Vivian Lan

Director of SingularityU Mexico Summit in Jalisco

Innovation for social good and the use of technology to help humanity are Vivian Lan’s biggest drives, who in addition to studying graphic design at CDMX, majoring in fine arts in New York and being a Montessori teacher, has always been involved in projects of social impact. As a social entrepreneur and consultant with experience in leadership, innovation and design, Vivian believes in tackling global grand challenges through creativity and collaboration; working together to change the world.

After several years of working with marginalized communities in Mexico, Israel and Kenya, in 2011 she launched a cost-free social media campaign to help the hunger in Africa caused by the drought, in which she raised $ 100,000 USD in 10 days, brought together 57 international volunteers and delivered 40 tons of food and medical care to 20,000 affected people.

In 2013, she attended Singularity University at NASA, where she studied the use of exponential technologies, to integrate them into humanitarian work and apply them to change the world. After graduating Vivian became the Singularity University ambassador in Mexico, in addition to being the Director of the Innovation Ecosystem of at the Presidency of the country and the Exponential Growth Director at ExO Works.

Now a day Vivian is an international speaker and she is the Director of SingularityU Mexico, driving progress through technology and innovation..

Dr. Kai-Fu Lee

Chairman and CEO, Sinovation Ventures / President, Sinovation Ventures Artificial Intelligence Institute

Dr. Kai-Fu Lee is the Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures (www.sinovationventures.com/) and President of Sinovation Venture’s Artificial Intelligence Institute. Sinovation Ventures, managing US$2.5 billion dual currency investment funds, is a leading venture capital firm focusing on developing the next generation of Chinese high-tech companies. Prior to founding Sinovation in 2009, Dr. Lee was the President of Google China, and senior executives at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. Dr. Lee received his Bachelor degree from Computer Science from Columbia University, Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as Honorary Doctorate Degrees from both Carnegie Mellon and the City University of Hong Kong. He is the Co-Chair of Artificial Intelligence Council for World Economic Forum Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Times 100 in 2013, WIRED 25 Icons, and followed by over 50 million audience on social media.

In the field of artificial intelligence, Dr. Lee built one of the first game playing programs to defeat a world champion (1988, Othello), as well as the world’s first large-vocabulary, speaker independent continuous speech recognition system. Dr. Lee founded Microsoft Research China, later renamed Microsoft Research Asia, which was named as the hottest research lab by MIT Technology Review. While with Apple, Dr. Lee led AI projects in speech and natural language, which have been featured on Good Morning America on ABC Television and the front page of Wall Street Journal. He has authored 10 U.S. patents, and more than 100 journal and conference papers. Altogether, Dr. Lee has been in artificial intelligence research, development, and investment for more than 30 years. His New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling book AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order (aisuperpowers.com) discusses US-China co-leadership in the age of AI as well as the greater societal impacts brought upon by the AI technology revolution. His new co-authored book AI 2041 published in fall 2021 explores how artificial intelligence will change our world over the next twenty years..

Maurice Conti

CEO at Applied Intelligence

Futurist, deep tech authority, innovation executive, advisor, and international keynote speaker, Maurice has helped NIKE, Tesla, Disney, Google, Airbus, the Navy SEALS, the Government of Japan, and many others, to understand what’s coming in the future, why it matters for them, and how to prepare for–and thrive in–our rapidly changing landscape. He is a rare blend of hands–on practitioner and big thinker. 

Maurice's work focuses on disruptive innovation, applied machine learning, advanced robotics, augmented and virtual realities, and the future of work, cities, mobility, and climate..

Elizabeth Parrish

CEO of BioViva

Elizabeth Parrish is the Founder and CEO of BioViva, a company committed to extending healthy lifespans using cell technologies. Liz is a humanitarian, entrepreneur, innovator, podcaster, and a leading voice for genetic cures. As a strong proponent of progress and education for the advancement of regenerative medicine modalities, she serves as a motivational speaker to the public at large for the life sciences. She is actively involved in international educational media outreach.

Misha Glenny

Award-winning journalist

Misha Glenny is an award-winning journalist who made a name for himself as the BBC’s Central Europe Correspondent covering the 1989 revolutions and the wars in the former Yugoslavia. He has a Sony Gold Award for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcasting and is also a winner of BT’s Information Security Journalist of The Year.

His book McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime and DarkMarket: How Hackers Became the New Mafia were shortlisted for several prizes, and McMafia has been adapted in a joint production between AMC (in the US) and the BBC into a major television series that has recently been commissioned for a second season.

His most recent book, Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio, is the biography of the former head of a major Brazilian cocaine cartel who Misha interviewed at length in prison. Nemesis is also in development as a television drama series.

Misha’s series Putin: Prisoner of Power was one of Audible’s best-selling politics podcasts in 2019 as was his 2020 follow up, The Rise of the Iron Men, looking at the surge in support for Trump, Johnson, Orban, Erdogan, Bolsonaro, Modi and Duterte.

Misha can speak on all aspects of organised crime, from money laundering to cyber malfeasance, people smuggling and the drugs trade. He has unique insights into how new technology is reshaping traditional organised crime in the narcotics, smuggling and sex trades. He also draws on his background in geopolitics to show how great power relations are driving insecurity in cyberspace, and why companies cannot rely on government to shore-up their vulnerabilities.

