SPEAKERS

Jose Luis Aguilar, Executive Director, Cuenca Airport Corporation

He is a lawyer, graduated from the Catholic University of Ecuador, has master's studies in Spain, and has extensive work experience in the public and private sectors, related to airport and civil aviation issues. He has held, among other important positions, as Undersecretary of Air Transportation and Vice Minister of Transportation Services of Ecuador. He currently holds the position of executive director of the Cuenca Airport Corporation. His management focuses on increasing the air connectivity of the city of Cuenca.

WILSON AGUILAR, SALES SPECIALIST ENGINEER, JOHNSON CONTROLS

Wilson Aguilar, Electronic Engineer, currently holds the role of Sales Specialist Engineer at Johnson Controls. With 20 years of experience in the electronic security industry, he has a deep knowledge of Access Control, Intrusion, Video and Industrial Automation solutions. He has actively participated in the planning, development and execution of projects, with a special focus on electronic security solutions.

SILVIA ÁLVAREZ COUGIL, BUSINESS PARTNER - COMMERCIAL AVIATION, EXOLUM

Silvia Álvarez Cougil is an accomplished professional with a strong educational background. She earned her Communication Degree from Santiago de Compostela University and furthered her expertise by obtaining a master’s degree in Aviation Management from both IATA and Stanford University in the USA. 

In 2022, Silvia joined Exolum as a Business Partner in the Commercial and Business Development Department. Her role involves contributing to the company’s international expansion process, ensuring company´s growth and success. Additionally, Silvia manages client portfolios and fosters relations, working closely with a diverse range of clients that includes airlines, suppliers and airports.

Federico Anliker, President, Autonomous Executive Port Commission (CEPA), El Salvador

Vice President of Canal TVX, El Salvador, for eight years.

Regional and International Logistics and Purchasing Coordinator for the Avery Dennison chain, El Salvador, for 3 years.

Analyst and sales advisor for all of Latin America and the Caribbean at Dell, El Salvador.

Advisor to the former mayor of San Salvador, Nayib Bukele, during the period from 2015 to 2018.

Since June 2019, he has led the Autonomous Port Executive Commission, CEPA, being the youngest president to take the reins of the institution. Under his charge is the administration and development of the logistics infrastructure of ports, airports and railways throughout the country.

During his management, important achievements stand out, such as the Expansion and modernization of the El Salvador International Airport, attraction of new airlines and investment, and the first Public Private Partnership in the history of the country for the Air Cargo terminal. Also, he is working on the Pacific Airport project, contemplated in the Cuscatlán Plan of the Government of President Nayib Bukele.

Jorge Avila Treviño, Commercial Director, Signify Mexico

Jorge Ávila has more than 30 years of experience in the lighting industry; from product design and management, marketing, operations and manufacturing, to business leadership; highlighting large projects and their transformation to Lighting Systems. Currently, he is in charge of the commercial direction of the professional channel of Signify Mexico.

He has developed various lighting projects in sectors such as the public (transformation to LED), sports (various first division stadiums), corporate (among many, Torre BBVA, the first 100% LED building in Mexico). In addition to some focused on energy savings and connectivity such as the municipality of San Luis Potosí, Solidaridad in Quintana Roo, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Azteca Stadium, transforming the lives of millions of Mexicans with Light.

 He is an Engineer in Electrical Energy and Electronic Systems with a Master's Degree in Administration and Marketing from the Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Renan Brandao, Head of the Airport Economic Regulation Department, Brazilian Civil Aviation Agency

Renan is currently the head of the Airport Economic Regulation Area at the Brazilian Civil Aviation Agency, responsible for the supervision of airport concession contracts, tariff regulation, access to markets and competition in both public and private airports. He was previously the head of the Road and Railroad Project Structuring Area at the Brazilian Land Transportation Agency, and member of the PPI team, a Special Secretariat that works as a national PPP unit attached to the Presidency of Brazil. He is originally an economist of the Brazilian Development Bank, well experienced in structuring projects and financing for transportation and social infrastructure.

IVAN CANO MONROY, HEAD OF THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT ADVISORY OFFICE, AEROCIVIL - COLOMBIAN CIVIL AERONAUTICS

Engineer in transportation and roads, with specialization in transportation and master's degree in urban and regional planning.

