Miami (in-person) Everywhere (virtual)

AGENDAOCTOBER 26 - 28

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Entrepreneurship and innovation: discover companies that support early innovation with impact, tips to expand to new markets, innovative business models, and how to attract talent for startups.

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Impact that scales: learn about technologies for the transformation of the region (ethical AI and blockchain for inclusion), international leaders in innovation developing partnerships with the region, how to connect between ecosystems, financing for the development of the region (venture capital and corporate impact venturing).

Discover new initiatives, publications and projects that support innovation for inclusion - stay tuned for the launchpad sessions!

Businesses that improve lives: find out how and who is transforming markets and industries for the development of the region. Financial inclusion and fintech; agtech and natural capital; education, talent and employment (gig economy, workertech, silver economy); health; essential infrastructure services, and govtech; always under the lenses of climate crisis, diversity and gender equity, and digital transformation.

26 OCTFree admission

Mauricio Claver-Carone - President - Inter-American Development Bank

Why bet on innovation for the economic recovery of the region? Different players share their perspectives: startups, scale-ups, big tech companies and nascent ecosystem builders.

Irene Arias - CEO - IDB Lab (moderator) / Mariana Castro - Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Operations, Latin America - Microsoft / Kyle Maloney - Co-Founder - TechBeach / Silvina Moschini - CEO - Transparent Business

Discussion on ground-breaking solutions pushing the frontiers of finance even in times of crisis and how these create new ways to reach the underserved.

Xavier Faz - Lead, Digital Finance Frontiers - CGAP / Eric Parrado - Chief Economist - IDB / Sopnendu Mohanty - Chief Monica Ballesteros - Senior Manager, Policy & Insights - Economist

Impact / Esteban Altschul - COO - Accion

The recent rise of the Greater Miami area's innovation ecosystem opens the possibility to unleash value and growth through building a bridge that connects ecosystems across the Americas. This session features the presentation of a study’s insights that analyzes the rise of the Miami startup ecosystem and the opportunities for mutual benefit engendered by a strong connection with Latin America and the Caribbean.

Ignacio Peña - Founder & CEO - Surfing Tsunamis

Following the presentation on the Miami-LAC study, insights and trends be discussed in this conversation. Miami, along with cities across the region are gaining traction as innovation hubs. What are the conditions that are supporting this growth, and how can LAC and Miami benefit from integrating these networks?

Irene Arias - CEO - IDB Lab / Francisco Noguera - President & CEO - Innpulsa Colombia / Federico Storani - Executive Director - Riverwood Capital / Julia Figuereido - Director Latam & Miami - Silicon Valley Bank / Claudia Duran - Managing Director - Endeavor Miami

Some of the most relevant players in corporate venturing in the region tell impact startups what they are looking for and how they can approach them.

Bernardita Araya - CMPC Ventures / Victoria Akerman - Globant Ventures / Arsenio Fernández - EMASA Ventures / Clorinda Mantaras - Sancor Seguros Ventures / Juan Carlos Costales - CEMEX Ventures / Vivianne Bernardes - Cibilis - Cibersons Group / Jaime Ríos - Ventures EPM / Marita Schmutzer - Falabella Ventures / Luisa Rubio - Wayra Telefónica / Agostinho Ramalho - ISA / Diego Bekerman - General Manager - Microsoft Latin America & the Caribbean

Pitch session of startups that are improving lives in the region. Discover the untapped opportunity of supporting innovation for inclusion in LAC.

Camilo Sardi - Maestriik / Ricardo Cuellar - Hugo / Eldon Marks - V75Inc / Daniela Arias - Cric / Stephanie Pemberton - Planting Seeds Marketplace / Carlos Andrés Jordan - Ultracredit / David Grossman - Panasea Global / Amparo Nalvarte - B89 / Katia Cerwin - Valentina / Monique Powell - Quick Cart / Marcelo Blanco - GU Trade / Igor Leo Rocha - Afrosaude / Tatiana Malvasio - Kilimo / Vicky Ricaurte - Arukay / Gastón Salinas - Botanical Solutions / Johanan Dujon - Organics Algae / Laura Velasquez - Arkangel.ai / Taynaah Reis - MoedaS

Exploration of initiatives from financial institutions that are succeeding in including recent migrants as a niche market with growth potential, social impact, and sustainability.

