KCD 2023 (ENG) General

Speakers

Future-proof talent

Catalina Rengifo

Project Manager Philanthropies Americas of Microsoft

She has more than fifteen years of experience structuring and executing projects focused on innovating through the use of technology, generating digital transformation plans.She led government relations for IBM in Latin America for more than 10 years and today she is the Philanthropy Project Manager for Microsoft in the Americas. She is part of several women empowerment groups such as WOMEN IN CONNECTION and MUJERES TIC. She is a columnist for El Colombiano and has been invited as a panelist in important spaces.

Diversity & Inclusion

Catalina Irurita

KOL marketing and women's empowerment

She is in love with technology and inclusion, thanks to her performance in the Mexican market, she was included in the list of The 100 Most Powerful Women in Business 2022 by Expansión magazine. She was also chosen in Colombia as a Women to Watch 2022 by P&M magazine, cover of MKTTotal magazine and was part of the Mexican delegation in the G20 this year.

I am remarkable

Mariana Amado

BDR Campaign Manager, Google Cloud

Professional in marketing and advertising, MBA in Business Management from the University of Palermo, Argentina. She has dedicated her career to execute Marketing, Sales and Communications processes in Latin America, for brands such as Hilton, HubSpot and Google. Creator of the Woman Sales Academy program at HubSpot, ambassador and ally for women in technology and diverse communities. Lover of the sea, Yoga, dogs, wine and reading.

Cloud-oriented development

Walter Novoa (WarNov)

Sr. Cloud Solutions Architect DNU - LATAM

Graduated in Systems Engineering from the National University of Colombia. Senior Cloud Solutions Architect for Microsoft Latam. With an experience of 13 years in Azure since its public launch, he has managed to help dozens of startups, unicorns and consolidated companies to move to the Azure cloud. In addition to his work career, he enjoys motor racing in his spare time.

Libro Semilla, another way to apply Open Source code to social and cultural impact projects

Alejandro Benavides

Digital Transformation in Marketing of Bavaria

His work from DraftLine (In-House Data+Tech+Creativity) aims at integrating new technologies, re-inventing skills and re-elaborating processes to generate solutions focused on users and business indicators. I seek to accelerate the learning curves of cross-functional teams through agile methodologies, experimentation and "learning by doing" achieving applicable and measurable results.

Origins of Cloud Native

Victor Morales

Sr. Staff Software Engineer of Samsung

CNCF CNF Developer Co-Chair, co-founder of the OpenStackGDL and Cloud-Native El Salvador communities, active contributor in CNCF, LFN and Open Infrastructure projects, Victor Morales is a passionate Senior Staff Software Engineer with an interest in software development, specializing in the Telecommunications industry. He likes to create solutions that are easy to use, scale and adapt. Fervent follower of the DevOps culture with more than 18 years of experience in the industry.

Faster Time to Market with Cloud Native

Ángel Ramírez

CEO & Tech-Founder of Cuemby

Angel is an entrepreneur and technology leader with more than 15 years in software architecture, infrastructure, and security focused on helping organizations achieve a successful cloud transformation journey. Due to his extensive experience in building cloud-native platforms and DevSecOps, Angel has supported several investment firms conducting technology assessments for companies in LATAM, the United States, Asia and Europe.

OKR's, results-focused methodologies

Angel Celis Botto

Co-Founder of Liftit

Entrepreneur, visionary and technology expert, with over 15 years of experience in creating products and services for business scalability and profitability. From his leadership, he has co-founded 4 companies in the last 10 years, 3 of them VC backed. He is currently Co-founder - CPO & VP Marketing at Liftit, where he serves as a leader and product strategist for business viability and performance.

Human Talent Management

Darío Cerón

Protection Human Resources Business Partner

Extensive experience accompanying the challenges and organizational needs through the Strategic Planning of Human Talent and organizational transformation according to the new trends of HT; Leading processes of Attraction, Selection and Recruitment, Knowledge Management, Organizational Design (Headcount Management and personnel budget), Compensation, Development and identification of Talent, Performance Management.

Digital Farmers

Carolina Huertas Garcés

CEO & Founder of AgrodatAI

Zootechnician from the National University of Colombia Medellin (2007), Specialist in Finance from Eafit University (2011), Master in Financial Management from Eafit University (2012), Diploma in Green Finance from the Javeriana University (2018).

Decoding Kubernetes from a Security Lens: Sharing my Learnings

Carol Valencia

Cloud Native Security Advocate of Aqua Security

Carol is an enthusiastic software developer focused on the practices of secure cloud native. She collaborates in open-source projects and contributes to the Kubernetes project. Currently residing in Sao Paulo, Brazil and collaborates with local events. In her free time, she enjoys running, playing beach tennis and watching history documentaries.

