Speakers
Technical and builder profiles, confirmed one at a time.

Aija Cohen
Maestra en Psicología Clínica con especialidad en Psicoterapia Sistémica Posmoderna · Consulta privada, Ciudad de México
Friday 23 October 2026 · 13:30–15:00
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She holds a master’s in Clinical Psychology with a specialty in Postmodern Systemic Psychotherapy. She practises privately in Mexico City, with a narrative and collaborative approach, understanding identity as something built in language and collectively, questioning the dominant narratives that individualize suffering and re-victimize those who seek help. She brings this lens to digital content, where she takes these questions to audiences beyond the consulting room.

Alejandro Maza
Chief Product & AI Officer · Kavak
Friday 23 October 2026 · 11:00–12:00
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Chief Product & AI Officer at Kavak, after serving as its Chief Data Officer. He previously founded and led OPI Analytics, applying machine learning to banking, consumer goods and retail across Latin America, until Kavak acquired it. He is an Ashoka Fellow and an Endeavor Entrepreneur.
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Álvaro Soto
Senior Software Maintenance Engineer · Red Hat
Friday 23 October 2026 · Time to be confirmed
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Works at Red Hat on cloud infrastructure and distributed systems —OpenStack, Ceph and Kubernetes— and is building PlantCare AI. He has spent over a decade in the open source community across Mexico and Latin America, where he has served as an OpenStack and Ceph ambassador.
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antimemoria_ (Ervin Nanco)
Plataforma de investigación, experimentación y curaduría · antimemoria_
Friday 23 October 2026 · Time to be confirmed
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Antimemoria is a research and curatorial platform focused on the study of media through the philosophy of technology. Its practice combines artificial intelligence, audiovisual production, and writing to examine the mutation of the image under late capitalism. It has exhibited its work internationally in several countries and collaborated with global publishers and festivals.

Cristina Martínez Pinto
Fundadora y CEO · PIT Policy Lab
Friday 23 October 2026 · 13:30–14:30
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Founder and CEO of PIT Policy Lab, where she works on artificial intelligence governance and public policy in Latin America, bringing responsible AI principles to policies, institutions and concrete projects. She has led initiatives on AI and Indigenous peoples, gender and inclusion, energy, agriculture and democracy, and has worked with governments and international organizations such as UNESCO, UNDP and CAF. She is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, Class of 2026, and a member of UNESCO’s Women4Ethical AI and AI Ethics Experts Without Borders networks.
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Jorge Combe
Cofundador y CEO · DD360
Friday 23 October 2026 · Time to be confirmed
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Co-founder and CEO of DD360, a platform financing real estate development in Mexico, which he bootstrapped to a $91M Series A in 2022. He co-hosts Skin in the Game, a weekly podcast where four operators talk, unfiltered, about what they are doing with their own capital. He was previously a Managing Director in investment banking at Goldman Sachs Mexico, from 2010 to 2017. He holds an economics degree from ITAM and an MBA from Wharton.
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Max Mergenthaler Canseco
CEO and co-founder · Nixtla
Friday 23 October 2026 · Time to be confirmed
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CEO and co-founder of Nixtla, where he builds open-source time-series foundation models —like TimeGPT— with 40M+ downloads and backing from Microsoft. He previously co-founded and served as CTO of Levo (Y Combinator) and co-founded Orax, in logistics and supply chain.
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Roberto Zocco
Profesor de tiempo completo hasta diciembre de 2025 · Departamento Académico de Estudios Generales, ITAM
Friday 23 October 2026 · 12:00–13:00
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He was a full-time professor in the Department of General Studies at ITAM until December 2025. His research topics are Catholic theology and the boundaries between philosophy, law and economics. He holds a master’s in Theology from the University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the same university, on the concept of the person. He published Der Gehorsam des Menschensohnes, on Herman Schell’s christology, in German, and, in ITAM’s journal Estudios, «La doctrina social de la Iglesia católica y la guerra de monedas».

Saúl Caballero
Machine learning engineer · Nixtla
Friday 23 October 2026 · Time to be confirmed
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Economist and computer scientist with over 10 years of experience solving data science problems across government, banking, and consulting. Currently at Nixtla, specializing in forecasting, contributing to the development and maintenance of open-source libraries such as mlforecast, statsforecast, and conformalforecast, and contributing to the development of the company's agentic forecasting solution.
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