Hey Everyone, I’m Avanti!

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 Avanti's vision - Gen Z would meet the challenge of NetZero 2050 goal and emerge as a 'Superhero Generation'. Her mission is to empower 1 million youth by 2035 to take on the challenge. 

Impact-Driven Initiatives 

• SDG 4 - Quality Education

Codeutainment™  - a revolutionary concept launched in 2019 to combine Coding, Science, and Technology and present it in a fun, engaging manner in the movie hall, to inspire the youth to take up STEM subjects.

Aftermovie Edition 3, Trailer Edition 3, Global Launch Edition 2,  Trailer Edition 1, Audience Feedback Edition 1.

Delivered Keynote Speech at Deloitte Belgium ESTEAM Fest infront of all-girls audience aged 7-14 years and ran all-girls workshop for 50 7-14 year olds in European School Brussels IV, May 2022 

• SDG 5 - Gender Equality

Launched cybersecurity intiatives to keep youth safe online. Girls are the most targeted victims of online impersonation attacks, cat-fishing, and harassement.

Studified - A software process to verify student identities on social media. Works to prevent adult impersonators from targeting teens. Won 'honorable' prize, the only prize awarded to International Delegates at the Largest Science Expo Portugal, May 2023

R-U-SURE - a software plug-in to help teens make more informed decisions online, whilst attempting to access dangerous websites eg. Chatrooms. Listing possible threats of site usage and real-life cases. Acts as a friendly guiding voice confirming with the teen “Are you sure?” allowing them to reflect on their decision before making a spontaneous action. 

The project was presented to Luxembourg's Minister of Research and Education Stéphanie Obertin, who showed interest in the software.

Inspiring Leaders to get involved

• TEDx HU Berlin, February 2020 - How an iGen would implement the UN's Sustainable Development Goals
• Codemotion Milan, Closing Keynote, October 2023 - How the SDGs can learn from the journey of technology 
• Nexus 2050 Keynote, June 2024 - Luxembourg Edition: How the SDGs can learn from the journey of technology
• ICT Spring Keynote, October 2021 - Post-Pandemic Edition: How an iGen would implement the Sustainable Development Goals 
• Addressed Deloitte's 10th Horizon conference, September 2021 as the youngest keynote speaker on Technology, Innovation, and Sustainability

 Creating Awareness in Youth - SDG-focused hackathons 

• Partnered with Orange to introduce pre-teens to coding with Scratch. Thereafter, conducted a hackathon where the teams must make a project showcasing their ideas to solve one of the SDG Goals.

The hackathon was judged by CEO of Orange Luxembourg, Corrine Lozé, and held at Orange headquarters.

• In Workshop4Me sessions, we run a SDG hackathon at the end of the academic year, 2023, with our students. Students have three weeks to individually develop a project focusing on one SDG goal. Projects are pitched, to develop entrepreneurship skills.

• Won the 'honorable prize', the only prize awarded to International Delegates, and a sum of 500€  at the Largest Science Exhibition in Portugal representing Luxembourg with her project Studified™ . Avanti presented her project under the 'Engineering Technology' category. June 3 2023
• Won the opportunity of presenting her project Studified™ at the National Science Exhibition Portugal 2023, as a young scientist in Jonk Fuerscher 2023
• Invited to Esch 2022 Mars Exposition as a 'young scientist', published in Phase 1 № 23, October 8 2022
• Named 'Top Fifty Women in Belgian Tech' by InspiringFifty, October 6, 2022
• Selected as a Finalist for the WomenInTech Europe Awards, September 20 2022

• In March 2018, had been nominated for the Technology Playmaker award 'Rising Star of the Year' category. Avanti was invited to the inaugural ceremony at the Museum of London hosted on International Women's Day with a gala dinner with 100 women leaders in technology. Avanti was felicitated by Gilian Tans, President and CEO Booking.com. Randi Zuckerberg, CEO of Zuckerberg Media mentioned Avanti in her speech and spent time talking about a possible collaboration in her DOT Complicated project aimed towards encouraging teenage girls to take up coding. Soon after, she invited Avanti on her Business Radio show Dot Complicated. Recording: Radio Recap.
• Efforts were formally recognised by KPMG after Avanti co-hosted a 5-day session for EUCodeWeek at KPMG Luxembourg, October 2018 and introduced 70 KPMG employees to HTML and CSS along with my brother, Atreyam (Leo). Also, conducted coding workshop for KPMG Employee kids.
• In April 2017, along with the Luxembourg team, Avanti participated in the Technovation Challenge. The team coded a mobile app One-Click Safety App and also wrote a business plan for it.

