Government, Social Sector & Education

Valued individuals involved in shaping public policies, providing essential services, and promoting education, tirelessly looking to improve society and empower citizens

Uloma Okoro

Uloma Okoro

Uloma Okoro is the Africa Lead at the Aula Fellowship for AI, where she supports regional engagement, policy dialogue, research, and partnerships across Africa’s AI governance community. She is an AI governance researcher , with research focused on institutional AI readiness, responsible governance, comparative regulation, and practical policy frameworks for developing economies. Uloma has spoken at legal and professional forums, including the Legal Gorilla Virtual Conference, and has delivered responsible AI training to journalists and other professional groups. She is also a senior corporate and commercial lawyer with over 20 years of experience and currently heads Legal Services and Compliance in the fintech and payments sector. Her work connects AI policy with institutional governance, regulatory compliance, technology contracts, and accountability.

Uloma Okoro is the Africa Lead at the Aula Fellowship for AI, where she supports regional engagement, policy dialogue, research, and partnerships across Africa’s AI governance community. She is an AI governance researcher , with research focused on i... Show more

Kourtney Bonzo

Kourtney Bonzo

Kourtney Bonzo began her career in marketing with Texas Roadhouse before transitioning into volunteer management during the COVID-19 pandemic. She successfully increased volunteer engagement by 50%, helping her organization earn recognition as Northern Utah’s best place to volunteer. In 2021, she joined the City of Baytown, where she launched Baytown Serves, a citywide initiative featuring 30 days of volunteer opportunities. Kourtney now manages volunteer and docent programs at the McFaddin-Ward House Museum, continuing to grow community engagement through service and education.

Kourtney Bonzo began her career in marketing with Texas Roadhouse before transitioning into volunteer management during the COVID-19 pandemic. She successfully increased volunteer engagement by 50%, helping her organization earn recognition as Northe... Show more

Dr. Kenisha Coon-Santiago

Dr. Kenisha Coon-Santiago

Dr. Kenisha Coon-Santiago is a nationally recognized leadership strategist, keynote speaker, systems change consultant, and author with over 15 years of experience advancing equity-centered transformation across child welfare, government, nonprofit, and organizational leadership spaces. Known for her dynamic storytelling, powerful stage presence, and ability to connect lived experience with actionable leadership strategies, she has become a sought-after voice on resilience, workplace culture, transformational leadership, and sustainable systems change.

Dr. Coon-Santiago specializes in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB), leadership development, organizational culture transformation, and evidence-based coaching. She partners with organizations nationwide to help leaders move beyond performative change and build human-centered systems rooted in accountability, belonging, and measurable impact.

As the founder of Kenisha Coon Consulting, she has facilitated leadership trainings, keynote presentations, and systems transformation initiatives for national conferences, executive leadership teams, universities, nonprofit organizations, and public sector agencies. Her work focuses heavily on racial equity, leadership accountability, lived expertise, workforce culture, and advancing equitable outcomes for historically marginalized communities.

Dr. Coon-Santiago recently completed her PhD focused on evidence-based coaching, decision-making, and cultural responsiveness within child welfare systems. Her research explored how coaching and transformational leadership influence equitable decision-making and organizational change.

She is also the author of the memoir And Then She Persisted, a deeply personal and empowering reflection on trauma, resilience, identity, advocacy, and breaking generational cycles. Through both her writing and speaking, Dr. Coon-Santiago challenges audiences to rethink leadership, embrace authenticity, and lead with courage in complex systems.

Her signature presentations explore topics including:
• Equity-Centered Leadership and Organizational Transformation
• Women in Leadership and Breaking Systemic Barriers
• Resilience, Burnout, and Sustainable Leadership
• The Power of Lived Expertise in Systems Change
• Antiracist Leadership in Action
• Human-Centered Workplace Culture and Belonging
• Transformational Leadership Through Storytelling and Vulnerability

Whether speaking to executives, frontline professionals, emerging leaders, or national audiences, Dr. Coon-Santiago delivers experiences that are inspiring, practical, emotionally impactful, and rooted in real-world systems transformation.