Negociating to overcome obstacles

Stephany Gomez

Advisor - Mentor - Chief Strategy Officer of Vestas Group Vestas SAS

Stephany Gómez has over 10 years of experience in the private equity industry in LATAM, starting her career as an Investment Analyst, occupying different positions until she became Managing Director and Head of the private equity strategy at Kandeo Asset Management.Stephany currently serves as Chief Strategy Officer at Vestas, an asset manager at her hometown Cali and, she is working with and for the entrepreneurial community in her region. Stephany has extensive experience in a variety of financial products and non financial products such as mortgages, payroll deduction loans, factoring, structured lending, fleet management, technology, equipment renting, medium-term working capital financing, microfinance, fintech products, distribution and logistics of mass consumer goods, education, etc.

How do you win, if you invest in diversity and inclusion in technology?

Alexandra Camarena

Founder of LOA

She have been working for more than 20 years in the corporate world in countries such as Brazil, Spain and Peru and during the last 10 years she realized the importance and urgency of promoting healthier workplaces free of stereotypes and prejudices. This awakening of awareness led me to lead Diversity and Inclusion committees in transnational companies and to do a great job with these teams. She is here to contribute to the development of a healthier and more compassionate organizational culture, making visible and contributing to the deconstruction of the stigmas that exist in our societies.

The Lord of the Keys, your secrets safe with Vault in Kubernetes

Rossana Suárez

First Woman in LATAM as AWS Hero | AWS Girls Argentina

Systems Engineer, Tech Lead at Naranjax, AWS Hero and Community Builder program container, Gitlab Hero. Mentor at Club Chicas programadoras, mundose, educacionIT, I designed her own free superpower devops bootcamp for the entire IT community and has her youtube channel 295devops.

Accessible and Inclusive Digital Products

Javier Casallas

Founder of Hannu

Their experience and knowledge in this area have allowed him to develop a unique vision and a valuable perspective to address problems and opportunities in the field of entrepreneurship, with skills to plan, organize, direct and control the resources of a company to achieve the established objectives. They have participated in the structuring of companies and I have contributed to improve their strategies, processes and operations. They are committed to support the empowerment of people with disabilities and work to promote real inclusion in companies.

Security in Kubernetes (Virtual)

Pablo Fredrikson

Principal SRE in Split

This speaker brings a wealth of experience, having been working with Linux since 2006. With over a decade of experience in this field, they have developed a deep understanding of Linux systems and the various challenges that can arise when working with them.  It has also been the largest Spanish-speaking influencer with the dissemination of Cloud Native and Kubernetes technologies, creating a community of more than 100K followers.

A booster for life

Elizabeth Hoyos

CEO & Co-Founder of Inanna

Industrial Engineer from the National University, with a master's degree in Digital Transformation and New Business Development from the University of Barcelona, and is part of the fourth promotion of the CESA Women's Leadership program on Boards of Directors. Expert in Innovation, Digital Transformation and Venture Capital, Elizabeth has more than 12 years of experience. She is currently Co-founder and CEO of Inanna, an enterprise that generates emotional, mental and spiritual well-being EME, an independent member of the Board of Directors in several organizations at the national level, a mentor to entrepreneurship and is part of Mujeres TIC. Her super power is connecting and transforming realities, with which she works hard on the topics she is passionate about: innovation, the generation of new gifts and female empowerment.

Love, Git and other demons

Manuela Castrillón

Software Engineer at Uber

Colombian software engineer living in the Netherlands, she is a software developer at Uber and creator of digital content about git, web development, and tech events. For her trajectory and impact as a community leader, she has been recognized as a Google Developer Expert, and GitHub Campus Expert. When she's not programming, she enjoys gardening and crocheting.

Open Telemetry: The principles

Marian Villa

Senior Fullstack Product Designer at NodeSource

Marian Villa is a Fellow (LIF*) of the Royal Academy of Engineering in London, she also joined Google Launchpad as a Mentor after being recognized in 2018 as the first woman in Colombia as an Expert UI/UX Developer.She has a double degree as a Graphic Designer and Bachelor in Communication and Digital Strategy from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. She has an MBA in Marketing from Universidad EAFIT, has developed in BIG DATA in Business Intelligence. She is co-founder of the digital agency EVERSOCIAL with more than 12 years in the Colombian market.Since late 2016 she is co-founder and leader of @Pionerasdev, the largest community of #WomenInTech in Colombia. Her community was recognized as the only one in Latam to win the IBM Community Grant (https://bit.ly/3ncMKYq). At Pionerasdev we work to reduce the gender gap in tech careers, focused on the fulfillment of the UN SDGs, specifically in: Education, gender equity, decent work and economic growth.