Misha is currently writing a new book, The Cobra Effect: A History of the Present, in which he will explain exactly why our present is so turbulent, looking back over the past century in which he has met and discussed the world with many of its key players.

He is also developing a major new drama series, Amazonia, which plays out against one of the biggest dramas of all – the deforestation of the Amazon.

Charlene Li

Author of The Disruption Mindset, Founder & Senior Fellow of Altimeter a company of the consulting firm Prophet

For the past two decades, Charlene Li has been helping people see the future. She’s an expert on digital transformation, leadership, customer experience, and the future of work. She’s the author of six books, including the New York Times bestseller, Open Leadership and co-author of the critically acclaimed book, Groundswell. Her latest book is the bestseller The Disruption Mindset. She is the Founder and Senior Fellow at Altimeter, a disruptive analyst firm acquired in 2015 by Prophet. Named one of the most creative people in business by Fast Company, Charlene is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School..

Drew Dudley

Founder & Chief Catalyst of Day One Leadership

Somewhere around the middle of his undergraduate education, Drew realized engaging with the world was a lot more fun than writing papers about it.

While still a student he became heavily involved in Canada’s largest post-secondary charitable initiative in support of Cystic Fibrosis Canada, eventually serving as the National Chair of the organization. As he moved into his career, he took on the challenge of creating and building the Leadership Development Program at the University of Toronto, which became the largest and most dynamic in the country.

It was those leadership students who changed the course of Drew’s professional life: they secretly organized a campaign to put him onstage at TEDxToronto 2010, where he delivered a talk that would go on to generate more than 5 million views around the web. A high-achieving lifestyle took its toll however: undiagnosed bipolar disorder set the foundation for binge eating and drinking, and Drew grew to over 300 pounds while struggling with the emotional challenges of a career that kept him on the road 250 days a year.

Drew credits the Day One process with saving his life— he began applying the process to improving his mental and physical health. Recognizing how many people were struggling silently with similar battles, Drew began infusing these experiences into his keynotes, hoping to remind people that their scars in no way stand in the way of their leadership.

In 2018, Drew shared both his story and the Day One process in his first book This is Day One: A Practical Guide to Leadership That Matters. Today, Drew continues to travel the world sharing the Day One process with organizations of all kinds—aiming to redefine leadership for as many people as possible.

Feggy Ostrosky

Professor and director of the Neuropsychology and Psychophysiology laboratory of the Faculty of Psychology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico

Estudió la Licenciatura en Psicología en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,  maestría y doctorado en  el Departamento de Trastornos de la Comunicación en la Universidad de Northwestern, Evanston, Illinois y  Doctorado en Biomedicina en la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Su área de interés es el estudio de la relación entre el cerebro y la conducta humana. Ha realizado investigaciones sobre las bases Psicofisiológicas y Neuropsicológicas del lenguaje oral y escrito, la memoria, la violencia y los cambios asociados al envejecimiento normal y patológico. Ha publicado 29 libros, 6 pruebas neuropsicológicas que cuenta con normas en población hispano-hablantes de acuerdo a edad y escolaridad  y   es autora de 320 artículos  y capítulos científicos. Forma parte del  Comité  Editorial de Revistas Nacionales e Internacionales. Por su trabajo de investigación ha recibido numerosos premios y distinciones,  incluyendo  el Premio Nacional de Investigación en Psicología, el premio Universidad Anáhuac, el  premio Universidad Nacional edición Bicentenario, Premio Ciudad Capital Heberto Castillo  y el premio de investigación de la Sociedad Mexicana de Psicología.  Es miembro de diversas sociedades científicas  internacionales y nacionales. Pertenece al Sistema Nacional de Investigadores Nivel III  nivel más alto y actualmente es profesora de tiempo completo y directora del laboratorio de Neuropsicología y Psicofisiología de la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de  México.

Stuart Russell

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC-Berkeley Leading expert on artificial intelligence, robotics, and ways of getting and using biological data.

Stuart Russell is a pioneer in the understanding and uses of artificial intelligence (AI), its long-term future, and its relation to humanity. He also is a leading authority on robotics and bioinformatics. He is the author or coauthor of three books on knowledge, reasoning, and machine learning, including the standard textbook on artificial intelligence. Stuart Russell is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC-Berkeley and Adjunct Professor of Neurological Surgery at UC-San Francisco.

In addition to the positions already mentioned, Stuart Russell holds the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering at UC-Berkeley and is Vice-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Council on AI and Robotics. He is the recipient of many awards and held the Chaire Blaise Pascal in Paris from 2012 to 2014. He is a researcher at a number of research centers, including the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR), the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), and the Synthetic Biology Institute (SBI). He is the founder and Vice-President of Bayesian Logic, Inc., a data analysis start-up under contract with the UN to build a new Nuclear Test Ban Treaty global monitoring system..

Hanna Tucker

Director of Balance Point Ventures y Founder of Disruption Dinner

Hannah Tucker researches the disruptive developments transforming the economy with a focus on food systems. She presents this content to business and investor audiences, while working with clients through her sustainability advisory business, Balance Point Ventures. Hannah is also the Founder of Disruption Dinner, providing immersive culinary adventures through our changing world.