Throughout his career, Engineer Iván Cano has worked in entities such as the Ministry of Transit and Transportation, the Third Millennium Transportation company “TRANSMILENIO”, in which he worked for various periods of time. Likewise, he worked in entities such as OPAIN, Empresa Férrea Regional, the Ministry of Transportation, the National Infrastructure Agency and the Institute of Urban Development “IDU”.

He has stood out within the Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics since 2022.

Emerson Junior Castro Hidalgo, Investment Project Portfolio Director, ProInversión

Graduated from the Master in Construction Management from the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences. Civil Engineer from the Federico Villarreal National University, with specialization in Public Investment Projects and Airport Design.

With more than 10 years of experience in project management, execution and monitoring, management of concession contracts in multimodal infrastructure and public services. He has held various positions in the Ministry of Transport and Communications, as General Director of the General Directorate of Transport Programs and Projects and Advisor on Transport Infrastructure and Public Services of the General Directorate of Transport Programs and Projects and of the General Directorate of Transportation Concessions.

In addition, he has assumed positions of Advisor in the ministerial office of the Production sector, Director of Investment Planning at MINEDU and Director of Reconstruction with Changes at PRONIED.

He currently serves as Project Portfolio Director of PROINVERSIÓN, in charge of promoting the private investment system at the national level.

Ma. Gabriela Eguiluz Rodríguez, Technical - Commercial Director, EPAV S.A - EMIN Group

Civil Engineer from the University of Chile with more than 35 years of experience. Expert in Diamond Grinding & Grooving. Evaluation Specialist and Concrete Pavement Rehabilitation. Between 1985 and 1992 he worked in the Directorate of Roads of the Ministry of Public Works, participating among others, in the technical-economic evaluation of the entire Chilean road network with the World Bank models HDM-III and EBM. He also worked at the Center for Research, Development and Innovation of Structures and Materials (IDIEM) in the “Concrete Pavement Monitoring”. He worked at the Chilean Institute of Cement and Concrete participating, among others, in the “International Study of Highway and Management Tools” (HDM-4), as a research engineer for the Latin American group formed by FICEM countries, with the theme: “Specification and Study of Concrete Pavement Deterioration Models to be incorporated into HDM-4”. Since 2000 to date, dedicated to Rehabilitation and Maintenance Preventive Concrete Pavements for Public Organizations and Road and Airport Concessionaires throughout LATAM.

Luis Felipe Elton Sanfuentes, Head of Project Development and Bidding Division, Ministry of Public Works, Chile

Industrial Civil Engineer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and MBA from the University of Birmingham UK.

He has been head of the Division since June 2018, being ratified in this position in October 2022. During the period between April 1 and October 20, 2022, he served as Deputy General Director of Concessions.

Previously, he held various positions in the public sector, being advisor to the Presidency for the Legado Bicentenario infrastructure project portfolio (2013-2014), Deputy Director of Rural Drinking Water of the Directorate of Hydraulic Works of Public Works (2011-2013). and Head of Emergency and Reconstruction of the General Directorate of Public Works (2010-2011).

In the private sector he has been Commercial Manager at the consulting firm SKM-IRH, project engineer and executive at renowned national construction and service companies in the mining area.

FABIAN FOLGAR FERREIRO, VP SALES FOR LATIN AMERICA, BENTLEY SYSTEMS INC, PHILADELPHIA, PA, USA

Fabián is a professional with more than 20 years in the software industry. For the past eleven years he has been working to bring digitalization and Bentley Digital Twin technologies to companies in Europe, North America, and Latin America. His goal is to help organizations and engineering professionals design, build, and operate their infrastructure assets by leveraging digital technologies and strategies.

Education:

•MBA, International Executive Program · (2002 - 2004) · University College Dublin, Ireland

•Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Biology · (1993 - 1998) University of Vigo, Spain

•Environmental Biology · (1997 – 1998) · ERASMUS Scholar · University of Sunderland, United Kingdom

LinkedIn profile: linkedin.com/in/fabian-f-2bb15a3/

María Constanza García Alicastro, Minister, Ministry of Transportation, Colombia

María Constanza García Alicastro is a civil engineer graduated from the University of La Salle, with specialization in Transit and Transportation from the National University and a master's degree in Development Management from the Externado University of Colombia. Thanks to more than 20 years of professional experience, the vice minister of Infrastructure has forged a solid track record in planning, formulation, structuring, design and implementation of projects aimed at the development of the transportation and urban mobility. The engineer García Alicastro has carried out a remarkable work as Director of Transportation and Infrastructure of the Ministry of Mobility of Bogotá, technical project director at the Institute of Urban Development (IDU), consultant and Secretary of Mobility of Bogotá.

