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⛓️ Discover how Bext360, a winner of UpLink's Traceability for Circularity Challenge, is revolutionizing #supplychains. By leveraging blockchain technology, Bext360 ensures transparency and fair compensation for producers while empowering consumers to make ethical choices. 🌎 Learn how this Top Innovator tracks #sustainability standards and promotes #circular business models, from farm to retail: https://ow.ly/6WPq50UuWu1 Accenture Circularise GIB Asset Management Gobi Partners @H&M Foundation HSBC University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School #CircularEconomy #Traceability #Circularity #Innovation #Startup

At the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting earlier this year, Top Innovator Tiya Gordon, Co-founder and CEO of itselectric, shared her impressions of a busy week at the event. It's Electric is part of UpLink's Yes SF Initiative, run in collaboration with Deloitte, Salesforce, Citi, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, and supported by the Forum’s Center for Urban Transformation and its Alliance for Urban Transformation. 🚙 In January, a delegation of UpLink Top Innovators will attend the Forum's Annual Meeting to showcase their solutions and engage with the broader ecosystem of changemakers. Stay tuned for more on UpLink at the upcoming #WEF25: https://ow.ly/glwn50UuUHw

📈 Global life expectancy is rising, presenting new opportunities and challenges. The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Mercer, launched the #LongevityEconomy initiative to help navigate this new reality. Discover the three pillars of longevity literacy in this blog and learn how boosting #healthoutcomes, #financialsecurity, and #community involvement are crucial to preparing for a longer, more prosperous life. 📘 Read the blog for more: https://ow.ly/y83z50UuRiA 👉 Earlier this year, UpLink, Manulife and the World Economic Forum's Longevity Economy Initiative, ran the Prospering in Longevity Challenge and selected 10 winning solutions that promote preventative healthcare and financial resilience across generations. Discover them all on UpLink! APG Cleveland Clinic IDB Lab Innovation Foundation Primetime Partners Stanford Center on Longevity Swiss Re #Longevity #PreventativeHealth #FinancialResilience #Equity #Sustainability

👏 This year, we celebrated 2 years of the Aquapreneur Innovation Initiative! Launched at Davos 2022, this Initiative is a five-year collaboration with HCL Group, supported by the Forum’s Food and Water Initiative, to empower aquapreneurs to scale transformative solutions in water management. Here’s a recap of some our recent highlights: 💧 Two Innovation Challenges have recognized 20 'aquapreneurs' as Top Innovators out of 393 submissions. Since joining UpLink, they have unlocked $70 million in funding on their own, gained visibility, accessed high-level global events and made new connections. 🏅 Our most recent Innovation Challenge - the Tackling Water Pollution Challenge - called for solutions in on-site water treatment, contamination prevention, and testing and filtration. Stay tuned for the announcement of the winners in 2025! 🌎 Our expanding partner network now includes Arup, Emerald Technology Ventures, GRUNDFOS, Imagine H2O and Xylem Innovation Labs, and is empowering innovators with mentorship, resources and opportunities. 🔧 UpLink has also facilitated workshops to accelerate investment in water innovation, introducing climate-focused investors to this critical issue. 📝 We also launched our first-ever Community Paper, ‘Investing in Water: A Practical Guide,’ which highlighted opportunities for investing in water sector innovators. We look forward to achieving even more in 2025. Visit UpLink to discover our upcoming milestones: https://ow.ly/Yfui50UuP5H HCL Enterprise AtkinsRéalis BlueTech Research IKEA AQUAKIT S.R.L Openversum #WaterPollution #CleanWater #Innovation #Entrepreneurship #Nature

Top Innovator Endolith is driving efficiency and cutting waste with this sustainable critical mineral extraction solution. CEO and Founder Liz Dennett, PhD joined us on An Innovator Explains earlier this year to explain how mining critical minerals for the #energy transition can be made more sustainable and environmentally friendly. 🔋 Watch the full episode on UpLink: https://ow.ly/OZMY50UuMS0 ⚒️ UpLink, in partnership with Prospect Innovation and the World Economic Forum’s Mining and Metals Industry Community, is advancing sustainable mining solutions by connecting stakeholders across the mining cycle and supporting early-stage start-ups. Visit UpLink for more.