Previously, Hannah worked in sustainable investing, both alongside Al Gore at Generation Investment Management and at PIMCO. Hannah holds dual masters degrees in business administration and international studies from the Wharton School and Lauder Institute of the University of Pennsylvania. She is a CFA Charterholder, Climate Reality Leader and tutor at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership..

Dr. Mark Jackson

Quantum Evangelist at Cambridge Quantum Computing

Dr. Mark Jackson is the Quantum Evangelist at Cambridge Quantum Computing. He received his B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from Duke University and Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Columbia University. He then spent 10 years researching superstring theory and cosmology, co-authoring almost 40 technical articles. To promote the public understanding of science, he founded the science crowdfunding platform Fiat Physica and non-profit Science Partnership Fund. He is Adjunct Faculty at Singularity University and a Director of Astronomers Without Borders.

Amy Blankson

Co-Founder of the Digital Wellness Institute

Amy Blankson is Co-Founder of the Digital Wellness Institute, and bestselling author of The Future of Happiness. A graduate of Harvard and the Yale School of Management, Amy is a member of the UN Global Happiness Council, a Fellow of the World Innovation Organization, a featured professor in Oprah’s happiness e-course, and a regular contributor to Forbes. Her current work focuses on how to cultivate happiness and well-being in the digital era and she is proud to be an advisor to numerous well-being starts, including the new CookieJar Moments app which launched this month!

Raymond McCauley

Principal at Exponential Biosciences Advisor and Board Member of many companies focused in Biotechnology

Raymond McCauley is a scientist, engineer, inventor, investor, and entrepreneur working at the forefront of biotechnology. Raymond explores how applying technology to life -- biology, genetics, medicine, longevity, agriculture -- is affecting every one of us. He uses storytelling and down-to-earth examples to show how quickly these changes are happening, right now, and where it may head tomorrow. His work and profile have been featured in Wired, Forbes, Time, CNBC, Science, and Nature.

Raymond is: Principal of Exponential Biosciences, a private consultancy; a theme advisor to ARK Invest, home of good thinking about investing in disruptive innovation; Chair of Digital Biology at Singularity University, a Silicon Valley think tank devoted to training leaders about exponential technologies; Co-founder and Chief Architect for BioCurious, the hackerspace for biotech, a not-for-profit where professional scientists, DIYbio hobbyists, and entrepreneurs come together to design the next big thing to come out of a Silicon Valley garage; Part of the team that developed next generation DNA sequencing at Illumina, where he worked in bioinformatics, cancer sequencing, and personal genomics.

Raymond's postgraduate work includes studies at Texas A&M University, Stanford, and UC Berkeley in electrical engineering, computer science, biophysics, biochemistry, bioinformatics, and nanotechnology. He previously worked with Genomera, Illumina, Ingenuity Systems, TANSTAAFL Media, QIAGEN, Viatel, NASA, and other state and federal agencies. Raymond develops and advises a variety of companies and organizations. Raymond's favorite project is raising his twin boys to be superheroes.

Jennifer Caspari

Specialist Master, Health Care Strategy at Deloitte Consulting

Dr. Jennifer Caspari is a behavioral health clinician, researcher, educator, and consultant with a passion for developing innovative strategies to promote biopsychosocial health. Her areas of expertise include integrated behavioral health and wellness, evidence-based communication and behavior change, and designing and implementing strategies to promote the incorporation of behavioral health-focused digital tools into the healthcare ecosystem. Jennifer is currently a healthcare strategy specialist with Deloitte.

Pato Bichara

CEO of Collective Academy

Pato Bichara is the CEO of Collective Academy, the challenger university transforming Latin America’s talent landscape through innovative graduate, undergrad, and corporate training programs. In just five years, the collective community has grown to more than 150 mentors and 5,500 learners.

In addition to his day to day work building the future of education, Pato is an active member of McKinsey & Company’s Global Consortium for Learning Innovation and a partner in Xochi Ventures, a VC fund focused on accelerating disruptive companies in Latin America.

Anteriormente fue parte del equipo de Polymath Ventures en Colombia, lanzando empresas para la clase media Latinoamericana, y del equipo de inversión de IGNIA, el fondo mexicano de Venture Capital enfocado en empresas que atienden la base de la pirámide. Comenzó su carrera profesional como consultor en Bain & Company México y The Bridgespan Group.

Pato es egresado del MBA de Harvard Business School y de Ingeniería Industrial y de Sistemas del Georgia Institute of Technology y el Tecnológico de Monterrey. Cree firmemente en avanzar el desarrollo económico de Latinoamérica a través de potencializar el talento humano y construir compañías innovadoras.

Shuo Chen

General Partner at IOVC, faculty at UC Berkeley and SingularityU, Board Director of DECODE and commissioner at Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission (MHSOAC)

Shuo Chen is a General Partner at IOVC, where she focuses on early stage venture investments in Silicon Valley with a focus on future of work and enterprise/SaaS. She is also Faculty at UC Berkeley and Singularity University. Shuo is appointed by California Governor Gavin Newson to serve as 1 of 13 voting members on California's Mental Health Commission (as the first Asian American Commissioner), which includes overseeing ~$2.6 billion annually in state budget and advising the Governor or the Legislature on mental health policy.

In her venture role, Shuo has invested in companies now acquired by Goldman Sachs, Ford, Caterpillar, Binance and Dialpad, as well as now unicorns including Boom, Checkr, Grubmarket, Instacart and Rescale. She has helped portfolio companies close deals with Amazon, Apple, Google, Mercedes-Benz and NASA among others, as well as scaled portfolio companies into Europe and Asia.