IT Industry Profiling

Jose Alejandro Betancur

Nodo Manager

Systems Engineer and Master in Administration with specialization in Finance and passionate about education in emerging technologies, user experience and mobile development. He has founded two ventures in these fields and has worked as a professor at EIA University and EAFIT's master's degree in Engineering. He has also held leadership and business design roles at Multinational SoftwareONE and has contributed to the digital transformation of several national and international companies. He is the author of the book "The Art of Design Thinking" and is a partner of the firm KZ Labs, where he works on issues of high impact entrepreneurship, strategy and design. Currently, he is the director of Nodo, a center whose purpose is to reduce the technological gap through an educational offer that fosters the development of the human capital required to build more technologically sophisticated industries.

Rise Up! Fintech Community

Ixchel Santos

Project Manager at Rise Up! Fintech

Project and content manager with extensive experience in the Latin American fintech industry. Beginning her career as a copywriter at Cuemby, she quickly discovered her true passion for project management and content strategy. Since then, she has spearheaded some of the most innovative and successful fintech communities in the region.

Rise Up! Fintech Community

Jose Rodríguez

CRO at Cuemby

Marketing, advertisement, strategic PR and sales expert & passionate. With experience in Strategic Marketing, go-to-market strategies, CRM, SEM,SEO, Organizational Communication,brand positioning and Digital marketing. Achievements such as implementing marketing strategies, development of new products and insights enhancer. Knowledge of Organizational Structures, Product, Online Marketing, investigation processes, public relations, digital transformation and Startups. Management abilities in communication, excellent personal relations, leadership, creativity, adaptation to change, social sensibility,work ethic and enterprise chaos solver.

Building a Kubernetes community, from scratch

Samantha Upegui

Communications Tech Manager at Cuemby

CM and Growth Hacking specialist. Passionate about innovation and disruption applied in all areas, especially in the technology services sector, where I enjoy spending time to analyze, test and really improve all aspects of any brand or company, from visual to written I have helped clients accelerate their own transformation.

KCD Colombia wrap up

Martín Quintero

Cofounder and CTO at Guane Enterprises

Software Engineer specialist in in self-scaling infrastructure, cloud software architecture and artificial intelligence model deployment. He has spent the last years combining these branches to develop cognitive products leading an interdisciplinary team that includes engineers, mathematicians, physicists and economists. His experience in cognitive software has largely improved and enhanced the operations of our customers.

Why does Open Banking need an MSA approach?

Carlos Quiroga

Digital Arquitecture Corporate Leader at Grupo Pichincha

Has experience in developing & deploying distributed solutions, including APIs strategy, API Economy adoption (ecosystems & platform), Cloud, Omnichannel, Microservices, SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) & Front End technologies (Ionic, Bootstrap, Angular, etc.), applying Agile & Design Thinking techniques to align IT solutions to customer needs.

CoreDNS: Getting to know the Kubernetes infrastructure

Lewis Muñoz

Infrastructure Engineer

Telecommunications technologist with experience in IT coordination, SAP B1 and DBA administration, implementation of servers and technological solutions on Cloud servers, monitoring of telecommunications infrastructure, technical support, and communication between different sites. In addition, he practices cycling and is a co-founder of a group of cyclists called Coyotes. His goal is to finish his professional studies and grow as a person and a father.

API Testing Made Easy

Barkatul Mujauddin

Founder of HackForCode

Relationship Developer at Keploy, Blogger and Student Ambassador at Kube Simplify. He studies at Haldia Institute of Technology and has experience in technologies such as KodeKloud, Linux Basics Course, Shell Scripts for Beginners and E-Commerce.

Modeling the future with K8sGPT

Brad McCoy

DevSecOps Director in Basiq

Prominent platform engineer and board member of the CD Foundation, a CNCF ambassador and Keptn maintainer. He also serves on the Keptn technical steering committee and is the communications lead for Kubernetes 1.28. Brad has spent his career working on platform technologies, leading teams and contributing to open source projects. He is currently the DevSecOps Manager at a leading technology company Basiq.

From Science Fiction on the Future

Alvin Estrada

Cloud Native Engineer

Developer, entrepreneur, technology enthusiast, and speaker with experience in Full Stack technologies and System Administration. Specialized in Backend with REST APIs, Machine Learning, and automation with Python and Go, Frontend with Vue.js and Backend with JS, Android with Kotlin and Flutter, and in containers with Docker and Kubernetes. He is the organizer of two software communities: Kubernetes Guatemala, focused on container technologies, and Artificial Intelligence Guatemala, focused on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with content in Spanish.

Machine Learning in Kubernetes: why and how to implement it successfully

David Espejo

Open Source Developer Advocate of Union.ai

David Espejo is passionate about open source and supports open source communities at unionai. A graduate of Universidad de Los Andes, he has been present at the Linux Foundation and is a speaker at the Open Source Summit Latin America 2022. He is a Nutanix Certified Systems Engineer - Core and has knowledge in tools such as Kubernetes, Python and open source software.

