Since 2009, Kirk has emerged as one of the industry's foremost authorities on cross-border technology partnerships across software, IT, BPO, contact center and digital innovation domains.

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Eric Farnsworth has spent three decades on Western Hemisphere policy, including more than twenty years running the Washington office of the Americas Society and Council of the Americas.

Bismarck Lepe founded Wizeline in 2014 after building search advertising products at Google and co-founding the video platform Ooyala. He now leads MiSalud Health, which serves underserved workers.

Richie Etwaru is co-founder and CEO of Mobeus, an enterprise AI company. Born in Guyana, he was previously Global Chief Digital Officer at IQVIA and has given more than 100 keynotes.

David Bell is co-founder and president of Idea Farm Ventures. He taught marketing at Wharton for two decades and was an early investor in Bonobos, Warby Parker, Jet.com, and Diapers.com.

Nick van der Meulen is a research scientist at MIT Sloan's Center for Information Systems Research, studying how companies organise for digital work. He holds a PhD from Rotterdam School of Management.

Jim Marshall leads technology investor coverage at HSBC Innovation Banking. He spent almost twenty years at Silicon Valley Bank, where he ran the Emerging Manager Practice, and co-founded Selby Venture Partners.

Roy Geva Glasberg founded and led Google's Launchpad Accelerator, working with more than 600 startups across five continents. He now runs 46C Group, which builds AI software for enterprises.

Laura Chinchilla was President of Costa Rica from 2010 to 2014, the first woman to hold the office. She co-chairs the Inter-American Dialogue and teaches at Georgetown University.

Francisco Palmieri served 36 years as a US diplomat focused on the Western Hemisphere, including as Acting Assistant Secretary of State and as Chargé d'Affaires in Colombia until 2025.

Joe Nocera is a senior editor at The Free Press. He spent eleven years as a business columnist at The New York Times and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2007.

Vivek Wadhwa is a technology entrepreneur and the author of five books on emerging technology. He is CEO of Vionix Biosciences and a Distinguished Fellow at Carnegie Mellon and Harvard Law School.

Álvaro Uribe was President of Colombia for two terms, from 2002 to 2010. In 2009 the United States awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.