Dr. Kenisha Coon-Santiago is a nationally recognized leadership strategist, keynote speaker, systems change consultant, and author with over 15 years of experience advancing equity-centered transformation across child welfare, government, nonprofit, ... Show more

Nahuel Lema

Nahuel Lema

Soy desarrollador de software y trabajo con inteligencia artificial. Soy ex cofundador de Coderhouse, una plataforma de educación online de Latinoamérica donde fui CTO, Staff Engineer y después BDR. Hoy mentoreo a emprendedores y doy charlas sobre emprendimiento, empleabilidad, educación y tecnología. Estudié la maestría en administración de empresas (MBA) en UCEMA. En nahuellema.xyz están mis charlas, podcasts, entrevistas y artículos.

Soy desarrollador de software y trabajo con inteligencia artificial. Soy ex cofundador de Coderhouse, una plataforma de educación online de Latinoamérica donde fui CTO, Staff Engineer y después BDR. Hoy mentoreo a emprendedores y doy charlas sobre em... Show more

Phil Almeroth

Phil Almeroth

Phil leads Business Transformation and guides teams through delivery excellence for Logisolve (a V-Soft Consulting Company), a national consulting firm with a wide variety of practice areas, including Public Sector. He has broad and deep experience in Product, Program, Project, and IT Management and Delivery across Financial Services, Banking, Manufacturing, Public Sector, Agriculture, Retail, and Media for 40+ years. He also mentors business leaders and MBA and undergraduate students in their personal and professional growth.

Phil leads Business Transformation and guides teams through delivery excellence for Logisolve (a V-Soft Consulting Company), a national consulting firm with a wide variety of practice areas, including Public Sector. He has broad and deep experience i... Show more

Daniel Fernando Soriano Espinosa

Daniel Fernando Soriano Espinosa

Daniel Soriano leads the Offensive Security Research Team at Scitum, where he researches offensive techniques, defense evasion, adversary emulation, and AI/LLM security. He has more than 10 years of experience across cybersecurity, cyber threat intelligence, and adversary profiling.

Earlier in his career, he spent five years in Mexico’s public security sector, participating in national security and counterintelligence investigations. He later led Cyber Threat Intelligence & Research at Scitum, where his team identified and tracked malware families, campaigns, and threat actors operating across Latin America. He also participated in Scitum’s technical collaboration with INTERPOL during the investigation of the Grandoreiro banking trojan.

His research has resulted in multiple CVEs, contributions to MITRE ATT&CK, recognition in the ASUS Security Hall of Fame, and acknowledgements from Cisco. He holds the GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence (GCTI) certification and won first place in CCN-CERT’s Atenea CTF.

In the field of artificial intelligence, he created Kyojitsu, an open-source project for adversarial testing of LLM guardrails through automated attack generation and fuzzing.

As a regular cybersecurity speaker, he has presented research on malware, offensive security, identity security, and AI security at conferences including 8.8 Computer Security Conference, BSides CDMX, BugCON, PumaHAT, and HackGDL.

He holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN).

Daniel Soriano leads the Offensive Security Research Team at Scitum, where he researches offensive techniques, defense evasion, adversary emulation, and AI/LLM security. He has more than 10 years of experience across cybersecurity, cyber threat intel... Show more

Thomas de Klerk

Thomas de Klerk

Thomas de Klerk works as a learning consultant and trainer at Info Support, where he spends much of his time helping people make sense of complex technology — including AI.
His background is not purely technical. Early in his career he trained as a teacher at university level, later specialising in Human Resource Development. That combination still shapes how he looks at technology today: not just in terms of what it can do, but how people think, learn and make decisions around it.
His work now sits somewhere between training, facilitation and experimentation. He designs workshops, learning journeys and the occasional escape room to explore how people actually work with tools like AI in practice.
He uses AI himself, daily — which is exactly why he keeps questioning what it does to his own thinking.

