Liané Thompson
CEO at Aquaai Corporation
About this speaker
Liané's philosophy is to invent with positive intent. She desires to be involved with projects that better the planet. She encourages others to keep growing, to be kind and to be real.
Currently protecting marine and fresh waterways via her startup AquaAI, Liané and her team offer affordable high quality, environmental data on the web harnessed using their patented fishlike robots.
She has won many awards including:
20 Women Driving the Future of ClimateTech 2021
30 Women in Robotics You Need to Know About in 2021
50 Most Powerful Women in Technology to follow in 2023
2022 NEOM Accelerator selected
2022 Top Tier Impact Award (finalist)
2022 Verizon's Climate Resilience Prize (finalist)
2021 Ocean Impact PitchFest (finalist)
2021 Hardware Cup Clean Tech (semifinalist)
2020 Creative Destruction Lab graduate
2020 EC Seal of Excellence for Impact, Quality and Efficiency
2020 SOA completion
2019 Top Innovation Award Winner - Fish2.0 Stanford Global Forum
Liané realized her childhood dream to report globally for The New York Times, and has won three Prime Time Emmy nominations. She has extensively worked and lived in the US, EEA, MENA, LATAM
She is fearless, serious but with a sense of humor, and has a bit of wunderlust, and Mensch