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CIFOR-ICRAF brings more than 75 years of combined scientific excellence in harnessing the power of trees, forests, and agroforestry landscapes to address the world's most pressing challenges. Formed through the union of CIFOR (founded 1993) and ICRAF (founded 1978), the organization publishes over 750 publications annually across multiple languages, making it the world's leading research institution on forestry and agroforestry. With headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya and Bogor, Indonesia, CIFOR-ICRAF operates across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, conducting research in over 30 countries. The organization tackles climate change, biodiversity loss, food insecurity, and inequality through evidence-based solutions. As a CGIAR Research Center, CIFOR-ICRAF connects science with action, creating solutions from the ground up through inclusive partnerships, transdisciplinary research, and demand-driven innovation that reaches from farmers' fields to global policy arenas.

In 1886, a young chemist named William Griscom founded The Standard Paint Company in Bound Brook, New Jersey, with a vision to develop innovative roofing solutions. This humble beginning would eventually transform into what we now know as GAF - North America's largest roofing and waterproofing manufacturer. From introducing ready-to-lay asphalt roll roofing in 1892 to reinventing residential shingles with the iconic GAF Timberline in 1967, the company has consistently pushed the boundaries of roofing technology. Today, GAF stands as a testament to sustained innovation and American manufacturing excellence, protecting more homes and businesses across the United States than any other roofing product. Operating as a subsidiary of Standard Industries, GAF has evolved from a regional paint company into a market leader that combines cutting-edge technology with deep industry expertise. With factories across the country and over 135 years of experience, GAF continues to define the future of roofing while leading the present, committed to protecting what matters most for millions of families and businesses.

Columbia University is one of the world's most important centers of research and at the same time a distinctive and distinguished learning environment for undergraduates and graduate students in many scholarly and professional fields. The University recognizes the importance of its location in New York City and seeks to link its research and teaching to the vast resources of a great metropolis. It seeks to attract a diverse and international faculty and student body, to support research and teaching on global issues, and to create academic relationships with many countries and regions. The University expects all areas of the institution to advance knowledge and learning at the highest level and to convey the products of its efforts to the world. Columbia University operates a comprehensive academic enterprise spanning sixteen schools, a world-renowned medical center, twenty-five libraries, and more than one hundred research centers in New York City. For more than 250 years, Columbia has been a leader in higher education in the nation and around the world, combining the intimate scale of a small college with the vast resources of a major research university.

We're a global law firm of more than 3,700 lawyers providing a full business law service to the world's preeminent corporations and financial institutions. With offices in more than 50 cities across Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Africa, we've built a network that lets us handle complex legal work wherever our clients need us. Our industry-focused strategy sets us apart. We work across key sectors like energy and infrastructure, financial institutions, life sciences and healthcare, technology, transport, and consumer markets. Many of our lawyers hold advanced degrees in their sector's technical fields, which helps us understand what our clients actually do - not just their legal needs. We're one of the few firms to have worked on major projects in almost every country in the world, and we're known for handling large, complex transactions that span multiple jurisdictions.

In 2016, AiFi's founders recognized a critical gap in how businesses understand their physical spaces. Traditional analytics relied on point-in-time audits, fragmented signals, and guesswork - leaving retailers and venue operators with incomplete pictures of what was happening in their environments. Seeing an opportunity to bring the same clarity to the physical world that data provides to the digital realm, they built AiFi - a spatial intelligence platform that uses computer vision to create real-time, 3D digital twins of any space. Today, AiFi has grown into the world's largest spatial intelligence platform, deployed across 16 countries with a team of 100+ employees representing 22 nationalities. Their camera-only technology enables autonomous shopping experiences, eliminates checkout lines, and provides continuous insights into occupancy, dwell times, journey paths, and conversion rates. By making the physical world as searchable and observable as the digital one, AiFi empowers major clients like ALDI, LA Clippers, Golden State Warriors, and Compass Group to unlock 24/7 operations, reduce fraud, and create seamless customer experiences - all while maintaining privacy by design with GDPR and CCPA compliance.

Influur was born out of a critical gap in the creator economy. When co-founder Alessandra Angelini worked at CNN, she discovered that brands struggled to connect with influencers - influencers were overwhelmed with thousands of messages across platforms and simply couldn't keep up. Together with her co-founders, Angelini envisioned a platform that would revolutionize influencer marketing the way Google AdSense transformed advertising, creating a seamless bridge between corporate brands and the creator world. Today, Influur stands as the first two-sided marketplace purpose-built for the creator economy, backed by $10 million in Series A funding from Point72 Ventures and HTwenty Capital. The platform hosts over 30,000 verified influencers and 5,000 brands across 11 countries, offering cutting-edge AI tools that help brands predict campaign performance and ensure creators get paid on time. Unlike platforms that scrape web data, Influur maintains a verified community where influencers typically respond within 24 hours. The company's innovative financial tools include an escrow-based payment system and instant payouts, positioning Influur to become the financial backbone for creators worldwide. With offices spanning Miami, San Francisco, Mexico, and Argentina, Influur continues to scale rapidly, serving major clients like Meta, Warner Music Group, Paramount, and Netflix while redefining how brands and creators collaborate in the digital age.