• Master of Ceremony alongside Atreyam (Leo) Sharma during the opening ceremony of Nexus Luxembourg 2025. Invited HRH The Crown Prince to the stage, and Ministers and Dignitaries of Luxembourg.
• Conducted a Fireside chat with Prime Minister Frieden (Luxembourg) and Arthur Mensch, co-founder and CEO of MistralAI during the opening ceremony. A strategic partnership between Luxembourg and MistralAI was announced on stage, to the audience.
• Conducted a fireside chat with Dr. James Peng, CEO of Pony.ai during the opening ceremony.
• Conducted a fireside chat on Digital Product Passports with Rien van den Bosch, Business Strategist at GS1 Benelux, and Jérôme Dierickx, CEO of TerraMatters, June 18 2025 
• Delivered keynote on 'AI Singularity - a doomsday or a supernova' on Main Stage B during Nexus Luxembourg 2025.
• Master of Ceremony during the closing ceremony of Nexus Luxembourg 2025 alongside Atreyam (Leo) Sharma.
• Conducted a fireside chat on graphene nanotubes with Konstantin Notman, CEO of OCSiAl during the closing ceremony.
• Master of Ceremony during the exclusive Closing Seated Dinner. Recognized on stage by Mike Koedinger, founder and CEO of Maison Moderne, and co-founder of Nexus during his address with Kamel Amroune, co-founder of Nexus and Founder and CEO of The Dots.

• Master of Ceremony at Codeutainment™ Edition 3, Workshop4Me's signature event, December 21 2024
• Panelist on the European Commission's Digital Skills and Jobs Platform 'Digital Skills Talk' Series, November 13 2024
• Master of Ceremony at the House of Startups Garden Party 2024. Invited Minister of Finance, Gilles Roth to the stage, October 3 2024
• Presented the Aspiring Teen Award at the Women in Tech Europe Awards 2024, held in Chateau Sainte-Anne, Brussels. Honored by Ayumi Moore Aoki, who gave such a gracious introduction going back to 2018 at the Women in Tech Global Awards Lisbon. Ayumi decorated Avanti with her own Women in Tech lapel pin and played birthday music when inviting to the stage, October 1 2024 
• Delivered address at the Women in Tech Luxembourg launch event, September 12 2024
• Presented at the UBS Women & Allies event, July 1 2024

• Presented "My dream" at the inauguration of the Women in Tech Global Summit 2024. Panelist on the youth panel, May 5-7 2024
• Master of Ceremony alongside Atreyam (Leo) Sharma at TN'Teens 2024, an event by The Dots Luxembourg, March 28 2025 
• Panelist at PwC Luxembourg's International Women's Day event, in collaboration with AMCHAM Luxembourg and BakerMcKenzie. Shared views alongside Marjolijne Droogleever Fortuyn, Head of Legal Affairs at BNP Paribas, Analia Clouet, Secretary General at Banque Raiffeisen and Ian Fish, Upper School Principal at International School of Luxembourg moderated by Mary Carey, Editorial Lead at PwC Luxembourg, March 8 2024
• First-ever and only speaker from Luxembourg at Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona. Panelist in "How can we Empowever the Vulnerable in a Digital Environment?" moderated by Jacky Wright, CTO and Senior Partner at McKinsey. Moderator in "Never Too Young to Lead" Panel with Gil Rosen CMO of Amdocs, Biju Nair EVP of Assurant's Global Connected Living Business Unit, and Anne-Flore Agard  VP and Head of T&M Europe at Capgemini, February 26-28 2024

• Presented her vision at ETGBS, youngest speaker on the Circular Economy Panel, on February 18, 2023
• Delivered Keynote Speech as Brand Ambassador of GirlsInTech Luxembourg at Launch event, on June 21, 2022
• Delivered Keynote Speech at Deloitte Belgium ESTEAM Fest, 
• Master of the ceremony at the TN Teens event on Mar 31, 2022
• Youngest speaker on the panel at European Commission's Digital Education Stakeholder Forum, on March 22, 2022
• Addressed the International Women's Day Summit, by LOGY Talks, on Mar 8, 2022, and presented challenges and solutions for getting more girls in tech 
• Selected as a young scientist to address Esch-2022 Mars conference and presented 'Setting up VR + AR centers to prepare for travel to Mars and living there' on Dec 13, 2021

• Addressed TEDxHUBerlin: How an iGen would implement UN's Sustainable Development Goals, on Feb 22, 2020 as the youngest speaker
• Addressed Fireside : Challenging STEM Education Models at EdTechX Europe on Jun 18, 2019 as the youngest ever speaker. Shared her thoughts on how the education system needs to be able to cater to the iGens
• Addressed Disrupt X Session at Global Business Summit on Feb 22, 2019 in New Delhi as the youngest ever speaker. Shared her thoughts on the changes which are needed to make technology more accessible to bring about social change especially empowering girls in Coding and STEM skills.

