hmlet and was the Chief Product Officer at fintech firm Funding Societies | Modalku. Both these companies have been funded by the likes of major venture capital firms, such as Sequoia, Burda, and Softbank.
As an SIF YSE 2014 alumni, Pramodh built a social enterprise to help young students in India study English on their mobile phones. Having begun his career in Technology at Barclays Investment Bank, he is today an active advisor and angel investor in more than 40 global startups. Pramodh holds double degrees in Computer Science and Business from the Nanyang Technological University.
Co-Founder & CEO, BillionBricks
Prasoon Kumar is the co-founder and CEO of BillionBricks, a President’s Design Awardee, TEDx speaker, and social justice campaigner working to solve the climate and housing crisis. Beginning as a non-profit, BillionBricks has provided shelters, schools, and homes to more than 5,000 people across nine countries, while rendering relief support to another 10,000. Its first innovation, weatherHYDE, is an award-winning, life-saving emergency shelter that has been described as “innovation at its finest.”
Prasoon began his career as an architect in design firms across India, USA, Hong Kong, and Singapore – before leaving his corporate job to start BIllionBricks in 2013. He is the winner of Singularity University’s Global Grand Challenge and was named in the Urban Land Institute's 40 under 40 list. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Arizona State University with a Master of Urban and Environmental Planning and an Outstanding Graduate Award in 2005. He also holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi, India.
Senior Manager, SEA Innovation, Deloitte Southeast Asia
Shuo Yan leads the Deloitte Southeast Asia Innovation team, which drives innovation for all of Deloitte’s business units across Southeast Asia. He was previously with the Singapore Management University, where he launched and managed innovation education programmes, such as Protégé Ventures – the first student-run venture fund in Southeast Asia. Shuo Yan was also an early regional employee of tech company Grab, a founding member of its Regional Public Affairs team, and the company’s first in-house social entrepreneur. Outside of work, Shuo Yan is an advisor to numerous non-profit organizations, including AWWA, Halogen Foundation, and Access Singapore.
CEO, Sustainable Living Lab
AYF 2019 Alumnus
Veera is the CEO of Sustainable Living Lab, a sustainability consulting firm with operations in Singapore, Indonesia, India, and the US. He is concurrently the Co-Founder of edtech platform edm8ker, software development firm Nusa Aksara Teknologi, and non-profit SL2 Impact. His professional experience spans the domains of sustainability, foresight, corporate innovation, and AI skilling. Veerapan serves as the Co-Chair of the Climate Action SG Alliance and is as an EXCO member of the SGTech Sustainability Steering Committee. He also sits on the Lotus-NUS Funding Panel for social enterprises. Veera graduated from the National University of Singapore with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters in Intellectual Property Management.
Director, Sustainable Impact Accelerator
Koh Wei Shan is a Director at the Sustainable Impact Accelerator, Asia’s first Venture Capital-backed accelerator for socially impactful enterprises. This accelerator is powered by Quest Ventures and the Singapore Centre for Social Enterprise, raiSE. Wei Shan also leads the Strategic Communications team at raiSE. She works with internal teams, stakeholders, external agencies, and social enterprises to create content and craft communications on raiSE’s online and offline channels to build its brand and raise awareness and support for social enterprises.
Director, Material Resources Solution
Representative, Asian Philanthropic Ventures
Ms Robyn Lee co-owns and runs Material Resources Solution – a recycling and waste disposal company focused on plastics, metal, and electronic waste. Her company provides recycling solutions to reduce waste accumulating in landfills, while promoting sustainability in production and consumption. She hopes to tap on her work experience in digital transformation and automation to increase the efficiency and productivity of a traditionally manual business.
Sharon Lim is a business visionary with more than thirty years of experience building ventures across a variety of industries. She first joined Browzwear – a 3D design and collaboration platform used by leading global brands and manufacturers – as its business development lead during which she deepened, broadened, and transformed the company’s digital offerings. Browzwear’s growth eventually led her to acquire and lead the company as its CEO for a decade and today, as Chairperson.
Sharon mentors and develops entrepreneurs, while investing in businesses with strong ESG (environment-social-governance) goals. In particular, she hopes to leverage her personal experience to help businesses understand how they can employ technology to grow and scale. She actively shares her venture-building experiences with the social impact ecosystem across Asia Pacific.
She is the co-founder of a private fund, Venture Synergist, and the Vice President of the Singapore Fashion Council. She is also an advisory board member of TBN Asia and sits on the committee of the impact investing fund, Beneficial Returns.
Chief Operating Officer, Asia Philanthropy Circle
Stacey assumed the role of COO at the Asia Philanthropy Circle in July 2021, after spending five years as its director. She is passionate about working with leading Asian philanthropists on furthering their strategic philanthropy in the region. She has also been the Membership Services Director and Director of Policy Engagement at the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network.
