Program
Friday, September 28th
@ Kresge Auditorium - 48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
8:30 am
Registration
Registration open for attendees
09:00 am
Welcome to TECHSUYO
Rosalva Gallardo
Privacy Program Manager at Google
09:15 am
NASA platform for autonomous systems
Fernando Figueroa
Acting Center Chief Technologist at NASA
09:40 am
Driving innovation at Latam and Peru with Human-Centered Design
Pablo Bariola
UX Design Director at Visa
10:05 am
Coffee Break
10:20 am
Sponsor - Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores del Perú
Manuel Soarez Documet
Peruvian Consul in Boston
10:30 am
Innovation towards promoting quality education
Eric Talavera Campbell
Executive Director at EQUAA
10:55 am
Keynote by Fernando Camargo
Harvard Professor
11:35 am
Sponsor - MDP Consulting
Luis Sakahima
Innovation Manager at MDP CONSULTING S.A.C
@ Stratton Student Center - 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
11:45 am
Break for lunch
@ Stratton Student Center (1st floor)
1:00 pm
Track presentations
Parallel sessions from 1pm - 4pm:
- Tech & Innovation track @ Mezzanine Lounge (3rd floor)
- Science track @ Twenty Chimneys (3rd floor)
See detailed scheduled below
4:00 pm
Networking Session - Speed Dating
Group activity @ Mezzanine Lounge (@ 3rd floor)
4 pm - 5 pm
Technology & Innovation track
@ Stratton Student Center - Mezzanine Lounge (3rd floor)
1:00 pm
Technology against corruption in public procurement in Peru
Erick Iriarte
CEO @ Ebiz Latin America
1:30 pm
Dealing with bias and unfairness in machine learning algorithms
Omar U. Florez
Senior Research Manager at Capital One
2:00 pm
Monetizing innovation
Jorge Rosales
Senior Consultant at Simon-Kucher & Partners
2:30 pm
The Future of Education - Silabuz
Alonso Mujica
CEO @ Silabuz
3:00 pm
The state of the Peruvian innovation ecosystem
Irma Isabel Cadillo Cardenas
Business Consultant
3:30 pm
Programatic advertising
Manuel Bellido
Software Engineer at Google
4:00 pm
Networking Session - Speed Dating
Group activity @ Mezzanine Lounge (@ 3rd floor)
4 pm - 5 pm
Science track
@ Stratton Student Center - Twenty Chimneys (3rd floor)
1:00 pm
Isotope biogeochemistry in Peruvian archeology
Breidy Quispe Vilcahuaman
Department of Anthropology, Georgia State University
1:30 pm
People and plants in northern Peru
Rossana Paredes
Texas A&M University
2:00 pm
Organic transformations: Compost engineering
Jorge Montezuma
Project Engineer @ Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County
2:30pm
Quantitative approaches to study sensorimotor transformations
Luis Hernandez-Nunez
PhD Student at Harvard University
3:00 pm
Tomographic exospheric hydrogen density estimation
Gonzalo Cucho-Padin
Ph.D. Candidate at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3:30 pm
Multiscale method to simulate transport phenomena
Rafael Castro Veramendi
Phd Energy Engineering @ University of Massachusetts Lowell
4:00 pm
Networking Session - Speed Dating
Group activity @ Mezzanine Lounge (@ 3rd floor)
4 pm - 5 pm
Saturday, September 29th
@ Stratton Student Center - Lobdell Hall (2nd floor)
9:00 am
Day 1 recap
Denisse Tafur
Lab Manager at The Jackson Laboratory
9:10 am
EdTech: Paradigm shifts in Peruvian Education
Lucia Acurio
Consultant - Innovation in Education
09:50 am
Coffee Break
Sponsored by USIL
10:05
The Hard Road for a Peruvian startup CTO
Eddy Wong
CTO Consultant
10:30 am
Entrepreneurs & investors: come and help the entrepreneurial system in Peru
Charlotte Ducrot
Program Manager @ Swiss Contact
10:55 am
Bridging innovation through corporate venturing
Jaime Sotomayor
Head of Acceleration at Wayra
11:20 am
Panel #1 - Frontiers in Peruvian Education
Moderator: Alonso Mujica - CEO @ Silabuz
Panelists:
- Daniel Diez Canseco - Vice-president @ USIL
- Alejandra Ruiz - Director @ Piura con Ciencia
- Lucia Acurio - Consultant, Innovation in Education
- Marcos Vargas - CO-CEO @ FractalUp
- Elizabeth Galdo - Director @ Fundación Telefónica
12:20 pm
Break for lunch
1:00 pm
Open conference
Multiple work sessions
4:00 pm
Panel #2: Overcoming Challenges as Latinos in the US
Moderator: Andres Wong - PhD Candidate @ Georgia State University
Panelists:
- Ana Huaman - Research Scientist @ TracLabs
- Manuel Bellido - Software Engineer @ Google
- Omar Florez - Research Manager @ Capital One
- Sofia Espinoza - Associate Consultant @ McKinsey & Company
- Alfonso Gonzales - Software Engineer @ Google
5:00 pm
The Laboratoria Experience
Jesenia Rodriguez
Consultant at Inter-American Development Bank
5:30 pm
Closing remarks
Rosalva Gallardo
Privacy Program Manager at Google
6:00 pm
Social Hour
Let's celebrate TECHSUYO
6 pm - 9 pm