Julia Daviy is an inventor, author, and Founder and President of the Sustainable Innovation Council. Her work focuses on inventiveness, planetary innovation, and how we move beyond inherited assumptions about what should be built, scaled, and called progress.
Her work spans systems thinking, climate and technology, with a particular focus on how new ideas move from invention into larger economic, ecological, and institutional systems.
She is the author of the forthcoming Imagine Next: The Atlas and Method of Planetary Innovation, developed from a multi-year practice of creating 365 original concepts and investigating how inventiveness can be strengthened deliberately. Her broader work explores new approaches to evaluating innovation and the conditions for a more regenerative, planet-aligned future.
Background
Julia's earlier work spans renewable energy, policy, entrepreneurship, and advanced manufacturing. She contributed to the development of distributed renewable-energy markets in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, built ventures and industry platforms in clean energy, and later worked on circular manufacturing and large-format 3D printing.
She currently serves as a Venture Partner at Network VC and is an Innovation Advisor at Berkeley SkyDeck. She holds an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.
Her work has received international recognition, including a Gold Edison Award.