About the conference
The fifth edition was held in 2024 with Banco Central do Brasil and focused on developing solutions for sustainable finance to support SDG.
The Central Bank of Brazil, under the G20 Presidency, and the BIS Innovation Hub, joint hosts of the G20 TechSprint 2024 competition, have announced the winners. The TechSprint hackathon seeks out best-in-class technological innovations aimed at common challenges and priorities of the global regulatory and central bank community.
This year's TechSprint, the fifth edition open to developers from around the world, focused on developing solutions for sustainable finance to support challenges related to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Three winners emerged from a shortlist of fifteen teams, one winner for each of the three problem statements, which focused on:
- stimulating the widespread adoption and scaling of nature-based solutions;
- enhancing environmental, social and governance (ESG) data reporting; and
- accelerating progress towards SDGs.
The three winners, chosen by an independent panel of experts and unveiled during a ceremony in Brazil.
Winners
Problem statements
Judges
Team Ekonavi, from Brazil, won the category for problem statement #1, on developing nature-based technological solutions that incentivise and attract sustainable and inclusive investments targeted at biodiversity and nature preservation. Their solution tokenises data from verified ecological restoration projects into investable assets, aligning with international ESG standards.
Team Tese, from Hong Kong and serving small and medium-sized enterprises in Africa, won the category for problem statement #2, on improving the quality, reliability and granularity of ESG data to facilitate due diligence, disclosure and management of ESG-associated risks and opportunities. They create ESG dashboards for small and medium-sized enterprises, streamlining reporting.
Team Kaleidofin, from India, won the category for problem statement #3 on developing open source solutions to support financial decisions and capital allocation aligned with SDG goals, including preserving biodiversity, climate change, clean energy, financial education and inclusion, and poverty alleviation. Their data-driven credit health assessment product enables financing for businesses via innovative debt structures and predictive risk models, lowering costs.
- Violet
- Netto
- Ekonavi
- Stellerus Technology Limited
- O.N.E. Amazon
- GreenFi AI
- Satva Trust
- Composite.ai
- Tese
- Clara
- Kaleidofin Private Limited
- Datavaran
- EnergyLab
- Perola
- Climate Finance AI
- Dr Samuel Tiriongo, Director, Research and Policy, Kenya Bankers Association
- Dr Ben Caldecott, Director, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group, and the Lombard Odier Associate Professor, University of Oxford; Member, UK Climate Change Committee
- Brad Punu, Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Green Climate Fund
- Maria Netto, Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Climate and Society (iCS)
- Morgan Doyle, General Manager, Country Department Southern Cone, Inter-American Development Bank
- Alvin Li, Head of Supervisory Technology Division, Banking Supervision Department, Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA)
- Marianne Haahr, Nature-related Finance Director, Global Canopy; Lead, Support on Specific Guidance, Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Dr Jakob Thomä, Co-Founder and CEO, Theia Finance Labs; Research Director, Inevitable Policy Response
- Eva Szalkai Csaky, Chief Executive Officer, Global Inclusive Economy Society
- Patrick Slovik, Director, Financial System Surveillance and Policy, Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates
- Irene Heemskerk, Head of the Climate Change Centre, European Central Bank
- Sue Lloyd, Vice-Chair, International Sustainability Standards Board
- Xiaochen Zhang, Chief Responsible AI Officer and Executive Director, AI 2030; CEO, FinTech4Good
- Caitlin Nash, National Steering Committee Member, South Africa Startup Act Movement
- Daniela Baccas, Head of Sustainable Planning Department, Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES)