Speakers

Confirmed speakers include:

Her Excellency Laura Chinchilla Miranda (Keynote Speaker)
President of Costa Rica

Dr. Jean Acquatella
Economic Affairs Officer, Natural Resources & Infrastructure Division, UN Economic Commission for Latin America & the Caribbean (ECLAC), Chile

Francisco Acuña
CEO & Chairman, InTrust Global Investments, USA

Dr. Grethel Aguilar Rojas
Regional Director for Meso America & Caribbean Initiative, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Costa Rica

Laura Alfaro
Minister of Planning & Economic Policy, Government of Costa Rica & Associate Professor, Harvard School of Business, USA  

Anne Slaughter Andrew
Ambassador of the United States of America to Costa Rica 

Johnny Araya Monge
Mayor, City of San Jose, Costa Rica      

Dr. Nicolás Ardito-Barletta
Former President of Panama & President, National Center for Competitiveness, Panama

Margarita Astrálaga
Regional Director for Latin America & the Caribbean, United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Panama

Wilhelm Baumgartner
Regional Manager for Latin America & the Caribbean, E+Co Latin America, Costa Rica

Jose Ernesto Berganza
Energy Specialist, Banco Centroamericano de Integración Economica (BCIE), Honduras

Eduardo Berrocal
Vice President, Bionest Technologies Inc., Costa Rica

Charles Brewer
Managing Partner, Las Catalinas, USA

Dr. Andrei Bourrouet Vargas
Vice Minister of Energy, Ministry of Environment, Energy & Telecommunications, Government of Costa Rica

Kevin Cahill
Director of Engineering, PositivEnergy Practice, USA

Marcos Camacho López
Transport Senior Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank, Costa Rica

Irene Campos
Minister of Housing & Human Settlement, Government of Costa Rica

Miguel Carabaguiaz
Executive President, Instituto Costarricense de Ferrocarriles (INCOFER), Costa Rica

Dr. Edmundo Castro
Director of Carbon Neutral Unit, EARTH University, Costa Rica

Dr. Kyung-Won Chung
Director, Korea-Latin America Green Convergence Center (GCC-KOLAC), South Korea

Pilar Cisneros
Co-Director, Telenoticias, Channel 7, Costa Rica

Pablo Cob Saborío
General Manager, National Power & Light Company (CNFL), Costa Rica

Carlos Cubillos
Director of Design, Gensler, USA

Sylvain Cuperlier
Vice President of Worldwide Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability, Dole Food Company, France

Teofilo de la Torre
Minister of the Environment, Energy & Telecomunications, Government of Costa Rica

Carlos Dengo
Principal, CDG Environmental Advisors, Costa Rica

Manuel Dengo
Costa Rica Ambassador & Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland

Ramon Diago
Champion of Green Initiatives, Real Hotels & Resorts of the Poma Group, Costa Rica

João Dias
National Coordinator of MOBI.E Program, Support Office for Electric Mobility (GAMEP), Portugal

Dr. Roberto Dobles
Former Minister of Environment, Energy & Telecommunications, Government of Costa Rica

Ronald Flores Vega
Director of Planning, Ministry of Public Works & Transport (MOPT), Costa Rica

Michael Forrest
General Manager, Intel, Costa Rica

Jay Gallegos
Managing Director, Mesoamerica Energy, Costa Rica

Dr. Rodrigo Gámez
President & Co-founder, National Institute of Biodiversity (INBio), Costa Rica

Yannick Glemarec
Executive Coordinator & Director, United Nations Development Programme - Global Environment Facility (UNDP-GEF), USA

Carlos Enrique González
Principal, Grupo Pelon, Costa Rica

Manuel Gonzalez, Auditor of Systems Certification Office, Instituto de Normas Técnicas de Costa Rica (INTECO), Costa Rica

Michael Gucovsky
Senior Advisor, GLOBE Foundation & Former Deputy Regional Bureau Director, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Costa Rica