AI for everyone: how to orchestrate cloud-native ML/Data uploads with Flyte

David Espejo

Open Source Developer Advocate of Union.ai

Creativity in your square meter

Giovanni Ariza

Agile Coach at Telefónica

Giovanni Ariza is a Systems Engineer who has worked in the technology field in Venezuela, United Kingdom, and Colombia. After obtaining his degree, he decided to travel and study web design and English. He has implemented many high-impact technology products and developed an online system to help his clients manage their processes. In the last five years, he has worked in innovation and agility, helping businesses and entrepreneurs through his personal brand, GioSyst3m. He uses his framework called the Digital Business Hexagon to position the products and services of companies. As an Agile Coach, he also teaches about technology and agility through his brand Conectados Digitalmente.

Technology in agriculture - Agtech

Igor Ariza

Lead Backend Engineer

Igor Ariza is a technology leader at Cuemby and graduated as a Systems Engineer from Universidad del Valle in Colombia. Although his passion is teaching, he has pursued a career as a software engineer, always looking to learn and apply new technologies.He currently serves as a backend leader at Cuemby.

How we increase data team productivity with airflow on K8s

Herbert Gomez

Engineering DIrector of La Haus

He has more than 10 years of experience in the technology area. In his professional career, he has worked as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in the creation of Nequi, a digital banking app. He also worked at Amazon Web Services as a senior solutions architect.

A journey to migrate Heroku applications to Kubernetes

Herbert Gomez

Engineering DIrector of La Haus

IT Industry Profile

Mauricio Ferrer

CIO-COO at Protección

Mauricio has 25 years of experience in the industry and currently serves as the Vice President of Technology at Protección, the second-largest pension fund in Colombia. He is also a mentor in Endeavor's network in Colombia and a board member of Carvajal Tecnología. Prior to joining Protección, Mauricio worked with Intergrupo for 11 years in various positions. In 2005, he founded IG Infraestructura, a company focused on managing and administering technological infrastructures for large companies. He also co-founded Nephos Networks, a cloud platform for the region, in partnership with Intergrupo and Nexsys Latinoamérica. Mauricio graduated from EAFIT as a systems engineer and has further studies in coaching and senior management. He also published a book titled "Understanding Digital Transformation".

Tekton y ArgoCD: the dynamic duo for GitOps-based Continuous I/D/D

Kevin Dubois

Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat

Kevin Dubois is a Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat, a leading global provider of open source solutions. He graduated from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where he received a degree in Computer Science.With extensive experience in software development, Kevin has developed a deep understanding of various programming languages such as Java, Python, PHP, and JavaScript. He is also skilled in building and integrating Web Services, as well as designing systems based on Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles and RESTful architectures.In addition, Kevin has expertise in developing mobile applications for Android platforms. As a Principal Developer Advocate, he is responsible for driving innovation and adoption of Red Hat's technology solutions. He regularly shares his knowledge and experience by speaking at various conferences and meetups, and writing technical articles and blog posts.Kevin's passion for technology and his commitment to innovation have made him a respected and influential figure in the software development community.

Progressive Delivery with Istio and Argo Rollouts

Kevin Dubois

Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat

IT Industry Profiling

Mariana Restrepo

Executive Director in Marble Headhunter

Mariana Restrepo Botero is a Director at Marble Headhunter, a leading recruitment firm based in Colombia. She believes that progress happens when people from all walks of life come together with the drive, talent, and influence to create positive change.

Debugging a Kubernetes cluster with eBPF-based tools

Mauricio Vásquez Bernal

Software Engineer at Microsoft

Mauricio Vásquez Bernal is a software engineer specialized in technologies such as eBPF, Kubernetes, containers, Linux and distributed monitoring. With extensive experience in the design and development of software solutions, Mauricio has worked on technology projects in several renowned companies.

CDK / CDKTF beyond Terraform

Jossemar Cordero

Senior Lead Platform Engineer

He is a creator who enjoys learning, teaching, creating, and experimenting. Their ideology is based on the fact that complex problems must be solved first at the human level and then at the technological level.

Agile and other mythical beasts - Conway's law is real!

Jossemar Cordero

Senior Lead Platform Engineer

Nelo - From Medallo to the space

Nelo

CEO/Founder Nelo

Nelo is a CEO and founder of the Nelo™ Group and Business App™, who serves as an empirical investment financial analyst and specializes in financial equations and algorithms. He is also the creator of SAM (System Algorithm Monitored), an algorithm monitoring tool for real-time financial data analysis.With extensive experience in finance and technology, Nelo has led the creation and development of multiple tools and software solutions for the financial sector. His focus is on using innovative technologies to provide efficient and effective solutions for financial decision making.

Strengthening your Kubernetes Security with "m9sweeper": A Detailed Demo

Koteswara Rao Vellanki

DevOps Engineer at Adobe

Koteswara Rao Vellanki is a DevOps Engineer and Speaker currently working at Adobe. With over 9 years of experience in the tech industry, he has worked at companies like HCL, Intelletive, and Agathsya. Additionally, Koteswara is an active volunteer and organizer in the Azure Developer community. With skills in DevOps, automation, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and more, he strives to help companies improve efficiency and reduce delivery times. As a speaker, he has shared his knowledge at various tech events and conferences around the world.