Thomas de Klerk works as a learning consultant and trainer at Info Support, where he spends much of his time helping people make sense of complex technology — including AI. His background is not purely technical. Early in his career he trained as a ... Show more

Evan Kirstein

Evan Kirstein

Evan Kirstein works in financial-sector information security, running a day-to-day security program under federal examination: governance, risk and compliance, identity, data protection, and the AI-assessment work that now comes attached to all of it. They research passive RF systems alongside that. Their MARVIN project uses receive-only Wi-Fi and Bluetooth observation to study networked license-plate-reader infrastructure, with no probing, no association, and no credential capture by design.

At Wild West Hackin' Fest Deadwood 2026 they are scheduled to teach a two-hour MARVIN workshop and co-host the RF Village. Evan also teaches access governance for SaaS, guest and AI-agent identities, affordable cybersecurity practice, and emergency communications built on drones and LoRa mesh networks, most recently in a July 2026 Antisyphon Anti-Cast with Luke Canfield. They have briefed state legislators at the Colorado State Capitol on AI risk, data privacy and cybercrime.

Evan holds an M.S. in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance from Western Governors University, writes for The Cybersleuth Chronicles, and co-founded Study GRC, a nonprofit offering free governance, risk and compliance training, where they serve as security lead and a board member. They are an FCC-licensed amateur radio operator, KJ5MCN, and an ARES emergency communications volunteer. Outside all of that: homelabs, tabletop and video games, cars, motorcycles, and karaoke.

Evan Kirstein works in financial-sector information security, running a day-to-day security program under federal examination: governance, risk and compliance, identity, data protection, and the AI-assessment work that now comes attached to all of it... Show more

Ken Fogel

Ken Fogel

Ken is a Java Champion who retired from the classroom after 31 years teaching software development at Dawson College, 25 of those years as the chair and program coordinator of the Computer Science Technology Program. He is currently a Research Scholar in Residence at the college. He is the lead organizer of the annual JChampions Conference, held online each January. He is the author of two books, Transitioning to Java and the soon to be published Programming with Java. He has spoken at numerous conferences where his presentations have focused on simplicity. Currently he is examining how AI can be used in introductory courses in programming.

Ken is a Java Champion who retired from the classroom after 31 years teaching software development at Dawson College, 25 of those years as the chair and program coordinator of the Computer Science Technology Program. He is currently a Research Schola... Show more

Isaac J Zimba

Isaac J Zimba

I’m Isaac Zimba, a passionate software developer and GDG Kitwe Organizer. I enjoy building intelligent and cross-platform apps using .NET MAUI, ASP.NET Core, and Azure AI Foundry. As a Microsoft Beta Student Ambassador, I love exploring how AI and cloud technologies can simplify everyday tasks and enhance productivity. Beyond development, I’m focused on empowering students and developers through workshops, hackathons, and collaborative projects that bring ideas to life. I believe in connecting ecosystems — showing how Microsoft and Google technologies can work together to create meaningful innovation.

I’m Isaac Zimba, a passionate software developer and GDG Kitwe Organizer. I enjoy building intelligent and cross-platform apps using .NET MAUI, ASP.NET Core, and Azure AI Foundry. As a Microsoft Beta Student Ambassador, I love exploring how AI and cl... Show more

Catherine Dimmack

Catherine Dimmack

Catherine Dimmack is an award-winning keynote speaker, facilitator and transformation leader with more than seven years leading digital transformation, customer experience and service design across Queensland Government. She helps leaders and organisations slow down just enough to think differently — asking better questions, testing assumptions before investing, and understanding the whole system before optimising a part of it. Her keynotes and workshops are practical, story-led and immediately applicable. Catherine speaks at conferences, leadership programs and workshops across government, technology, digital transformation, customer experience and professional associations.

