‍Romain Diaz, founder & CEO at Satgana. Romain is a French-born entrepreneur with 10 years of experience starting, building, running, investing into, advising, and selling a range of companies with a focus on impact technology startups and emerging markets. Satgana is a Climate Tech VC firm using venture building methodologies to support startups at pre-seed stage in Europe and Africa.

Hannes Van den Eeckhout, founder of The Regeneration Fellowship. Hannes has 13 years of experience of working with smallholder farmers on the cross section of social entrepreneurship and food systems change in Latin America, Europe and East Africa. He is on a quest to combine the best of social entrepreneurship with the world of agroecology in a start-up studio approach to building truly regenerative food businesses. Starting in Uganda, he aims to contribute to accelerating this transition and strengthening the movement from within, one regenerative company at a time.

Elizabeth Whitlow's role as the Executive Director of the Regenerative Organic Alliance (ROA) is the culmination of over 20 years working in the field of organic agriculture. Whitlow began her career as an advocate for shade-grown, fair-trade, and organic coffee growers in Central America. Since then, she has worked across the spectrum of elevated certifications, both in farming and ranching, earning high-level placements with organizations such as CCOF and EarthClaims. She has also contributed to the brilliant work of organizations such as the Institute for Food & Development Policy, Sustainable Harvest, Coffee Kids, and the Mesoamerican Development Institute.