She spent three years in China as the marketing director of a boutique Italian consulting company – specialising in communications, events management, market research and strategy. She has also done stints with Intel Corporation and the Singapore public service.
Stacey is a 2019 Asia Foundation Development Fellow and has co-founded a Lean In chapter for professional women interested in social issues in Singapore.
Hugh has led successful ventures and built innovation communities around start-ups for over 30 years. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Canberra and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the National University of Singapore. Hugh co-founded JFDI.Asia in 2009 – after moving to Singapore from the UK to raise his family.
As the first business accelerator in Southeast Asia, JFDI proved pivotal in kick-starting Singapore's entrepreneurial ecosystem and deployed approximately USD3m into a portfolio of 70 international start-ups. Prior to this, Hugh co-founded Pembridge Partners – a London-based investment and advisory firm that worked with more than 300 technology media and marketing firms. His books – “Facing Down Failure” and Brainfruit” – which he co-edited and co-authored respectively tell the stories of eight Singaporean start-ups and captures his insights from Pembridge.
Hugh is also the co-founder of UK education charity, UAS, which has enabled hundreds of STEM undergraduates to explore a career in teaching.
Chief Executive Officer, Wateroam
YSE 2015 Alumnus
David is a social entrepreneur who believes in harnessing the power of business to drive social change and solve the world’s toughest problems. Having witnessed rural villagers across Asia who remain burdened by waterborne diseases even in the 21st century, David co-founded Wateroam in 2014 to design and build innovative water filters that can provide safe drinking water in rural and disaster-hit regions. These water filters are built to be easy-to-use, swift to deploy and distributed in a manner that can help promote social change.
Since 2014, Wateroam has provided clean water to more than 250,000 people across 42 countries globally including Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, and the Philippines. Wateroam's innovation has been recognized with multiple international awards including the World Economic Forum’s Uplink Global Freshwater Challenge Top Innovator Award (2023), the Zayed Sustainability Prize (2022), and the ASEAN Business Award (2019). David received the Citizen Ambassador Award (Good Business) from the Singapore International Foundation in 2021 for his continuous contribution to and support of the Young Social Entrepreneurs Programme.
Digital Marketing Specialist
Hatch
Anyā is a Digital Marketing Specialist at – a social enterprise that offers skills training and employability programmes in digital marketing, user interface and user experience design. Anyā believes strongly in building strong brands that do good & customers love to grow with. Her vision is to empower small to medium-sized businesses as well as startups to build their brand functions with confidence during times of uncertainty.
Taking an empathy-first approach, Anyā recognises that nurturing smaller companies requires a different approach from one that larger corporations take. This includes, but is not limited to, finding a product market fit through validated learnings, planning for growth through resource maximisation, designing for changing consumer behaviours, building brand narratives that are authentic, nurturing communities to build brand ecosystems as well as designing conversations and experiences for change.
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer
Hatch
Wan Qing is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Hatch. She hopes to bring her curiosity about systems and entrepreneurship to catalyse action and scale social impact. She oversees product design to drive Hatch’s vision of making digital and design more accessible a reality. In particular, she specialises in design programmes and experiences that introduce and incorporate innovation in a way that is bold, sustainable, and impactful across the private, people, and public sectors. Having immersed herself in the startup ecosystem over the past 4 years, she is excited by the possibilities of channelling product and business innovation into work that makes a difference.
Digital Marketing Consultant
Hatch
Eric started his career as a digital marketing consultant with a Melbourne-based firm before moving overseas to fulfill roles that are more socially impactful. His career has taken him to San Francisco and Southeast Asia, where he has worked with micro-finance institutions, startups, non-profits, and social enterprises to facilitate investment readiness, develop data-driven digital strategies, and drive community engagement.
At Hatch, Eric is actively involved in delivering digital and communications projects, including marketing campaigns and content writing for both online and physical platforms. Outside of work, he spends time on the mentorship and career platform Mentorfold.com, which aims to match university students with industry mentors and career resources. He was previously an editor at Newsweek, where he led a team of writers.
Special Advisor, Young Social Entrepreneurs Programme
Chairman, I'm Kim Korean BBQ and Kingdom Food Group
Elim is the Special Advisor of the SIF’s Young Social Entrepreneurs Programme. She is the Founder of 77th Street, an iconic streetwear retail brand in Singapore. After retiring from retail in 2016, Elim and her siblings ventured into the Food & Beverage industry, where they currently own seven restaurants. Elim sits on more than twenty boards and committees of public service, youth, and community organisations, and has received numerous awards in both entrepreneurship and philanthropy. During the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, she assisted many businesses in their transition to e-commerce – particularly in the areas of logistical support. She is also humbled by the opportunity to have helped some of these ventures deliver much-needed medication to patients.
