


Guillermo Acosta
National Director for Productive Modernization, Ministry of Production

Virginia Avila
Deputy Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Government of Tucuman

Davinia Blair
Executive Director, Small Business Development Centre

Anderson Cumberbatch
Chief Business Development Adviser, Ministry of Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Commerce

Graham Clarke
Executive Director, Barbados Coalition of Service Industries

Kim Tudor
Chief Executive Officer, National Initiative for Service Excellence (NISE) Inc.

Michael Singh
Advisor Policy and Performance, Office of the Prime Minister

Celio Vaz
President, Orbital Engenharia S.A.

Newton Hamatsu
Advisor to the President, Finep -Brazilian Innovation Agency

Ridha Ben-Mrad
Chief Research Officer, Mitacs

Robert Faulder
Executive Director (Acting), National Research Council Canada

Nancy Pérez
Director of Innovation, Universidad del Desarrollo

America Castiblanco
Entrepreneurship Director, iNNpulsa Colombia

Vicky Ibáñez
Executive Director, Colombian American Chamber of Commerce – Barranquilla

Ariana Tristán
Director, Chamber of Industry

Liz Brenes
Vice-Rector, R&D UNED

Velia Govaere
Coordinator, Observatory of Foreign Trade of Universidad Estatal a Distancia

Patricio Alarcon
President, Quito Chamber of Commerce

Fernando Lopez
President, Grupo POLYTEC

Lorena Quiñones
Entrepreneur and Director, La Fabrica and QUILO S.A

Jeff D. Pierre
Executive, Ministry of Economy and Finance

Althea West-Myers
Manager, Jamaica Business Development Corporation

Oral Shaw
Principal Director, Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries

Patricia Lewin
Senior Technology Office, National Commission on Science and Technology of the Ministry of Science, Energy and Technology

José Alonso Huerta Cruz
President, National Network of Councils and Organizations of Science and Technology

Alfredo Saldaña Alvarez
Chief of Office, National Governors’ Conference of Mexico (CONAGO)

Ivan Torres Menchaca
President, Federation of Chambers of Commerce of the State of Jalisco

Nacho Calderon
Consultant, Aguascalientes Municipality

María Liz Palacios
Director of Technical Cabinet, Viceministry of Basic Education

Paola Ferrario
Chief Operations Officer, Challenger

Jorge Alfredo Huarachi
Researcher and professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Catholic University of Saint Toribean of Mogrovejo

Omar Azañedo
Manager, AMCHAM PERU - American Chamber of Commerce of Peru

Denell Florius
Entrepreneur, EcoCarib Inc.

Shawn De Freitas
Co-Founder / CEO, Dingole LTD

Shellyanne Wilson
Lecturer, University of the West Indies

Ben Pingree
Director, Tallahassee-Leon County Place

Javier Rivera-Aquino
Deputy Secretary, Puerto Rico Department of Economic Development

Libby Szabo
County Commissioner, Jefferson County Government

Nicole Griensewic Mickelson
Executive Director, Region Nine Development Commission

Mary Cronin
Managing Director, Smith Dawson & Andrews on behalf of the County of Kaua’i

COL Janet J. Tsao
Operations Officer of the 75th Innovation Command United States Army Reserve

Maggie Giuria
Director for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Catholic University of Uruguay


Ole Janssen
Deputy Director General, German Federal Ministry for Economics and Energy

Dr. Tony Curzon Price
Economic Adviser to the Secretary of State, UK Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy

Matt Grainger
Deputy Director, Department for International Trade

Les Abelson
North American Manager, Israel Innovation Authority


Laura Aragón
New Business Manager, Pan American Development Foundation

Marco Kamiya
Coordinator, Urban Economy and Finance Branch, UN-HABITAT

Kwesi Roberts
Business Development Officer, Organization of Eastern Caribbean States Commission