Meet our speakers

Dan Siroker

CEO at Optimizely

Dan is founder and CEO of the world's leading A/B testing platform Optimizely and was recently listed on Forbes' 30 under 30 in tech. Before founding Optimizely, Dan served as the Director of Analytics during the Obama 2008 presidential campaign.

Kei Shimada

Director of Business Development at Dentsu

Kei is a Japanese American entrepreneur, strategist and best known keynote speaker on the world's most advanced mobile market, Japan. He was previously Founder and CEO of successful mobile strategy firm, Infinita.

Luis von Ahn

Co-founder of Duolingo

Luis is an entrepreneur and a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the inventor of CAPTCHAs and of reCAPTCHA, which sold to Google in 2009. He is also the founder and CEO of Duolingo, a free language-learning and crowdsourced text translation platform.

Craig Le Grice

Chief Innovation Officer at Blue Rubicon

Craig Le Grice is a global thought leader in digital technology marketing. A member of BIMA's Executive Committee, and Chair of the organisation's Silicon Roundabout group, he is an industry advocate for entrepreneurship.

Marco Gomes

Founder of Boo-Box

Marco is the founder of social media advertising company boo-box, which reaches 60 million people in Brazil monthly with ads from clients like Google, Unilever, Volkswagen and Microsoft. They were named one of the world’s top 5 most innovative advertising companies.

Jean Christian Mies

SVP Latin America at Adyen

As Senior VP, Jean manages all of Adyen's latin american business. He has been working in the internet business & payments industry for more than 13 years and was previously Director of Operations for Western Union Financial Services.

Roi Carthy

Managing Partner at Initial Capital

Roi is Managing Partner of Initial Capital, an early stage investment firm focusing on Israel and Brazil. Besides advising startups, Roi has also been covering the Israeli startup scene on TechCrunch for the past six years.

Horacio Melo

Director at Start-Up Chile

Horacio leads the team behind the groundbreaking government initiative Start-Up Chile. Horacio's previous work experience includes marketing positions at LAN Airlines and Procter & Gamble. He also was selected in 2012 one of the 100 youth leaders by El Mercurio.

Paulo Veras

Co-founder of 99Taxis

Paulo was the Managing Director for Endeavor Brazil for 4 years and is currently a board member at Endeavor and B2W, which is the largest e-commerce operation in the Brazil. He's now working on several startups in the digital space, amongst which 99Taxis.

Vanesa Kolodziej

Founder of Nazca Ventures

Vanesa is an entrepreneur and mentor with over 15 years of experience. She co-founded multiple technology companies in LATAM, including Bumeran.com. She co-founded Palermo Valley and mentors at 500 Startups, Founders Institute and Startup Chile.

Juan Pablo Cappello

Co-founder of Idea.me

Juan Pablo was selected as a Top 50 Entrepreneur by Business Leader Magazine and was partner and director of Patagon.com, which was sold to Banco Santander for US$750 million. Recently he co-founded Idea.me, a leading Latin American crowdfunding platform.

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