2020 Yearbook - Universidad ORT Uruguay

113 CONFERENCES AND ACADEMIC VISITS 2020 Laura Meza, Agr. Eng. (Costa Rica), Specialist in Climate Action and Circularity at the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA). She delivered the webinar “Entrepreneurship in Circular Biobusinesses,” alongside Manuel Albaladejo, Guadalupe Sonneveld, and Guillermo Zinola, on July 17. Dr. (Cand.) Ezequiel Alemán (United States) Adjunct Research Professor of Special Programs at Iowa State University. He delivered the talk “Remote Collaborative Projects. Creativity, Collaboration, and Personalization Using Digital Stories” at the Cognivalley virtual seminar on July 23. Leticia Britos Cavagnaro (United States) Co-founder and co-director of programme University Innovation Fellows programme adjunct professor at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, Stanford University. She participated as a keynote speaker in the talk “Teaching at the Pace of Learning” at the Cognivalley virtual seminar on July 23. Dr. Andrés Mora (United States) Robotics Engineer at NASA’s Ames Research Center, California. He delivered the talk “Astrobee: current status and future use as an international research platform” at the online seminar Artificial Intelligence Challenge on July 30. Armando Ruiz (United States) Senior Product Manager for IBM Data Science Experience and IBM Watson Machine Learning. He delivered the talk “AI Lessons from Over 100 Projects” at the online seminar Artificial Intelligence Challenge on July 30. Alan Villalobos (United States) programme , Americas - IBM Data Science Elite. He delivered the talk “Data Visualization for Data Science Practice” at the online seminar Artificial Intelligence Challenge on July 30. Paul Bourne (United Kingdom) Fellow in Creative Engagement, Judge Business School, Cambridge University. He participated as a keynote speaker with the talk “The Human Factor: Effectively communicating your story in presentations, pitches, and teaching both online and face-to-face” at the Cognivalley virtual seminar on July 23. Dr. Ernesto Gutiérrez (Sweden) Collaboration Manager, Uppsala University. Creator of Innovationstories.se, the first scientific comic strip on innovation management. He delivered the talk “Scientific comic strips: from minor format to academic revolution” at the Cognivalley virtual seminar on July 23.