IoT Into the Wild Contest for Sustainable Planet 2022

Together with "IoT Into the Wild Initiative Fellows", Seeed Studio will provide multiple resources to incubate and scale up the best winning project for 'Excellent Sustainable and Scalable Project Award' - all the way from industrial prototyping to on-site deployment, industrialization, and distribution at larger scales! This thought is deeply rooted in our values for co-creation of sustainable and scalable AIoT solutions through bottom-up innovation and multi-stakeholder partnership. So, what are the prizes belonging to this Award, as well as other amazing Awards? 😍

Sarah Maston: Founder of Project 15 from Microsoft & Director of Global Partner Development at Microsoft

Sarah Maston is the founder of Project 15 from Microsoft and the co-inventor of the Project 15 Open Platform. Her other inventions at Microsoft include Project Edison, a safety notification IoT solution accelerator for safe schools and workplaces, for which she won the Microsoft Polaris Award. In her 20 year career, she has architected many data warehouses out in the world including those at Monster.com, CouchSurfing.com, and Boston Medical Center. Prior to joining Microsoft, she won an Excellence & Eminence Award at IBM for the invention of the Nutrition Graph and an Outstanding Innovation Award for the invention of Simple Data Pipe.

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Eric Pan: Founder and CEO of Seeed Studio and Chaihuo x.factory & Producer of Maker Faire Shenzhen

Eric Pan is the Founder and CEO of “Seeed Studio” and “Chaihuo x.factory”, as well as the Producer of “Maker Faire Shenzhen”. He believes in the potential of open source technology and social innovations in achieving the UN's SDGs. Moreover, he is one of the recognized leading figures of the Maker Movement and Maker Culture in China. In the era towards the UN’s 2030 Agenda, he is keen on cooperating with multi-stakeholders and technological partners to provide open source solutions for a variety of SDGs-related projects, through which ground-breaking solutions can be co-created and scaled up at global level so as to contribute to a sustainable future. In 2013, he was selected by Forbes Magazine as "China's 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30" and appeared on the cover of the Forbes China. Likewise, he was listed on "2017 China’s Business List of 100 Creative People".

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Andy Gan: Director of LoRa China Business Development at Semtech

Andy Gan is the LoRa Business Development Director of Semtech in China. He has a solid background of IoT chip R&D and application development. When working in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, he participated in several major projects related to UHF RFID IoT chip. After that, he joined Nations Technologies Inc. and then Alien Technology Corporation. Now, he is working at Semtech, and is responsible for LoRa’s application development in China. Furthermore, he used to be one of the key members of China RFID Industry Alliance, as well as China’s RFID Standard Working Group, and IoT Standard Working Group and Sensor Network Standard Working Group. Currently, he is an expert in Shanghai IoT Association, Shenzhen RFID Standard Alliance and Shenzhen IoT Industry Association. He has published a couple of books, owns more than 10 patents and PCT.

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Bastiaan den Braber: Founder of Zambezi Partners

Bastiaan den Braber is the Founder of Zambezi Partners. In 2003, when he first began doing safaris in Africa, he had the vision to use the best of the world’s technologies - in combination of entrepreneurship and investment - to combat African wildlife poaching. Thereby, he became a FGASA Level 1 trained Field Guide as a part of this journey, and formally devoted his life bringing together the technology partners for Zambezi: a 5th Industrial Revolution, AIoT solution company with a well-managed platform for sustainability: Platform Zero. Zambezi is Microsoft's first commercial partner of the Project 15 Open Platform. Zambezi works with conservation organizations and for-profit sustainability entities to institute data-driven exponential technologies to drive scalability and efficacy in solving the world's most complex issues.

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Peng Zhao: Senior Consultant of the Paradise International Foundation

Peng Zhao is the Senior Consultant of the Paradise International Foundation. Since 2005, he has led several influential initiatives in the field of ecological and environmental protection in China, including his support to "China's Biodiversity Conservation Strategy and Action Plan" published by the State Council; creating China's first land trust preserve which has been identified as the innovative conservation model by Ministry of Natural Resources, and; establishing China's first water fund for rural areas, as well as the first water fund for mega city for water source protection. In addition, he extended the conservation focus to the urban, marine and carbon neutral sectors.