Prior, Shuo worked at Goldman Sachs in investment banking, where she worked with clients including Alibaba and Tencent, as well as represented the firm on the Board of Women in Finance. Before that, Shuo was at PwC, where she worked on Google’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola and LinkedIn’s $119 million acquisition of SlideShare. Shuo has also co-authored one of the leading books on financial regulations published by Cambridge University Press in 2019, and sits on the Advisory Board of Forbes China, where she advises on content and awards for Asian Americans in North America.

Rodolfo Ramírez

Founder and CEO of RedBox

Founder and CEO of RedBox, the most experienced innovation agency in Latin America, with offices in Mexico City and New York. In 18 years he has developed innovation projects for 80 brands in 10 countries that have resulted in more than 400 solutions that can be found in the market, for companies such as Sabritas, Kidzania, DHL and Sportsworld, among others. He has a degree in International Trade from ITESM and an MBA from Lund University in Sweden. He is a visiting professor at IPADE in Mexico and an active speaker in the main innovation forums in the region. He is also a mentor for high-impact entrepreneurs at organizations like Endeavor and a board member for Make a Wish Mexico.

Ja-Naé Duan

Co-Founder and Managing Partner at The Revolution Factory, Bestselling Author of The Startup Equation, Faculty member of SingularityU and Collaborator and Advisor at several companies.

For over 20 years, behavioral scientist Ja-Naé Duane dedicated herself to one mission: Make life better for one billion people. This award-winning innovator and expert on global systems focuses by helping corporations, governments, and universities understand and develop systems of the future using emerging technology such as VR/AR, AI, and blockchain. Ja-Nae guides companies forward, helping them get out of their own way to create exponential innovation and future forecasting. She has had the pleasure of working with companies such as PWC, Samsonite, Constant Contact, Natixis, John Hancock, and AIG. A top-rated speaker within the Singularity University community and the author of the bestseller, “The Startup Equation,” Ja-Nae at helping both startups and multinational firms identify new business models and pathways for global scale.

Over the years, her work has caught the attention of The Associated Press, NPR, The Boston Globe, and BusinessWeek. Ja-Nae holds degrees from Brown University, I.E. Business School, Northeastern University, Carnegie University, and Boston University. Currently, Ja-Nae is a Ph.D. candidate focusing her research on the future of information systems.

Alexandro Arias

Partner for Life Sciences and Health Care Leader S-Latam, Future of Health Leader Latam and Commercial Team Member at Deloitte..

Alexandro Arias studied Economics at ITAM and an MBA at ESADE Business School Barcelona. He has more than 20 years of experience in transformation projects, first in the banking sector and currently at Deloitte.

 Alex es el Socio líder de Ciencias de la Vida y Cuidado de la Salud para Deloitte S-Latam y ha participado en distintos proyectos de analítica avanzada, comportamiento humano y, en el diseño de experiencia de pacientes.  También es el líder de la iniciativa del “Futuro de la Salud” para Deloitte en LATAM, iniciativa global que plantea las oportunidades que existen en el sector para transformarse.

Tricia Wang

Fellow at Atlantic Council Geo-Tech Center and at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Co-founder of Sudden Compass and of Last Mile - COVID Straight Talk.

Tricia Wang is a tech ethnographer obsessed with designing equity into systems. Part data geek, part designer, and part community organizer, her belief that technology must serve humanity is the thread across her work from the public to the private sector. She is the co-founder of Sudden Compass, a consulting firm working with Fortune 500 companies and tech startups from Spotify to P&G and Google. She is a frequent conference keynoter, a pioneer in operationalizing data science with what she calls Thick Data, which she describes in her TED talk. Her tech career started with selling some of the first texting and mobile phones services to researching the rise of social networks in Web 2.0 and to now advocating for Web 3.0 to deliver social impact through more human-centered applications of crypto and blockchain-enabled technologies. Her focus on tech has always been in adoption amongst marginalized communities from the US to China to South America. She advises start-ups and nonprofits. She is an advisor to Decentral Labs at the University of Lisbon. She is a fellow at Geo Tech Atlantic Council, an affiliate at Data & Society, and has served as a member of the World Economic Forum Global Futures Data Council. She was also a fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, a Fulbright Fellow and National Science Foundation Fellow. She optimizes her life to be spent dancing, eating, hanging with her dog Elle, and her grandma..

Eduardo Zamora

CEO, Fortinet Mexico.

Eduardo Zamora, CEO of Fortinet Mexico, where he has developed and evolved the business and ecosystem of the company in Mexico to help make it the number 1 cybersecurity company in the country.

Eduardo has more than 24 years of experience in the Technology Industry and has held various executive and leadership positions within the sector, both in Mexico and in Latin America.

Eduardo has collaborated with companies such as NCR, HP, Teradata, SAS, DELL and SAP.

Before joining Fortinet, Eduardo was the Commercial Vice President of SAP Mexico, he was responsible for leading the Digital Transformation, with innovative solutions for the consumer industries in Mexico, such as Retail, CPG, Pharma and Life Sciences. He also led the strategy of Cloud and On-Premise business models, increasing the company's revenues and profits in Mexico. 

