Philippe Eiselein (Belgium)

Coordinator Belgium Impact 

Phillipe is currently a Senior researcher at Odisee University college. He is part of the scientific research recenter CenSE (Center for Sustainable Entrepreneurship), where he currently is focusing on circular economy and circular transition projects.

He is also a Ph.D. Candidate and Visiting Professor at the Department of Business at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Furthermore, he is the coordinator of Belgium Impact, the national platform in support of more than 300 Belgian impactful social entrepreneurs. Initiated by His Majesty the King of Belgium, it wishes to further stimulate the Belgian Social Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and aims to inspire others using a transdisciplinary approach.

Viviana Angulo (Bolivia)

Co-Founder of Pista8: Bolivia’s International Collaborative Accelerator

Viviana is the Director and Cofounder of Pista 8, Bolivia’s first accelerator program for startups. Pista 8 is based on an international collaborative model that is supported by the corporate sector. Viviana led several business development initiatives, for instance, the first accelerator program for mature companies in the Caribbean – Guayacan Venture Accelerator; the deployment of Babson’s scholarship program in Puerto Rico for academicians in the area of entrepreneurship; and the execution of international conferences such as: the Puerto Rico Venture Forum (2013) and the Roundtable of Entrepreneurship Education co-organized by Stanford University (2011). She is also a member of WeInvest a women led investor group and represents Bolivia in the World Angel Investing Forum. She is considered a connector in Latin America and an evangelist of the value of mentoring for women in entrepreneurial and professional roles

Rüdiger Wetzl-Piewald (Austria) 

Managing Director of the Social Business Hub Styria 

Rudi is currently the managing Director of Social Business Club Styria, the regional competence center for social impact entrepreneurship in Southern Austria. He also serves as a Board member of Social Entrepreneurship Network Austria (sena.or.at).

Previously, Rudy was the founder and long-time managing director of Compuritas, a pioneering company in the field of IT refurbishment, which due to its extensive innovative strength belongs to Europe’s most awarded impact ventures. His experience accounts for the conception and implementation of counseling programs for social entrepreneurship (idea phase, pre-founding and founding phase, scaling phase) and Conception and implementation of innovation projects in the field of social business + circular economy.

Coen De Roover (Belgium)

Associate professor at the Software Languages Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Coen De Roover is an associate professor at the Software Languages Lab (SOFT) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). The central theme of his research is the design of program analyses, and their application to problems in software quality. Keywords include static analysis, automated testing, continuous integration, design metrics and smells, software analytics, and vulnerability detection.
His group has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in the domain, and he is actively involved in collaborative research projects of a fundamental, strategic, or applied nature.
He frequently serves on the programme committee for conferences such as Automated Software Engineering, Mining Software Repositories, International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, Software Analysis, Evolution and Re-engineering, and Source Code Analysis and Manipulation.

Clara Parra Espinosa  (USA)

Director Worldwide Tax and Trade Process & Technology – Modern Experiences 

Clara Parra Espinosa leads the Technology/Modern Experiences team as part of the Worldwide Tax and Trade organization with Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, WA. The Modern Experiences Team (MET) partners across Tax and Trade, MSFT and the industry to drive innovative solutions to support worldwide Tax and Trade processes, while maximizing the use of Microsoft and cutting-edge technology.

Mrs. Parra Espinosa joined Microsoft in 2007 and has more than 15 yrs. of experience in technology strategy, business intelligence, systems implementation, and automation. Originally from Barranquilla, Colombia. Ms. Parra Espinosa has an Industrial engineering degree, and a minor in computer science from Universidad del Norte Colombia. After moving to the United States, she completed an Executive program at Stanford University, a Trade Specialist Certification at Thunderbird Global School of Business, and a Project Management certification from University of Washington.

Prior to Microsoft, Mrs. Parra Espinosa worked in a variety of roles at companies ranging from Intercor/El Cerrejon Colombia, Millicom International Cellular (Celcaribe/Tigo) as Finance Director for their Latam operations and as an International Trade specialist for the World Trade Center. She was selected by the Hispanic Engineering and Information Magazine as one of “the top 50 Latinas working at Tech giants” and also a recipient of the “40 under 40” award.

Mrs. Parra Espinosa is really passionate about empathetic leadership, diversity, equity & inclusion in the workplace, development of women in tech, and mentorship for Microsoft’s early career programs.