Angel Moreno

Colombia

Social Communicator from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, with postgraduate training in political science. He worked in the Culture Department of the Andrés Bello Convention International Organization from 1996 to 2009, being part of the technical team that led projects such as Economy and Culture, Cultural Legislation, We Are Heritage, We Are Young, Urban Cultures, Culture and Development, and Latinities. , among others. He currently works as Advisor to the Office of the Minister of Culture of Colombia, and is responsible for the orientation and implementation of the policy on cultural entrepreneurship and cultural industries in the country.

Octavio Arbelaez

Colombia

Lawyer with postgraduate studies in Philosophy and Cultural Marketing. He has been Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Caldas, Director of the Manizales International Theater Festival, Director of Arts of the Colombian Ministry of Culture, and UNDP Consultant in the area of culture and new technologies. He has been manager of the companies Oc Marketing Cultural and Vania Latina Producciones Culturales (Colombia-Spain) and of the management teams of the International Meeting of Arts of Medellín, of "Bogotá Capital Iberoamericana de la Cultura", Director of the Market of the Iberoamerican Festival of Teatro de Bogotá VIA 2012 and 2014, of the "Festival VivAmérica Bogotá" 2008 and 2009, of the Inter-American Forum Culture is Development. Medellín 2009, Executive Director of the Ibero-American Congress of Culture 2010. Director of the Cultural Markets of Medellín and of the Business Roundtables of the Cultural Industries organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá and of the Roundtables of Performing Arts and Speaker in Medellín, among other. In 2014 he was the winner of the ISPA Award for cultural management. Currently, he is president of REDLAT Colombia, directs CIRCULART ‒ Medellín Cultural Market, the Medellín Vive la Música Festival and the Manizales International Theater Festival.

Richard Tamayo Nieto

Colombia

Social communicator and master's degree in philosophy. He has 9 years of professional and teaching experience in the publishing field, particularly in the edition of academic serials and digital publications in magnetic media and the Internet. Undergraduate and graduate professor in the Departments of Communication, Sociology and Political Science at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Advisor, consultant and researcher in communications for various public and private companies.

Ricardo Gomez Garzon

Colombia

General Director of ENVIVO, a consulting company focused on contributing to the development of skills, coaching skills, assertive communication, empowerment and human relationship. He has designed methodologies for the development of accelerated learning through music and theatrical improvisation. Additionally, he is an expert in neuro linguistic programming and coaching. Ricardo is a Business Administrator from the EAN University. Additionally, he has a diploma in Music Project Management from the Sergio Arboleda University and an MBA with an emphasis in Leadership from the Swiss Management Center (SMC) University.

Luciano Rodriguez Alcala

Argentina lucianorodriguezalcalacv.wordpress.com www.creatividadetica.org

  (Argentina) Consultant, Teacher and International Lecturer. Linked for a decade and a half to critical thinking, the application and dissemination of Intellectual Property, Design, Business Models and Creation & Management of intangibles in innovation processes. He has given conferences and classes in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Colombia and Italy. Co-founder of www.creatividadetica.org, a non-profit organization with actions at an international level, aimed at promoting design as a tool for human development, he has concentrated his greatest efforts on building methodologies for the creation and projection of organizations towards the economy of intangibles based on new methodologies for approaching business and organization models. He has developed new curricular contents at the Master's and/or Graduate level for universities in Argentina, Colombia and Italy. He is a Lawyer from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Industrial Property as a Strategic Business Management Tool from the Pompeu Fabra University (Spain)-INPI.

Dr. Juan Manuel Salamanca

Colombia www.smartartifact.com

  Interaction designer interested in designing for social interaction in augmented environments. Explore how to design intelligent devices suitable for acting in social environments that facilitate processes of cooperation and coordination between members of a group. At the level of socio-technological systems, his research becomes relevant in the planning and implementation of non-human mediators that facilitate the achievement of the objectives of a human group. He earned his PhD from the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, USA and his Master's degree in design direction from the Domus Academy in Milan, Italy.

Charles Edward Smith

Colombia www.hierro.tv

  Film and television director from the National University of Colombia, postgraduate in computer animation from Pompeu Fabra University and Diploma of Advanced Studies in Expressive, Formal and Spatio-Temporal Components of Animation from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. He has been professionally dedicated to animation since 1993. In this field he has alternated commissioned production with the independent making of short films and experimental pieces. With extensive experience in teaching. He has been a professor at the National University, the Javeriana University and for eight years he has worked as a professor and academic coordinator of the Master in Animation at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.

Bernardo Pinero

IQLab Argentina

Buenos Aires, 1982. Artist, teacher, entrepreneur, researcher in training. Bachelor of Electronic Arts with orientation in Sound and Music from the National University of Tres de Febrero (2006). In 2007 he completed the postgraduate seminar "New technologies applied to the creation of multimedia installations and performances" at the National University Institute of Art in Buenos Aires (IUNA). He has been a DJ between 2002 and 2008. He has a Master's Degree in Technology and Aesthetics of Electronic Arts (2013) from the same university, for which he developed his Thesis "Ojoyector: interpellations of the representations of eyes in electronic arts installations" developed with the support of the “Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program” (ELAP) scholarship in Montreal, Canada, between December 2012 and March 2013). He has studied in various workshops, courses and seminars at the intersection of art and technology, including: at UNTreF, “Musical Language” (2004) and “Electroacoustic Composition and Music Seminar” (2004); at the Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires: "Arduino" Workshops (2007), "Creative Strategies for Performances" (2008) and "VJign" (2008). At Fundación Telefónica, the workshops "Telas Digitales" (2007), "Arte Interactivo" (2007) and the Work Clinic "Tec En Arte I" (2008) and "Tec En Arte IV" (2011).