Ilya Shadrivov is a Professor of Physics at the Australian National University. He received his PhD in 2005 and since then worked in a range of projects dealing with interaction of light with materials. He is keen in bringing the results of academic research into real life to make the world a better place to live.

Dr Vladlen Shvedov is a scientist with over 20 years of experience in Laser Physics and Material processing, and 12 years research experience at the Laser Physics Centre, Australian National University. Over the last years, he intensively studied the problem of the hydrogen production from the cheap and widely available materials such as inorganic waste and by-products of mining and steel industry.

Andrey holds a double degree in Economics and Finance from the Australian National University. Andrey has worked with private and public clients across a myriad of portfolios to set up evaluation programs and holds a keen interest in promoting sustainability practices.

Mani is Director at DeepTech Ventures Australia, an advisory firm enabling startups accelerate their journey from business modelling and product development through to commercialisation, customer acquisition and capital raising.

Previously, she led the Space & Satellite business for Amazon Web Services across AsiaPacific supporting space startups & space agencies from Australia to India, Korea and Japan to build and launch space and satellite missions using transformative services like machine learning, artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.

With over 20 years in the tech sector, Mani is a regular speaker at industry events, a Stanford University alumni and currently serves as an Advisory Board Member to the The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS) and is a BESydney Ambassador.

For her work, she has been awarded Emerging Leader by Australian Women's Agenda in 2020, Entrepreneur of the Year, AsiaPacific Stevie Awards 2021 and recognised as 100 Women in Tech in Singapore in 2023.n goes here