José Mario Guzmán
Director, RTN Noticias, Channel 13, Costa Rica

Jim Hartzfeld
Managing Director, InterfaceRAISE, USA

Alex Khajavi
CEO & Founder, Nature Air, Costa Rica

Mark Lambrides
Chief, Energy & Climate Change Mitigation, Organization of American States, USA

Alfredo Landaeta
Vice President, the HOK Planning Group, Canada

Cameron MacKay
Canadian Ambassador to Costa Rica, Honduras & Nicaragua

Oliver Madison
Founder & CEO, Me-to-We Style & Co-Founder, Envirologix Solutions, Canada

Edgar Mata
Vice President, Comunicación Corporativa Ketchum for Central America, Costa Rica

Greivin Mayorga
Director General Energy Sector, Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE)

Bernardo Méndez
Senior Business Developer & Representative for Central America & Caribbean, juwi Wind Energy, Costa Rica

Ramón de Mendiola Sánchez
Managing Director, Florida Ice & Farm Co., Costa Rica

Fernando Naranjo Villalobos
General Manager, Banco Nacional, Costa Rica

Dr. Victorio Oxilia Dávalos
Executive Director, Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE), Ecuador

Mickael Pandion
Director, Städtische Verkehrsbetrieb Esslingen (SVE), Germany

Dr. Alejandro Peraza García
Director of Electricity & Renewable Energy, Energy Regulatory Commission, Mexico

Edwin Piñero
Executive Vice President & Chief Sustainability Officer, Veolia Water North America, USA

Eduardo Piquero
Director for Latin America, South Pole Carbon Asset Management Ltd., Mexico

Debbie Ponchner
Editor in Chief, La Nación, Costa Rica 

Lawrence Pratt
Associate Director for the Latin American Center for Competitiveness & Sustainable Development (CLACDS), INCAE Business School, Costa Rica

Luis Diego Quirós
Editor in Chief, Revista Summa, El Salvador

Miguel Ramírez
CEO, Grupo Corporativo Saret, Costa Rica

George Rodríguez
President, Foreign Press Association and Director, Notimex Press Agency, Costa Rica

Guillermo Rodríguez
President, ABB Central America & the Caribbean, Panama

Dr. Enrique Rodríguez Flores
Regional Energy Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank, Costa Rica

Juan Carlos Romero
Manager of Environmental & Social Responsibility, Metropolitan Enterprise of Water & Sewer Systems in Quito (EMAAP-Q), Ecuador

Jim Ryan
Founder & President, ASI Power & Telemetry, Costa Rica

Mauricio Salas
Partner, BLP Abogados, Costa Rica

Ernesto Samayoa Denys
Latin America Operations Director, World Environment Center, El Salvador

Raúl Silesky
President, Association of Journalists, Costa Rica

Bruno Stagno
Principal, Bruno Stagno Architects & Associates & Founding Director, Institute for Tropical Architecture, Costa Rica

Arnaud Staib
Director, Rhodia Inc. & Origination Manager, North, Central & South America, Orbeo, USA

Adam Stratton
Vice President, Power Panel Inc., Canada

Franz Tattenbach
President & CEO, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Canada

William Tharp
CEO, Climate Change Infrastructure (CCI) Corp., Canada

Marcelo Tokman Ramos
Vice President, Vestas South America & Vice President of Government Relations, Vestas Latin America, Chile

Pablo Vargas
CEO, Grupo Britt, Costa Rica

Ricaurte "Catín" Vásquez
President & CEO, General Electric Central America & the Caribbean, Panama

Roberto Vega
Director of Sustainability, Dole Food Company, France

Jean-Luc Vieux-Pernon
Energy Business Vice President, Schneider Electric Mexico & Central America, Mexico

Jorge Villalobos Clare
Executive President, Refinadora Costarricense de Petróleo (RECOPE), Costa Rica

Alfredo Volio
Chairman of the Board, Banco Nacional de Costa Rica

Dr. John Wiebe
President & CEO, GLOBE Group, Canada