Rodrigo de la Parra has a Master’s Degree in Economics, Politics and International Relations from the University of Essex in the UK. He has served as Professor of International Organizations and Economic Negotiations, as well as Consultant for Latin American Cooperation for Advanced Networks (Cooperación Latinoamericana para Redes Avanzadas). He currently serves as ICANN’s Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean. He has more than 20 years of experience as a multicultural executive, having served as General Director of Prospective Regulation and General Director of International Cooperation of the Comisión Federal de Telecomunicaciones (COFETEL) in Mexico before joining ICANN. Likewise, he has also been involved with various ICT groups from international organizations such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, the Organization of American States and the World Trade Organization, among others.

Joel Gómez Treviño is a Lawyer graduated from the Tecnológico de Monterrey and has a Master’s Degree in International Law from the University of Arizona. He is Doctor Honoris Causa. He has 25 years of experience as a specialist in digital law. He is the Founding President of the Academia Mexicana de Derecho Informático. He is Coordinator of the Committee on the Law of Information Technologies and Protection of Personal Data of ANADE and Coordinator of the Committee of Digital Compliance, Cybersecurity and Protection of Personal Data of CONACOM. He is a Founding Partner and Director of Lex Informática Abogados, and Rector of the Escuela de Derecho Digital. For his professional and academic career, he has received 21 recognitions from organizations in 5 countries.

Alejandro Martínez-Varela is a Communications and Electronics Engineer graduated from the University of Guadalajara. He has served as IT Development Coordinator at the University of Guadalajara, and now he works as Design Coordinator for IT at the same institution.

Jenaro Martínez has over 25 years of career in the TMT (Technology, Media & Telecom) industry and specialties in the areas of innovation, technological evolution, digital transformation, product development and marketing. He joined Axtel in 1998 and has held various management positions in Innovation, Marketing, Pay Television and Technological Evolution. He currently works as Director of Innovation and Strategic Alliances. Jenaro Martínez is a Computer Systems Engineer, graduated from Tec de Monterrey and pursuing his MBA at IPADE.

Agustín Ríos is a lawyer graduated from the Universidad Panamericana. He is the Founder of the company R1OS Abogados, a legal boutique specialized in Intellectual Property, Corporate Law, Computer Law and Litigation.

Javier Salazar is an Electronics and Communications Engineer from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey and obtained a Master’s Degree in Teleinformatics at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León. He currently works as a cybersecurity engineer at the Tenable company and is Vicepresident of the Latin American and Caribbean Internet Address Registry, LACNIC.

During more than 30 years of professional career closely linked with the introduction and expansion of the Internet in Mexico, highlighting the launch of the first digital link to the Internet in Mexico. He is an expert in TCP / IP networks and routing in large-scale networks and in 1994 he achieved CCIE certification (# 1302) by the company Cisco Systems. His experience includes the areas of engineering, operations, design and launch of products in the fields of networks, security and data centers.

He has collaborated in educational institutions (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey), operators (Avantel now Axtel), private companies (Consorcio Red Uno, Micronet de México and others) and manufacturers (Cisco Systems and Ericsson).

David Treviño graduated from the Electronic Systems Engineer career at the ITESM Campus Monterrey in June 1983. He attended the EGADE Management Directors Training program in 2011. He is co-founder and partner of the Corporation for Technological Research in Informatics, CITI Value in Real Time, where he has worked since 1994. He currently occupies the Technology Directorate at CITI and since 1997, publishes a summary of news headlines with the most relevant events in the IT industry. Previously, he held the positions of Director of Information Technology and Director of Human Capital at CITI. For 10 years he worked at the ITESM Campus Monterrey as Director of Computational Technology, where he collaborated in the introduction of the first Internet services at the Institute and was part of the team that connected the Institute and Mexico to the Internet in 1988.

He is a founding member of AMSI (Asociación Mexicana de la Seguridad de la Información), Chairman of the Emerging Trends and Technologies Committee of AMDI (Academia Mexicana de Derecho Informático). Since 2010 he has been a member of the NIC MX Advisory Committee. He is a mentor to entrepreneurs and a member of the project evaluation committee at Startup Studio Monterrey. He was part of the citizen editorial council of elnorte.com of the newspaper El Norte (2018, 2017, 2016). He is a proprietary director on the Board of Directors of CITI SAPI de CV and Restoclean SA de CV.

MC (Maria-Cristina) currently serves as Facebook’s Director of Security and Wellness Policy for Latin America, focused on ensuring that users feel safe on the platform to use their voice and continue building community. Before joining Facebook, MC spent more than five years on Google’s Public Policy team and more than four years at CIDAC, a research center in Mexico City leading the issues of economic regulation and antitrust. MC graduated from the Washington University in St. Louis and has a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from Duke, where she became a basketball fan. Venezuelan by birth, and after having lived in several Latin American countries, she lives in Mexico City with her very expressive and imaginative 4-year-old Martin and her two little dogs, Hakuna and Benita.

Adán Salazar is a Computer Systems Engineer graduated from the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, and has a Master’s Degree of Science in Industrial Administration from the Instituto Tecnológico de Chihuahua. He has worked as an Analyst for the company Alderete y Socios Consultoría Industrial, he has also served as Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua by teaching subjects for the Entrepreneurial Workshop, Marketing, Financial Planning, as well as the subjects of the last semesters of the engineering careers. He currently serves as Director of the company Salazar Consultores, is an active member of the Internet Society (ISOC), and is President of the Asociación de Ejecutivos de Ventas y Mercadotecnia de Chihuahua.

Carles Abarca began his career in the world of IT in 1990 at Grupo Steria and later joined Siemens Nixdorf as director of the Technology Consulting Unit for Financial Entities. He was director of the Siemens technology services business for Latin America and technical manager in the founding team of the company extendnow, a Siemens subsidiary.

Since 2020 he has been Chief Technology Officer for Banco Sabadell (Spain) where he has collaborated since 2007. He led the technological integration of the acquisition of TSB Bank (United Kingdom) for almost five years, a project that involved more than 2,000 engineers with a cost over £500 million. Likewise, as Director of Information Technology and Director of Technological Innovation of the Bank (Barcelona), he led the launch of online banking, reaching more than 11 million customers in more than 14 countries and 26 thousand collaborators. He has participated in seven acquisition processes, achieving growth of more than 500%.

He has a Master’s Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in e-Commerce and is a Telecommunications Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.