Catherine Dimmack is an award-winning keynote speaker, facilitator and transformation leader with more than seven years leading digital transformation, customer experience and service design across Queensland Government. She helps leaders and organis... Show more

Andy Tchouta

Andy Tchouta

I am a Software Engineer and Community Builder passionate about cloud computing, software development, and technology education.

Through my work and various student, I have led initiatives that connect students to learning opportunities, industry experts, and real-world technology experiences.

I have also contributed to the growth of developer communities through events, mentorship, and educational programs aimed at empowering the next generation of tech talent.

I regularly speak about developer communities, cloud technologies, leadership, and career growth, with a strong focus on helping young Africans build successful careers in tech.

I am a Software Engineer and Community Builder passionate about cloud computing, software development, and technology education. Through my work and various student, I have led initiatives that connect students to learning opportunities, industry ... Show more

Chinazo Anebelundu

Chinazo Anebelundu

an AI executive with over seven years of experience transforming data into action across Africa’s public and development sectors. She currently manages the AI Solutions Delivery at Data Science Nigeria as a director, where she drives the design and deployment of AI-powered solutions in health, governance, digital inclusion, and agriculture. Her work spans AI platforms for microplanning and governance, and digital solutions that scale inclusion for small businesses, AI tools that support farmers with climate-smart insights. She has led projects across Nigeria, Kenya, Senegal, and South Africa, trained hundreds of young professionals, and showcased her expertise at global forums including Deep Learning Indaba, DHIS2 Annual Conference, and GITEX. Passionate about ethical and inclusive AI, Chinazo is committed to building solutions that transform lives and strengthen Africa’s agricultural value chains.

an AI executive with over seven years of experience transforming data into action across Africa’s public and development sectors. She currently manages the AI Solutions Delivery at Data Science Nigeria as a director, where she drives the design and d... Show more

Jennifer Gorospe Tull

Jennifer Gorospe Tull

Jenn is an Executive Consultant with the South County SELPAs Equity, Disproportionality, and Design (ED&D) Team. She has provided support in comprehensive settings as a school psychologist, program specialist and special education coordinator in districts (PreK-12) across Southern California and Washington D.C., building genuine, lasting relationships with the families, educators, and districts she serves along the way. She has extensive experience in special education law and compliance, due process, data analytics, systems level leadership, equity and disproportionality reduction, MTSS/PBIS systems, alternate dispute resolution, and technical assistance, along with a record of designing and delivering high-impact professional learning, compliance support, inclusive programming, and community and family engagement. She was also a lecturer for the Department of Counseling and School Psychology at San Diego State University.

Jenn is an Executive Consultant with the South County SELPAs Equity, Disproportionality, and Design (ED&D) Team. She has provided support in comprehensive settings as a school psychologist, program specialist and special education coordinator in dist... Show more

Dr. Marie Alcazar

Dr. Marie Alcazar

Dr. Marie Alcazar is a Transformation Maven, Ecosystem Coach, author, and Founder of Built4Agility. With nearly four decades of industry experience—including 20 years in Change and Transformation and 14 years in Agile—she brings a practitioner’s perspective to how people, organizations, and systems navigate change.

Her work explores a central idea: who you are shapes how you lead. Through her Leadership iS a Lifestyle™ philosophy and Human Infrastructure Development™ framework, Dr. Marie focuses on the human capabilities that shape how people think, adapt, and create lasting impact.
Through Built4Agility, she is applying that thinking to expand access and opportunity for NXT-Gen Leaders from historically underrepresented and economically disadvantaged communities, helping people develop capability, demonstrate what they can do, and create meaningful career and economic mobility.

Dr. Marie is also the author of Truth-Telling iS Data™: The Art & Architecture of Alignment and a speaker who challenges people to think differently about leadership, transformation, human development, and the future of work.

