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Programme
9 AM – Welcome Remarks & Session 1 | Pitches 1-30
1. Denis Tavares, Falling Walls Lab Brazil – Breaking the Wall of Fake News Detection
2. Anissa Zouzaf, Falling Walls Lab Leuven – Breaking the Wall of Broken Barriers
3. Emmanuel Awosu, Falling Walls Lab Sendai – Breaking the Wall of Global Polymeric Waste
4. Emily Hsue-Chi Shi, Falling Walls Lab Taipei – Breaking the Wall of Exciplex
5. Abdullah Al Ghailani, Falling Walls Lab Oman – Breaking the Wall of Aging Minds
6. Ana León Rodríguez, Falling Walls Lab Madrid – Breaking the Wall of Microglial Priming
7. Elhadji Malick Sagne, Falling Walls Lab Dakar – Breaking the Wall of Chemical Pesticides
8. Shar Thae Hoy, Falling Walls Lab Myanmar – Breaking the Wall of Inaccessible Climate Tech
9. Joseph Bedard, Falling Walls Lab Atlantic Canada – Breaking the Wall of Alternative Plastics
10. Gabriela Figueroa Miranda, Falling Walls Lab Baden-Württemberg – Breaking the Wall of Wrong Malaria Diagnosis
11. Cemalcan Uslu, Falling Walls Lab Türkiye – Breaking the Wall of Aphasia
12. Kristína Macáková, Falling Walls Lab Slovakia – Breaking the Wall of Rheumatoid Arthritis
13. Abdulrahman Haitham, Falling Walls Lab Cairo – Breaking the Wall of Poultry Waste
14. Debashree Roy, Falling Walls Lab New Zealand – Breaking the Wall of Plant-Based Cheeses
15. Edwin Rodríguez, Falling Walls Lab Chile – Breaking the Wall of Water Pollution
16. Greta Preatoni, Falling Walls Lab Switzerland – Breaking the Wall of Diabetic Neuropathy
17. Yue Yuan, Falling Walls Lab KAUST – Breaking the Wall of Energy-Hungry Electronics
18. Rony Pain, Falling Walls Lab Edmonton – Breaking the Wall of Cancer Therapy
19. Yara Marei, Falling Walls Lab Jordan – Breaking the Wall of Oil Spills
20. Sri Harsha Paladugu, Falling Walls Lab Hyderabad – Breaking the Wall of Human Drug Development
21. Hemanshi Galaiya, Falling Walls Lab Australia – Breaking the Wall of Inequitable Education
22. Fabio Blaschke, Falling Walls Lab Austria – Breaking the Wall of Green Hydrogen
23. Maliha Sharmin, Falling Walls Lab Thailand – Breaking the Wall of Dengue Infection
24. Giorgi Svanishvili, Falling Walls Lab Tbilisi – Breaking the Wall of Neuroinflammation
25. Nada Ikken, Falling Walls Lab Morocco – Breaking the Wall of Quantum Optimization
26. Giancarmelo Stamilla, Falling Walls Lab Italy – Breaking the Wall of Green Sweetening
27. Harshada Kshirsagar, Falling Walls Lab Guwahati – Breaking the Wall of Silence After Assault
28. Lemar Hurtado Hoyos, Falling Walls Lab Cuba – Breaking the Wall of Sustainable Agriculture
29. Anthea Wirges, Falling Walls Lab Berlin-Adlershof – Breaking the Wall of Ineffective CAR-T Cells
30. Offir Inbar, Falling Walls Lab Tel Aviv – Breaking the Wall of Water in Rural Areas
11 AM – Coffee Break
11.30 AM – Session 2 | Pitches 31-60
31. Yizhou Yu, Falling Walls Lab Cambridge – Breaking the Wall of Dementia
32. Seda Koksal Yegin, Falling Walls Lab Türkiye – Breaking the Wall of Hydrogen Energy Membranes
33. Jamil Muradov, Falling Walls Lab Atlantic Canada – Breaking the Wall of Concussion Complications