He is B.SC. in Management and Computer Systems from the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), and also has different postgraduate degrees..

Cristina Cárdenas

Governmental Affairs Manager for Ibero-America at Coursera.

Cristina currently works as manager of alliances with Government Affairs for Latin America at Coursera, one of the most important learning platforms globally. 

Prior to this position, she founded 3C Innovation for Human Development, a consultancy that provides advice on the adoption and integration of technology and the development of digital skills in Latin America, particularly in education and work. 

Until January 2019, she was in charge of the General Coordination of @prende.mx (CG@), a decentralized body of Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP), in charge of the national policy for educational innovation in Mexico, which promotes the use and exploitation of new Information and Communication Technologies for the development of digital skills and Computational Thinking in educational authorities and students of basic education. 

Previously, she was responsible for complying with the Quality Education objective of the National Digital Strategy in the Office of the Presidency of the Republic; and before that experience, she collaborated at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington, D.C. 

Currently, she is a founding member of the CONECTADAS an Advisory Council, she is a member of the Steering Committee of the non-profit organization MXDC.org; she is on the Advisory Board of Christel House International and is president of the Casa de María Youth Rehabilitation Center. 

Cristina is an economist from the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM). She has a master's degree in economics from the University of Essex, Great Britain.

Jeff DeVerter

Chief Technology Evangelist.

Jeff has more than 25 years of experience in IT and technology, and has worked at Rackspace Technology for over 10 years. Jeff is a proven strategic leader who has helped companies like American Express, Ralph Lauren, and Thompson Reuters create and execute against multi-year digital transformation strategies. During his time at Rackspace Technology, Jeff has launched and managed many of the products and services that Rackspace Technology offers, as well as supporting merger and acquisition activities to enhance those offerings. Jeff is the father of two young men and husband to his wife Michelle of 27 years. When not at Rackspace Technology or around San Antonio, you can find Jeff doing land restoration on his ranch in the Texas hill country..

Ralph Herbst

Head of Strategy Implementation & Business Planning, Cell & Gene Therapy Unit.

Inspiring and authentic senior executive with an entrepreneurial mind founded on 20+ years of experience in complex business environments, delivering growth and bottom line results. Known as a strategy, business & technology leader, technology savvy and seasoned with pronounced judgment. Proven track record of developing teams into high performance business units for several times. Balanced and winning communicator, creating external and internal networks to shape major business decisions..

Carlos Álvarez

RedBox Partner and Founder of Inspiration to Create

Carlos Álvarez is a partner and creative director of RedBox, the most experienced innovation agency in Latin America. He has developed innovation projects for more than 80 brands in 6 different countries. He is a co-founder of RedBox Academy, an education platform of inspiration, creativity and innovation where he has taught courses and conferences for more than 10,000 people. Carlos studied an MBA at the Berlin School of Creative Leadership where he won the Michael Conrad Award for the creation of the model “The 4 sources of inspiration”, which was presented as an outstanding project at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. He has collaborated with Forbes Mexico in the creation of articles related to innovation and is part of the network of mentors of Unreasonable Mexico.

Cristina Bautista

Corporate Sommelier of Antzara Gourmet

Hoy está convencida de que el mejor vino es el que está por hacerse y que para poder catarlo correctamente  no basta con ser Sommelier es necesario ser el mejor.Cristina es una apasionada por el Arte de la Sommeleria, lleva más de 22 años invirtiendo gran parte de su tiempo en conocer, vivir y disfrutar de experiencias que le permitan conocer el antes y el después de una bebida o de un alimento, despertando placeres gastronómicos en cada una de las personas que conoce y que le toca atender.

This has allowed her to discover and propose new ways of pairing and mixing each other, to achieve a perfect harmony in the Art of Service at a table.

After having completed an engineering degree in architecture and a degree in management, she discovered that both were found in the beauty and functionality of a winery and in the perfect balance between price and quality of a product.

But both were not enough to achieve her objectives, so she took the commitment to constantly update herself and add other specialties like sherry, beer, whiskey, coffee, cigars, charcuterie, restaurant management, mixology, tequila and mezcal, among others, to interact with all lovers of good food and good drinking every day of their life.

Traveling in and out of her country, she finds it quite an adventure to be surprised by new aromas and flavors. This allows her to continue designing experiences that have opened doors for her to participate as a sommelier and as an instructor in the best specialty stores and in the best educational institutions of the art of good service and to be part of the organizational structure of the most recognized companies in the field. Today she is convinced that the best wine is the one yet to be made and that to be able to taste it correctly it is not enough to be a Sommelier, but to be the best.

Roberto Castañón

Operations Director at RedBox

Roberto is director of operations at RedBox, the most experienced innovation agency in Latin America. He has developed innovation projects, for transnationals and startups, for 12 years in 6 countries for more than 80 brands, implementing different methodologies to create innovation strategies at a cultural, experiential (UX / CX), service and products scale. He is co-founder of RedBox Academy, an Innovation training platform, where he has taught courses and conferences for more than 15,000 people. Roberto has a Masters in Innovation, Creativity and Business Management from the University of Newcastle in the UK where he graduated with honors.