Dr. Marie Alcazar is a Transformation Maven, Ecosystem Coach, author, and Founder of Built4Agility. With nearly four decades of industry experience—including 20 years in Change and Transformation and 14 years in Agile—she brings a practitioner’s pers... Show more

Andrea Civile

Andrea Civile

Andrea Civile is an L2 Italian researcher and language instructor whose work focuses on the development of pragmatic competence in adult learners, with attention to pragmalinguistic–sociopragmatic alignment, cultural shock, and intercultural adaptation in academic settings. His research—rooted in his doctoral project at the University for Foreigners of Perugia—adopts interlinguistic, intercultural, and cross-cultural perspectives and draws on data from Brazil, Japan, and Italy through a mixed-methods design. He is a member of the Pragmática (inter)linguística, cross-cultural e intercultural group at the University of São Paulo and contributes to research on online language teaching. Alongside his research, he has extensive teaching experience in Italy and abroad.

Andrea Civile is an L2 Italian researcher and language instructor whose work focuses on the development of pragmatic competence in adult learners, with attention to pragmalinguistic–sociopragmatic alignment, cultural shock, and intercultural adaptati... Show more

Yulia Kosarenko

Yulia Kosarenko

Yulia Kosarenko is the author of the books "Business Analyst: A Profession and a Mindset" and "Foundations of Business Analytics", speaker, consultant, and corporate trainer.
As the owner of Why Change Consulting Inc., she helps her clients grow mature enterprise architecture and business analysis practices, and plan and execute digital transformation programs.
As the Professor of Business Analytics at Humber College, she encourages her students to look for ways to solve business problems using analytics.
As a business analysis mentor, she leads the BA Mindset Mentorship Circle and encourages business analysts to learn, adapt, and thrive.
Yulia is active in the business analysis, architecture, and analytics communities, publishing articles and videos, joining podcasts, and advocating for applying common sense and critical thinking in all business endeavours.

Yulia Kosarenko is the author of the books "Business Analyst: A Profession and a Mindset" and "Foundations of Business Analytics", speaker, consultant, and corporate trainer. As the owner of Why Change Consulting Inc., she helps her clients grow ma... Show more

Divine Chinyere Ezendiokwere

Divine Chinyere Ezendiokwere

Nominated designer of the week by one of Nigeria's leading Tech startups, HerTechTrail Academy, Divine Chinyere Ezendiokwere is a passionate and admirable product designer and content creator. With a background in content writing and storytelling, her career expands over several industries including volunteering, teen advocacy, public speaking, and lifestyle.

Divine is a graduate of Plant Science and Biotechnology from a Nigerian university. She is a leadership builder who delivers high-energy keynote presentations that challenge audiences to leverage their focus and pay attention to what matters most at work and in life.

Oh, did we mention that she is from Anambra and a lastborn? Why does it matter? Well, it means that she's a bit mischievous, pretty witty, and a little cheeky. She is also an unofficial food lover... and an enthusiastic adventurer.

Nominated designer of the week by one of Nigeria's leading Tech startups, HerTechTrail Academy, Divine Chinyere Ezendiokwere is a passionate and admirable product designer and content creator. With a background in content writing and storytelling, he... Show more

Matt Venaas

Matt Venaas

Matt Venaas (he/him) has spent more than a decade helping student affairs professionals make sense of assessment results and communicate what matters. He is Marketing Manager for Benchworks by Elentra, where he draws on experience in national survey development, research, assessment, and marketing to create practical educational resources. He joined Benchworks in 2014 and moved into marketing in late 2024 after a decade in analytics and research.

Matt has delivered more than 150 presentations at conferences including ACPA, NASPA, ACUHO-I, AIR, ACUI, SACSA, and SEAHO. His sessions address assessment strategy, survey design, benchmarking, interpreting results, data visualization, storytelling, focus groups, and student success. He previously served on the directorate board of ACPA’s Commission for Assessment and Evaluation and as a planning team and faculty member for the ACPA Student Affairs Assessment Institute. Matt holds an M.S.Ed. in Adult and Higher Education and a B.A. in Political Science from Northern Illinois University.