34. Teena Bajaj, Falling Walls Lab San Francisco Bay Area – Breaking the Wall of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus
35. Douglas Remhunga, Falling Walls Lab Zimbabwe – Breaking the Wall of Acid Mine Drainage
36. Trishla Sinha, Falling Walls Lab Groningen – Breaking the Wall of Immune Disorders
37. Bryan John Magoling, Falling Walls Lab Tokyo – Breaking the Wall of Cancers’ “Trojan Horse”
38. Khalat Taha, Falling Walls Lab Iraq – Breaking the Wall of Urban Air Pollution
39. Martin Francis Phelan III, Falling Walls Lab Baden-Württemberg – Breaking the Wall of Radiation-Free Surgery
40. Eya Boughanmi, Falling Walls Lab Tunisia – Breaking the Wall of Infectious Diseases
41. Shameea Sultana, Falling Walls Lab Bangladesh – Breaking the Wall of Plastic Dependency
42. Anas Niaz, Falling Walls Lab FCCU Lahore – Breaking the Wall of Disability Through AI
43. Bruna Enne, Falling Walls Lab Brazil – Breaking the Wall of Deaf Education in Brazil
44. Tejesvi Patel, Falling Walls Lab New Zealand – Breaking the Wall of Infection Using PVP/TA
45. Win Win Maw, Falling Walls Lab Myanmar – Breaking the Wall of Food Insecurity
46. Shabib Alrashdi, Falling Walls Lab Oman – Breaking the Wall of Biochar Performance
47. Janethkareen Kitsovi, Falling Walls Lab Tanzania – Breaking the Wall of Unhealthy Eating Habits
48. Eziz Artykov, Falling Walls Lab Turkmenistan – Breaking the Wall of Resource Scarcity
49. Joanna Sadowska, Falling Walls Lab Wroclaw – Breaking the Wall of Human Tissue Regeneration
50. Alex Griffin, Falling Walls Lab Australia – Breaking the Wall of Brain Stimulation
51. Maltiti Mohammed, Falling Walls Lab Ghana – Breaking the Wall of Plastic Pollution
52. Mout De Vrieze, Falling Walls Lab Fribourg – Breaking the Wall of Plant Protection
53. Jasurbek Ibragimov, Falling Walls Lab Tashkent – Breaking the Wall of Computer Vision Syndrome
54. Kadidiatou Sogoba, Falling Walls Lab Bamako – Breaking the Wall of E-Health
55. Tianqi Huang, Falling Walls Lab Shenzhen – Breaking the Wall of Off-Grid Water Treatment
56. Tanja Dragun, Falling Walls Lab Split – Breaking the Wall of Prediabetes Progression
57. Piero Beraun, Falling Walls Lab Peru – Breaking the Wall of Sustainable Textiles
58. Alisha Badal, Falling Walls Lab Johannesburg – Breaking the Wall of Limited Cancer Treatment
59. Ambrish Kumar, Falling Walls Lab Toronto – Breaking the Wall of Green Hydrogen Production
60. Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz, Falling Walls Lab Bolivia – Breaking the Wall of Jaguar Trafficking
1 PM – Lunch Break
2 PM – Session 3 | Pitches 61-100
61. Xena Serifova, Falling Walls Lab Leuven – Breaking the Wall of Biomarkers for OCD
62. Msawenkosi Mkhize, Falling Walls Lab Cape Town – Breaking the Wall of Water Scarcity
63. Anisha Ayuning Tryas, Falling Walls Lab Indonesia – Breaking the Wall of Early High Cholesterol
64. Tomislav Stolar, Falling Walls Lab Berlin-Adlershof – Breaking the Wall of Circular Plastics Economy
65. Sofía Ulloa Arias, Falling Walls Lab Costa Rica – Breaking the Wall of Conventional Materials
66. Eliakim Kouakou Isaac Kouadio, Falling Walls Lab Abidjan – Breaking the Wall of Energy Storage Problems
