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Founder, Global Insights & Strategy Director

Nicole Ingra

Opening remarks with Nicole Ingra

Our ten group-round winners take to Centre Stage for the semi-final of PITCH.

Each of the semi-finalists has three minutes to pitch their businesses. Our judges then deliberate and choose three finalists to battle it out in the PITCH final.

Semi-finalists will be revealed following the group stages of the competition, taking place on day 1 of the event.

Meet our judges 
- Emily Fontaine from IBM
- Stephan Morais from Indico Capital Partners
- Anie Akpe from African Women In Tech (AWIT)
- Aline Oliveira Pezente from Traive
- Nicole Ingra from Ingra Labs
- Dan Gardner from Code and Theory
- Iryna Volnytska from SET University
- Brendan Yell from FusionAuth
- Tamara Steffens from Thomson Reuters Ventures
- Luis Castro Henriques from EDP
- Margot Weiss from Adobe


PITCH semi-final

If you've been around for long enough, you've seen the rise and fall of many threats to the creative industry and to human relationships. It's indisputable that technology has inherently changed how we communicate, connect, and create. But has it changed our values? Our core human needs? Join us on a journey to learn how technology is being used to foster and advance humanity—and get inspired by the good it has to offer.