Matt Venaas (he/him) has spent more than a decade helping student affairs professionals make sense of assessment results and communicate what matters. He is Marketing Manager for Benchworks by Elentra, where he draws on experience in national survey ... Show more

Thomas Boge

Thomas Boge

Thomas builds data platforms and the strategies that keep them standing. A background in full-stack BI and data engineering on Azure now feeds his work in the public sector, where he is moving a large organization toward data mesh: data products, a self-service platform, a catalog people actually use, and real interoperability across Microsoft Fabric and Databricks. Hands still on the keyboard.

Thomas builds data platforms and the strategies that keep them standing. A background in full-stack BI and data engineering on Azure now feeds his work in the public sector, where he is moving a large organization toward data mesh: data products, a s... Show more

Vincent Bertin

Vincent Bertin

Vincent Bertin is Managing Consultant and founder of vbch, the Swiss consultancy he established in Valais in 2019. In 28 years of practice he has worked for clients in 15 countries across industry, luxury, software publishing, and the public sector, managing budgets up to CHF 1 million.

A strategic business analyst and product manager, he works at the intersection of business and generative AI. Two products are live in production, built with retrieval-augmented generation on frontier and open-weight models (Claude, Gemini, Mistral, Kimi) and orchestrated with Dify and n8n. In parallel, he manages the enterprise architecture repository of a Swiss cantonal administration as a product, driving its adoption by more than 600 registered users across 2,400 applications and 500 technologies.

A trainer as much as a consultant, he has trained 3,000 professionals over 20 years, notably at Digicomp, HES-SO, and SAWI, and he is preparing the Swiss federal AI Business Specialist diploma. His background is backed by an MSc from Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7), an Executive MBA from HEC Lausanne, and the CBAP, FSEA M1, PMP, Prosci CCP, and PSPO II certifications.

His long-term consulting mandates are on hold while he serves as Enterprise Architecture Repository Manager. He remains available for conference talks, workshops, training sessions, and visiting lectures.

On stage he starts where transformations actually fail: with the problem, framed in its context, before the solution is built. Or, in his own words: "I love the problem more than the solution."

vincent.bertin@vbch.ch | https://www.vbch.ch with two GenAI products live from Internet

Vincent Bertin is Managing Consultant and founder of vbch, the Swiss consultancy he established in Valais in 2019. In 28 years of practice he has worked for clients in 15 countries across industry, luxury, software publishing, and the public sector, ... Show more

Mauro D. Ríos

Mauro D. Ríos

Mauro D. Ríos is a Technology Key Opinion Leader (KOL) specializing in e-Government, digital transformation, and technology neutrality. He is a co-founder of eGoverment Uruguay Agency (AGESIC) and the creator of Uruguay’s Digital Agenda (ADU) and the National OID Assignment Unit (UNAOID), which manages the identifiers powering the Digital ID, the Electronic Government Records (APIA), the Electronic Health Record, and other systems. He formulated one of the most widely used definitions of technology neutrality globally. He served as Technology Director of the National Public Education Administration (ANEP) during the COVID pandemic. His professional experience includes work with the IDB (MIF), Canada’s IDRC, URSEC, Parliament, ALC Universities, the Internet Society, and the private sector. He was selected by the Pew Research Center (Elon University, USA) to provide predictions regarding the Internet and AI in 2035. He has authored 10 books and 70 articles; some rank in Elsevier’s top 10, while others are included in the CERLAC library (UNESCO).

Mauro D. Ríos is a Technology Key Opinion Leader (KOL) specializing in e-Government, digital transformation, and technology neutrality. He is a co-founder of eGoverment Uruguay Agency (AGESIC) and the creator of Uruguay’s Digital Agenda (ADU) and the... Show more

Michael Allison

Michael Allison

Michael W. Allison works at the intersection of artificial intelligence, leadership, education, and organizational performance. He is the Founder and CEO of the Adversity Leadership Institute, an AI product builder, leadership strategist, educator, bestselling author, TEDx speaker, award-winning entrepreneur, and U.S. Marine Corps Purple Heart recipient.