Sergio Caetano

Director of Innovation at RedBox

He is a consulting director and also one of the founding consultants of RedBox, with 15 years of experience in innovation processes, brand building, creation of consumer experiences, business models and development of innovation culture. Sergio has worked for more than 10 categories and more than 200 clients, managing to transform the development and value propositions of businesses in Mexico. He is co-founder of RedBox Academy, an Innovation training platform, where he has taught courses and conferences for more than 15,000 people. He graduated with Honors in Advertising from the University of Communication.

Josset Ávila

La Finca Roaster Master

Josset is passionate about coffee, he has been looking for new ways to taste this wonderful seed for many years, one of these practices is with music.

Focused on the Indie genre, he uses the vibrations generated from the musical notes with the aromas of coffee, with this simple exercise he has been able to develop different tasting techniques and blends.

For him, personal projects have been an exciting challenge, generating mixes, adaptations and formulas to combine two of the most consumed beverages in the world, beer and coffee.

To reach this level of experience, Josset has been in the forefront with the largest coffee producers, traveling long roads, harvesting and testing different varieties that grow throughout the national territory.

Mónica Rivera

Consultant Director at RedBox

Mónica is a consulting director at RedBox, where she coordinates and develops innovation projects from 2008 to date, also providing training on the company's own methodology. Since 2003 she has worked in the development of Marketing and Branding strategies for clients from different industries. Her professional experience in advertising, branding and strategic planning has been acquired at McCann Worldwide Group (2003-2004), Y&R (2004-2008) and at RedBox Innovation (2008-present) where she has had the opportunity to work for more than 60 brands.

Alejandro Mireles

IT Infrastructure and Network Administrator

Alejandro Mireles, for 4 years as a collaborator in the information systems department, has promoted the digital culture at Arbomex, participating in R&D of technological innovation, industry 4.0, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and the IoT. 

He is actively involved in the disruptive transformation and change management of the traditional business model, focusing it on new technologies. He had important participation in the implementation of SASE cybersecurity platforms with the Zero Thrust model. He is the leader in the implementation of asset security strategies and plans, through equipment and systems with artificial intelligence.

Ilce Vera

SAP Consultant

The ability to be persistent is something emotional rather than logical, Ilce Vera is convinced that persistence is the key to achieve success in whatever area we choose, this quality is part of Ilce's impulses to achieve each project she has set for herself.

Ilce has focused on carrying out projects with technological impact that increasingly facilitate the application of technological trends, as she firmly believes that technology will be an important factor to improve the quality of life and work of all people.

In 2017, she became part of the Arbomex team within the IT department, with which she has discovered her innovative spirit, currently she is focused on the digital transformation in the key processes of the company and in critical mission systems, such as SAP..

Guillermo Terán

Chief of Information Systems

His beginnings in the information technology area date back to 1989 when his father, with sacrifice and effort, acquired a personal computer, with which he began this great adventure in the world of computing. Motivated to learn with his father, he performs several experiments with the PC that he had at that time with an i286 microprocessor. Is here where the eagerness to learn and innovate was born. After 32 years of this first experience, he has been collaborating with Arbomex for 17 years in multiple innovation and digital transformation projects and dreaming that this 100% Mexican company achieves a world-class digital culture. 

Currently, as leader of the areas of "infrastructure, networks and cybersecurity", "SAP and critical mission systems", "operations technology" and "development of Software Engineering", he prepares together with his team, to face the global uncertainty, because he considers that adversity strengthen the spirit and people's character of those who are passionate about their work every day.

Ingrid Lisac

Music therapist

Ingrid is a SEP certified music therapist who explores the sound and vocal relationships of ritual music, fusing traditional techniques from Mongolia, Tibet, Australia and Mexico, among other parts of the world. Her practices inquire into the effects that sounds produce on mind and matter. 

She studies cymatics in order to decipher the patterns that different musical instruments cause in the water. In the field of mental health, she combines music resources with breathing and meditation techniques, to promote the creation of states of well-being. 

She has participated in artistic awareness projects in venues such as the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso and Purísima Arte Contemporáneo, among others. She has collaborated in community projects around resilience and integration of emotions.

She insists that sound is a living space, a digestible food, and a resource for recognizing, processing, and transforming our emotions and mental processes for greater well-being.

Iván Maraña

Professional mentalist

Ivan Maraña is a professional mentalist, member of the Society of American Magicians, who begins his career in the world of magic with the purpose of reminding us of this feeling that many of us have forgotten. 

With the passage of time he discovers that his interest goes beyond what can be explained with the 52 cards of a deck, which leads him to focus his studies in areas such as psychology and neurolinguistic programming. 

Through these and other tools he manages to better understand the human mind to achieve experiences that seem “impossible”. 

"Astonishment is not a created emotion, but a state that is revealed."

Jorge Martínez

Solution Sales Engineer

Jorge Martínez is a Solutions Engineer and advises his clients on the digital transformation of any of their processes that require an automation of the flow of documents and formalization through an electronic signature of those agreements.

Jorge cree en el alto impacto que tiene la innovación y/o optimización de los procesos de negocios, al seleccionar la tecnología adecuada que permita una rápida adopción y realización de valor  para la comunidad empresarial de América Latina.

Jorge ha acompañado a clientes de soluciones como DocuSign, Automation Anywhere, Documentum, SAP, Oracle entre otras en su viaje para mejorar la experiencia del cliente, activar asistentes y fuerza de trabajo digital,  en la sincronización de sus cadenas de suministro y gestión documental.  