Javier Gómez, Technical Sales Specialist, Autodesk

Javier, an architect with a master's degree in Civil Engineering from the University of the Andes. Certified Edge Expert by the IFC, Comprehensive Sustainability by the CCCS, and in BIM Fundamentals by Building Smart International, he joins Autodesk with more than 12 years of work experience in the AEC industry, after having served as BIM and Sustainability director at the renowned Colpatria Constructora in Colombia where he was in charge of the development of important projects implementing the BIM, IPD and Lean Construction methodologies, receiving several awards during his management.

Manuel González Moles, CEO, UG21 Engineering

MSc. Civil Engineer (University of Granada, 1998). MBA in the International Institute San Telmo (Seville, 2008), and Master's in Airport Design, Construction and Maintenance (UDIMA, Madrid, 2020).

He began his career in 1998 at the Junta de Andalucía and, in 2001, co-founded UG21 with Ozgur Unay. He served as an Associate Professor at the School of Civil Engineering in Ciudad Real, teaching Structural Theory. In December 2016, the

Andalucía, Ceuta, and Melilla Section of the Spanish Professional Association of Civil Engineers named him Engineer of the Year 2016.

He is the author of airport projects carried out by the firm in South America, notably his active involvement in the construction of the New ElDorado TWR in Bogotá (80 m height), in the Master Plans of Colombian airports, or in the works for AAP and ADP in Peru in projects in Arequipa, Juliaca, or Piura. Since 2010, he has led the company's international expansion, with permanent offices in 5 countries in South America, and an ambitious Strategic Plan #Horizon2025, aiming to expand to 6 countries, with a staff of 350 professionals and turnover exceeding 15 million euros.

Luis Miranda, Deputy Director General, General Directorate of Civil Aviation of Costa Rica

Luis Miranda Muñoz has 32 years of public service from the General Directorate of Civil Aviation of Costa Rica.

He worked for 20 years as an Air Traffic Controller and 12 years in the administrative area where his work stands out as Manager of the Operational Safety System of Air Traffic Services, Head of the Department of Air Navigation Services and the Airspace Administration Unit .

Currently and for 4 years, he has held the position of Deputy Director General of the General Directorate of Civil Aviation of Costa Rica.

Richar Mora Pantaleón, Technical Advisor - Expert in operational safety, EPAV S.A - EMIN Group

Civil Engineer with 20 years of experience. University teacher; Master in HR Management Trainair Plus Instructor of the Civil Aviation Organization International (ICAO). IATA Certification in Human Factors in Aviation. Diploma in Teacher Training and Executive Aviation Safety. International Consultant and Instructor in Operational Safety on the Runway. Global Reporting Format (GRF), Runway Safety Team (RST) and maintenance of airport pavements, according to ICAO annexes and aeronautical regulations Latin American (LAR). Knowledge of the aeronautical industry at the level ministerial, aeronautical authority, public and private operator. Expert in Operational Safety, specialist in Rigid and Flexible Pavements; Specialist in regulatory management of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Participation in inspections (AGA) in more than sixty (60) aerodromes of Latin America and the Caribbean.

FRANCISCO OSPINA RAMÍREZ, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE AGENCY (ANI), COLOMBIA

He has more than 22 years of experience in the transportation sector, in the public and private sectors.

He is a commercial pilot and mechanical engineer and has two specializations and three master's degrees, the latter with an emphasis on Engineering Management, Systems Engineering, aeronautical management and maintenance. He has held management positions in Civil Aeronautics and the Colombian Air Force, as well as advisory positions on matters related to science, technology and innovation.

He held the position of General Director of the Special Unit of Civil Aeronautics of Colombia, was also Secretary of the Aeronautical Authority in the same entity and previously served as Secretary of Operational Safety and Civil Aviation, Director of Flight Standards, Commercial Pilot, Business Training Consultant, Flight Simulator Instructor and other roles in different organizations.

