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Line-up

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Priscila Williams &
Carlos Candiani

Sr. Design Manager & Design Manager

Nubank
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Peter
Gregersen

Chief UX Designer

Vipps MobilePay
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Reginé
Gilbert

Professor

New York University Tandon School of Engineering
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Coral
Michelin

Science and Tech Product Manager

Re.Green

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Karol
Oponowicz

Co-founder

Order Group
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Valentina
D'Efilippo

Creative Director

Apostrophe One
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Ángel
Longueira

VP Communication

BeWay
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Amy
Johnson

Sr. Product Designer

Sprout Social
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Hector
Mejia

Design Manager

Laerdal

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Pamela Armstrong, Fernanda
Zuñiga & Carolina Sepulveda

Lead UX, Lead Design Ops, Head of UX

+2Brains
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Eduardo
Marisca

Co-founder & Chief Mutant

Mutaciones.la
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Andrea Soler &
Taina Campos

Managers

Diseña Colectiva
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Miguel
Melgarejo

Director of Experience Strategy

Cocolab
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Alejandra Dancuart &
Alexandra Mengoni

Talent Manager & DesignOps Manager

Banco de Crédito BCP
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Jorge
Camacho

Futurist & Strategic Designer

Diagonal Estudio
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Pamela Leon
& Veronica Bluguermann

Senior Service Designers

Laerdal
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José
de la O

Founder & Director

delaO design studio
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Bronwyn Williams &
Tumelo Mojapelo

Director of Foresight & Head of Content

Flux Trends
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V.
Sri

Content Designer

Smallish Book
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Lilibeth
Bustos

Product Designer & Illustrator - CEO

Souldoodles
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Networking
Session

with Layshi Curbelo
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Allie
Vogel

Founder

Flexxi Design
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Regina
Bortoni

HOST

In-Person Workshops
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Santiago Chavez, Miguel Verduzco
& José Luis O.

Digital Strategist, Chief of Staff & Head of Marketing

Multiplica & Grupo Herdez
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Cinthy Revilla &
Arturo Via y Rada

Senior Design Manager & Design Chapter Area Leader

Banco de Crédito BCP
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Aitor
Gonzalez

VP of Digital Design

Butchershop
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Sophia and Jed
Lazar

Co-founders

Cozy Juicy Real
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Jorge
Furuya

Head of Car User Experience Design

Volvo Cars
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Mariana Valenzuela
& Sonia Gutierrez

UX Lead & UX Designer

+Mujeres en UX
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Lilibeth
Bustos

Lead Product Designer & Illustrator - CEO

Souldoodles

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Daniela
Nicholson

Creative Director

Sed: Studio
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Pauly
R.

Design Maverick | TEDX Speaker | Creative Visionary

Innovare
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Abel
Valdez

Co-Director

Accionar.io
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Roberto Cabezas
& Alejandro Lobo

Chair Creative Computing

CENTRO
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Layshi
Curbelo

THE HOST
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The Themes

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From Latin America, With Love
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A Call for the Future
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The Radical Optimist
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This theme will bring to the stage the intersection of technology and humanity, with designers from all across Latin America sharing how they’ve designed solutions for local needs, but with a local approach. We will learn how the path of indigenization and decolonization of design is not only a safe bet for inclusion, but also a significant opportunity for new and unique types of design. The talks will tap into visual decolonization, restorative and transformative design, and an overall understanding of how the indigenous approach to nature, has a valuable lesson for designers who want to learn how to implement a natural perspective to their craft.

The talks will show how heritage and ancestral knowledge can influence fast-developing design and tech. And they will share with us why that particularly matters in the Latin American context.

How can we ignite our power to design pluriversal futures? The times where design exists as a catalyst transversal to all industries, enabling human development, but only under one premise: to protect the diversity of our socio and environmental resources. In other words, a future where design is the driving force behind sustainability and social responsibility. 

With this theme, speakers will share their perspectives on applying Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) principles to our design process, to going beyond the user or planet-centric design with new and pluriversal approaches to their craft. We will open the conversation around how to enter an era of radically different practices, where we see the future with optimism, and move together towards building an industry that is environmentally responsi

The radical optimist is a designer who wants to continue developing skills and stay open to new and diverse views of the world, and how to design for it. 

We’ll explore how to ramp up our skills and find solutions to the challenges we face as designers. From our day-to-day in high-paced environments, which too many times seem to favor rapidness over transcendence, to the small compromises we make along the way in our design processes, that may change completely the impact of our initial ideas and intents.

With inspiration, methods, ethical approaches to AI, UX, UI, and other design practices, we can gain skills and views on how to grow in our paths as designers (and humans), to create a lasting impact on people and the planet.

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The conference will take place at CENTRO, a one-of-a-kind venue, and a higher education institution dedicated to professionalizing creativity.

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