Elaine Weidman-Grunewald

The Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative (WPDI) was founded in 2012 by artist, social activist, and UNESCO Special Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation Forest Whitaker. It aims to promote the values of peace, reconciliation, and social development within communities impacted by conflict and violence.

Sweco plans and designs the sustainable communities and cities of the future. Together with our clients and the collective knowledge of our 21,000 architects, engineers and other specialists, we co-create solutions to address urbanisation, capture the power of digitalisation, and make our societies more sustainable. Sweco is Europe’s leading engineering and architecture consultancy, with sales of approximately SEK 24 billion (EUR 2.2 billion). The company is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.

Early Bird Capital is a venture capital & private equity company based out of 1 Huntington Quadrangle, Melville, New York, United States.

Our mission is to transform the way we live through predictive, personalized and autonomous solutions enabled by unrivalled connectivity and next-generation technologies. We are the first subsidiary company of NEOM, which has evolved from its technology and digital sector to lead the creation of the world’s first cognitive community.

Azelio is a Swedish company with a unique thermal energy storage solution for dispatchable electricity and heat. The system has a storage capacity of 13 hours production at nominal power, and is scalable and already cost-effective for smaller installations. The initial target market is between 0.5 – 20 MW, expanding into 100kW to 100MW - a segment that lacks cost-effective and sustainable alternatives today. Azelio's solution adds value on a broad base to optimize for microgrid systems as load shift, distributed sustainable baseload, or as an off-grid solar system with long-duration energy storage.

The Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative (WPDI) was founded in 2012 by artist, social activist, and UNESCO Special Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation Forest Whitaker. It aims to promote the values of peace, reconciliation, and social development within communities impacted by conflict and violence.