2022 Speakers
Stay tuned for more - we’ll be announcing more speakers in the coming weeks.

Serena Williams
23-time Grand Slam Champion and Entrepreneur

Alexis Ohanian
Cofounder and Former Executive Chairman, Reddit & Founder of Seven Seven Six

Daniella Levine Cava
Mayor of Miami-Dade County

Francis Suarez
Mayor of the City of Miami

Peter Smith
Cofounder & CEO of Blockchain.com

Purnima Padmanabhan
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Management, VMware

Steve Case
Chairman & CEO, Revolution | Co-Founder, AOL

Hong Fang
CEO of Okcoin

Dr. Vivek H. Murthy
U.S. Surgeon General

Arantxa Loizaga
News Anchor, hoy Día

Lin Dai
CEO and Co-founder of OneOf

Maggie Hallbach
Senior Vice President, Public Sector, Verizon

Sean Ford
COO, Algorand

Jeffrey L. Duerk, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President and Provost, University of Miami

Chelsea Collier
Founder of Digi.City

Francisco Polo
High Commissioner for Spain Entrepreneurial Nation

Bo Ren
Director of Early Stage Startups, SVB

Elias Torres
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Drift

Samara Hernandez
Founding Partner, Chingona Ventures

Leigh-Ann Buchanan
President, aīre ventures

Dr. Patrice Harris
Cofounder + CEO, eMed

Baron Davis
Two-Time NBA All-Star

Lisa Shim
Senior EVP, BankUnited

Michael Novogratz
Founder and CEO, Galaxy Digital

Jaret Davis
Co-Managing Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig

Beatriz Luengo
Grammy-Award® Winning Artist

Yotuel Romero
Latin Grammy-Award® Winning Artist

Claudia Durán
Managing Director of Endeavor Miami

Wayne Thompson
Executive Vice President of Technology & Products, Hotwire

Michael Arrington
Founder, Arrington Capital

John Owens
Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig

Merritt Baer
Principal, AWS Office of the CISO

Maren Lau
Regional Vice President at Meta for Latin America

Dr. Paul Judge
Managing Partner of Panoramic Ventures

Chester Ng
General Partner at Atomic

Aaron Burciaga
Data Scientist, AI Engineer, Author, Advisor

Jim Messina
CEO, The Messina Group

Staci Warden
CEO, Algorand Foundation

Chris Adamo
Co-founder of Flamingo Capital and Co-founder of Letterhead

Michelle Abbs
Founder and CEO of Web3 Equity

Hector Mujica
Latino Leadership Council, Google

Ana Sanchez Gal
CEO & Co-Founder, The Oliver Gal Artist Co.

Federico Malek
Co-Founder at Wonder Brands

Fabio Knijnik
COO at SellersFunding

Melinda Delis
Director, Gemini

Clara Bullrich
Co-founder of TheVentureCity

Julio Frenk
President of the University of Miami

Kate Rooney
Technology Reporter, CNBC

Deirdre Bosa
Co-Anchor of "TechCheck", CNBC

Will Weinraub
CEO and Co-Founder of OnChain Studios

Jane Wooldridge
Senior Director for Journalism Sustainability and Partnerships, Miami Herald

Nelly Ortiz
Director, Business Hacking Studio at Globant

Armando "Pitbull" Perez
Grammy-Award® Winning Global Artist, Entrepreneur & Investor

Radhika Krishnan
Chief Product Officer, Hitachi Vantara

Kevin O’Leary
Investor, Venture Capitalist, and star of ABC’s Shark Tank

Ryan Whittemore
Chief Investment Officer, Florida Funders

Brian White
Partner of DBO Partners

Madeline Pumariega
President, Miami Dade College

Carlos Vazquez
President of Miami EdTech

Nelson Fonseca
CEO of Cyxtera

Kate Barecchia
Global Data Privacy Officer & Deputy General Counsel, Imperva

Barry Field
CEO of Appgate

Andrew Parker
Founder and CEO, Papa

Richard Lavina
CEO + Cofounder, Taxfyle

Karina DuQuesne
VP of People and General Counsel, Ironhack

Ariel Quinones
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Ironhack

Rick Beasley
Executive Director for the South Florida Workforce Investment

Andrew Collins
Founder, Bungalow

Derrick Miles
Founder/Chief Executive Officer at CourMed

Andrew Ritch
Founder, GlanceHouse

Yve-Car Momperousse
CEO and Co-Founder, Kreyol Essence

Samson Magid
Co-Founder & CEO, HealthSnap

Andrés Meirovich Bellolio
Founder and Managing Partner Genesis Ventures

Carolina Rendeiro
CEO & Founder of Connect2Global

Jordan Castro
Co-Founder of Doodles

Jenny Lorenzo
Entrepreneur

John Paradisi
Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer for City National Bank of Florida

