Peepul focuses on transforming student-teacher engagement in the government school system through the implementation of high-engagement classroom pedagogy and practices. There are four components to this model: a high-engagement classroom practice toolkit, high-quality teacher skilling and capacity building through bite-sized, practical, and immersive training, academic mentoring and coaching to provide timely, contextual coaching and support to teachers, and aligned incentives and accountability, to create a school system administration that is focused on academic outcomes and not administrative outputs. Girish currently serves as Peepul's COO and Director-Scale Programmes.

Peepul began in one school with nine students in Delhi. Its ultimate aim is to scale through government adoption of its proven, effective best practices. Ultimately, Peepul dreams of a world where every child is enabled and supported to live up to their potential, and for their programme to be replicated through partnerships with other non-profits and organisations.

Councillor HY William Chan is the youngest-ever independent elected to public office for the City of Sydney. Serving on the Lord Mayoral governing team, William is an architect, youth advocate, and urban and sustainability innovator. A testament to his ability to drive change, he was unanimously appointed to 15 council leadership roles. He chairs the planning, heritage, transport, traffic, cycling, environment and sustainability portfolios while representing Council to the community for cultural, creativity, inclusion and disability issues. William is also an Executive of Climate Emergency Australia, which represents over 100 local governments accelerating a zero-carbon economy across the country.

Described by Forbes as a “game-changing leader”, William is interested in how we can all help design the cities we live in. He has championed human rights as UNICEF’s Young Ambassador and led the Australian Youth Climate Coalition on its national council. As the World Economic Forum’s Global Public Leadership Fellow, William is opening up local politics to younger and more diverse people, expanding their role in actively shaping a future city.

Founded by Orlando Anaya, Kilometro Uno is a coastal and marine conservation team focused on marine litter, climate change, and empowering the next generation of environmental leaders. The organisation has directly educated 130,000 young people and its volunteers have removed 90 tons of marine litter. In recent years their work has been fundamental to the prohibition of plastic bags in Tijuana and the installation of a floating trash boom to capture cross-border waste before it reaches the Pacific Ocean.

Kilometro Uno has advised the UN Environment Programme and the Commission for Environmental Cooperation. Orlando was selected by The Economist and Sustainable Ocean Alliance as one of the “15 Ocean Youth Leaders” worldwide and recognized as an EE 30 Under 30 environmental education leader. His work has led to the invitation to several international events, such as the UN Biodiversity Conference COP13, the World Ocean Summit, One Young World and the Our Ocean Conference. He is currently working on an MSc in Environmental Change and Management at the University of Oxford and is a recipient of the prestigious Chevening Scholarship.

Zoya spent the first 15 years of her life in a Palestinian refugee camp in extremely difficult conditions. She then escaped the war in Ukraine and was hosted by a Swiss family, where she realised the importance of sharing her story. She has since had the opportunity to do just that, through interviews and other means, with different age groups in Switzerland.

Realising the power storytelling has on the storyteller and the world while being passionate about storytelling, healing, and human connections, Zoya hopes to create a safe and peaceful environment where refugees, displaced, and migrants become the storytellers of their own stories in the ways they know (through media such as music, painting, writing, or documentaries). She hopes that this will show the whole world the power, resilience, and growth mindset these people have gained despite and through their traumas. With this project, Zoya hopes to reach refugees, migrants, and displaced people, connect with them, and help them realize the power they have. She hopes that people will find different ways of telling their stories and thus change the way they define their lives.

Current estimates suggest that the number of job seekers in the Middle East and North Africa will top 39 million over the next decade. Massive numbers of talented and educated young people lack opportunities locally, ending up jobless or in unsatisfying jobs. At the same time, there are hundreds of thousands of talent shortages in the tech industry in Europe, particularly in software engineering, data, product, and B2B sales. The gap hasn't been bridged because it has traditionally been seen as too expensive, and companies don’t care about faraway talent.

Co-founded by Jafar Shunnar, TAP (the Talent Acceleration Platform) is a Palestinian-Dutch edtech and career acceleration platform designed to unlock remote job opportunities for young people in the MENA region. While being mentored by industry experts, TAP participants enhance and deepen market-relevant digital skills and improve their power skills, before they are connected with international employers to work remotely. TAP is on its way to training its 100th participant and showing great traction and results, with an over 80% placement rate and a fast-growing partner network.

Escolha Do Povo (meaning The People's Choice), of which Manuel Rodrigues is Managing Director, operates a government-owned feed and maize mill in the agricultural heart of Mozambique. It also built a commercial hatchery in 2017 that is able to produce half a million chickens per month, and a soya expeller in 2019 which is able to produce 2,000,000 KGs of soya beans per month.

In addition, the project has contracted 80,000 small-scale farmers to grow maize and soya to process into chicken feed and maize meal at the factory. In 2019, it built a soya extrusion plant to create a market for another 14,000 soya farmers in the region. Escolha Do Povo (EDP) has maintained a target ensuring that of these 14,000 farmers, 83% are female. The farmers benefit through cash payments, while EDP also runs a training programme teaching best practices for chicken farming. The project's direct and indirect impact has reached about 1.1 million people so far.

Guinean Young Leaders Initiative (GYLI) is a non-profit, co-founded by Souleymane Diallo, that seeks to empower Guinea's most promising young leaders to drive positive change through ethical and entrepreneurial leadership education. ​The organisation is building the Guinean Leadership Academy (GLA), an innovative school that will identify, develop, and connect Guinea's most promising young leaders to a world-class education in the country.

The GYLI currently runs the Emerging Leaders Camp (ELC): An intensive one-month entrepreneurial and leadership education summer programme for young Guineans of high potential aged 15-25. It also operates the Ubuntu Mentorship Program, which provides mentorship and guidance around college applications to high school students who demonstrate exceptional leadership potential. In addition to this, the GYLI hosts the Inspiring Leaders Series: a bi-weekly conversation series with leading experts in Education, Politics, and Entrepreneurship. The organisation also empowers Guinea's most promising young girls to become leaders in STEM, Humanities, Politics and the Arts through its She Is in Charge Program. Since its creation, GYLI has already impacted 300+ people directly and indirectly.

Anil Pradhan is the co-founder of the Young Tinker Educational Foundation (YTEF) and Young Tinker Academy. They are on a mission to democratise access to the world’s best hands-on STEAM education to enable the innovators of today and tomorrow by developing tinker spaces in rural schools. Their project, Young TinkerSpace is an experimental STEAM learning space that is developing a culture of hands-on tinkering, making, innovation and entrepreneurship among students and young people. These tinker spaces in rural schools are equipped with hi-tech equipment like 3D printers, robotics tools and other fabrication machinery.

Apart from students and young people, women in rural areas are trained to be a part of Anil's tinkering revolution. 90% of the organisation's employees in management, fabrication of equipment, content development and manufacturing are women. Today, YTEF has impacted the lives of 157,000+ young people, including 92,000+ girls in STEAM. YTEF’s team was ranked third in the world at NASA’s Rover Challenge 2021. Anil has also been conferred the "National Youth Award", the highest civilian award for young people in India.