ABOUT

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Julia Daviy is an inventor, serial founder, systems builder, and author whose work spans renewable energy, advanced manufacturing, environmental economics, and human inventiveness.

She began working full-time in media at eighteen while pursuing full-time university studies. Her television career included work at Inter, a leading Ukrainian national television channel, as an economic reporter, editor, host, and author and project lead of a business analysis program. In 2007, she received top-three recognition in PressZvanie’s award for best economic journalist on Ukrainian television. While still working in television, she began co-founding social enterprises.

She subsequently co-founded and led Ibcentre, an engineering company whose nearly two decades of work helped shape renewable energy markets, industry platforms, policy mechanisms, and international networks across Ukraine, Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Alongside Ibcentre, she co-founded startups and initiatives, including the Institute of Green Economics of Ukraine, advised businesses, and consulted governmental organizations.

Her work in advanced manufacturing pioneered applications of large-scale 3D printing and digitally manufactured products, earning recognition including a Guinness World Record and a Gold Edison Award.

Daviy holds an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas. As founder and president of the Sustainable Innovation Council and author of the forthcoming Imagine Next: Inventing Beyond the Goals We Inherited, she develops methods for human inventiveness and frameworks connecting innovation, capital, policy, and Earth’s living systems. Julia Daviy also serves as an advisor and mentor at Berkeley SkyDeck and as a Venture Partner at Network VC. During her time at Berkeley Haas, she co-founded and served as Founding Co-President of Female Founders and Funders of Berkeley, also known as Berkeley Female (Femme) Founders and Funders.