2019

Falling Walls Lab First Edition Delft

80+event attendees

6high-caliber jury members

13groundbreaking ideas

1winner flying to berlin

The event

On September 18th, 2019, the first edition of Falling Walls Lab Delft gave the chance to 13 young innovators to explain their groundbreaking ideas in 3 min. A multi-disciplinary jury had the hard job to select one winner to send to Berlin, to present once again in front of hundreds of people the most impactful idea.

Our Lab winner, Rushabh Chheda, presented in Berlin and won the third position, having the opportunity to pitch once again the 9th of November during the main conference, in front of people like the ministry of the education of Germany, the President of ERC or the director of the Nobel Foundation’s Board of Directors.

The winners

Rushabh Chheda

1st prize

Breaking the Wall of plastic pollution and affordable housing

Nima Salami

2nd prize

Breaking the Wall of Outdated E-Health

Else de Ridder

2nd prize

Breaking the Wall of sustainable healthcare

Petra Salaric

3rd prize

Breaking the Wall of stigmas and taboos

The jury

Marc Kalf

Health Valley

Innovation manager at Health Valley and advisor at accelerators like YES!Delft. Our specialist in health.

Bart Ahsmann

CLICKNL

As the Managing Director of CLICKNL and frequent advisor to the government, Bart was focusing on the design side of the pitches.

Laura de Troia

SouthEataly

From SouthEataly, Laura is a specialist in administration, supplier, and social media management. Commerce and marketing are her forte.

Francesca Grazian

TU Delft

Francesca is a Ph.D. researcher at TU Delft in power electronics. She was our expert in the engineering behind the solutions.

Anouk de Ruiter

TEDx Delft

A TEDx Licensee and Project Manager, Anouk was our in-house expert in both pitching and visionary ideas.

Tino Mager

TU Delft

Participants

Saket Mostafa

Breaking the Wall of Universal Values

Nathan Kramer

Breaking the Wall of Architecture and AI

Nima Salami

Breaking the Wall of Outdated E-Health