Startup Growth Panel : EdTech

Building <div>Diane Janknegt, founder of Wizenoze, has been selected by Forbes for the ‘100 Women Founders In Europe To Follow in 2019’, got listed in Nov 2019 on the “WW Meaningful Business Leaders 100’, is mentioned as ‘The 20 Most Successful Businesswoman to Watch 2018’ by Insight Magazine, is a member of the Inspiring Fifty Group - a group of 50 Female leaders in the IT sector, won the title ‘Bad-Ass Female Entrepreneur 2018’ of Silicon Canals.&nbsp;<br><br>Her company Wizenoze was featured as the only Dutch/British company in The Disrupt 100 list, is recently selected as “The top 10 Dutch companies to Watch in 2019” by Business Insider and was a finalist for ‘The Next Billion Edtech Prize’ at the Global Education Skills Forum in Dubai in 2019. Diane Janknegt is an ex-Microsoft executive who worked for Microsoft Netherlands between 1997 - 2012. In 2013 she founded the AI scale-up Wizenoze.&nbsp;<br><br>Based on years of academic research, Wizenoze gives students across the world access to an ‘internet for education’. With their AI technology - called the Web for Classrooms or Web for Professionals - WizeNoze discloses relevant, reliable and readable content to students of all ages. Wizenoze has offices in Amsterdam and London, has a strong focus on India and aims to be the global market leader in this area.&nbsp;<br><br>She loves working with young, passionate and inspiring people, has a proven track record in building strong and successful teams and with her positive attitude she knows how to motivate other people. She has an extensive network in the IT and Education industry and beyond. She is happily married and proud mother of 3 kids, aged 15-14-11.</div>

Building <div>Fei Yao is an edtech startup entrepreneur based in Singapore. She is the founder and COO of NewCampus, a modern digital business school. Her mission is to help busy professionals prepare for a rapidly changing world by integrating future-focused learning into modern lifestyles.<br><br>NewCampus hosts daily classes in “learning gyms” in Singapore and around Asia, allowing people to continuously access the skills, ideas and connections needed to grow. Before her startup journey, she worked on water purification innovation in Cambodia with Engineers without Borders, and was previously a management consultant at Accenture in Australia.<br><br>Fei was recently named Forbes 30 under 30 in education.&nbsp;</div>

Building <div>LX Designer, e-learning expert and computational linguist with extensive experience conceptualizing, creating, and updating e-learning products in several source languages, including the innovative ABA English Campus, ABA’s mobile applications versions 1.0 and 2.0, and IESE Online Programs.<br><br>Under the Language Lab research center she directed in ABA, she led the development of a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence skill for the Alexa virtual assistant, in a joint project with the Auto-Id Lab at the MIT.<br><br>Strong project and team management skills, with deep knowledge of Internet and mobile technologies after directing the localization for Spain of Google and Nokia products at Treeloc. Excellent writing and verbal skills in several languages, especially in English, Spanish and Italian. Amateur musician with a degree in classical piano.&nbsp;</div>

Building <div>Growth, operations and product management at the intersection of technology and education.&nbsp;</div>

Building <div>At heart, I am a strategist and like to apply skills and energy for commercializing functional solutions to real world problems. I am a multipotentialite and have broad interests in sustainability, nation building and youth development which have led me to pursue a venture in experiential education. I hope to grow Cubane Solutions in spheres of Empathy, Emotional Quotient, Sustainability Education and Conscious Capitalism.<br><br>I am also an international long distance ocean swimmer and recipient of the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award (equivalent to Arjuna Award) by the Govt. of India. Love to travel, read and practice mixed media art.&nbsp;</div>