IA Responsable

Lakshay Kumar

Computer Scientist at Adobe

Lakshay Kumar is a computer scientist at Adobe, passionate about developing technology-based solutions to make the world a better place. He is always ready to learn new things and improve his skills. With a background in computer science, he has worked in various areas including data analytics, machine learning, and web development. At Adobe, he works on improving IT infrastructure to ensure the company's products are running optimally. Outside of work, Lakshay enjoys music, sports, and travel.

5 ways to deploy a Kubernetes cluster with Amazon EKS

José Flores

Site Reliability at Jobsity

DevOps Cloud Engineer with over 14 years of experience in the IT industry, began his career as a software developer and transitioned to an infrastructure role. It became very exciting for him because he is passionate about continuing to grow in this world of DevOps.

Cloud Services: Buy or Build? A Developers' Narrative

Wilfred Almeida

LFX'23 at CNCF - Harbor

Wilfred Almeida is a FullStack developer with expertise in various technologies. He has experience working on the frontend using Flutter for mobile development, and on the backend with NodeJS and Golang. Additionally, he has proficiency in working with databases, both SQL and NoSQL.Wilfred is also skilled in deployment technologies such as NGINX, Docker, Kubernetes, and Harbor. He is knowledgeable in continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) techniques, including GitHub Actions and ArgoCD.

Simplified Kubernetes setup with GitOps at La Haus

Andrés Botero

Tech Lead - Plataform at La Haus

Systems Engineer graduated from Politécnico Grancolombiano in Colombia. He currently serves as Tech Lead - Platform at La Haus, a digital real estate platform in Latin America.With extensive experience in technologies such as AWS CDK, Cloud Computing, MongoDB, gitops, Kubernetes, flux, go, github actions, terraform and more, Andres has been able to lead large technology projects in various companies in the industry.During his career, he has developed skills in project management, software design and architecture, systems development and team leadership. In addition, he has demonstrated strong communication and teamwork skills, which has allowed him to work closely with teams from different disciplines and cultures.

Wellness for productivity

Laura Sierra

Wellbeing Coach Elecciones saludables

Laura Sierra is a Health Coach and founder of Healthy Choices, specializing in devising and implementing wellness plans for employees and their companies. Through a holistic approach, she takes into account not only physical health, but also mental and emotional well-being, stress management and work-life balance. Laura is passionate about helping professionals optimize their well-being and productivity with strategies to build healthy habits, including nutrition, exercise, mindfulness, emotional control and sleep.

Usage of Blockchain and Web3.0 with Artificial Intelligence

Lalo Octavio Garcés

Empresario tecnológico y de IA

Co-founder of Venture Capital Founder & Youtuber of lA and Web 3.0. Experience as Chief Data & Digital Officer at L'Oreal and Pepsico. Professor of lA at HAAS Business School, University of California Berkeley.

KCD Colombia Opening Remarks

Nathalia Miranda Ortiz

CEO of Transformente

Transform the present to create futures. Founder and CEO of Transformente SAS, with a trajectory of about 15 years in business intervention, as a speaker, in management and coordination of business projects, dynamization of work teams, executive coaching, business and territorial development, in Colombia and some Latin American countries. She is passionate about sustainability, talent, innovation, business strengthening, entrepreneurship and transformation of the self to achieve superior results. Magister and Specialist in Corporate Social Responsibility, certified as Multiplier B Latin America, Certified in Business Weaving, Business Coach at professional level, columnist for Ecuaempresas, Ecuadorian business magazine with national coverage, teacher of entrepreneurship and innovation at the Pontificia Javeriana University of Bogota and CES of Medellin.

DevOps for Image Testing

Pablo del Pino Mejia

Senior DevOps Engineer at SoftServe

Over 15 years of experience in Computer Assembly, Installation and Configuration ofData Networks, Advanced knowledge of Operative Systems ranging from Server and client-based Windows to Linux-based distros, especially Debian, Ubuntu and CentOS.Skilled in handling work teams, perfect spoken/written English level, and high motivation for learning new skills.More than 10 years' experience on Cloud Environments such as AWS, as well as container orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes, Ci-CD with Jenkins and automated deployment with Packer, Ansible and Terraform.Experience providing IT Security-minded lectures in companies such as Ca mara deComercio de Medellín, ENKA de Colombia and Ca mara de Comercio Aburra Sur.

Welcome KCD Colombia

María Eugenia Puerta Yepes

PhD in Mathematicacl Sciences, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

Professor and researcher at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Universidad EAFIT since 1997. D. in Mathematical Sciences from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, and Mathematician from the University of Antioquia. She has served as head of the Department of Basic Sciences (2003-2005), now the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Universidad EAFIT. Member of the Mathematics and Applications Research Group (category A Colciencias). His publications are related to Functional Analysis, Interval Analysis in Optimization and Concrete Problems in Biomathematics.

