The Ambitious Altruist

#16 - Julia Dietmar

Julia Dietmar [https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-k-dietmar-083810/] is the CEO and co-founder of Open Wardrobe [https://www.openwardrobe.co/]. She's spent more than 20 years building products in Silicon Valley. Julia led products at Yahoo, shaped eCommerce at Walmart, and served as Chief Product Officer at Vue.ai, creating AI tools that helped global retailers rethink everything from inventory to personalization. With a computer science degree from UC Berkeley, and an MBA from INSEAD, she brings heavyweight experience to one of the fashion industry's biggest challenges.

#15 - Don Weatherbee - Stabilizing Critical Metal Supply Chains

Don Weatherbee is the visionary leader behind Regenx Tech [https://www.regenx.tech/], revolutionizing metal recovery with a CleanTech solution that eliminates smelting and achieves 95% CO₂ emission reduction. Don’s efforts in stabilizing critical metal supply chains—especially Platinum Group Metals—are gaining traction globally, especially among 5,000+ sustainability-focused investors and innovators.

#14 - Ian Hamilton - CEO and Co-Founder of Transparent AI, Inc.

Ian Hamilton [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianchamilton1/] is a materials scientist, nuclear engineer, and serial entrepreneur. Having started two hard tech energy companies in the past, he became increasingly concerned with the development of AI and how it is being used. Being a sort of "technology historian", Ian dove deep into the history of AI and has spent the last 5 years reading obscure machine learning and AI textbooks searching for alternatives to the current AI paradigms. Ian and his team thinks they have found the answers they were looking for an have started a company called Transparent AI [https://www.transparentai.tech/], where their focus is to develop AI technologies that are not "black-box", more energy efficient, and are theoretically much closer to how the human brain learns compared to current AI technologies.

#13 - Linda Belzile Buisson - Training and Mentoring Business Coaches

Over a decade of coaching high-level professionals for the world's leading personal development guru. She's the trainer of coaches and clients utilizing methodologies of human psychology and neuroscience. Committed to waking up the "working dead" to live their best life. Entrepreneur of her own organic personal care line Vert Violet to live a clean life, personally, emotionally, and physically.

#12 - Melanie Carlone - Regeneration and Thriving Local Food Systems

Melanie, a doctor in clinical physical therapy witnessing 37 years of steady decline in human and environmental health and the rise of astounding chronic illness, was invited to integrate deep wisdom from indigenous healing traditions on three continents. This has brought Melanie to realize her calling in sacred activism. Melanie, now a joyful member owner of planetarycare.org [http://planetarycare.org/], champions co-creating organizational and agricultural paths to heal the soil, the earth, and the beings that call this place home. Local to global is the answer. Healthy food access and thriving individuals speak to every one's soul. It is time to bridge abundant resources to local and global solutionaries and consciously create the world we know is possible. This is the story worthy of telling our grandchildren's grandchildren. Watch a panel discussion on Building Planetary Resilience through Regenerating Living Soil [https://kinshipearth.org/schedule/02-10-23]