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- ZBZoe BezpalkoZoé Bezpalko is an environmental engineer, and designer who strongly believes in the strategic use of technology and design as keys for solving global issues like climate change. At Autodesk she leads the sustainability strategy for the Design & Manufacturing industries where she develops innovative technology to help customers reduce the environmental footprint of their design and make processes, and reach their sustainability goals.
- TPTimothy PresteroTimothy Prestero is the founder and CEO of Design that Matters (DtM), a no-nonsense, award-winning nonprofit in a Salem, Massachusetts. DtM collaborates with the world's best social entrepreneurs and hundreds of superstar volunteers to design breakthrough medical devices for the poor in developing countries. DtM's Firefly infant phototherapy device is treating thousands of newborns in 21 counties, including Vietnam, Myanmar, Ghana and Haiti. In 2012, DtM was named the winner of the National Design Award. Tim holds graduate mechanical and ocean engineering degrees from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, and on the weekends he can be found fishing air rockets out of tree branches with his two boys.
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