His technology work includes creating AI-enabled SaaS platforms, intelligent agents, and conversational bots, with a focus on how people actually use, trust, and make decisions with emerging technology. He helps leaders move beyond the excitement surrounding AI and confront the harder questions: What problem are we solving? Who owns the decision? Where must human judgment remain? How will people adopt the technology, and how will results be measured?

Michael brings more than two decades of experience across combat leadership, government, higher education, entrepreneurship, business, and organizational development. He has led Marines in Iraq, managed multimillion-dollar government initiatives, directed higher education programs, and scaled an INC 5000 franchise through a successful exit. He holds a BA and MBA from Indiana Wesleyan University.

Through Adversity Leadership® and his Decision, Direction, and Destination framework, Michael brings technology strategy and human leadership together. His work helps organizations adopt innovation without losing clarity, accountability, sound judgment, or the people responsible for making it work.

Michael W. Allison works at the intersection of artificial intelligence, leadership, education, and organizational performance. He is the Founder and CEO of the Adversity Leadership Institute, an AI product builder, leadership strategist, educator, b... Show more

Lucas Rodovalho

Lucas Rodovalho

Lucas Paulo Garcia Rodovalho é gestor público, atualmente ocupando o cargo de Secretário Municipal de Inovação Tecnológica (SITEC) na Prefeitura de Senador Canedo, no estado de Goiás.

📌 Trajetória Profissional e Atuação
Gestão Pública em Senador Canedo: Além da liderança na Secretaria de Inovação Tecnológica (SITEC), atuou em outras pastas do município, como Secretário Municipal de Inovação Tecnológica e Apoio Institucional, Secretário Interino de Saúde, Secretário Interino de Governança, Gestão e Planejamento, e Assessor Especial do Prefeito.

Conselhos e Representações: Preside o Conselho Municipal de Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (COMCITI) de Senador Canedo, atua no Conselho Municipal de Direitos Humanos e integra o Conselho de Administração da Companhia Metropolitana de Transportes Coletivos (CMTC) da Região Metropolitana de Goiânia.

Outras Experiências: Já atuou como Auxiliar Parlamentar Sênior no Senado Federal e como instrutor do Pronatec no curso de Assistente Administrativo.

🎓 Formação Acadêmica
Possui especializações do tipo Lato Sensu em Gestão em Saúde pela Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) e em Public Health pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP).

Lucas Paulo Garcia Rodovalho é gestor público, atualmente ocupando o cargo de Secretário Municipal de Inovação Tecnológica (SITEC) na Prefeitura de Senador Canedo, no estado de Goiás. 📌 Trajetória Profissional e Atuação Gestão Pública em Senador... Show more

Carlos Olguin

Carlos Olguin

Investigador especializado en CTI con experiencia en análisis de amenazas cibernéticas. Ha trabajado para el sector público y privado en proyectos de ciberseguridad, integración de CTI y adopción de IA. Posee experiencia en buenas prácticas, guías, normas y estándares internacionales de ciberseguridad y CTI, incluyendo, pero no limitándose a, MITRE ATT&CK y D3FEND. También desarrolló actividades como docente e instructor en FFSS, docente en universidades (UNLP, Siglo 21, UGR y USI), y ha participado como speaker en eventos como COIPREF 2025 y Córdoba Cybersecurity Conference 2026.

Investigador especializado en CTI con experiencia en análisis de amenazas cibernéticas. Ha trabajado para el sector público y privado en proyectos de ciberseguridad, integración de CTI y adopción de IA. Posee experiencia en buenas prácticas, guías, n... Show more

Dan Popescu

Dan Popescu

I combine execution, people-first leadership, and structured thinking to build scalable educational and community-driven projects. My background spans IT and entrepreneurship, giving me a unique perspective on building sustainable ventures.
QA Tester, Community Builder in Iasi and Bucharest, Entrepreneur or Mentor- many hats, same person.

I’m particularly interested in projects at the intersection of education, technology, and human connection.

