Full Name
Lucia Gallardo
Job Title
Founder & CEO
Company
Emerge
Speaker Bio
Lucia Gallardo is an award-winning Honduran serial experimenter. She is the founder & CEO of Emerge, an experimental technologies lab working at the convergence of sustainable development and social impact.
In her spare time, Lucía sits on the Boards of (1) Rainforest Partnership, a non-profit organisation promoting the protection of the world's tropical rainforests; (2) the Caribbean Blockchain Alliance, and (3) WE Global Studio, an innovation studio supporting the world's female entrepreneurs.
Lucia has past experience in both the public and private sectors, ranging from immigration and trade relations on diplomatic missions to AI-enabled mobile tech and early-stage investments.
She is a 2017 Venture for Canada Fellow, a 2018 RBC Future Launch Fellow, a 2018 Money 20/20 Rise Up Fellow, and a certified UN SDG Advocate. She was listed as one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators under 35 and a Royal Bank of Canada's 2019, Women of Influence. Lucía has been nominated for Royal Bank of Canada's Entrepreneur of the Year award, Future of Good's Founders to Watch, and the Cartier Science and Technology Pioneer Award.
She has spoken at Money 2020, the World Economic Forum Sustainable Impact Meetings, Consensus, the North American Bitcoin Conference, Bloomberg, Coinbase, and more.
In her spare time, Lucía sits on the Boards of (1) Rainforest Partnership, a non-profit organisation promoting the protection of the world's tropical rainforests; (2) the Caribbean Blockchain Alliance, and (3) WE Global Studio, an innovation studio supporting the world's female entrepreneurs.
Lucia has past experience in both the public and private sectors, ranging from immigration and trade relations on diplomatic missions to AI-enabled mobile tech and early-stage investments.
She is a 2017 Venture for Canada Fellow, a 2018 RBC Future Launch Fellow, a 2018 Money 20/20 Rise Up Fellow, and a certified UN SDG Advocate. She was listed as one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators under 35 and a Royal Bank of Canada's 2019, Women of Influence. Lucía has been nominated for Royal Bank of Canada's Entrepreneur of the Year award, Future of Good's Founders to Watch, and the Cartier Science and Technology Pioneer Award.
She has spoken at Money 2020, the World Economic Forum Sustainable Impact Meetings, Consensus, the North American Bitcoin Conference, Bloomberg, Coinbase, and more.
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