Biography

Systems Architect | Founder, Sustainable Innovation Council | Author of Imagine Next | Early-Stage Investor | 

Julia Daviy is a systems architect, inventor, and civilization strategist designing frameworks for planetary-scale innovation, intelligence, and governance.
Her work bridges advanced technology, ecological design, and economic systems to prototype what she calls Symbiotic Civilization — a new paradigm of planetary coherence and systemic regeneration.

She is the Founder and Chair of the Sustainable Innovation Council, a global platform connecting climate and deep tech innovators with aligned investors, and the creator of the Imagine Next Challenge — a global initiative and forthcoming book based on her 365-day innovation experiment, Imagine Next: Atlas of 365 Innovation Concepts for a Regenerative World.

Career & Legacy

Before establishing the Sustainable Innovation Council, Julia built a pioneering track record across renewable energy, advanced manufacturing, and distributed production systems.

She co-founded Ibcentre, the leading gateway for renewable energy and cleantech markets across Eastern Europe, which helped open the region’s solar energy sector to private households and facilitated billions in clean energy investments.

At the early stage of Ukraine’s solar market formation, she co-initiated access to the energy market for households, enabling citizens to sell surplus solar electricity for the first time. Her leadership and strategic work helped liberate the renewable energy market from early monopolies, ensuring participation and benefit beyond a few major industrial-financial groups.
Through her efforts, energy decentralization and market inclusivity became cornerstones of Ukraine’s clean energy transition.

In 2012, Julia co-founded Compact Energy, one of the first manufacturers in Eastern Europe producing high-capacity portable solar chargers. Later, she became an internationally recognized innovator in sustainable digital manufacturing, pioneering the use of large-format 3D printing for wearable, sustainable clothing, fashion. Her collections — created on machines she co-engineered — earned multiple awards   and global exhibitions, from New York Fashion Week to the Boston Center for the Arts and FIDM Los Angeles, as well as inclusion in leading books on Industry 4.0 and fashion futures. She also earned a Guinness World Record for co-creating the world’s first 3D-printed flag made from flexible TPE — the first flag that behaved like textile and could weave naturally in the wind.

Her later venture, Imageneria, introduced the concept of digital zero-delivery — a distributed manufacturing platform enabling consumers to produce objects locally on demand, cutting carbon emissions by up to 90%. In 2021, NASDAQ named Imageneria among the revolutionary platforms of that time.

Academic & Ecosystem Roles

Julia holds an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas, a Master’s in International Economics (Finance and Diplomacy), and a BA in Environmental Science.
At Berkeley, she served as Vice President of the Haas Impact Fund and Berkeley Climate Solutions Fund, later joining Berkeley Ventures.

She is also an Advisor and Mentor at Berkeley SkyDeck, where she guides founders in climate tech and deep tech.

Julia is an Advisor and Mentor at Berkeley SkyDeck, where she guides founders in climate tech and sustainable innovation.
She co-founded Female Founders and Funders of Berkeley, recognized among the most impactful organizations created at Haas in the past decade, and the Ukrainian Club of Berkeley, the university’s first official organization dedicated to Ukraine.
She is also a Founding Member of the Ukrainian Valley, a Silicon Valley science and tech community uniting innovators, researchers, and investors of Ukrainian origin across leading universities, labs, corporations, and startups.

Julia began her career as an economic analyst, journalist, and television presenter.

She worked at Inter TV, the country’s leading national channel, and later served as a TV presenter and on-air analyst at the Ukrainian Business Channel, where she hosted and produced programs focused on markets and industries.
During this period, she was recognized among the Top 3 Economic Journalists on Ukrainian television by PressZvanie, a national professional ranking.

Her years in media honed her ability to translate complex systems into accessible narratives, a foundation that later shaped her approach to innovation, systemic design, and global communication.