ChileMass Talks
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8:00 am-3:00 pm
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MIT Student Center | MIT Student Center – Sala de Puerto Rico.
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84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139.
By Juan Gabriel Valdés, Chile’s ambassador to the United States.
By Fernanda Soza, Executive Director of ChileMass.
By Dava Newman, Director of the MIT Media Lab, an interdisciplinary
research lab working to invent the future! Former deputy administrator of
NASA.
By Eduardo Bitrán, Professor of innovation at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez,
President of HUB APTA and Club de Innovación, and board member of
CODELCO; Randolph Bell, Head of International Government Affairs at
Commonwealth Fusion Systems and Associate Partner at Dentons
Global Advisors, and Gabriela Carrasco (moderator), Co-founder and
Director of 2811, an organization dedicated to regeneration, and Co-
founder of Reciprocal Ventures.
By Axel Christensen, Managing Director, Chief Investment Strategist for Latin America at BlackRock,
here he is also a member of the LatinAmerica Regional Operating Committee.
By Onür Yúce Gun, Director of Computational Design at New Balance. Seasoned computational design leader and instructor. Recognized by TEDx, and Time Magazine’s best inventions lists.
By Stephanie Soetendal, CEO & Founder Matrix Holograms, a Boston-
based EdTech startup whose mission is to democratize education
through AI-generated holograms.
By Marcelo Reynal, Senior Industry Manager at Google with ten years of
experience in digital transformation and digital strategies.
During this lunch, the audience will have the opportunity to engage in
casual conversations with distinguished individuals from various fields.
By Felipe Sierra, Chief Scientific Officer at Hevolution Foundation. Previously, Director of the Division of Aging Biology at the NIA for 13 years, and Director of Geroscience for Inspire in Toulouse.
By Roberto Alvo, CEO of LATAM Airlines Group. Previously, he held
several positions within the group, including at LAN Argentina and LAN
Airlines; and Roberto Rigobon, Professor of Applied Economics at the
Sloan School of Management, MIT, a research associate of the National
Bureau of Economic Research, and a visiting professor at IESA.
Posthumous tribute to Arnoldo Hax, pioneer in building bridges of collaboration between Chile and the United States. Arnoldo Hax was an outstanding Chilean academic, one of the most influential in the history of strategy and management. He was director of the School of Engineering at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management for more than four decades, as well as collaborator in other institutions of higher education, such as Harvard Business School and the University of California at Berkeley.