Guillermo is CEO of S.A. La Nación. He started his professional carreer in the telecom industry. 

In 1994 he joined Telecom Argentina to develop and lauch its mobile operations. 

From 2000 to 2003, he was Regional Marketing VP at AT&T Latinoamerica for Brazil and Argentina, managing many launches in the region. He then joined Telecom Personal as CEO until finally joining S.A. La Nación in 2014. He currently leads a team of journalists and business professionals seeking to transform a traditional media group into a new media company with a strong Smart & Social vision. 

Rosental Calmon Alves is a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Knight Chair in Journalism and the UNESCO Chair in Communication and is also the founder and director of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. Created in 2002, the center has benefited thousands of journalists around the world with training programs. In Latin America and the Caribbean, the center has helped journalists to create a new generation of organizations dedicated to elevating the professional and ethical standards of journalism in their countries. In 2016, he was awarded with the Maria Moors Cabot Prize.

Trei serves as the Chief Product Officer at Vox Media, Inc. He leads the highly talented team responsible for SB Nation's cutting edge publishing and community platform. Trei served as the Chief Product Officer at The Verge. He has been designing and building web applications for engaged audiences for over 12 years. As a founder of the highly regarded software development consultancy, Handwire, Trei developed enterprise internet solutions for Fortune 500 companies and large public institutions such as Microsoft, Royal Dutch Shell, and MD Anderson Cancer Center. Working with Microsoft's Xbox division, he led efforts to design, build, and scale the first web application empowering sports gamers to organize leagues and tournaments, track scores, and calculate standings. Before joining Vox media, Trei ran the internet efforts for former tech Chief Executive Officer and Virginia Governor Mark Warner in the 2008 presidential primaries. Using innovative techniques to organize and connect supporters, raise online contributions, and reach out to the political blogosphere, he helped make Gov. Warner's organization the most tech-savvy in the race before the governor bowed out to run for US Senate. His other achievements include creating a ground-breaking platform for Texas Monthly, "the national magazine of Texas," connecting Texans across the world, as well as developing technology for OzSearch, the first and largest online portal dedicated to delivering Australian web content.

Diego is a Digital Growth & Transformation Expert. He has vast experience in designing, structuring and leading Operations and Content teams and a proven track record of tangible audience and income uplift, both in the U.S. Hispanic market as well as in Latin America.

He is currently Regional Digital Director for Discovery LATAM & US Hispanics.

In the US, he led the Product and Strategy for Discovery DLA: tudiscovery.com and Discoverybrasil.com. Previously, he was VP of Product and Digital Operations for UNIVISION (Noticias, Deportes & Entretenimiento), Univision Connecta & UFORIA APP.

In Latin America, he was Digital Managing Director for ICCK (Digital arm of Grupo Santo Domingo), Colombia's largest and most diverse media holding, with brands such as EL ESPECTADOR, CARACOL TELEVISIÓN, BLU RADIO, GOL CARACOL, CINECOLOMBIA, SHOCK, CROMOS.

Prior to that, he was Digital Managing Director for EL TIEMPO Casa Editorial, covering the strategies of media brands EL TIEMPO, PORTAFOLIO, CITYTV, VIVEIN, ALO, MUJERES, MOTOR, REVISTA DON JUAN ABC DEL BEBÉ.

He worked in content marketing as Head of Innovation, content and operations at pioneer digital agency Indexcol for regional clients such as Coca-Cola Latin Center Division & Warner Bros Theatrical.

He has spoken at several WAN-IFRA events in Latin America and Europe, as well as INMA, SIP, Hispanicsize Miami, Silicon Beach Fest, Digital Futuro Forum Miami, and many more. 

Daniel Dessein is president of the La Gaceta newspaper (Tucumán, Argentina), president of the Press Freedom Commission and former president of ADEPA (Asociación de Entidades Periodísticas Argentinas) and member of the WAN-IFRA Advisory Board and its Latam committee. He is also regional vice president of the SIP (Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa), member of the National Academy of Journalism and member of the Iberoamerican Forum. He published articles in more than 150 media and discussed the situation of the press in conferences, media, and universities in 20 countries. Author, co-author, and compiler of 15 books. Among other distinctions, he received the Laurel de Plata for journalist of the year of Rotary Buenos Aires in 2014.

John is Chief Executive Officer of Chartbeat. He has worked on the cutting-edge of media and technology for 17+ years, setting the daily operations and business development agendas of companies as diverse as Google, NBC-Universal and vente-privee. John received his undergraduate degree in History from Haverford College and a joint degree in Law and Business from Columbia University.

Julián is the director of content and social media strategy of the President of Argentina, Mauricio Macri. He's also the Director of Bitbol, social media consultant for La Nación , creative director of the Mendoza Post, consultant of Bodegas Nieto Senetiner, columnist for La Nación and member of the National Journalism Academy of Argentina.

A newsroom leader in digital strategy, Ryan Kellett is the Director of Audience Growth and a senior editor at The Washington Post. He leads newsroom-based teams focused on social media, search, and distributed platform partnerships. He also oversees a social and breaking news reporting team.