Adam Benzion: Chief Experience Officer (CXO) at Edge Impulse, & Co-Founder of Hackster.io

Adam Benzion is the Chief Experience Officer (CXO) at Edge Impulse, the Co-Founder of Hackster.io, a Microsoft alumni, a recovered hardware entrepreneur, and an investor. His expertise lies in building meaningful technological solutions, that can solve pressing challenges of our time - such as wildlife and environmental preservation, by means of using open source principles and community-building initiatives. From time to time, he enjoys writing for Fast Company, Power Magazine, TechCrunch, EE Times, and The Next Web.

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Travis L. Teague: Developer Growth Lead at Nova Labs

Travis L. Teague is the Developer Growth Lead at Nova Labs. He has an extensive background in embedded systems, enterprise and mobile software and IoT solutions. Moreover, he was the Co-Founder and Technical Lead of a handheld medical device company, and is an active leader with Houston-based IoT and STEM training initiatives. His first machine was a TI-99/4A, which he thought was pretty cool, and inspired him to continue playing with hardware. Fast-forward to current day, one will find his house filled with CNCs, microcontrollers, drones, and radios strewn across every surface that will hold them.

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Joey Hiller: Technical Director at Helium Foundation

Joey Hiller is the Technical Director at Helium Foundation. ​He works across a wide area of The People's Network's ecosystem – from sensor applications to network analysis, and expansion to other protocols. Prior to joining Helium Foundation, he was an early adopter of the Helium project – having built the Helium Coverage Mapping project as a grantee and a community member.

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Cyril Ebersweiler: General Parnter at SOSV & Founder and Managing Director of HAX

Cyril Ebersweiler is a General Partner at SOSV (a global venture capital firm that offers multi-stage investment, starting with pre-seed startup development) and the Founder and Managing Director of HAX. He is an experienced investor in deep tech (250+) and has invested globally. Moreover, he is a Board Member and/or an Advisor to a few startups including Formlabs, AngelList, Adoreme, Collaborate (ACQ: CISCO), Hackster.io (ACQ: AVNET), Dispatch Robotics (ACQ: AMZN), Makeblock, Yeelight, Particle, Opentrons, Bartesian, Avidbots and Simbe Robotics. Furthermore, he is a popular speaker at international events (TC Disrupt, Collision, Pioneers, MIT Forum, etc.), university events (Stanford University, UC Berkeley, etc.), and an author of dozens of articles on topics as technology, robotics, health and crowdfunding. He is often featured in The Economist, Popular Mechanics, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Huffington Post, Wired, BBC and more.

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Tomas Diez Ladera: Founding Partner and Executive Director of the Fab City Foundation & Co-Director and a Board Member of the IAAC

Tomas Diez Ladera is a Venezuela-born Urbanist, who specializes in digital fabrication and its implications in the future of cities and societies. He is the the Founding Partner and Executive Director of the Fab City Foundation, and the Meaningful Design Group Bali. Furthermore, he is the Co-Director and a Board Member of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), where he also works as a Senior Researcher and a Tutor. In fact, he is the Co-Director of the "Masters in Design for Emergent Futures" and the "Masters in Design for Distributed Innovation". On this backdrop, he collaborates with trans-sectoral partners for joint projects, events, and programs worldwide with the Fab Foundation, such as, Fab City, Fab Conferences, and Fab Academy, to mention a few.

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Seeed Studio is the AIoT hardware partner for digital innovators.

Since 2008, they have been working closely with global technology ecosystems to provide hardware modules, devices and related services. They integrate the latest technology into thousands of open source hardware modules, so that millions of developers, makers, and innovators coming from different backgrounds can innovate interdependently.

With professional and industrial expertise in Embedded Machine Learning, Edge Computing, LoRaWAN sensors and networks, their ready-to-deploy products are increasingly accelerating myriads of emerging digital solutions in the real world. On this backdrop, their work has been well recognized by both - technology and mainstream media, thanks to their avid services for precision agriculture, smart cities, STEAM education, environmental and meteorological monitoring, scientific researches, smart energy, digital factory, and smart retail, to mention a few.

To continue supporting decentralized and sustainable innovation, they founded “Chaihuo x.factory”, and started China’s first Maker Movement in 2012 by annually organizing “Maker Faire Shenzhen”. Stay connected with Seeed Studio on Discord, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter.