Cartier is bringing its 18 finalists to INSEAD campus in Singapore to award the laureates for its annual Cartier Women's Initiative Awards 2018.

Celebrating the excellent women from around the world and providing a platform for them to rise above the occasion, the Cartier Women&#39;s Initiative Awards&nbsp;is back for 2018 and has just announced its 18 finalists for the year.

And this year, Cartier&nbsp;saw over 2,800 candidates, where 18 were shortlisted to take part in the final awards ceremony and among them are a few first timers from&nbsp;Austria, Cameroon and Pakistan.

An initiative created to&nbsp;support&nbsp;women entrepreneurs and creative excellence around the world, the Cartier Initiative Awards is back in Singapore for the second consecutive year to host a week-long&nbsp;program&nbsp;for the finalists at INSEAD&nbsp;Business School and McKinsey &amp; Company&#39;s Singapore campus.

And this year, Cartier partners with TED to host a&nbsp;specially curated TED session for guests and finalists alike to further empower and enrich the community.

The TED session will feature &quot;a series&nbsp;of live conversations between women entrepreneurs and thought leaders about making concrete contributions towards effective and affordable solutions to today&rsquo;s most pressing challenges, for future generations&quot;.

Speakers include Byrn Freedman (TED Institute), Matilda Ho (Bits and Bites), Meagan Fallone (Barefoot College), Saadia Zahidi (World Economic Forum) and more.

What's in the 2018 edition?

And of course, after the week-long programs for the finalists, Cartier will host the official awards ceremony on 26th April 2018 at The Capella, Singapore.

This is where Cartier will select 6 of the candidates as the laureates of 2018, where each will be awarded&nbsp;US$ 100,000 in prize money to fund their project and one-to-one personalised business mentoring.

As for the other 12 candidates, they will not go home empty-handed as Cartier will also grant them&nbsp;US$ 30,000 for their efforts.

From&nbsp;ensuring safe and dignified sanitation everywhere to&nbsp;improving healthcare and social care systems and optimizing the use of technology towards better education and professional opportunities for worldwide youth, the women chosen by Cartier all have a worthy&nbsp;cause to fight for and we applaud every single one of them.

And now, let us meet the 2018 candidates and see what they stand behind.

The Awards Ceremony at The Capella, Singapore

Meet the 2018 candidates

Audrey Cheng (Moringa School, Kenya) wants to empower the next IT generation with a multi-disciplinary coding school committed to providing young Africans with digital and professional skills training.

Kristina Tsvetanova (BLITAB Technology, Austria) wants to create a tactile tablet for the blind and visually impaired.

Siroun Shamigian (Kamkalima, Lebanon) founded an online platform that uses smart technology and data analytics to help with learning and teaching Arabic.

Neide Sellin (Vixsystem, Brazil) wants to develop a robotic guide dog for the blind and visually impaired.

Diana YOusef (change:WATER Labs, USA) aims to provide Portable evaporative toilets requiring no electricity or plumbing.

Paula Gomez (Epistemic, Brazil) on creating a device that alerts patients and caregivers of an oncoming epileptic seizure, up to 25 min in advance.

Swati Pandey (Arboreal Agro Innovations, India) wants to be an industrial scale, vertically-integrated producer of stevia, a 100% natural substitute for sugar.

Kristin Kagetsu (Saathi, India) wants to create change with 100% all-natural sanitary pads offering positive impacts on health, the environment and society.

Hanan Khader (Hello World Kids, Jordan) wants an online learning platform that teaches computer programming to children and adolescents.

Melissa Bime (Infiuss, Cameroon) created an online blood bank that collects and dispatches blood donations to hospitals.

Luz Rello (change Dyslexia, Spain) wants to develop an online screening and learning platform that detects and treats dyslexia.

Paloma Farais (La Fábrica Alegre, Chile) wants Affordable, open-source sensor solutions that can be adapted to meet the needs of developing countries.

Evelyn Namara (Vouch Digital, Uganda) wants to provide digital vouchers, changing the way government and aid organisation cash transfers are distributed.

Yiding Yu (Twiage, USA) wants to save lives with a digital platform that enables the transmission of real-time data from ambulance to hospital.

Noha Khater (Almouneer Medical Services, Egypt) is committed to create change with a network of fully digital eye care centers that prevent blindness caused by diabetes.

Sara Saeed (Sehat Kakani, Pakistan) aims to provide a tele-health platform that aims to democratise health care access by connecting at-home, out of work female doctors to underserved patients in Pakistan.

Julia Romer (Coolar, Germany) wants to design a solar-powered, off-the-grid refrigerator for the reliable storage of vaccines.

Erin Keaney (Nonspec, USA) wants to provide affordable and adjustable prosthetic limb kits for amputees.

The Cartier Women&#39;s Initiative Awards 2018 will take place at The Capella, Singapore on 26th April 2018. Follow the progress on our Instagram <a href="http://instagram.com/lofficielmalaysia">@lofficielmalaysia</a>.

Discover more at <a href="http://cartierwomensinitiative.com">www.cartierwomensinitiative.com</a>.

Meet the 18 finalists of Cartier Women's Initiative Awards 2018

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