What’s it like to attend one of the world's most influential gatherings? 🏔️ Each year, we invite a delegation of our Top Innovators to the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. We asked some of last year's attendees to share their experiences and insights gained from connecting with global leaders, fellow changemakers and potential partners at the event. 🔜 Stay tuned for more on UpLink at the upcoming #WEF25: https://ow.ly/ZFEA50Uukyu S4S Technologies | Nidhi Pant Land Life Company | Rebekah Braswell ECO PANPLAS | Felipe Cardoso ABALOBI | Serge Raemaekers FieldFactors | Karina Peña Fluid Analytics.Ai | Asim R. Bhalerao INERATEC | Philipp Engelkamp

How do we build a longevity economy? In this blog, Sarah Chapman, Global Chief Sustainability Officer at Manulife, emphasises the need for innovation and investment to provide a sustainable future for both our ageing societies and the environment. 💡 UpLink, in partnership with Manulife and the World Economic Forum's Longevity Economy Initiative, is building the Longevity Innovation Ecosystem to provide solutions that ensure healthy, prosperous lives for all. Visit UpLink to learn more and meet all winning Top Innovators from our recent Prospering in Longevity Challenge! 🌿 Read the blog here: https://ow.ly/krLX50UujXa APG Cleveland Clinic IDB Lab Stanford Center on Longevity Swiss Re #LongevityEconomy #LongevityInnovation #PreventativeHealthcare #FinancialResilience #StartUp #Innovation

🌱🔋 ♻️ Using innovative methods such as harvesting #metals from plants and waste to extracting metals with electric fields, these 3 start-ups - Genomines, Destiny Copper, and Ekion Pty Ltd - are showcasing a greener future for the mining industry. ⚒️ Learn more about how UpLink, in partnership with Prospect Innovation and the World Economic Forum’s Mining and Metals Industry Community, is advancing sustainable mining solutions by connecting stakeholders across the mining cycle and supporting early-stage start-ups: https://ow.ly/rMqP50Uu8xA Breakthrough Energy Activate Clean Energy Ventures Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Nth Cycle Rethink Mining SOSV #SustainableMining #Mining #Sustainability #CleanEnergy #Tech #Innovation

🌱 From clean energy and to water security, quantum technology could help advance the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. A new report by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with Accenture, explores how quantum computing, sensing, and communication can be harnessed to drive sustainable development and address critical global challenges. @Laura Converso, Thought Leadership Principal Director at Accenture and Arunima Sarkar, Lead, Quantum Technology at World Economic Forum, take a look at some of the key insights from the report. Read here: https://ow.ly/biO550Uu8bs 🚀 UpLink’s Quantum for Society Challenge, run in collaboration with the World Economic Forum's Quantum Economy Network and the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Saudi Arabia, is calling for solutions from early-stage startups leveraging cutting-edge quantum solutions. 👉 Visit UpLink to submit your solution by 8 January 2025. C4IR Saudi Arabia Accenture King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) SandboxAQ CERN وزارة الاتصالات وتقنية المعلومات،Ministry of Communications and Information Technology National Technology Development Program Pasqal aramco The Garage | الكــراج HCLTech #Quantum #Tech #QuantumComputing #QuantumTechnology #Innovation #Sustainability

👩💻 The digital age relies heavily on data centers, but their thirst for water, especially with the rise of AI, presents a significant environmental challenge. In this blog from Accenture’s @Wesley Spindler, @Luna Atamian Hahn-Petersen, and UpLink’s Sadaf Hosseini, learn how circular water management solutions play a key role in data center sustainability. ♻️ Accenture has partnered with UpLink and the Forum’s Centre for Nature and Climate to launch the Circulars Acceleration Network initiative which sources and accelerates innovations from around the world to drive the circular economy. Visit UpLink for more. Read the full blog here: https://ow.ly/p03C50Uty28 #CircularEconomy #CircularInnovation #Tech #Water #Data #Innovation #Sustainability