Elim is currently an advisor for Seed Ventures, which aims to help start-ups raise funds to start and scale their businesses. As a mentor and friend to youths, aspiring entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs, Elim hopes to encourage more people to rise to be the change they want to see. Her YouTube channel 'elimchewtv' features changemakers from all walks of life who are making a positive impact in society.
Founder and CEO of Social Collider
Russ Neu is the Founder and CEO of Social Collider, an aggregator of resources for impact organisations. He is also a partner for impact at Quest Ventures, a leading venture fund to scale and replicate technology companies in large internet communities. The impact fund, which is the first in Asia to come from venture capital, focuses on the base of pyramid issues in Southeast Asia.
A graduate of the National University of Singapore, Russ received a scholarship from the Korea Development Bank to pursue his master’s in business administration from Tsinghua University in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Russ enjoys reading and writing. He has chronicled his experiences of volunteering in Laos. His publication 'It Made a Difference to This One' narrates the experiences of an NGO that has helped more than 20,000 children impacted by AIDS in China.
He received the Singapore International Foundation’s Citizen Ambassador (Good Business) award in 2019 for his steadfast support of the Young Social Entrepreneurs Programme.
Head, Our Better World
Singapore International Foundation
Jeremy leads Our Better World (OBW), the digital storytelling initiative of the Singapore International Foundation. He works at the crossroads of strategy, stories, and social impact and is passionate about the transformative power of storytelling to inspire action and drive movements for change. OBW’s stories raise awareness of social purpose organisations which work tirelessly and often unnoticed, inspiring passive online audiences who care about social causes to act. Today, OBW has told more than 350 stories from nine Asian countries and has grown an online community that is 778,000 strong. Through OBW’s stories, more than 1.2 million actions have been taken for good, including shares, comments, visits to related websites, volunteering, and donations to social causes.
Trainer, Reactor School
Arick Soo is a passionate technopreneur who is committed to making a positive impact through innovation and entrepreneurship. He draws inspiration from companies like Grab, Airbnb and Tesla, whose innovative approaches enhance efficiency, increasing utilization for under-used assets, and reducing carbon footprint. Arick possesses a track record of entrepreneurship, having founded several startups.
Founder, Praxium Education
YSE 2016 Alumnus
Louis is an alumnus of the SIF Young Social Entrepreneurs Programme (2016). His social enterprise Praxium focuses on helping young people pursue a life of fulfilment and impact. He is passionate about educational change and hopes to enrich the lives of students through education, instead of focusing only on test scores. He has a background in user experience design and has worked in both the public and private sectors. His latest innovation project involves creating a co-working space for social entrepreneurs inside high schools to bridge the gap between school and the working world.
Founder, WAND Inspiration
Wendy Chua-Sullivan started WAND Inspiration in 2003. She has over 20 years of experience as an educator for personal transformation, applying psychology to help leaders and teams build resilience and better performance. Her WAND approach emphasises the use of relevant questions, effective actions, acknowledgement, being neutral and non-judging, recognising individual differences; and making a difference.
Through her workshops, talks, books, and shows, Wendy has made a difference to thousands of executives, leaders, consultants, educators, students, and parents in Singapore and around the world.
She has written 23 books based on the Theory of Multiple Intelligences and developing resilience. She also volunteers in youths and families-at-risk programmes and is an advocate in the Singapore Mental Well-being Network.
Coach and Trainer, WAND Inspiration
Albert King is a coach and trainer with WAND Inspiration and the Founder of The Coaching King. He has over 30 years of finance and business experience and has delivered more than 1,000 programs across the world.
Some of his career milestones include establishing the Lions Club of Singapore CyberCare and spearheading its Leadership Service Learning Mt Everest Expedition. There, he sponsored under-privileged youth from Singapore, Malaysia, and Nepal to trek the foothills of Everest. He has also raised funds for the Make-A-Wish Foundation by trekking to the Everest Base Camp to support the NATAS Singapore Women’s Everest Team in 2009.
Migrant x Me seeks to build an inclusive Singapore for the migrant worker community. It does this through experiential programmes and volunteer opportunities for local youths, in the hope that they will learn to treat migrant workers with dignity and respect.
Bamboo Builders is a social enterprise that nurtures youth to tackle societal problems through social entrepreneurship.
Since 2017, it has partnered with international foundations, companies, governments, schools, and nearly 100 social enterprises across all ten countries in ASEAN. It has built hundreds of social projects – of which 20 have become social enterprises that are still in operation today. These have, in turn, impacted youths in their own communities, and empowered them to lead change within their own communities.