Jorge is a graduate of MEDEX, IPADE Monterrey.

Juan Manuel Hurtado

Marketing manager

For the past eight years, Juan Manuel Hurtado has been using his research, communication, and organizational skills to improve daily operations and business in the automotive industry.

With a passion for maintaining and organizing the operation, Juan has gone through the sales area, following up on the development of projects for multinational companies in the automotive industry.

He obtained his MBA in Marketing in 2015, boosting his interest in innovation and market research, as well as B2B strategies in order to achieve a better positioning of brands.

He is currently responsible for the Arbomex marketing area, driving digital transformation and creating medium and long-term strategies for the development and expansion of new businesses using SCRUM and Design Thinking methodologies, among other methods.

Rosa Costes

Chief Operating Officer & Co founder

Rosa is an entrepreneur with extensive experience in e-commerce, business development, product, automation processes, and marketplace models. Her career has been built under a vision of making companies with innovative products based on customer acquisition and retention strategies through data science and artificial intelligence.

Before joining Envíoclick, Rosa was Regional Director of Customer Value Management and CRM at Linio.com. She led innovation projects in marketing, based on developments and decision tools on big data.

In addition to her experience in tech and e-commerce, she has more than 8 years of experience in software, telecommunications and banking companies, such as Gemalto and Stefanini IT Solutions, where she led projects and financial product teams and market analysis.

Rosa is Mexican, she has a B.S.B.A. in administration, finance and economics from the Universidad Panamericana (UP), graduated in administration, finance and economics. She also holds a specialization in banking and finance from the Madrid Institute of Stock Market Studies, where she graduated number one in her class.

Rodrigo Padilla

CEO of Happinss

MBA from the IEDGE, Certificate in "the science of Happiness" by the University of Berkeley, California, "Chief Happiness Practitioner" and certificate of "Mindfulness" by Happiitude and World Happiness Foundation, graduates in NLP, in design thinking by the "Design Business Innovation Institute”; Serial entrepreneur having created 7 companies in areas such as education, tourism, technology and health; More than 20 years in contemplative practices such as Mindfulness and Kindfulness, having as a teacher Dr. Koncha Pinós. 

An international lecturer with more than 200 workshops and conferences on entrepreneurship, technology, leadership, happiness and mental health issues, he was a mentor and regional director for Mexico of the Founder Institute, the world's largest technology accelerator; former director of the Innovation Center for the Acceleration of Economic Development of the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology of Jalisco; co-director of a research project on the reduction of occupational stress through the use of virtual reality (VR), with results presented at the 3rd Stanford University innovation congress in psychiatry, as well as at the symposium “VR & Healthcare ”at Harvard Medical School in 2018. CEO and founding partner since 2016 of Happinss, a Startup focused on helping people raise their level of consciousness to increase their Well-being and Happiness and creators of the“ Happy Place to Work ”distinctive for create organizational cultures focused on people's happiness and creator of the methodology "The 7 meta-competencies of Happiness".

Javier Lozano Garza

Co-Founder and CEO Clínicas del Azúcar

Is the Co-Founder and CEO Clínicas del Azúcar, a venture-backed chain of "one-stop-shops" that provides specialized and low-cost diabetes care in Mexico. Core developments in process improvement, predictive algorithms and patient centred care.

Javier was member of Council -The Future of Behavioural Science Global Future Council at The World Economic Forum (Nov 2016 – nov 2018) and Member of Council at The Future of the Health Sector Global Agenda Council - World Economic Forum (2014 – nov 2016).

He studied Engineering Physics at Tecnológico de Monterrey México and a Master in Business Administration at MIT with specialization in Entrepeneurship and Innovation. He also studied the AD-2 Program at IPADE Business School.

Alejandra Rodríguez

Co-Founder of iBasto

Graduated from the Bachelor of Design at ITESO with studies at the University of Malaga, Spain in Marketing, she has continued her passion for technology, interconnectivity and creativity developing 2 technology-based companies, now she is CEO of Krrrunch, a specialist software development company in electronic commerce and Co-founder of iBasto, a platform to solve the supply of convenience stores in Mexico, a company that was recently awarded by Singularity University and the Government of Jalisco. 

She champions the initiative for the inclusion of women in the STEAM world, being co-founder of Talent Woman an international movement that makes visible and inspires girls and women to participate in areas of science, technology and business, winner of the 2019 Youth Award granted by the State of Jalisco, with this same principle she founded Equalitics for children to give real opportunities to low-income boys and girls through science and technology, achieving the first generation of robotics in the El Rehilete neighborhood, Zapopan.

Francisco Xavier Orendáin De Obeso

Strategic General Coordinator

Francisco Xavier Orendáin De Obeso was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco. He is an Engineer by Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara Campus. Currently, he is an entrepreneur with a solid background in business management by the Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección Empresarial (IPADE) and the Columbia Business School of New York in the United States of America. Universidad Panamericana, Sede Guadalajara, Empresario y Emprendedor con una sólida formación en Gestión Empresarial, Liderazgo y Negociación por el Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección Empresarial (IPADE) y la Columbia Business School en Nueva York, Estados Unidos de América.

During his civic carrer Xavier has been an active member of different civic councils, forums, collectives working in areas like: Comun Benefits, Business, Public Transport, Culture, Environment and citizen participation.