Lego Series Play

Juanita Roa Pinzón

Head of Activation and Attraction Eafit University

Experiencia en mercadeo responsable a través de la activación de productos del sector educativo, experiencia de usuario, servicio al cliente, CRM y marca. Conocimiento en diseño de campañas de mercadeo y diseño de producto aplicando el enfoque de human centered design.

Experience in responsible marketing through product activation in the education sector, user experience, customer service, CRM and branding. Knowledge in marketing campaign design and product design applying the human centered design approach. Aptitude in managing high performance work teams. Knowledge in fundraising and marketing campaigns in the higher education sector. Interest in learning more about design research, strategic planning and Design Thinking methodologies.

How to increase the productivity of a data team with Airflow

Gilbert Gómez

Data Engineer

As a data engineer with 7 years of experience in software development, I have worked in different areas such as human resources, health and tourism projects as a freelancer. Currently, at La Haus, my focus has been in the DataOps area. I have been in charge of setting up real-time processing frameworks and managing our data platform to ensure that our processes run smoothly. My curiosity drives me to always be on the lookout for new tools and technologies that can improve the efficiency and quality of our work. I always strive to learn something new that will help improve my skills as a data engineer and apply them in my daily work.

Simplified Kubernetes configuration with GitOps at La Haus

Alejandra Ramos Vélez

Platform Engineer

As a Telematic Engineer with nearly two years of experience, I currently serve as a Platform Engineer at La Haus, where my expertise lies in Kubernetes, AWS and troubleshooting infrastructure-related issues. I am dedicated to continuous learning and always on the lookout for fresh and innovative approaches to streamline processes and deliver optimal results.

How SAFe can impact team productivity

Hitomi Mizugaki

Co-Founder & CPO at Cuemby

CBO and Co-Founder of Cuemby. Provide innovative solutions specialized in Cloud Native and DevSecOps as a MSP to help software companies boost productivity, increase performance, and automate scalability.

How SAFe can impact team productivity

Estefany Baena

Product Owner at Cuemby

I am Project Manager since March 2021 in the software development area, where agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban and SAFe are implemented.

The new tech: Transformation through leadership

Juliana Pérez Camacho

Proptech Hub Director

Passionate about the digital ecosystem as well as leading strategic marketing, innovation and/or digital transformation projects, through the process of human talent development. Business Administrator, with a Master's Degree in Marketing and Commercial Management. With more than 14 years of experience in Marketing, in national and multinational companies in the insurance, food and construction sectors. Through these years I have understood that success is achieved when three axes are turned: understanding the human being, data analysis and market understanding. Currently I am dedicated to manage and train interdisciplinary marketing teams, from the creation and management of disruptive and innovative strategies; monitoring KPI's to the definition and control of budgets.

Marketing to succeed as Fintechs

Isabella Guerrero

Operations Manager WeAreDataLab

7 years work experience in the advertising, digital marketing, strategic thinking, project management in different industries like Finance, Fintech, Insurtech, Healthcare, Personal Care, Food and Technology.Results oriented with data driven thinking and with the ability to implement innovative and effective strategies that are capable of generate value for the brands.Degree in Advertising, Gerency of advertising and with a MBA in Digital Transformation.

The new tech: Transformation through leadership

Rodrigo Alfonso

Co-Founder & CEO of Sekure

Experienced professional with in-depth knowledge of the insurance industry. Enthusiastic about innovation, digital transformation, and entrepreneurship. Background includes marketing strategy, business development, product innovation, marketing research, project management, strategic planning, and negotiation skills. Active in problem-solving and building long-term client relationships that lead to sustainable business results.

Data to action, agile experimentation and value generation for leaders

Paula Pineda

Head of Growth Human Living Data

Master's degree in Innovation Strategies from IED Spain, with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from EAFIT University. Over ten years of experience in project management, leadership, and execution, driving teams with strategic thinking for project development, transformation, and business enhancement across various industries, including digital, transportation, fuel, and real estate. Proficient in design methods to foster innovative environments, focusing on user-centric approaches within organizations. Entrepreneur and founder of the Colombian entrepreneurship marketplace, Efecto Dominó, and Head of Growth at Human Living Data, a company dedicated to comprehending the world through data as a foundation for deploying high-value strategies and cutting-edge models across any industry and location.

