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Paolo Prijanian says his experience as a refugee prepared him for a career as a leading computer scientist and AI entrepreneur. As a child he fled Iran, but encountered racism and found it difficult to fit in as he tried to make a new life in Denmark. Then a chance to get his own computer and to write code set him on a path to develop robots. First to explore distant planets for NASA, and later he developed personalised robots to help vulnerable children make sense of the world.

Ska Moteane is an award-winning cookery writer and chef. She鈥檚 the only person to have ever written a cookbook on the cuisine of Lesotho. Her mission to write down the recipes of her own culture came after studying cooking in South Africa where she found traditional food was completely absent from the curriculum.

(Photo: Paolo Prijanian demonstrating one of his early inventions. Credit: Paolo Prijanian)