Stanford Sustainability Summit
Location
Stanford University
Stanford Sustainability Summit 2025: Consideration Questionnaire
To be considered as a Changemaker for the Stanford Sustainability Summit in July of 2025, please complete the questionnaire. The Summit will be held either the week of July 14 or July 21, 2025. For further inquiries, please contact Marissa Mendoza.
About the Summit
The two-day event is broadly inclusive, covering the full range of sustainability issues such as land use, agriculture, food security, biodiversity, biological preservation and conservation, freshwater and watersheds, population, poverty, environmental justice, climate, greenhouse gas removal, energy, the built environment, oceans, and sea-level rise, to name just some.
The event is bringing in 40 change makers from all over the world. These change makers include representatives from five different areas of human organization: entrepreneurs, innovative established firms, NGOs, policymakers, and leaders in health & education. Some of these change makers deal with the technical aspects of climate adaptation. Others with behavioral adaptation and change. Still others focus on issues of ethical importance in the area of environmental justice. But across all this diversity, the participants share a common concern about the world’s great sustainability challenges, especially as these challenges are manifesting in the poorest and least developed areas of the world.
Agenda
Participating Changemakers
Organization / Individual | Representative(s) |
10,000 Days Hope Initiative, Ireland | Don Mullan, Author & Media Producer |
Ade Dehye, Africa | Akintunde Ahmad, Founder |
AfterOil, Indonesia | Rifo Romelio, CEO |
ATREE, India | Dr. Kamaljit Bawa, President Emeritus |
BIOMAS, Brazil | Fabio Sakamoto, CEO |
BRAC, Bangladesh | Tapas Ranjan Chakraborty, Senior Programme Manager Manager of Climate Change Programme |
Center for Social Value Enhancement Studies (CSES), South Korea | Seulki Yoon, EPC Team | Project Leader |
Chile California Council, Chile | Daniela Montiel, Council Program Manager |
EcoPeace Middle East | Dr. Dana Lev, EcoPeace Education Manager |
Environmental Defense Fund, USA | Elizabeth Sturcken, Managing Director, EDF+Business |
European Environmental Bureau, Belgium | Bernhard Zlanabitnig, Vice-President |
Indonesia Ocean Justice Initiative | Fadilla Octaviani, Co-Founder & Director |
GreenLab, Denmark | Christopher Sorensen, CEO |
H.E.R.I, Kenya | Dr. Desiree LaBeaud, Co-Founder Jael Amugongo, Laboratory Scientist |
Holocene, Africa | Josh Romisher, CEO Abigail Stern, Climate Culture Officer |
IDEON Tech, Canada | Gary Agnew, CEO & Co-Founder Doug Schouten, CTO & Co-Founder |
Japan Cabinet: Council for Science, Technology & Innovation | Sho Ito, Deputy Director Innovation Ecosystem Noriko Watanabe, Director for Global Startup Campus Initiative |
Kyoto Fusioneering, Japan | Kiyoshi Seko, COO |
Manila Observatory, Philippines | Tony La Viña, Associate Director for Climate Policy and International Relations |
Miryam Yefi Jaramillo & Maria Inez Jaramillo | Leaders of the Indigenous Community Huatralafquen, from the Sector Caleta Milagro, San Juan de la Costa |
Mayor of Quezon City, Joy Belmonte, Philippines | Joy Belmonte, Mayor Maricris F. Veloso, Head, Education Affairs |
Netafim, Israel | Aubrey Bettencourt, Director of Government Relations & External Affairs |
Newtrace, India | Prasanta Sarkar, Co-Founder/CEO Rochan Sinha, Co-Founder/CTO |
NEXT Group, South Korea | Rachel Eun Ko, Chief Strategy Officer |
Ocean Visions, USA | Brad Ack, CEO |
Open Contracting Partnership. Latin America | Lindsey Marchessault, Director of Impact & Innovation |
Orsted, Denmark | Anthony Dvarkas, Regional Biodiversity Lead |
Oscar M. Lopez Center, Philippines | Kato Sarmiento, Communications Manager |
POSCO, South Korea | Kyeong Chan Kim, President, POSCO America |
PrimeInfra, Philippines | Guillaume Lucci, President & CEO Minerva Matibag, Chief Administrative Officer |
Prof. Alon Tal, Israel | Professor of Public Policy, Tel Aviv University |
Seevix Material Sciences Ltd., Israel | Shlomzion Shen, Founder & CEO |
Superhumans, Ukraine | Olga Rudneva, CEO Ruslana Danilkina |
Supervisory Board of Effective Investments Group (EFI Group), Ukraine | Igor Liski, Founder and Chairman |
Tamar Zanberg, Israel | Former Environmental Minister |
TATA Group, India | Abhishek Goyal, Environment General Manager Naimish Upadhyay, Deputy General Manager – Circularity |
The Blue Quest, France | Clement Pourtal, Founder |
University of Oxford | Dr. Hussam Hussein, Research Associate |
Windrose Technology, USA | Jason Roycht, Head of North America Market Development |