Marketing to succeed in tech

Enrique Echavarria

Manager WeAreDataLab

Entrepreneurship and Innovation expert, with over 10 years of experience working in the digital field. Founder of WE ARE DATALAB, a digital agency focused on assisting the financial sector and Fintech companies. We collaborate with over 30 Fintechs located in Colombia and abroad. Nowadays, Datalab stands out for its strong focus on data and its expertise in effective marketing strategies and tailored developments. Co-founder of Boostart Venture Studio, currently running 15 ongoing projects in various prominent industries, with investments exceeding 2.5 billion pesos in the first year of operation. Angel investor, with experience as a mentor and influencer in the Fintech industry.

The connection of the new neural network

Lesly Gómez Jaramillo

VP Digital y TI Grupo El Colombiano

Industrial Engineer from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana with 25 years of experience in management and strategic positions in the area of technology projects, with a Specialization in Information Systems in Organizations (ESIO) from Universidad de los Andes, certified in PMP, ITIL Foundation. Experience in project management related to process architecture and technological components such as software development and implementation, process automation, infrastructure management and Data Management with implementations on BPM, BI and ECM platforms. Certified in the Leadership and Innovation MIT program (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) complemented with a certification as an Ontological Coach. I served as director of the AND (National Digital Agency) - supporting the technological transformation of different public entities and the implementation of Coronapp to support the traceability of the evolution of the Coronavirus in the country. I was also part of the team of the DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION ADVISORY. I was part of CARVAJAL TECNOLOGIA Y SERVICIOS with projects with platforms for the areas of Health and Education.

Da Vinci knew it: the human being is the measure of the metaverse and A.I.

Estella Agudelo

Freelance Teacher

PhD Candidate in Philosophy UPB. Master in Philosophy UPB. Specialist in Creative Intervention Colegiatura Colombiana. Specialist in semiotics and hermeneutics of art Universidad Nacional. Bachelor in Education. Consultant and creative strategist.

Diversity and Inclusion from the point of view of women participants in the STEAM ecosystem in Colombia.

Rina Plata

Front End Developer

Originaria de la Guajira, Colombia. Estudia ingeniería de software y pertenece a la comunidad indígena Wayuu. Rina trabaja en el desarrollo de landingpages y tiene un gran interés en conocer nuevas personas, visitar museos, viajar y disfrutar de la compañía delos gatos. Forma parte de la comunidad de datasciencefem y ha participado en diversoseventos tecnológicos, donde inicialmente comenzó como voluntaria en MonkeyFest, organizado por la comunidad de Avanet en Medellín. También formó parte deWIDS 2019 en tres ciudades de Colombia y actualmente es organizadora de dichoevento. Además, Rina es miembro de la mesa indígena de la universidad donde estudia, donde se busca crear un espacio para eldiálogo, el intercambio cultural y la fraternidad entre los indígenas. A travésde esta mesa, se organizan diversos eventos para promoverla cultura, el conocimiento ancestral, las costumbres y el estilo devida de las comunidades indígenas.

Diversity and Inclusion from the point of view of women participants in the STEAM ecosystem in Colombia.

Kaky Rodríguez

UX Consultant de Ceiba Software

Social Communicator with +10 years of experience in creation and development of digital products. Currently I work as a UX Consultant at Ceiba Software and I am part of the organizing staff of the PionerasDev community in Medellín. Geek, foodie and soon to be Master in UX|UI Design at Nuclio Digital School.

Diversity and Inclusion from the point of view of women participants in the STEAM ecosystem in Colombia.

Verónica Rodríguez

Senior Product Manager de Instaleap

Black Colombian woman, graduated as an economist from Universidad del Valle and currently working as Product Manager in a Colombian startup that serves clients in LATAM, USA and Europe; I have more than 6 years of experience in the design, structuring, implementation and management of products with a technological approach, innovation and digital transformation for the financial and services sector. My previous roles include Product Owner in traditional banking and Product Manager in a Fintech startup based in the US and Colombia; I am also an organizing member of Pioneras, a Colombian women's organization that seeks to boost knowledge and close gender gaps in technology.

Connecting the dots. Collaboration in the Valley software

Maria Mercedes Jaramillo

Executive Director

International negotiator, specialist in Marketing Management, Master in Cultural Management.Currently I advise companies in the creative sector and Industries 4.0 to reach international markets. I support the design of strategies for international business, improving the communication possibilities of companies and the development of strategic alliances.

Logs, metrics and traces with FluentBit

Eduardo Silva

Founder & CEO de Calyptia

Colombia as a global technology hub

America Castiblanco

VP Acceleration and Entrepreneurship of iNNpulsa Colombia

America is passionate about entrepreneurship and innovation as drivers of social and economic development for more powerful countries. She has had the opportunity to develop entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems in Brazil and Colombia during more than 15 years of professional career. América has a special ability to build high-performance teams and cultures with which she has been able to design, plan and execute strategies, programs, products and services to enhance entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems that impact the economic development of countries. She is an industrial engineer from Universidad Javeriana, with a master's degree in innovation for business development from Tecnológico de Monterrey and an MBA in business management from IBMEC University in Brazil, she is currently the Vice President of Acceleration and Entrepreneurship at iNNpulsa Colombia, her first book is called Guía Ruta de Innovación, which was written for Confecámaras in the framework of the program Alianzas por la innovación.