• Along with my brother, Atreyam (Leo), delivered pre-teen and teen view through our story at the Hub Dot 5th Anniversary event in London on Feb 9, 2018.
• Delivered a talk on the subject of Entrepreneurship at Hub Dot event in Luxembourg on Nov 17, 2017 hosted by Ernst & Young.
• Addressed the Scratch Conference in Budapest, Hungary in August 2017 in the presence of the founder-cum-MIT Prof. Mitchel Resnick at Learning Research cell at the MIT Media Lab, where Mitchel leads the Lifelong Kindergarten research group. Available online: Photos of the event, my talk and the Scratch conference video

• Interview on Paperjam Next (Social Media), June 18 2025 
• Featured in the inaugural edition of W Magazine by The Dots (pg 38), recognized among 18 women, June 12 2025
• Invited as one of 25 influential minds to look forward and share a vision on Luxembourg 2050. The magazine marked Paperjam's 25th anniversary. Pg 84-86, May 21 2025 
• Silicon Luxembourg Article: 'From Scratch To Cyber Security: How Avanti Sharma Is Shaping The Future', May 21 2025 
• Les Sutras (Luxembourg-based fashion company) post and reel highlighting Avanti's article on Forbes magazine, April 28, May 2 2025
• Forbes Perspectives, on "The Next Generation of Change: From Green Rides to Young Leaders", April 28 2025  
• Featured on Forbes Luxembourg website, article titled "How Avanti Sharma Is Shaping The Future", April 25 2025
• Featured in Forbes Luxembourg 5th Magazine Release. The Magazine celebrated the first anniversary of Forbes Luxembourg and became the first all-English edition.
  During the release party, Avanti spent enriching moments with CEO Charles-Louis Machuron and COO Pierre-Yves Lanneau Saint Léger, April 3 2025 
• Introduced MOMENTUM 2025 Sustainability Conference by Deloitte in the Forbes aftermovie, April 3 2025 
• Featured in Top 100 under 40 in Paperjam's #NextGen edition. This edition was printed and mailed to every mailbox in Luxembourg.

• Article about MWC 2024 on Luxembourg Government Website with Elisabeth Margue, Minister of Connectivity, February 27 2024
• Interview about MWC Barcelona 2024 published on Digital Innovation Luxembourg a branch of the Gouvernement de Luxembourg, Februrary 2024 
• Article on My Connectivity Luxembourg about MWC 2024 with links to both the panel discussions Avanti took part in, Feburary 2024 
• PwC Luxembourg Article about panelist at International Women's Day event, March 8 2024
• Techsense Article about DisruptAI Conference, December 2023
• Silicon Luxembourg Article about winning the Women In Tech Europe Awards under the 'Aspiring Teen Category'.
• Graffiti Interview at Radio Ara about her project Studified™ and upcoming participation in the Luxembourg International Science Expo (LISE) 2023

• Podcast at the Europe Code week about the importance of starting to code early on, Feb 1, 2022 
• Podcast on Coder's mindset for Unbinary Life, December 20, 2021 
• Interviewed at EU Code week Kick off event on Oct 7th, 2021
• Gave an interview for Italian magazine after being youngest speaker at Campus Italia technology conference in Milan in July 2018 on the subject of making technology more accessible to children.
• Maker Magazine of December 2018
• Journal.lu French newspaper of 27th November 2018
• Le’ essential of 24th March 2019
• Randi Zuckerberg, CEO of Zuckerberg Media interviewed me on a Business Radio show Dot Complicated aimed towards encouraging teenage girls to take up coding Recording: Radio Recap. 2018
• Nash Squared Podcast, April 18th 2018

• Ran the Lëtz Get More Girls in Digital Workshop by the European Commission x Workshop4Me where Minister Yuriko Backes and Minister Elisabeth Margue inaugurated the event, after Anne Calteux mentioned Avanti as a role model for young girls. Minister Yuriko Backes mentioned Avanti in her address. Avanti interacted with Minister Elisabeth Margue, June 25 2024
• Facilitated a workshop on App Development led by Atreyam (Leo) Sharma at TN'Teens Edition 3, March 28 2024
• Ran an SDG Hackathon Workshop at Orange Luxembourg Headquarters, and interacted with the CEO of Orange Luxembourg, Corinne Lozé, October 19 2023

• Mentored 2 teams for the eSTEAM challenge, June 25 & 26 2022
• Won 3rd Place at Luxembourg Youth Robotics Competition (LYRC) as part of Team Ro-bert CodeClub, June 25 & 26 2022
• Facilitated coding workshop during D'Yep Shoulfoire, May 5 2022
• Ran all-girls workshop for Deloitte Belgium as a part of ESTEAM Fest in European School Brussels IV, May 20 2022
• Was youngest Coach facilitating the Moonhack event of Code Club Australia to create world record, as part of Code Club Luxembourg on May 30, 2020.
• Facilitated coding workshop during Makerfest in June 2018 in Luxembourg and was featured in the summary video.
•  During the Women and Girls in Science conference in London on 10-11 Feb 2018 at Microsoft Accelerator, I ran a Creative Computing workshop to inspire young girls to code.
• Hour of Code event at Microsoft Luxembourg aimed for 6-13 year old children, in December 2017.