I combine execution, people-first leadership, and structured thinking to build scalable educational and community-driven projects. My background spans IT and entrepreneurship, giving me a unique perspective on building sustainable ventures. QA Test... Show more

Catherine Okonkwo

Catherine Okonkwo

Catherine Okonkwo is a Nigerian writer, researcher, speaker and media creator, and the founder of Still Becoming™. Her work explores youth development, identity, personal growth, education and social impact. She is an active committee member of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Research (ICAIR) since 2024, where she has contributed to academic research review and served as a Keynote Chair/Track Chair.

Catherine is also the author of five books: Still Becoming, Unrushed: The Art of Growing at Your Own Pace, Seven Days Emotional Guide to Step into Your Becoming, The Anatomy of a Changemaker, and Paradox. She has published 15+ articles and has experience in public speaking, research, writing, podcasting and youth-focused media. Through her work, she creates conversations that encourage young people to develop self-awareness, think critically, discover purpose and participate meaningfully in society.

Catherine Okonkwo is a Nigerian writer, researcher, speaker and media creator, and the founder of Still Becoming™. Her work explores youth development, identity, personal growth, education and social impact. She is an active committee member of the I... Show more

Heather McDaniel

Heather McDaniel

Heather McDaniel is a speaker, writer, and organizational consultant based in Spain. She writes and speaks about how people work, lead, decide, learn, and create together.

Her perspective draws on a 28-year career spanning communication, operations, consulting, learning, and facilitation, including work with international and distributed teams across Europe and North America.

She works with leadership teams on organizational readiness, leadership alignment, decision-making, and how people work together through change. Her current work also includes using training and communication expertise to improve AI models for a leading AI lab, and she is Microsoft Certified as an AI Transformation Leader.

Heather also works in adult learning and Erasmus+ partnerships across Europe, designing and facilitating learning experiences for international and cross-cultural groups.

She writes Letters From the Joyful Rebellion, a personal column about the things she notices, the questions she keeps coming back to, and what they show us about the way we live.

Her speaking brings together practical organizational experience, systems thinking, curiosity, and a longstanding interest in power, language, culture, technology, and how people make sense of change.

She is based in Cullera, Valencia, Spain, and is available for talks, workshops, panels, and facilitated learning across Europe and North America, in person or virtually.

Heather McDaniel is a speaker, writer, and organizational consultant based in Spain. She writes and speaks about how people work, lead, decide, learn, and create together. Her perspective draws on a 28-year career spanning communication, operation... Show more

Valerija Strutinskaja

Valerija Strutinskaja

Valerija je inženjerka tekstilne tehnologije. Čita SF i fantasy oduvijek i jedan od hobija je obilazak konvencija po Hrvatskoj i svijetu.
Kreativne radionice održava s ciljem upoznavanje djece i odraslih sa novim materijalima i ostalim zanimljivostima iz područja hobija i likovnosti.

Valerija je inženjerka tekstilne tehnologije. Čita SF i fantasy oduvijek i jedan od hobija je obilazak konvencija po Hrvatskoj i svijetu. Kreativne radionice održava s ciljem upoznavanje djece i odraslih sa novim materijalima i ostalim zanimljivost... Show more

Cla-petra Omaku

Cla-petra Omaku

Cla-petra is a data and AI professional whose work spans data governance, data/business analysis, and intelligent systems. A graduate of the University of San Diego, she currently works as a Data Steward at Luminor, focusing on data quality, governance, stewardship, and the development of reliable data foundations. Alongside her work at Luminor, she freelances as an AI Backend Engineer on a collaborative educational AI project with the University of San Diego, contributing to the development of AI systems designed to support children’s learning experiences. Her work focuses primarily on context-aware AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), backend AI architecture, data systems, and the intersection of data quality and intelligent applications.

Cla-petra is a data and AI professional whose work spans data governance, data/business analysis, and intelligent systems. A graduate of the University of San Diego, she currently works as a Data Steward at Luminor, focusing on data quality, governan... Show more

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