Position: Project Consultant Organization: National Center for Cleaner Production and Environmental Technologies Country: Colombia Environmental Engineer, with a Master’s degree in Environmental Sciences and specialization in Natural Resource Management. With 10 years of professional experience in sustainability and related issues such as circular economy, eco-innovation, water footprint, environmental product footprint, cleaner production, resource efficiency and comprehensive management of industrial and municipal solid waste, and management and management of personal. Gloria currently works as a Support Professional in the National Center for Cleaner Production and Environmental Technologies - CNPMLTA - providing technical support in projects such as: Identification and Implementation of Initiatives that Promote Circular Economy, Corporate Water Management Initiative in Colombia de Cosude, Integration of Sustainable Production and Consumption Policies to promote Eco-innovation in Colombia, promotion of Green Chemistry. As well as Professor in the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, and Public Company Advisor of Urrao E.S.P in the valuation of urban organic waste with a focus on Circular Economy.

Position: Digital Business Analyst Organization: Independent Country: Colombia Nicolas is a Digital Business Analyst and Innovation Manager with a Master’s degree in Creation & Management of Innovative & amp; Technology based companies from the University of Barcelona, and a degree in International Business at EAFIT University. He is honorary member of the Management Projection Group of the EAFIT University. Passionate about blockchain technology, the new digital economy and the impact it can create for society through new decentralized data-driven services. Experience developing marketing & communication strategy with Spanish startups. He has experience undertaking and developing personal e-commerce projects and has worked on B2C & B2B digital marketing strategies.

Position: Founder and Director Organization: Ecologing & CEP-Americas member Country: Italy/Spain Nicola is an industrial engineer, founder and director of Ecologing since 2009. Creator of Ecocanvas (2012), a prototyping methodology for circular business models, he teaches at universities and business schools in Sustainable Design, Entrepreneurship and Circular Economy. He is dedicated to the training, consulting and exploration of circular design of products, services and business models. In the last 10 years, he has been learning and connecting disciplines to enrich his knowledge and considers himself as a generalist, curious and restless. He is dedicated to exploring new ways of teaching, disseminating and diffusing messages that change perception and call for action. He helps and mentors entrepreneurship projects, communicating and generating knowledge and helps companies and institutions to redirect their course, developing tools and turning around what we take for granted, all this with humor and provocation.

Position: Lead, Internationalization Strategy of AMVA Organization: Metropolitan Area of the Valley of Aburrá Country: Colombia Political scientist of the National University of Colombia and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain and specialist in Public Management at EAFIT University. Founder and Director of the Social Knowledge Center - CPIENSA. He currently works as a metropolitan professional of international cooperation and agreements of the Metropolitan Area of ​​the Aburrá Valley, where he leads the internationalization strategy of the metropolitan region, through projects such as the orange economy in the framework of the 4th industrial revolution, the orange districts metropolitan and the realization of the metropolitan creative and circular economy.

Position: Director Organization: Valopes & CEP-Americas member Country: Colombia Octavio is co-founder of Valopes, a company where they are innovating in the development of technological solutions that focus on tackling down resource scarcity by leading the digital transformation of the recycling industry and the industrial metabolism throughout their B2B cloud based platform. Octavio is an industrial engineer from the University de los Andes, has a Masters Degree in Industrial Ecology with a focus on Energy and Process Engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and a postgraduate certificate in Energy, Sustainability, Cycle Analysis of Life and Analysis of Environmental Systems at MIT and is a senior expert of the Circular Economy Platform of the Americas. Octavio is passionate about making a contribution to create a path towards a more sustainable future.

Position: Founding Partner Organization: Circularity Edge LLC & CEP-Americas member Country: United States Ken is exceptionally skilled at presenting the business, social and environmental benefits of a Sustainable Circular Economy and Cradle to Cradle® design. 35+ years of experience in the international private sector on topics of sustainable development. Ken leads the innovation division of the Circular Economy Platform Americas. Ken is a outstanding teacher on the principles of Circularity and sustainable business practices.

Position: Head Biomimicry Chemist Organization: Biomimicry 3.8 Country: United States Mark seeks out and applies the design principles of nature's time-tested chemical strategies to the development of innovative solutions to the toxic chemical and material challenges facing the 21st century.

Position: International Advisor Organization: Independent Country: Colombia Luisa Fernanda has worked with environmental policy and international cooperation for more than 15 years. Her career has been carried out by institutions such as the United Nations Environment Program, the United Nations Foundation, and the Inter-American Development Bank, among others. She was Secretary of Environment of the Government of Antioquia between 2012 and 2013. Luisa has been a professor at the University of Antioquia and the National University of Colombia, and directed the Masters Program in Management and Development Practice for the University of Los Andes. She is a Forestry Engineer from the National University, Biologist from the University of Antioquia, Environmental Law Specialist from the Externado University and has a Masters degree in Environmental Management with an emphasis on Global Change Policy from Yale University.