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Attend the Hult Prize @ UWaterloo Finals, made possible by the Eyton Directorship of the Conrad Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology Centre, to watch the top eight teams pitch their solutions to a panel of judges. The winning team will represent UWaterloo at the Hult Prize Regional Finals in Boston, San Francisco, London, Dubai, Shanghai, Toronto, Mexico City, Quito, Bogota, Melbourne, Lagos, Nairobi, Cairo, Tunis, Kuala Lumpur or Singapore.
This year's judges:
This event is the next and final step on campus after UWaterloo teams worked with mentors from AE4H, WISE and the University of Waterloo Community. See below for a listing of our members who offered their time and expertise to Hult Prize hopefuls!
Nigel Moore is the Manager of Global Programs and Initiatives at the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (Wise Waterloo). He is a graduate of Waterloo’s Environment and Business program and has worked previously at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in Waterloo as well as the University of Oxford and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability studies in Potsdam, Germany as a climate and energy researcher.
At WISE, Nigel manages the Affordable Energy for Humanity Initiative (AE4H), a global consortium of leading innovators and practitioners from academia, industry and the public sector who are advancing progress on Sustainable Development Goal 7: Universal access to clean and affordable energy.
He is a co-author of the OpenAccess Energy Blueprint, a framework for supporting the emerging energy access sector through collaborative innovations in finance, policy, business model development, education and training.
S. Keshav received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991. He was subsequently a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs and, from 1996 to 1999, an Associate Professor at Cornell. In 1999 he temporarily left academia to co-found Ensim Corporation and GreenBorder Technologies Inc. He has been at the University of Waterloo since 2003, holding first a Canada Research Chair and subsequently the Cisco Chair in Smart Grid.
He is the author of two graduate textbooks on computer networking. He served as Chair of ACM SIGCOMM from 2013 to 2017 and as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Mathematics from 2015 to 2017.
His research goal for the past several years has been to apply his expertise in computer networking to find innovative solutions to large-scale problems in energy systems. His focus is on using three revolutionary technologies - solar photovoltaic generators, energy storage, and pervasive sensing - to improve the efficiency and reduce the carbon footprint of energy systems.
Malcolm McCulloch is Associate Professor in Engineering Science and Group Leader of the Energy and Power Group at the University of Oxford.
His interests are in the area related to the domestic energy sector, development of user centric demand side management technologies, useful information to enable behaviour change. Previous work lead the spin-out Intelligent Sustainable Energy, of which Malcolm is both a founder and non-executive director. This has merged to form Navetas Energy Management.
In the transport sector, research is ongoing in developing power trains for electric vehicles. A successful project was that of the Morgan LifeCar - the first ever Hydrogen sports car. This project lead to the development of high-efficiency low-weight motors using new materials- The yokeless and segmented armature motor. This has resulted in the Oxford spin-out company Oxford Yasa Motors, of which Malcolm is a founder. He is extending the work of ICERT to create an Integrated Transport Network for Oxford.
In renewable generation, novel lightweight low speed direct coupled generators are being developed along with a transverse axis tidal turbine, leading to the spinout of Kepler Energy, of which Malcolm is also a founder and non-executive director.
In Energy for Development, he is developing technologies that leverage advanced intelligence to provide cost effective and nano and micro grid solutions that provide a scalable pathway to distributed electrification.
Malcolm McCulloch was Co-Director of the Institute for Carbon and Energy Reduction in Transport, a member of the Oxford Martin School from 2008-2013.
Klaus Dohring has two Masters level engineering degrees and has a strong knowledge base in engineering, development, program management and general management.
Mr. Dohring has been in a global leadership position of a $500 million tier-2 automotive supplier group, with complete responsibility for P&L, operations, marketing, sales, research & development, product development, supply chain management, finance and was responsible for an employee base of 4,400.
For over nine years, after founding his own company, Green Sun Rising Inc., he has built up the local Canadian solar activities and expertise, supported and backed-up by leading European solar companies, with decades of solar experience and know-how. The Renewable Energy Technology Center in Windsor was founded following his vision.
Our next mentor is the former Director of Optical Engineering at Morgan Solar Inc. in Toronto, Canada. Michael Sinclair spent his 6 years developing new solar technologies and made significant contributions in innovation, product design, reliability testing and manufacturing.
Michael holds an Honours B.Sc from the University of Waterloo in Mechatronics Engineering and Management Science. He is currently working for ecobee inc. as their Product Manager, Energy Services and is leading a team to create innovative smart grid technologies.
Michael spent three months working for the Zayed Energy and Ecology Centre in Malawi who has aspirations to facilitate the adoption of distributed energy in the developing world. He is also a participating member of Affordable Energy For Humanity (AE4H) at the University of Waterloo.
Uche has an enduring interest in ICT for Development (ICT4D) and technology for impact, graduating [BS Information Systems] from Delaware State University and completing an AMP [Media & Entertainment] at IESE Business School. He maintains a Medium column at (https://medium.com/@uche.onuora).
After moving with his wife and 3 young children to Waterloo in 2014, Uche graduated from the Masters of Business, Entrepreneurship, and Technology program at the University of Waterloo in 2016; and is a Co-Founder and Lead Evangelist of HITCH (by Flexfinity).
HITCH empowers underserved users in emerging markets through unrestricted access to impactful videos that transcend literacy barriers. It is a cloud platform that enables curation and access to videos via a HITCH-designed (smart) WiFi hotspot that caches content, and lets users access it offline.
Paul Parker is particularly concerned with how local economic development strategies can achieve a sustainable future. Sustainable energy systems are an essential starting point, so he looks first at conservation and improving energy efficiency, then at renewable energy sources and smart grid networks as integral parts of community energy plans.
Paul combines his strong research background with direct experience engaging local representatives from communities across Canada and overseas to envision and build local capacity, vitality and sustainability. Recently he has lead economic development seminars in Edmonton, Iqaluit, Inuvik, Fort McMurray, Halifax, Saskatoon, Stratford, Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Quebec City and Whitehorse.
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