Kevin M. Esvelt is an assistant professor of the MIT Media Lab, where he leads the Sculpting Evolution Group in exploring evolutionary and ecological engineering. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University for inventing a synthetic microbial ecosystem to rapidly evolve useful biomolecules, and subsequently helped pioneer the development of CRISPR, a powerful new method of genome engineering.

In 2013, Esvelt was the first to identify the potential for CRISPR “gene drive” systems to alter wild populations of organisms. Recognizing the implications of an advance that could enable individual scientists to alter the shared environment, he and his colleagues chose to break with scientific tradition by revealing their findings and calling for open discussion and safeguards before they demonstrated the technology in the laboratory.

He is also a member of the Executive Committee of Citigroup Treasury & Trade Solutions Latin America and responsible for the Data Innovation Agenda. In his current role, Driss is responsible for the entire range of digital and mobile banking platforms for cash management, liquidity investment services, equity solutions, business cards and commercial operations, to enable multinationals, financial entities and organizations of the public sector operate in the most connected and efficient way across 22 countries in Latin America and more than 70 countries in the world.

Evelyn Landman is the co-founder and CTO of Proteantecs, which provides unprecedented insight into electronics products throughout their full lifecycle, revolutionizing electronics quality, reliability and safety monitoring solutions. In 1999, Evelyn founded Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier of end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand intelligent interconnect solutions and services for servers, storage, and hyper-converged infrastructure. She had previously joined Intel Israel in 1988 as the design engineer and manager of the Processors department.

Veronica is the Americas Human Capital practice leader and a Partner with more than 20 years in Consulting at Deloitte. She is a client – focused professional who advises on HR and talent strategies that drive value for Latin American organizations. Veronica has led many HR and enterprise wide transformation efforts for our key clients in Latin America. She also advises senior leaders on talent and leadership strategies and future of work.

Veronica is a professor on strategic transformation, culture change, and leadership. Veronica holds an MBA from The Ohio State University, USA; and a PhD on Psychology of Human Resources from the University of Valencia, Spain