Ideas Remaking the World
IWF’s innovators, instigators and disruptors take on today’s problems with creative solutions
Showcasing global solutions
From members around the world
Ideas Remaking the World showcases compelling concepts, remarkable business propositions, and transformational technologies from IWF’s own innovators, instigators and disruptors. These remarkable women are meeting today’s problems with innovative solutions that are building a better world and better lives.
The ideas must address a critical global issue and/or have the potential to provide an important solution for a significant population. It must also be scalable and measurable.
Groundbreaking Ideas for Today and Tomorrow
NANCY HUGHES
IWF Idaho and IWF Oregon
IWF Idaho and IWF Oregon
Idea: Safe Cook Stoves
ILYA MAROTTA
IWF Panama
IWF Panama
Idea: Re-engineering the Panama Canal
Innovation on the Global Stage
Our Ideas Remaking the World are as diverse and unique as our members themselves. Below find a sample of the innovative ideas presented at our recent conferences.
Plastics Pollution
Mirei Endara de Heras
- Former Panamanian Minister of the Environment; Co-Founder and Executive Board Member of Asociacion Marea Verde Panama
- IWF Panama
- 2023
Rural Justice
Maribel Concepcion Mendez de Lara
- Chief Justice of Mexico’s Superior Agrarian Court
- IWF Mexico
- 2023
Healing from Trauma
Beth Hedva
- Co-Chair and Director of Training and Counselling for the Canadian Institute of Transpersonal and Integrative Sciences
- IWF Canada
- 2023
Police and Community
Carmen Best
- Former Chief of Police — Seattle
- IWF Washington State
- 2022
Big Data and Women
Shari Graydon
- Founder and Catalyst — Informed Opinions
- IWF Canada
- 2022
Mobile Literacy
Nanette Archer Svenson
- Executive Director — Centro de Investigación Educativa de Panamá (CIEDU)
- IWF Panama
- 2021
Remaking Culture
Marina Salandy-Brown
- Vice President, Managing Director, Founder — The Bocas Lit Fest
- IWF Trinidad & Tobago
- 2021
Digital Revolution
Jensine Larsen
- Founder and CEO — World Pulse
- IWF Oregon
- 2021
Future-ready Leaders
Shimi Kang
- Psychiatrist, Author, Researcher, Speaker
- IWF Vancouver
- 2020
Women and Science
Geraldine Richmond
- Under Secretary for Science & Innovation — U.S. Dept. of Energy
- IWF Oregon
- 2020
Roots of Peace
Heidi Kuhn
- Founder & CEO — Roots of Peace
- IWF NorCal
- 2020
Transforming Women Leaders
Patricia Foley Hinnen
- Founder and CEO of Capital Sisters International
- IWF Colorado
- 2019
Safe Cook Stoves
Nancy Hughes
- Founder — StoveTeam International
- IWF Idaho and IWF Oregon
- 2018
Clothing Manufacturing
Janice Wang
- CEO — Alvanon
- IWF Hong Kong
- 2018
Feminine Hygiene and Rights
Rochelle Courtenay
- Founder — Share the Dignity
- IWF Australia
- 2018
Art as Activism
Carole Feuerman
- President — The Second LSC Ltd., Feuerman-Cohen LLC
- Women’s Forum New York
- 2017
The Panama Canal
Ilya Marotta
- Deputy Administrator — Autoridad del Canal de Panamá
- IWF Panama
- 2017
Homelessness
Lia Grimanis
- Founder — Up with Women
- IWF Canada
- 2017
Mindfulness
Ellen Langer
- Professor of Psychology — Harvard University
- Massachusetts Women’s Forum
- 2016
Disability Awareness
Susan Sygall
- CEO and Co-Founder — Mobility International USA
- IWF Oregon
- 2016
Green Engineering
Vivian Manasc
- Principal — Manasc Isaac Architects
- IWF Canada
- 2016