Diego Fleischmann - CEO - Migrante / Richard Yunga Pintado - Cooperative Services Manager - Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito Jardín Azuayo / Terrence Gallagher - Head of Financial Inclusion - IDB Invest / Oscar Romero - Vice President of Risk - Bancamia

Discover business opportunities related to the challenges faced by the rapidly growing elderly population in LAC, and tips for entrepreneurship in the silver economy. Meet some of the selected applicants of the IDB Group's Silver Economy Challenge that addressed health and long-term care, financial services, employment and training, housing and mobility, and ecosystem development.

Ana Castillo - Senior Specialist - IDB Lab / Concepción Galdon - Social Innovation Director - IE University/ Omri Boral - Co-founder & CEO - Tech4Good / Ariel Zylbersztejn - Founder - Paz Mental / Constanza Boix - Founder - Nuda Prop

SilverTech: Leveraging the Talent and Experience of Older Adults through the Use of Technology

Irene Arias - CEO - IDB Lab / Mariel Sabra - Lead Specialist - IDB Lab / Alejandro Anderlic - Director of Government Jeronimo Cello Zambrano Agustin

Batto - Founder - Eidos / Jorge Cella - Regional Director - Microsoft / Ana Caro Corbelle - Executive Director - Diagonal

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In-person sessions – Miami (EST Time)

26 OCTTickets: $150 USD per person, *Limited capacity

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Mauricio Claver-Carone - President - Inter-American Development Bank

Why bet on innovation for the economic recovery of the region? Different players share their perspectives: star-tups, scale-ups, big tech companies and nascent ecosystem builders.

Irene Arias - CEO - IDB Lab (moderator) / Mariana Castro - Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Operations, Latin America - Microsoft / Kyle Maloney - TechBeach - Co-fundador / Silvina Moschini - CEO - Transparent Business

The recent rise of the Greater Miami area's innovation ecosystem opens the possibility to unleash value and growth through building a bridge that connects ecosystems across the Americas. This session features the presentation of a study’s insights that analyzes the rise of the Miami startup ecosystem and the opportunities for mutual benefit engendered by a strong connection with Latin America and the Caribbean.

Ignacio Peña - Founder & CEO - Surfing Tsunamis

Following the presentation on the Miami-LAC study, insights and trends be discussed in this conversation. Miami, along with cities across the region are gaining traction as innovation hubs. What are the conditions that are supporting this growth, and how can LAC and Miami benefit from integrating these networks?

Irene Arias - CEO - IDB Lab / Francisco Noguera - President & CEO - Innpulsa Colombia / Federico Storani - Executive Director - Riverwood Capital / Julia Figuereido - Director Latam & Miami - Silicon Valley Bank / Claudia Duran - Managing Director - Endeavor Miami

Pitch session of startups that are improving lives in the region. Discover the untapped opportunity of supporting innovation for inclusion in LAC.

Camilo Sardi - Maestriik / Ricardo Cuellar - Hugo / Eldon Marks - V75Inc / Daniela Arias - Cric / Stephanie Pemberton - Planting Seeds Marketplace / Carlos Andrés Jordan - Ultracredit / David Grossman - Panasea Global / Amparo Nalvarte - B89 / Katia Cerwin - Valentina / Monique Powell - Quick Cart / Marcelo Blanco - GU Trade / Igor Leo Rocha - Afrosaude / Tatiana Malvasio - Kilimo / Vicky Ricaurte - Arukay / Gastón Salinas - Botanical Solutions / Johanan Dujon - Organics Algae / Laura Velasquez - Arkangel.ai / Taynaah Reis - Moeda

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A session aimed at fund managers and representatives of venture capital fund associations in the region, to "decode" how the various players in the Latin American venture capital ecosystem are connecting and leveraging the Miami ecosystem and networks.

