Session 1 | Falling Walls Lab Pitches

In this session, brilliant innovators from around the world present bold solutions to some of today’s most pressing global challenges in 3-minute pitches. From sustainable plastics and artificial intelligence to tackling education inequality, their ideas promise to reshape the future.

Order of presentation:

1. Bárbara Ribeiro, Falling Walls Lab KAUST
   Breaking the Wall of Coral Reef Decline
2. Thibault Vervenne, Falling Walls Lab Leuven
   Breaking the Wall of Dr. Ross: A Comeback Kid
3. Anzia Juvis Angweri, Falling Walls Lab Cameroon
   Breaking the Wall of Breast Cancer Detection
4. Jacob Martin, Falling Walls Lab Australia
   Breaking the Wall of Green Graphite
5. Maria Eduarda Tavares, Falling Walls Lab Brazil
   Breaking the Wall of Diversity in Genomics
6. Frienson Pradhan, Falling Walls Lab Kathmandu
   Breaking the Wall of Pestilence
7. Andra-Lisa Maria Hoyt, Falling Walls Lab Baden-Württemberg
   Breaking the Wall of Crumbling Walls
8. Daouda Faye, Falling Walls Lab Dakar
   Breaking the Wall of Agricultural Finance
9. Lava Mohammed, Falling Walls Lab Erbil
   Breaking the Wall of Conventional Solar Limits
10. Leone Bacciu, Falling Walls Lab Italy
    Breaking the Wall of Black Boxes in Medicine
11. Constadina Rogers, Falling Walls Lab Atlantic Canada
    Breaking the Wall of Plastic Accumulation
12. Tinaye Makoni, Falling Walls Lab Zimbabwe
    Breaking the Wall of Energy Poverty
13. Samia Al Ryami, Falling Walls Lab Oman
    Breaking the Wall of Depleted Water
14. Iwan Hächler, Falling Walls Lab Switzerland
    Breaking the Wall of Foggy Surfaces
15. Vanessa Ivy Dodoo, Falling Walls Lab Ghana
    Breaking the Wall of Post Harvest Losses
16. Naim Al-Haj Ali, Falling Walls Lab Jordan
    Breaking the Wall of Custom Splint Production
17. Michelle Steven, Falling Walls Lab Tshwane
    Breaking the Wall of Breast Cancer Diagnosis
18. Mark Motliuk, Falling Walls Lab Hungary
    Breaking the Wall of Non-Chemical Pest Control
19. Upasana Jhariya, Falling Walls Lab Sendai
    Breaking the Wall of Heavy Metals Waste
20. Alexa Zytnick, Falling Walls Lab San Francisco Bay Area
    Breaking the Wall of Metal Mining
21. Nandor Kelecsenyi, Falling Walls Lab Kyiv
    Breaking the Wall of Communication Boundaries
22. Ines Siti Sarah, Falling Walls Lab Indonesia
    Breaking the Wall of Cervical Cancer Detection
23. Uriel Kevin Kroa Sem, Falling Walls Lab Abidjan
    Breaking the Wall of Unsustainable Materials
24. Nawawan Klankoet, Falling Walls Lab Thailand
    Breaking the Wall of Bacteria Eaters
25. Carlos Honrado, Falling Walls Lab Berlin-Adlershof
    Breaking the Wall of Endometrial Cancer
26. Tania Cencara Rojas, Falling Walls Lab Peru
    Breaking the Wall of Sustainable Plant Relief
27. Amith Kamath, Falling Walls Lab Fribourg
    Breaking the Wall of Radiotherapy with AI
28. Neema Mfuru, Falling Walls Lab Tanzania
    Breaking the Wall of Educational Inequality
29. Syuan-Yu Lin, Falling Walls Lab Taipei
    Breaking the Wall of Reading Brain Decoding
30. Gabriele Greco, Falling Walls Lab Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
    Breaking the Wall of the Textile Industry