67. Aleyna Yildiz, Falling Walls Lab Türkiye – Breaking the Wall of Childhood Brain Cancer
68. Diego Calzada Fraile, Falling Walls Lab Madrid – Breaking the Wall of Current Vaccines
69. Pei Leng Tan, Falling Walls Lab Singapore – Breaking the Wall of Large Burn Wound Healing
70. Mohamed Abdelkodous, Falling Walls Lab Sendai – Breaking the Wall of Unprotected Glass
71. Bhargavee Gnanasambandam, Falling Walls Lab Illinois – Breaking the Wall of Gynecological Cancers
72. Michael Richter, Falling Walls Lab Austria – Breaking the Wall of Renewable Energy Supply
73. Tsolmon Adiya, Falling Walls Lab Mongolia – Breaking the Wall of Mushroom Bioconversion
74. Elias Barbosa, Falling Walls Lab Brazil – Breaking the Wall of Tropical Skin Diseases
75. Bethlehem Ayele, Falling Walls Lab Addis Ababa – Breaking the Wall of Car Accidents
76. Asma Rehman, Falling Walls Lab FCCU Lahore – Breaking the Wall of AI-Based Beehives
77. Abrar Alam, Falling Walls Lab Edmonton – Breaking the Wall of Bioengineering the Heart
78. Lucie Ries, Falling Walls Lab Paris – Breaking the Wall of Water Purification
79. Martin Kiyeng, Falling Walls Lab Nairobi – Breaking the Wall of Disposable Diapers
80. Vaishnavi Rathi, Falling Walls Lab Plaksha – Breaking the Wall of Ineffective Learning
81. Paulius Viskaitis, Falling Walls Lab Switzerland – Breaking the Wall of Rehab Inaccessibility
82. Larissa Falimanana, Falling Walls Lab Madagascar – Breaking the Wall of Plastic and Fruit Waste
83. Hamza Alfarawati, Falling Walls Lab Jeddah – Breaking the Wall of Marine Fouling
84. Emma-Anne Karlsen, Falling Walls Lab Australia – Breaking the Wall of Cancer Therapy Resistance
85. Teeratat Bunsantrakul, Falling Walls Lab Thailand – Breaking the Wall of Hydrogen Storage
86. Ivana Domljanovic, Falling Walls Lab Fribourg – Breaking the Wall of DNA Origami Diagnostics
87. Baha Eddine Youcef Belmekki, Falling Walls Lab KAUST – Breaking the Wall of Internet Inequality
88. Anfal Al Busaidi, Falling Walls Lab Oman – Breaking the Wall of Lost Heat in Solar Cells
89. Anıl Axel Tellbüscher, Falling Walls Lab Czech Republic – Breaking the Wall of Aquaculture Waste
90. Anna Siekierka, Falling Walls Lab Wroclaw – Breaking the Wall of Energy from Battery Waste
91. Mahmoud Sub Laban, Falling Walls Lab Palestine – Breaking the Wall of Breast Cancer Surgery
92. Sarah Nyamita, Falling Walls Lab Uganda – Breaking the Wall of Financial Exclusion
93. Heiner Camacho, Falling Walls Lab Seoul – Breaking the Wall of Sustainable Green Hydrogen
94. Gloria Berinyuy Tata, Falling Walls Lab Cameroon – Breaking the Wall of Bacteria Detection
95. Debayan Dasgupta, Falling Walls Lab Bengaluru – Breaking the Wall of Medical Nanorobots
96. Meri Iskandaryan, Falling Walls Lab Armenia – Breaking the Wall of Global Energy Demand
97. Carlos Abad, Falling Walls Lab Colombia – Breaking the Wall of Technological Approaches
98. Gunjan Chauhan, Falling Walls Lab Delhi NCR – Breaking the Wall of Video Comparators
99. José Manuel Rojas Díaz, Falling Walls Lab Mexico – Breaking the Wall of Cervical Cancer
100. Irene Tagliaro, Falling Walls Lab Italy – Breaking the Wall of Forever Chemicals