Magdalena Coronel - Chief Investment Unit - IDB Lab (moderator) / Daniel Lloreda - Co-Founder & General Part-ner - H20 Capital / Pedro Sorrentino - Founder & CEO - Atman Capital / Ana Paula González - Director Miami Initiative - Softbank

Presentation of the progress of the alliance and the tools available for public and private sector actors.

Christian Van Der Henst - Co-Founder & COO - Platzi (moderator) / Irene Arias - CEO - IDB Lab / Laura Gaviria - Director Operating Group - Softbank / Robert Ivanschitz - Associate General Counsel - Microsoft Latin America

Discussion with leading companies and investors in corporate venturing about trends, instruments and lessons learned in collaborating with startups to scale innovation with impact.

Gema Sacristan Agostinho Joao Almeida- Director Corporate Innovation, ISA (Colombia) / Gabriela Ruggeri - Managing Partner - Kamay Ventures / Gustavo Marte-llo - Managing Partner - Globant Ventures

Agustín Rotondo - Regional Manager for Hispam - Wayra (moderador) / Sylvia Chebi - Managing Partner - Thales Lab / Wilson Pais - Director Digital Companies - Microsoft Latin America / Gabriela Ruggeri - Managing Partner - Kamay Ventures / Juan Carlos Costales - Venture Capital Manager - CEMEX Ventures

This panel will discuss the 'Digital Nomad' phenomenon, intensified during Covid-19, and how it contributes to the growth of local economies in Central and Latin America, while forming a natural bridge between the global tech ecosystem and the local one.

Shani Peled - Managing Partner - TechnoArt / Tristan Jehan - Partner & Resident CTO - TechnoArt / Marcus Dantus - Founder & CEO - Startup Mexico / Laura Gonzales Estefani -Managing Partner - The Venture City / Paulo Pena - Global COO - Selina

Irene Arias - CEO - IDB Lab / James Scriven - CEO - IDB Invest

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27 OCTFree admission

Presentation of the results of the new study "Education and Technology in Latin America and the Caribbean" and discussion of the challenges, trends, opportunities and the important relationship between entrepreneurs, investment funds and the public sector.

Patrick Brothers - CEO and Co-Founder - HolonIQ / Melania Brenes - Viceminister - Ministry of Education Costa Rica / Eduardo Clavé - Managing Partner - Dila Capital / Diego Villegas - CEO - Slang / Karen Abrams - Co-Founder - STEM Guyana / Mercedes Mateo - Division Chief Education / César Buenadicha

How LAC entrepreneurs can work with two of the most technologically developed ecosystems in the world. Leading accelerators from each country talk about the characteristics of each ecosystem and opportunities for collaboration followed by real-life partnership examples by Israeli, Korean, and Latin American founders.

Wendy Singer- Executive Director - Start-up Nation Central / Sokjin Chang - Director of International Cooperation - Born2Global Centre / Alexis Salinas - Co-Founder - Proximity / Camilo Navarro - Co-Founder - Wheel the World / Yuri Soares - Unit Chief - IDB Lab

Discussion on the remaining roadblocks for the massification of digital payments methods after the huge push given by the pandemic.

Rod Garatt - Professor of Economics - UC Santa Barbara / Darren Ware - Vice President, Government Engagement LAC - Mastercard / Carlos Flores - Regional Director - Hugo Pay / Ziyang Fan - Head of Digital Trade - World Economic Forum / Myriam Cosío - COO - CLIP

A new dynamic where the roles of a classic pitch session change. Investment funds share what they look for in startups in the region, what is their investment thesis and value added for entrepreneurs.

