Charly Karamanian
Consultant and Public Speaker in Buenos Aires, Argentina
🦋 Innovability 💡 Open Innovation 🚀 Exponential Technologies
Creative problem solver, business hacker, serial entrepreneur and speaker. I excel in leading and mentoring of individuals and multidisciplinary teams. Finding simple solutions to complex challenges is my drive in life.
Passionate about solving the global grand challenges: Energy, environment, food, shelter, transportation, space, water, disaster resilience, governance, health, learning, prosperity & security.
I developed and live with my family in La Casa G; a real estate venture which promotes innovation, renewable energy and sustainable lifestyle. Winner of “Premios Latinoamérica Verde”, the “Oscars” for sustainability in Latin America and first home in Argentina to "mine" SolarCoin (SLR), the cryptocurrency that promotes solar energy.
Co-founder of CINNID Innovation Partners, a global innovation consulting company focused on sustainable development. Winners at the biggest open innovation challenge in history, the NASA Space Poop Challenge, with 20.000 participants from 130 countries; we developed a spacesuit enhancement for the astronauts going to Mars. Winners at NASA USSOCOM CubeSat Challenge; we created an AR solution to support humanitarian and rescue missions. Winners at Enel X Innovative services for citizens and/or municipalities using smart light poles. Winners at UNSDSN Coastal Design Challenge, a real estate development in Bali under United Nation's 17 SDGs. Winners at Volkswagen Improving the Connected Vehicle Experience Challenge. Our designs are inspired by nature.
I believe a better world is possible and that everyone has the potential to change his reality. We are just a drop in the vast ocean; yet what is the ocean, but a multitude of water drops?.