Prior to this role, Ryan was the National Digital Editor for 2012 U.S. Presidential Election coverage. Ryan joined The Post in 2010 and previously worked at NPR.

Ryan lives in Washington D.C. and tweets @rkellett.

Juan Pablo is Strategy Manager at Casa Editorial El Tiempo, Colombia, with responsibility over the areas of Planning, Innovation and Big Data of the company. He's an industial engineer from the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota and has a specialization degree in Finance and Systems from the same University. He's worked for 30 years in the areas of Strategic Planning, Marketing and Business Intelligence of large Colombian companies, and has been working for more than 17 years in the media sector.

Berthier Ribeiro-Neto holds a PhD in Computer Science from University of California, Los Angeles (1995). Since graduating, he has become a professor at the Computer Science Department at UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil), where he still teaches on a part-time basis. En 1999, he published the book Modern Information Retrieval, with co-author Professor Ricardo Baeza-Yates, which became a bestseller in this area.

In 2000, Berthier founded Akwan Information Technologies, a start up initiated by a group of professors and students from UFMG to provide search services to users and companies in Brazil. In 2005, Akwan was acquired by Google and became the Center of Engineering of Latin America, which works -among other things- on the future of Search under Berthier's leadership.

Nicholas is responsible for Perfil’s digital platforms in Argentina and Brazil, which count with approximately 30 million unique visitors spread across 34 different properties. From Sao Paulo, Nicholas leads a highly creative team which is in charge of the digital evolution of the 18 sites that, along with the renown title CARAS, form part of Perfil Brasil’s ecosystem. He also coordinates tech development, content management, and Perfil’s proprietary publishing technology in both countries.

Before joining CARAS Nicholas served as the Digital Strategy Director and Digital Platforms Director at Grupo Estado (Brazil) during 8 years, leading technical and product teams and coordinating digitalization projects for Estadão newspaper, Jornal da Tarde newspaper, Eldorado radio and other Estadão's brands.

He has been designing and building internet and mobile applications for digital publishing for over 20 years. As a software engineer of the highly regarded Brazilian portal (UOL), Nicholas designed and developed the first brazilian e-commerce website (Pão de Açúcar Delivery) and the Content Management Systems and Subscription Systems used in beginning of UOL and after years.

Nicholas founded E-systems Solutions, a Brazilian pioneer company in e-commerce and internet applications, acquired by LuminaAmericas Inc, and helped north-american companies like Nike, Carrier, MSN, to launch websites in Brazil with huge impact and success. At LuminaAmericas he helped also important Brazilian companies as AES, Eletropaulo, Unibanco, Somlivre/Globo, Americanas.com and Telefónica.

At JCG – largest media group in the Brazilian Mid-North, with 26 media companies spanning television, newspaper, radio and internet – I oversee the sales, marketing, planning, design, and execution of the digital products strategy.

As Chief Digital Officer, I'm charged with identifying the opportunities that will foster growth in web, mobile devices and social media, with focus on digital revenue, viewership, performance, and user experience. These responsibilities include the creation and maintenance of strategic partnerships, nurturing of cross-disciplinary teams, designing of new information architectures, content modelling, user interface and experience standards, product lifecycle management, channel sales development, marketing and deep data applications.

I walk a thin line between art, tech, and business. I go to work on my passion with an award winning team of misfits. Artists, nerds, intellectuals, evangelists, number crunchers, cool hunters and intrapreneurs who prove, time and again, that great work can – and should – be done anywhere in the planet, not just in Silicon Valley. This attitude has reaped us consistent growth in viewership and revenue, as well as awards and critical acclaim.

I also represent the group in trade associations such as INMA, Wan-Ifra and ANJ (Nacional Association of Newspapers) and speak at industry events.

Prior to joining JCG, I worked at Sony Pictures Imageworks supervising pipeline research and development, bidding, execution and final content delivery. Past film credits include Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revolutions, The Watchmen, and all three Spider-Man films. My contributions featured in Superman Returns, The Aviator, and Spider-Man 2 were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in a Motion Picture, with Spider-Man 2 taking the prestigious award.

Laura is Executive Director and Editor-in-chief at Chequeado, the first initiative of fact-checking and verification of public discourse in Latin America. She is Professor of Right to Information at the University of Buenos Aires and writes in national daily La Nación, where she has covered and conducted research on cases related to corruption, civil rights and justice for almost two decades. Laura has a Bachelor's Degree in Communication Science at University of Buenos Aires and she's also a lawyer and access to information and transparency activist. She worked at CIPPEC (2004-2012) as Director of Communications and at the Secretary of Internal Security of the Ministry of Justice (2003-2004). For her work as a journalist she received more than half a dozen awards: among them, in 2015, the Gabriel García Márquez Award from the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericana (FNPI) in the Innovation category for Chequeado and the expansion of fact-checking in the region.

Marcos is the Editorial Content Manager in GRANASA, and has lead the digital renovation project of EXTRA newspaper, one of the most read newspaper in Ecuador. Marcos is also a journalist with digital experience (websites and social media), and a consultant for media companies and journalists interested in evolving towards multi-platform and multi-disciplinary newsrooms.