He is currently the President of the National Infrastructure Agency (ANI), the leading entity whose purpose is to plan, coordinate, structure, contract, execute, manage and evaluate concession projects and other forms of Public Private Partnership - PPP, for the design, construction, maintenance, operation, administration and/or exploitation of public transportation infrastructure in all its modes and of the connected or related services and the development of public private partnership projects for other types of public infrastructure.

SERGIO PARIS MENDOZA, MANAGING DIRECTOR, AEROCIVIL - COLOMBIAN CIVIL AERONAUTICS

Graduated from the Universidad del Rosario as a business administrator. He has a specialization in Project Development and Evaluation, and an MBA focused on Aerospace Management from the Toulouse Business School, France.

In the Special Administrative Unit of Aeronautics, he has more than 28 years of experience, starting in the technical maintenance areas of the Bogotá Regional, Director of Telecommunications and Aids to Air Navigation, Aeronautical Advisor for technical areas, Secretary of Systems Operational, Coordinator of the International Projects Group, coordinator of International Standards, Head of Planning and Director in charge.

He has held the position of Director General of the Special Administrative Unit of Aeronautics since 2022.

PABLO PITA RENDÓN, MANAGING DIRECTOR, GUAYAQUIL AIRPORT AUTHORITY, ECUADOR

Pablo Pita Rendón, graduated in Management and Marketing Engineering from Missouri Valley College, complemented his training with an MBA at IDE Business School. His professional career includes prominent roles in various companies, including Unicol S.A., where he started as a Project Manager, leading the creation of a Supply Chain department and advancing to Supply Chain Manager. During his management, he contributed to the development of the agroindustrial sector, in which Unicol S.A. is a prominent producer and distributor of balanced foods nationwide. Later, he assumed the position of General Manager of the same company. In addition, he was General Manager of the Malecón 2000 Foundation, an entity that manages the emblematic and tourist spaces that include Malecón 2000, Malecón del Salado; and also meets the demand for the creation of architectural projects for the city of Guayaquil. Currently, he holds the position of General Manager of the Guayaquil Airport Authority, where he supervises compliance with the Guayaquil International Airport Concession Contract, as well as the planning and execution of projects for the comprehensive development of the area of influence of the New Airport. International of the city of Guayaquil. Likewise, he is a committed entrepreneur and businessman, founder of Pascha Roots, a company dedicated to the production and export of Pitahaya. His extensive experience and strategic vision have made him an outstanding leader in the business and regional development fields.

Humberto Suárez Castillo, Coordinator of the Business Units, ASA - Airports and Auxiliary Services, Mexico

Humberto Antonio Suárez Castillo was born in Mexico City. He graduated in Architecture from the School of Architecture of the Universidad Anáhuac, with studies at the School of Architecture of the University of Houston, Texas. Its constant training and updating includes various courses and diplomas, such as: Integration of ecosystem services in development planning, Urban law, Unconventional architecture/bioclimatic architecture and sustainable design, Comprehensive real estate administration and Update for directors responsible for construction, among others.

His outstanding career includes positions as President of the College of Architects of Cozumel, A.C., from 2010 to 2012; From 2013 to 2015 he served as Director of Urban Development and from 2015 to 2016 he was Director of Public Works, in both cases in the Municipality of Cozumel. His most recent position was as Director of Urban Development at Fonatur, Tren Maya.

Among his achievements and recognitions are the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Register and the Professional Certification Registry MXN-0427 / 17, CONARC / FECARM, 2017.

Since May 27, 2022, he has been Coordinator of the Business Units in Airports and Auxiliary Services.

Luz María Vásquez, Engineering Director, Latin America, Autodesk

Director of Engineering for Latin America and Sustainability Ambassador at Autodesk. More than 25 years of experience in digital transformation. Her focus on developing sustainable businesses supported by digital transformation to improve the competitiveness of the region has led her to lead sales, strategy and management roles in different multinational technology companies present in the region, standing out among others at Hewlett Packard as Director within the Global Organization of Emerging Markets.

Today she focuses her attention on closing infrastructure gaps in Latin America, supported by engineering and digital construction to enable and accelerate innovation with purpose, improving living conditions.

Luz María is an Electronic Engineer from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. MBA and International Business Specialist from EAFIT, Industry Insights from Harvard University, and Sustainability and Circular Economy from the University of Cambridge.