Illac Diaz is a social entrepreneur working to empower communities in the Philippines and around the world through several pioneering programs in rammed earth, bamboo, and PET plastic bottle construction.

Illac’s latest venture, Liter of Light (Isang Litrong Liwanag), is the world’s first grassroots green lighting program bringing low-cost, zero-carbon solar bottle bulbs to underprivileged communities worldwide. By empowering local entrepreneurs and marginalized groups like prison detainees and trash pickers, this initiative shows how simple solutions powered by human hands bring the green revolution to the bottom 99%. Since 2013, Liter of Light has empowered the lives of over one million people a year across 32 countries. Each of these hand-built solar lights reduces carbon emissions by 1000 kg and allows each of us to have a stake in creating a cleaner, greener future.

Nanette Medved-Po is an award-winning film actress, TV host, model, philanthropist and businessperson in the Philippines. She is the founder of Generation Hope Inc. and Friends of Hope Inc. which produces both company branded and co-brand consumer goods. 100% of profits from the "Hope" line of products are devoted to improving both the public school education space as well as smallholder farmer productivity through its agriculture interventions. Nanette is also the founder of the Plastic Credit Exchange, Inc. (HOPEx), a non-profit entity that offers businesses and consumers an easy and responsible way to be accountable for plastic.
Nanette graduated with degrees in Finance and Entrepreneurship as Summa Cum Laude from Babson College in Wesley, Massachussetts in 1998. In 2012, she was invited to join the World Wildlife Fund Philippines National Advisory Council where she currently serves on its Board of Trustees. In July 2019, Nanette was also welcomed by Winrock International to be a part of their Board of Directors in Arlington, Virginia.

In 2017, she was recognized as one of Forbes’ Heroes of Philanthropy. In that same year, HOPE won the grand prize in the Developmental Social Enterprise Awards by Price Waterhouse Coopers Philippines. HOPE was also awarded as the 2015 Best New Brand and Best Community Initiative by the Global Bottled Water Awards in Lisbon,Portugal. Recently, she received the NGO Leadership Award and Social Innovation Leadership Award from the Philippines Leadership Awards.