Complete event listing for
Holiday Inn Town Lake
20 N IH 35
Friday, March 7
Women may make up the majority of online users, trendsetters, and consumers, but we have a long way to go to reach proportionate amounts in the field of technology. A 2009 study indicated that Latinas formed only 5% of e…
Intermediate
Presenters
Becky Arreaga, Rebecca Gonzales
With 120% of mobile penetration in the region we are on a tipping point. 700 million users are looking for new forms of entertainment, commerce and services in Latin America. What kind of business relationships are neede…
Intermediate
Presenters
Pablo Salazar
As per the recent Pew poll, Hispanics were more than twice as likely to use reddit than other ethnic groups. There is a subreddit dedicated to all the Spanish speaking countries and cities around the world, and bilingual…
Beginner
Presenters
Elianne Ramos, Lia Navarro-Pennington
We have witnessed social media’s power to topple governments and change public policy. This shift in political power is enabling the general public to engage in the democratic process like never before. One wonders how c…
Intermediate
Presenters
Aasil Ahmad, Estuardo Rodriguez, Melody Gonzales, Paul Chavez
To thrive in 2014 and beyond, Latino entrepreneurs need to go beyond social media and begin to establish their own media platforms based on a content marketing strategy. But this requires a change in mindset. Latino e…
Beginner
Presenters
Fernando Labastida, Manuel Delgado
How CulturEdge are you? Whether Latino or not, you could be on the CulturEdge, that place where cultures mesh, influence and are influenced by one another. It’s not stagnant, it’s a remix of familiar and new. It’s abou…
Intermediate
Presenters
Adrienne Pulido, Cristina Garcia Gamboa
Saturday, March 8
In mid-2013, protests erupted around Brazil, initially sparked by a public transport cost hike but quickly emerging into a broader social movement to address a litany of social issues. Causa Brasil was launched in respon…
Intermediate
Presenters
David Slayden, Tiago Ritter
By 2050 Hispanics will be 1/3 of the U.S. population. The assumption is that the digital divide will become non-existent or even reversed as more Latinos become digitally dependent. Since 2009, the number of Latinos onli…
Intermediate
Presenters
Julie Diaz-Asper, Kety Esquivel, Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Mitch Kapor
We are seeing a new era of collaborative projects that have the power of making and we are one of them. The formula looks very simple: work by passion. But the day by day is hard and has some little tricks as, for exampl…
Intermediate
Presenters
Marcelo Pimentel, Marina Bortoluzzi
Today's investors not only want a financial return on investment, but also social, economic and environmental returns. Impact investing has emerged as the next step in matching socially conscious investors with capital-s…
Intermediate
Presenters
DJ Paul
The Latina perspective has long been absent from many mediums until most recently with the growth of online communities. Bicultural Latinas are defining their voice in this space and generating much needed content. In th…
Intermediate
Presenters
Nicole Presley, Paulina Artieda, Sara Calderón, Stephanie Guerra
In an increasingly collaborative world, consumers are not only more powerful, but increasingly skeptical and demanding - continually questioning and rethinking their relationships with brands. In this scenario, the proce…
Beginner
Presenters
Lia Bertoni, Pedro Cruz
Argentine companies’ global projection is expanding as one quarter of its production is exported to international markets. In recent years the software and IT industry has registered a higher exportation percentage than …
Intermediate
Presenters
Cesar Donofrio, Daniel Deodato, Guillermo Bodnar, Silvina Moschini
South American countries are playing an unexpected role in the debate triggered by the disclosure of confidential documents by Wikileaks and Edward Snowden. Both Julian Assange and Snowden have been offered asylum by So…
Beginner
Presenters
Emiliano Rodriguez Nuesch
Sunday, March 9
In recent years, Agile has impacted the way we create software. Delivering great digital experiences, arriving first to market and staying within budget is a growing dilemma in the technology space. We will talk about Ag…
Beginner
Presenters
Andres Angelani, Pablo Brenner
Everyone talks about the exploding influence Latinos have on society–from population growth to spending power, Hispanics are reshaping the cultural, social, political & economic landscape. Yet when it comes to mainstream…
Intermediate
Presenters
Beatriz Acevedo, Doug Greiff
Organizational fitness: Inserting the Innovation Gene into Your company's DNA Technology doesn´t come alone. Accelerated change and increased access to who can innovate will challenge our business and push us to reinvent…
Beginner
Presenters
Guibert Englebienne
New census data reports the population size of Texas Hispanic K-12 students (2,325,000) is greater than the total population of the State of New Mexico (2,082,224), as well as fifteen other states. The Latina point of v…
Intermediate
Presenters
Byrdie Franco-Rocha, Laura Donnelly Gonzalez, Leslie Leal-Gauna
In the past decade there has been a lot of work in changing the image of Colombia, changing people and industries perception from a country that only makes coffee and related to “Juan Valdez”, and also a more common perc…
Intermediate
Presenters
Sebastian Gomez
Chile claims to have hacked the system, boosting an innovation hub starting from the government. Dynamic public policies such as Start-Up Chile became key players to cut much of that red tape that is still alive in many …
Intermediate
Presenters
Leo Prieto, Maitetxu Larraechea, Paolo Privitera
Latin America's leading accelerators come together to discuss the state of entrepreneurship and acceleration programs in the region. Argentina and Mexico join on a unique panel that will go inside Latin America to discus…
Intermediate
Presenters
Antón Chalbaud, Marcela Gutierrez, Sergio Romo, Ulrick Noel
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