Mini league for society

Lorena Marsiglia

Imagine AppsCDO + Co COO
Charla Virtual

I am Lorena Marsiglia, Visual Artist with a professional background in the area of digital design with a specialization in UX/UI Design from California College of the Arts. With a framework structure framework towards agile methodologies, UX/UI Design Leadership Mentor at Protalento and juror of The Entrepreneurship World Cup EWC of the Colombian delegation in 2021. Organizer and Speaker at Femtech. Passionate about design from art and the emotional connection with the community from the visual. Currently CDO & CO- COO where day by day together with the team we build solutions and experiences linked to a purpose of giving contributions to the community and the technological evolution of our planet from design and innovation.

Cost optimization in the cloud to reduce carbon footprint and why it is relevant for organizations

Jose Peña

LATAM Biz Dev Leader
Cast AI

I am an energetic, multilingual professional who has consistently delivered at a high level throughout two decades of escalating Sales and Alliance leadership roles. Whether I am executing on behalf of a young start-up or a world-leading technology company, I am a builder looking to innovate as I stay a step ahead of the competition.
My background includes a front-row seat to IBM Corporation’s global evolution as well as its ascent in Cloud applications and services. I held multiple positions focused on Latin America and Cloud business development before being tasked with integrating the Cloud and Data Science/AI portfolio and developing the sales strategy for that new unit.
My recent success has involved cultivating new channels and key alliances, standing up new teams, global programs, and an entire partner network to strategically refocused sales efforts to realize big gains. Analytical and approachable, I am an executive always looking for ways to advance people and the processes they drive.

Internal developer platforms with ArgoCD and Github actions

Sergio Méndez

DevOps/Operations Engineer at Yalo

Sergio Méndez is a systems engineer and professor of operating systems at Universidad San Carlos de Guatemala. Sergio also has a startup to unite communities with the theme of Cloud Native, DevOps, CI/CD and containers. He is currently working at Yalo doing DevOps for Chatbots on Kubernetes. He is an organizer of Cloud Native Guatemala Community Group and is working to involve students in the CNCF ecosystem. He is Linkerd Hero and has been a speaker at several KubeConEU and ServiceMeshCon.

Technology in agriculture - Agtech

Samir Castro

Backend Developer at Cuemby

Las Tech: AdTech, FemTech y EduTech

Sara Hernández

Head of Nodo Technology Center

International negotiator and master in financial administration. Convinced of the transformative power of education and passionate about the future, nature and emerging technologies. She has extensive experience in innovation, entrepreneurship, project management, technology transfer and structuring of new businesses. She has taught at the MBA and different diploma courses. She is the administrative and commercial head of Nodo, the technology training center for solving real problems, based on the connection between organizations and talent.

AI-assisted Kubernetes management

Jorge Aguilar

Technical Coach

Software architect with more than 10 years of experience. Passionate about hardware, telecommunications and software development. Lover of electronics, 3d printers and CNCs.

Lego Series Play - Part I and II

María José Gaviria

Marketing Lab Coordinator (MercaLab)- Neura marketing professor

Coordinator of the Marketing Lab - MercaLAB at Universidad EAFIT, passionate about market research with focus and use of Neuromarketing tools.In love with teaching, professor of Neuromarketing, Marketing Mix, Fundamentals of Management at Universidad EAFIT.

Yo soy extraordinari@

Dora Buitrago

Account Executive en Google

Dora Buitrago, professional in Business Administration, with specialization in Commercial Management and MBA from Universidad Javeriana. With more than 20 years of experience in technology companies. Passionate about sales, customer service and helping to solve strategic business challenges through Google technology. Mom of two children, Ashly and Samuel, and wife to William for 24 years. In love with my family, sports and enjoying life every day. My favorite things to do include traveling, wine, reading, dancing and enjoying time with my friends.

The new tech: Transformation through leadership

Jorge Ivan Otalvaro Tobon

COO - Chief Operating Officer at Nequi

Business administrator from EAFIT. Studies in leadership, executive skills development and service at Kellogg University, Harvard Business School, U. de los Andes, U. de la Sabana and Disney Institute; MBA at Instituto de Empresa, IE Business School, Madrid. 25 years of experience in the financial industry.

Medellin as a global technology hub

Santiago Trujillo Pereira

Senior Investment Management Professional

Electronic Engineer, Marketing Specialist. I have been promoting cooperation and foreign direct investment in Medellin for two years. Passionate about international relations after a trip around the world that lasted almost 4 years that allowed me to know 86 countries. I wrote the book "#Me lo contó un viajero". I am creative, innovative, explorer, I connect, I like challenges, learn and live with passion. Proud of Medellin and its transformation process.

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