Teodoro Laino

Stannie Rameliarison and her team teach fruit and vegetable producers how to dry their crops in order to store them longer and provide them with solar dryers and a market where they can sell the dried products.

How Deep Learning Can Give Birth to General Artificial Intelligence From chessbots to chatbots and from search algorithms to industrial assembly machines – humanity has arrived at the age of machine intelligence; or at least machine work, if we take seriously a definition of intelligence as “the abilities to learn…

With the goal of bringing scientific insights and latest technological advances to real-world applications, Terranigma Solutions GmbH was founded in March 2020 as a spin-off from the Institute for Computational Geoscience and Reservoir Engineering (CGRE) at the RWTH Aachen University. The team has the long-term vision is to become a…

Digitalisation reduces carbon emissions to a great extent in many sectors and therefore helps to protect the environment. Simultaneously, the increasing use of digital technologies requires an immense amount of energy. To promote a resource-efficient economy, we need to consider energy efficiency and sustainability as core elements – not only…

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Jeyhan Kartaltepe. She talked about her role as project lead of COSMOS-Webb, the largest James Webb Space Telescope program to be observed in its first year of operations and discussed what we…

Nominated by: BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt Presented by: Liz Madaras

Period poverty and period stigma impact the life of entire communities. The health of women and the environment are compromised as current solutions foment bacteria growth and are not compostable. Rebecca Cenzato proposes selling affordable and compostable sanitary pads made out of banana fibre and produced in rural mini-factories, while…

The main purposes of the project is the communication of scientific principle: to spark interest in science and break widely spread stereotypes in Armenia about the role of science and scientists. In addition to providing information about natural sciences, technologies and thematic materials, the project’s aim is to encourage critical…

Nominated by: Shikma Litmanovitz, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Presented by: Yogev Debbi

How Intelligent Accountability Can Stop Bureaucratic Excess and Improve Governance Over the last years of financial disasters on a global scale, we often heard the mantra “we need to build trust in the institutions” – this being the very essence of our economic and political systems. Professor O’Neill, a leading…