David Lais

Co-founder at Ecolotiq

Speaker

David Lais is a social entrepreneur and the founder of several innovative start-ups in the area of payments. He started his first company at the age of 16 and by pure chance entered the payments industry. In 2015, a life-changing event sparked his decision to act on climate change on a larger socioeconomic scale. He decided to orient his focus and knowledge to the purpose of sustainable and socially impactful technology. In the ensuing months, he launched the non-for profit Organization for Sustainable Consumption (OfnK) and co-founded ecolytiq, leveraging publicly available and payments data to enable sustainable banking.
David strongly believes in the urgency of consumer awareness and action on environmental impact, so as to reduce peoples’ environmental footprints in the long term. To David, technology is not a means to an end, but when used correctly, it is an indispensable tool. “We need to use the large pool of existing data for positive societal change, and not just for maximizing profit.”