Giovanni Baldassarri is a Partner at Rialto Ventures, investing in early stage B2B startups. He is also one of the founders of the World AI Cannes Festival and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Space Meetings Veneto. Giovanni works with different technology companies and government institutions to find the startups and SMEs that fit their needs. Giovanni has a large international network spanning across academia, government, corporate and financial world.

Dr Yarjan Abdul Samad is an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Khalifa University, UAE and a Senior Research Associate and Senior Teaching Fellow at The University of Cambridge. He has served as the Chief Technology Advisor to a climate change company called Levidian based out of Cambridge, UK, which is transforming waste gas resources to graphene and hydrogen. His research work is on bottom-up and top-down production of graphene & related materials crystals. He is interested in employing these materials for technologies for Space in particular and Aerospace in general. He was among the team of scientists on European Space Agency (ESA)’s Zero Gravity flights who were the first to test Graphene in microgravity. He has also tested graphene-based materials for applications in space using Sounding Rockets. He is a member of the Science Team of Rashid Rover, which is due for launch within 2026, by MBRSC, UAE. He is the recipient of several awards such as Young Leaders Award 2020 by the UK’s Young Professional Society, The Innovator of The Year by the technology development company, Pakistan foreign affairs award for twenty-five under the age of 40 talents of Pakistani origin abroad, Nano Today Best Scientific Presentation, and many other Best Scientific Talks awards at international conferences.