María Renner - Partner - Grid Exponential / Allan Boruchowicz - Founder & Managing Partner - Carao Ventures / Martín Aspillaga - Partner & Co-Founder - Salkantay Ventures / Ximena Aleman - Co-founder and Co-CEO - Prometeo OpenBanking / Begoña Ortiz Ariza - Associate - Cometa VC

Presentation on the role of innovation ecosystem actors through the lifecycle of startups from community building, ideation support to Series A investment, with a focus on solutions in the Caribbean and Central America.

Camila Lecaros - Managing Director - Masschallenge / Selwyn Cambridge - Founder & Executive Director - TEN Habitat / Pablo Santaeufemia - CEO & Co-Founder - Bridge for Billions / Noemi Flory - Executive Director - Escala Latam / Kirk-Anthony Hamilton - Co-Founder - TechBeach / Ruth Houliston - Lead Specialist - IDB Lab / Nicole Orillac - Consultant - IDB Lab

Presentation of the Retirement Savings Lab, an initiative that seeks to promote savings through interventions based on behavioral economics and the use of new technologies, and how the lessons learned can apply to the post-pandemic labor market reality.

Noelia Bernal - Researcher & Professor - Universidad del Pacífico / Bernardo Gonzalez - President - AMAFORE / Oliver Azuara - Senior Economist, Labor Markets Division - IDB / Isabel Retamal - Pension Development and Education Manager - AAFP Chile

Presentation of the lab’s ongoing initiatives with different digital platforms to identify models and information instruments that improve independent workers’ i) employability, ii) social security, and iii) financial resilience.

Gonzalo Escribano - Public Policy Head Latam - Beat / Oliver Azuara - Senior Economist, Labor Markets Division - IDB / Vicente Roqueñí López / Toni Castro-Cosío - Senior Beha-vioral Researcher - Common Cents Lab

Launch of Source of Innovation, an initiative that seeks to close the gaps in the provision of water, sanitation and solid waste services that we have been dragging for decades in Latin America and the Caribbean, through the development, promotion and adoption of innovative solutions among the main actors in the sector..

Natalia Laguyas - Senior Specialist - IDB Lab / Marcello Basani - Lead Specialist - IDB / Will Sarni - Fundador y CEO -Water Foundry / Shimon Constante - Innovation & Strategy Consultant - Kando / Daniel Zillante - CEO - Zilper Trenchless Inc

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Discussion on the challenges of fintech and e-commerce platforms and digital wallets in terms of inclusion, data privacy, and sustainability.

Vicente Fenoll - Founder & CEO - KUBO Financiero / Veronica Zamora - Portfolio Management - BIM / Jorge Rubio - Managing Director - Citi / Andrés Rico Cecilia Gumucio - Manager of Operations and Digital Transformation - ProMujer

Discussion on how each actor of the innovation ecosystem visualizes govtech opportunities, the challenges, what is missing, how to move forward, and what lessons to share.

Ana Quiroz - Innpulsa Colombia / Guilherme Lima - Venture Capital - Astella Investimentos / Lucas Jolias - Founder & Head of Latin America - OS City / Aura Cifuentes - Director, Digital Government Directorate - Ministry of ICT, Colombia

Internationalization of companies is essential for the economic development of the region. This session will explore the challenges and opportunities that startups with exponential growth face when entering new markets. Key players in the region’s most attractive expansion markets share their perspectives on softlanding and best practices for entrepreneurs taking innovation beyond borders.

Julia Lucidi - CIC MIami - International Softlanding Manager (moderator) / Renata Zanuto - Co-Head - Cubo / Adrian Blanco - Head of Latam Desk - ICEX / Rogelio Cuevas - CEO- Central / July Jiménez - Sector Specialist - IDB

Relevant experiences and lessons learned from global companies and startups innovating to address the challenges faced by neighbor-hood stores.