John Wensveen
Chief Innovation Officer at Nova Southeastern University

Steve MacDonald
Founder, MacDonald Ventures

Tom Wallace
Managing Partner at Florida Funders

Carolyn Groobey
LP, Florida Funders and Investor, New World Angels

Salim Ismail
Co-founder and Chairman, OpenExO

Agatha Caraballo
Founding Director of the Maurice A. Ferré Institute for Civic Leadership

Dr. Kenneth A. Jessell
Interim President of Florida International University

Arjun (JJ) Desai
Chief Strategic Innovation Officer Insightec, Director of Founders Factory Miami

Maurice R. Ferre
Chairman and CEO at INSIGHTEC

Dr Elizabeth Bejar
Interim Provost, Executive Vice President, and Chief Operating Officer

Jody Glidden
CEO & Co-Founder, Introhive

Walter O’Leary
Investor

Cristina Nunez
Partner and Co-Founder of True Beauty Ventures

Seth Van Essendelft
Senior Vice President, Strategy, Corporate Development and Strategic Investments

Omar Eissa
Managing Director in the Investment Bank of Bank of America

Pilar Johnson
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Debut Capital

Raul Moas
Senior Director of Miami, Knight Foundation

Jorge Gonzalez
Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of City National Bank of Florida

Daniel Navarro
Marketing Lead, Google for Startups

Jack Marchetti
Senior Solutions architect at AWS

Elle Leemay Chen
VC Principal at Miami Angels

Kevin Cadette
Executive Director of Black Angels Miami

Ria Bhutoria
General Partner at Castle Island Ventures

Laura Vidiella
VP of Business Development & Strategy at LedgerPrime

James Kohnstamm
Executive Vice President, Economic Development

Obi Akpuda
Founder, The Kutting Edge

Greg Wohler
Founder and CEO of MetaVS

Sunayna Tuteja
Chief Innovation Officer for the Federal Reserve System

Albert Santalo
Founder + CEO | 8base

Tyler Quinn
Principal at Assurance & Advisory Services

Jorge Perez
Leads Dell Technologies North America Client Solutions Group (CSG) Product Operations

Mark Flickinger
General Partner and Chief Operating Officer at Panoramic Ventures

Michael Valerio
Partner and Technology Industry Practice Leader

Sarah Haynes
Co-founder, Co-CEO and Chairwoman of Bolt Mobility

Lucas Chaya del Pino
Head of Dell for Startups at Dell Technologies

Nicole Farmer
Partnerships Manager, Americas, Google for Startups

Mat Gantar
Co-Founder of Lotux

Jeanine Suah
X in Residence at Brex

Leo Taddeo
Chief Information Security Officer, President, Appgate Federal

Jean Monestime
Miami-Dade County Commissioner

Felecia Hatcher
CEO - Black Ambition

AJ Yawn
Founder and CEO of ByteChek

Henri Pierre-Jacques
Managing Partner of Harlem Capital

Selenis Leguisamon
Enterprise Account Executive for Amazon Web Services
Past Keynote Speakers
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Bill McDermott
Former CEO of SAP
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Jean Case
Chair, National Geographic Society & CEO, Case Foundation
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Marcelo Claure
Executive Chairman, Sprint & COO, Softbank
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Martine Rothblatt
CEO, United Therapeutics & Cofounder, Sirius Satellite Radio
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Kara Swisher
Cofounder, Recode
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Steve Wozniak
Cofounder, Apple Computer Inc., Silicon Valley Icon
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Sue Siegel
Chief Innovation Officer of GE & CEO of GE Ventures
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Steve Case
Chairman and CEO of Revolution