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Santiago Villegas Ceballos

iIA Unit Leader | Principal Consultant | Colombia

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Colombian librarian, engineer and digital innovator with over two decades leading digital transformation processes in libraries and cultural institutions across Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe. Founder of MedeJean: Cultural Intelligence and co-founder of IAparaBibliotecas.com, where he has designed over 70 AI service prototypes —from advanced user analytics to citizen labs— and has supported public, academic and community library networks on four continents.

His work integrates critical AI literacy, design thinking and knowledge management, with the goal of enabling Global South libraries to use technology in an ethical, explainable and inclusive way. He has collaborated with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Beyond Access program), CERLALC-UNESCO, IFLA and multiple national library networks.

International speaker and author of publications on digital culture, cultural marketing for libraries and artificial intelligence applied to the cultural sector. He is a columnist for specialized media such as Razón Pública and Impacto TIC, and has been invited as a speaker at forums of UNAM, UNLP and the University of Salamanca, among others. He currently leads the iIA Unit at e-Libro CORP., where he coordinates the facilitator team and acts as principal consultant on AI implementation projects for libraries throughout the region.

Cristian Maturana Maturana

Facilitator and Consultant | Chile

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Chilean documentalist librarian, Coordinator of Innovation and Technology at the Biblioteca de Santiago —one of the most relevant public libraries in Ibero-America— and co-founder of IAparaBibliotecas.com. He has a solid track record in the technological management of information units, where he has advised various public and private institutions in the creation of digital products, services and experiences.

He is a specialist in innovation, service design, quality management, digital transformation and artificial intelligence. In academia, he lectures at the Centro de Formación Técnica ENAC. Previously, he was a faculty member at Universidad Alberto Hurtado and the Department of Information Management at the Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana (UTEM).

He was a fellow of the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the United States government (2010) and a selected member of the INELI Iberoamérica program (2015–2017). He has led the organization of the international congress InnovaTics and is co-author of the book "Horizontes: reflexión y acción desde la Biblioteca de Santiago para las bibliotecas que soñamos".

Fernando Gabriel Gutiérrez

Facilitator and Consultant | Argentina

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Librarian, educator, communicator and leader in digital innovation for Argentine and Latin American libraries. Director of the Instituto Municipal Superior de Educación y Tecnología "Emilio Fermín Mignone" of Luján (Buenos Aires) and Head of the Digitalization Division at the Central Library of the Universidad Nacional de Luján (UNLu).

He holds an interdisciplinary academic background: Master in Social Networks and Digital Learning (UNED, Spain), Specialist in Education and New Technologies (FLACSO), Librarian (Instituto Mignone) and Bachelor in Communication Sciences (Universidad de Buenos Aires).

Founder of the project "Del papel al algoritmo". Co-founder of Aprender3C. He has trained librarians from 18 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean in person. Author of academic publications with 94 citations on Google Scholar.

Luis Enrique Lescano Borrego

Facilitator and Consultant | Ecuador

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Librarian and Information Sciences specialist, trained at the Universidad de La Habana (Cuba), with a Master's in Archival Science and Document Management Systems from the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (Ecuador). With over eight years of experience in academic libraries, he currently serves as Library Specialist at the Universidad de Cuenca, where he leads the digital transformation of the Centro de Documentación Regional "Juan Bautista Vázquez".

He has led the creation of the Universidad de Cuenca's digital library integrating Omeka S and DSpace. Invited speaker at TEDx Parque La Carolina and international speaker on artificial intelligence applied to libraries.

Founder of Bibliobytes.org, an educational platform through which he has trained more than 1,000 library professionals. He has collaborated with CEDIA, Bibliolatino and the Asociación Nacional de Bibliotecarios Eugenio Espejo (ANABE) of Ecuador.

Beatriz Eugenia Campillo Vélez

Facilitator and Consultant in Ethics and AI | Colombia

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Political scientist and Master in Philosophy, with honors, from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB) in Medellín. Doctoral candidate in Philosophy. Graduate of the first cohort of the Egyptology program at UPB (2025). Holds diplomas in Neuroscience, Emotions and Technology; Risk Management in Humanitarian Assistance; and National Security and Defense, among others.

Since 2010, full-time professor at the Centro de Humanidades at UPB in the areas of ethics and socio-political languages. Member of the Research Group in Ethics and Bioethics (GIEB). Advisor in Military Ethics at the Army Leadership Center (CELEJ) and member of the Neurosciences, Artificial Intelligence and Law chair at the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Mexico.

María Alejandra Echavarría-Arcila

Legal Advisor in Intellectual Property and Technology | Colombia

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Lawyer, Master in Law with emphasis in Intellectual Property and PhD Magna Cum Laude in Technology and Innovation Management. Affiliated Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Germany) and Senior Researcher at the Buenos Aires Observatory of the SIPLA Initiative.

Professor and Associate Researcher at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB) and postgraduate lecturer at several universities. Advisor, consultant and litigant in intellectual property and intangible asset management. She was representative in Medellín and Antioquia for the collective rights management society EGEDA.

Fulbright, Colciencias and UPB fellow. Advanced courses at WIPO, Cornell University and George Mason University (CPIP). Her publications cover intellectual property, technology and innovation management, personal data protection, technology law and artificial intelligence.

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