Committed to Jalisco and Mexico, he is a creator of the platform “Never give up” that helps companies and professionals in crisi. Also, he's part of the “Pacto por la Integridad y por el Bien Ser de Jalisco”. He was the president of the Council Directors of National Chamber Commerce Guadalajara between 2018 to 2020, nowadays he is the Coordinator of Economic Growth and Development of the Government of Jalisco.

Luis Vázquez

Operations Manager in SingularityU Summit Mexico

Luishon is a born explorer, so consequently he is an “early adopter” this has given him the opportunity to live multiple extraordinary experiences professionally and personally. He supports the constructivist current because that learning methodology is the one that has allowed to exonentialy improve his engineering skills and discover that his happiness lies in expressing his love by collaborating and supporting the people with whom he connects along the magical journey of life.

He is a graduate of the Universidad Iberoamericana as an Industrial Engineer. He has work experience in the chemical, construction, tourism and technology and innovation industries, in various areas, from manufacturing to business management. Today he is looking for development in the impact investing ecosystem, because here he has found positive outcomes between collaboration, impact, efficiency and sustainability vs the sources placed in the projects and efforts to make a better world.

Silvina Moschini

Co-Founder of SheWorks! and Unicorn Hunter

Silvina Moschini es una de las expertas líderes en la economía digital y cómo la cuarta revolución industrial transforma la fuerza de trabajo global, el empoderamiento femenino y la aceleración de las reformas del gobierno alrededor del mundo.

Es cofundadora de un ecosistema de compañías que aprovechan la nube para conectar negocios y talento a demanda:TransparentBusiness, una plataforma para la gestión de la fuerza del trabajo que impulsa la transparencia en ámbitos públicos y privados al eliminar el fraude y la pérdida de dinero de los contribuyentes, y SheWorks!, una compañía innovadora que aprovecha el poder de la tecnología para cerrar la brecha de género. Silvina es productora ejecutiva de Unicorn Hunters, una nueva serie de negocios que democratiza la riqueza al conectar a compañías de alto potencial de crecimiento que buscan capital para lograr una valoración de 1.000 millones de dólares con personas alrededor del mundo que buscan oportunidades para inversiones de alto rendimiento. También forma parte del elenco como una de las panelistas del Círculo de Dinero, junto a Steve Wozniak, cofundador de Apple y Rosie Rios, ex-Tesorera de los Estados Unidos.

Con una perspectiva única en cómo la tecnología genera impacto social y en los negocios, Silvina fue la única emprendedora destacada en W20 Argentina, el grupo asesor del G20 en crecimiento económico con perspectiva de género, fue invitada especial en el Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2019 y lideró el panel de innovación en la Cumbre de Presidentes de las Américas, una reunión de los principales CEOs y jefes de estado.

Es columnista en CNN en Español, Entrepreneur y Forbes, forma parte de la agenda de colaboradores del World Economic Forum y es convocada por medios nacionales e internacionales como CNBC, CCTV y otros.

En 2020, recibió el Premio a la Trayectoria de Women in Tech® y fue nombrada “Mujer de la Década” por el Women Economic Forum, que también reconoció a SheWorks! como “Compañía Icónica que crea un mundo mejor para todos” por su compromiso con la equidad para las mujeres, y como Líder Digital en los Hispanic Digital Awards. En 2019, Silvina recibió el premio Equals in Tech, la iniciativa global de Naciones Unidas que reconoce los proyectos tecnológicos de alto impacto destinados a cerrar la brecha de género.

Diego Masayi

Co-Founder of iBasto

Diego es Licenciado en Negocios Internacionales por el Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), del cual se tituló con Excelencia Académica. Actualmente, se desempeña como Analista de Dirección, en el área de proyectos estratégicos para la empresa Lechera Guadalajara Sello Rojo. Actual socio-fundador de la empresa iBasto.com; una plataforma de comercio electrónico y ciencia de análisis de datos que está revolucionando el canal de distribución y promoviendo la digitalización de las tienditas de la esquina.

Es socio de la empresa Mexchia, dedicada a la agricultura y Uyeda Industrial de México, orientada a la impresión y etiquetado de productos. También es fundador de Sendatsu, empresa creada para ofrecer servicios de asesoría, y acompañamiento a nuevos negocios.

Participa en el Consejo de Cámaras Industriales de Jalisco (CCIJ) en donde fue presidente de la comisión de Asuntos Internacionales. Actualmente es presidente de la comisión de Proyectos Estratégicos dentro del mismo organismo. También forma parte del Consejo Directivo de la Cámara de la Industria Alimenticia de Jalisco (CIAJ).

Alix Rübsaam

Researcher in philosophy of technology, cultural analysis, and post humanism

She is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). There, she researches the collaboration between human and nonhuman (technological) agents at the intersection of humans and computational systems. As a Faculty Fellow at Singularity University she investigates the societal and cultural impact of exponential technologies. Her focus is on changing ideas about humanity in technological contexts such as Artificial Intelligence, (autonomous) robotics, information technologies, and digital environments. Additionally, Alix has written about cyberpunk and science fiction literature, autonomous weapons, and embodied robotics.

She has an MA in Cultural Analysis and has graduated from Singularity University’s Graduate Studies Program in 2015. Her most recent publication is a chapter in Augmented Intelligence: The Future of Work and Learning (2018).