World Economic Forum: Insights from Davos Attendees - Part II

about the event.
Agenda
Networking: 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Panel: 6:30 pm - 7:15 pm
Audience Q&A: 7:15 pm - 7:30 pm
Networking: 7:30 pm onwards

Panel Members
Kwiri Yang
Kwiri Yang is the Founder and CEO of LifeGyde, an education technology companythat equips the next generation with interpersonal skills to thrive and lead in anexponentially changing world. Kwiri bootstrapped her first company at the age of 16, reaching $3M in profit by the time she graduated from UCLA at age 19.  Kwiri has over 15+ years of experience in both the private and public sector. She was also appointed as the youngest Board Director of the Los Angeles Area Chamber ofCommerce. Recognized as a 40 Under 40 Emerging Civic Leader, she volunteers her timebuilding communities focused on education empowerment, social impact, as well assupporting next-generation leaders, second-time founders and female leaders. 

Abi Ramanan
Abi Ramanan is the CEO and Co founder of ImpactVision, a machine learning company applying imaging technology to food supply chains to reduce waste, prevent product recalls and deliver consistent quality to consumers. Abi previously founded two food social enterprises in London and also worked as a campaigner at the Fairtrade Foundation, Oxfam GB and Sustain: the alliance for better food & farming. Abi attended Davos in 2018 as part of the London hub and was the first Global Shaper selected to be a Co-chair of AMNC in 2018.

Christian Umbach
Christian is the  Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, API and data integration platform xapix.io, which empowers enterprises to exchange data - empowering new digital business models and artificial intelligence in the smart cities and connected car space. Graduate Fellow in System Design and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Has spent his career at the intersection of transportation, information technology and digital management. Formerly: Developer Advocate, UBER Technologies; Research Assistant, MIT Sloan’s Initiative on the Digital Economy on corporate innovation, led a team at MIT to build the next generation of digital transport products for Hyperloop Transport Technologies; Executive Assistant to the Board for Finance, Human Resources and Information Technology, Lufthansa Cargo; co-created the Lufthansa Innovation Hub, Berlin, bulding new partnerships and leading the open data strategy for Lufthansa Group. Helped build the G20 Foundation; with fellow World Economic Forum Global Shapers, has built up the NextB2BForum, which strengthens the collaboration of corporations and start-ups, focussing on innovation and trends in the mobility sector.

David Agranovich
David Agranovich is Facebook's Global Threat Disruption Lead, where he coordinates theidentification and disruption of information operations networks across the Facebook family ofapps and develops policies to deter misuse of the platform. Prior to joining Facebook, Davidserved as Director for Intelligence at the National Security Council (NSC) in the White House,where he led the United States Government's efforts to address foreign interference indemocratic systems and elections. While at the White House, he also oversaw efforts to improveU.S. government cybersecurity and develop rules-based systems for nation-state interaction incyberspace. In addition to his time at the White House, he has served in a variety of senior rolesat the Department of Defense focused on Russian organized crime and corruption andcontributed to the bestselling expose on Russian government corruption, "Putin's Kleptocracy".He speaks English, Russian, Spanish, and some Mandarin Chinese.