Guilherme Freire - Co-founder & CEO - Dolado / Paula Uribe - Director Public Policy - Pepsico / Mercedes Bidart - Co-founder & CEO - Quipu / Susana Mendoza - Digital Trade Marketing Manager - ABinBev / María Barreiros - Product Managment - Commercial Poroducts, LAC

If you are developing AI-based products and are looking for ways to achieve excellence and market differentiation, this is for you! Discover ethical self-assessment tools to help you develop robust products and prevent unintended harm while keeping the pulse on your business metrics. Join for a demo and give the first step!

César Rosales - Project Manager - IDB Lab / Mara Balestrini- Senior Advisor on Digital Transformation - IDB Lab

Perspectives of the most active members of the largest regional community for ethical and responsible use of technology. How being part of it has brought value to their activities and what plans do they have for the future?

Priscila Chaves - Coordinator - fAIr LAC Costa Rica / Maria Paz Hermosilla - Director - Gob Lab UAI / Irene Velasco - Founder & CEO - helKi / Fabiola Velarde - Technology Development Coordinator - Tec de Monterrey / Isidora Edwards - Advisor - Ministry of Economy, Development and Tourism of Chile

Explore how global strategies to incentivize innovation that leverage “Triple Helix” (university-industry-government) interactions can be applied to incentivize innovation, achieve impact at scale and promote sustainable inclusive recovery in the Caribbean.

Therese Turner - General Manager - Caribbean Country Department, IDB / Angel Bohorquez/ Christine Ntim - Founder & CEO - Global Startup Ecosystem / John A. Quelch - Dean, Miami Herbert Business School - University of Miami / Neil Walmsley - Head of International Markets & Programme Director - Climate-KIC / Ruth Houliston - Lead Specialist - IDB Lab / Terry-Ann Segree - Senior Specialist - IDB Lab

Reverse pitch session to understand what entrepreneurs need to consider in order to develop new solutions that revolutionize food production systems across the value chain to be more efficient, sustainable and inclusive.

Gonzalo Perez - Founder & Partner - Arpegio / Francisco Jardim - General Partner - SP Ventures / Camila Petignat - Partner - The Yield Lab / Agustina Fabbio - CEO - Polynatural / Marissa Cuevas - Founder - microTERRA / Laura Constantini - Partner & Founder - Astella Investmen-tos

Panel and interview with startups running solutions on the LACChain network with impact on inclusion, addressing issues of digital identity, cybersecurity and agribusiness.

Jean-Michel Baudoin - CIO - IDB / Irene Arias - CEO - IDB Lab / Ailín González - Partner - Atix Labs / Gastón Gené - COO - VU Security / Robinson López - CEO - Agros

Tutorial workshop on how to deploy a node on the LACChain network as a free regional public

Lucía Latorre - Lacchain - Engagement Lead / Marcos Allende - Lacchain - Technical Lead

Presentation of innovations specifically for domestic and care workers, as well as delivery platform drivers and riders. Experiences from three perspectives: i) workertech solutions, ii) public policy and regulation, and iii) observatories of challenges of workers in the 21st century.

Diego Amondaray Pedro Muller - Co-Founder - Soyfreelancer / Albert Canigueral - General Director of Open Data, Transparency and Collaboration - Secretariat of Open Government in the Ministry of Foreign Action and Open Government / Salua Garcia Fakih - Symplifica - COO & Co-Founder / Maria Jose Zaldivar International Consultant - Former Minister of Labor and Social Welfare

Exhibition of entrepreneurs with experiences in biotechnologies and a discussion between innovators and co-financiers such as the Green Climate Fund and private funds.

Avril Benchimol - Senior Finance Specialist Blended Finance - GEF / Nicolas Castillo - CEO - Ecosea Farming / Manuel Wiechers - CEO - Iluméxico / Fernando Russo - Founder and GP - Meraki Impact / April Crowte Capital / Anita Fiori

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