María López is Executive Vice President of Grupo Semana, one of the last independent publishing houses in Latin America. She's been recognized in the Women to Watch 2018 list and has won the Young Global Leader Award of the World Economic Forum. María focuses her work on leading the digital transformation of her company at a time of enormous disruption for the industry. She is the founder of the Fundación Semana and the Festival Detonante, a platform whose aim is to empower new generations to become agents of change in their communitities through creative industries.