Keynotes Speakers and Tutorial Instructors - ICEDEG 2019

Alberto Jimenez is the IaaS Product Leader for IBM Cloud Hyper Protect. In that role, he is responsible for IBM’s global product strategy and execution for the segment. Over the years, Mr. Jimenez articles and quotes have been published in major publications including the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, TechCrunch, Re/Code, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, CIO Magazine, USA Today, Finextra, Business Insider and PYMNTS.com. In 2016, he was selected by FinTech News Magazine as one the “20 Biggest names in the Payments industry”. He is also the author of a number of whitepapers including Citigroup’s Finding the Flows: The Next Challenge for Mobile Wallets in Emerging Markets; IBM’s Mobile Payments Adoption in Developed Markets; IBM’s Cash Replacement through Mobile Money in Emerging Markets; and IBM’s Deconstructing the Mobile Money Value Chain through Cloud. Mr. Jimenez is a frequent speaker at large international conferences including Money2020 in the US and Europe, Mobile World Congress, Sibos, Cartes, ETA’s Transact15, and Payments Innovation World in Sydney, just to mention a few. He has been an active thought leader in academia and has presented at a number of institutions including: The Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, The School International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to his current role, Mr. Jimenez ran the IBM Watson Commerce Product portfolio and before that he was Director of Global Mobile Solution for Citigroup. He began his career at Wells Fargo Securities doing Equity research. Mr. Jimenez is a graduate from Harvard University and Emory University. Mr Jimenez lives in New York City with his wife and two children.

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Juan Gustavo Corvalán is Co-Director of the Innovation and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the University of Buenos Aires. Postdoctoral candidate at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and visiting professor in the same University. Deputy Attorney General in Contentious Administrative and Tax Office of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. Author of 5 books. First Latin American author to publish in the Annual Study of the French Council of State (year 2017 “L'algorithme et les droits del 'homme”). General Director of the “Prometea experience” implementation at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and in the Constitutional Court of Colombia. Coordinator of the agreement between the Inter-American Development Bank (BID/ INTAL) and the Innovation and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, for collaboration and academic coordination, technical and research on Artificial Intelligence in Latin America and the Caribbean. He has spoken at the UN, at the OAS, Oxford University, at the European Union Agency of Fundamental Rights, among other institutions and universities.

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Sean A. McKenna is a Senior Research Manager at IBM Research in Dublin, Ireland.  Dr. McKenna has 25 years of experience in developing science-focused engineering solutions for complex problems.  He leads a group of scientists and engineers in research and technology that expands Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities through AI and Blockchain.  Application areas include infrastructure systems, manufacturing and natural resource management.  Prior to joining IBM in 2012, he was a Senior Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.  He has previously been an adjunct/visiting professor at New Mexico Tech, the National University of Singapore and the University of Texas.  Dr. McKenna is a member of IBM’s Industry Academy and served as the 2016 Distinguished Lecturer for the International Assoc. of Mathematical Geosciences.

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