Theme: Reemergence

As we venture forth from our collective pandemic reset, TEDxSan Miguel Allende highlights Individuals whose voices herald a more humane and caring world. Come hear remarkable speakers address how we can best nurture ourselves and our planet at this tipping point in our collective history. Bridging our ancestral past with our technological future, we’ll explore the theme of Re-Emergence. Come join us to engage in ideas worth sharing.

La Casona
Salida a Celaya 77
Centro
San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, 37700
Mexico

Alex Karzag

Climate and Agriculture

Alex is passionate about knowing the story behind the products we buy, especially with food. Having worn several hats and working furiously with Producers Trust to bring transparency to the global agricultural system, he believes that storytelling and traceability with verified data can drive more conscious purchasing decisions for positive planetary impact. His experience working with the full spectrum of agricultural stakeholders around the world has afforded him a unique perspective to continually learn and identify opportunities for technology to support the much needed global transition to regenerative farming and business practices to which food brands, farmers, governments and consumers are already aligning. Alex recently led the launch of the world’s first true traceability app allowing consumers to see the journey of products, StoryBird. He grew up in Silicon Valley, CA, graduated from UC Davis and has spent time in San Francisco, New York City, France, and Mexico

Andrei Posse

Andrei Posse is a speaker and life coach focused on the development of human potential. He shares tools of how to use your inner world to create an external reality without limits. His mission is to promote wellbeing, consciousness and personal development, aiming to awaken Latin America’s true potential in the world.

Carmina Becerres

Carmina is a TV host, speaker, and coach with roots in Mexico. She moved to Hollywood and got her break on Latin television as a TV host on Telemundo, Univision, and Fox Sports en Español. Her interviewees include David Beckham, Coldplay, and Sofia Vergara. FREE YOUR VOICE is the result of Carmina’s lifelong goal to see a world where people are freely expressed, accessing their ultimate truth and voicing it as loud as possible! Carmina’s intentions are to create a world where media is mindful and empowering. She is driven to amplify the voices of other purpose driven leaders in industries across the board and planet. Carmina and her talented team utilize their expertise in somatic and experiential coaching with the necessary tools to create confidence in front of any camera or audience. FREE YOUR VOICE offers students the opportunity to transform themselves from the inside out. With experience in TV and media came the sobering realization: most people—no matter their background, age, or status—struggle with some degree of anxiety and perfectionism when it’s time to hit the “record” button. Working with self-development leaders and human behavior experts, FREE YOUR VOICE is a sustainable solution for more change-makers to find peace and freedom to be themselves, on and off

De Kai

Artificial Intelligence

De Kai’s work across AI, language, music, creativity, and ethics centers on enabling cultures to interrelate. For pioneering contributions to machine learning of AIs like Google/Yahoo/Microsoft Translate, he was honored by the Association for Computational Linguistics as one of only seventeen Founding Fellows worldwide and by Debrett's HK 100 as one of the 100 most influential figures of Hong Kong. De Kai is a founding Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at HKUST and Distinguished Research Scholar at Berkeley's ICSI (International Computer Science Institute). His public campaign applying AI to show the impact of universal masking against Covid received highly influential mass media coverage, and he serves on the board of AI ethics think tank The Future Society. De Kai is also creator of one of Hong Kong’s best known world music collectives, ReOrientate, and was one of eight inaugural members named by Google to its AI ethics council.

Dylan Terrell

Dylan Terrell is the founder and executive director of Caminos de Agua (Caminos). In the early years of the organization, Dylan helped build and coordinate many of Caminos’ core programs, including water quality monitoring, technology development, rainwater harvesting projects, education, and other community projects. In 2019, Caminos de Agua received the Innovation Showcase (ISHOW) Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in Washington, D.C. for their work on low-cost water solutions. In 2021, Dylan was selected as an Ashoka Fellow, an international network of social entrepreneurs, for his work with Caminos de Agua. Today, Dylan oversees all of Caminos’ programming and spends much of his time on institutional collaborations, network building, and multi-stakeholder collaboration to pursue broader systemic change to address our growing water crisis.

Eli Hans

Creativity

Eli is a true Renaissance man. A writer, actor, director, producer, designer, singer and recently a composer. His award-winning show Out of The Blue - A Miraculous Musical is an inspiring story of hope and resilience about his cancer healing journey. Eli is cofounder of The Improv People San Miguel’s only English-speaking improv troupe; he’s a creativity coach and miracle maker, as well as a holistic cancer coach, supporting others to their highest potential in order to create a life where they can truly thrive. OutofTheBlueShow.com and EliHans.com

Franziska Freitag

Women empowerment

Franziska is a Vision Creator & Purpose Activator. She is a Business Constellation Facilitator and the Founder of Women on a Mission, helping people to thrive in life and business in their unique way. It's in her super power to support her clients to find clarity, activate their life’s purpose and mission, and build a thriving brand and profitable business around that.

Isi Sarfati

Visual Artist

Isi Sarfati is a visual artist who has inspired crowds both in Mexico and all around the world. As a cinematographer and cinematic storyteller, he has risen to the top of the industry in Mexico, allowing him to shoot films and TV series for leading studios with a global reach such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Paramount Plus, just to name a few. Beyond film and TV, Sarfati has also plied his trade as an experience creator, designing and providing original sensorial experiences for private individuals, events, and some of the most important brands worldwide. The key to his personal success as an accomplished artists has been to never cease being amazed and challenged. Today, Sarfati will tell us more about keeping the sense of awe alive both in his professional and personal life.

Juan Diego Illescas

Musician

Juan Diego Illescas es un músico multi instrumentista, productor audiovisual y gestor cultural de origen ecuatoriano con 15 años de experiencia. Gracias a su talento y dedicación ha logrado trabajar con artistas como Rubén Albarrán de Cafe Tacvba, Mario Siperman de Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Los Rabanes, el reconocido Dj y productor ecuatoriano Nicola Cruz, ha participado en remixes para Bomba Estéreo, Chancha Vía Circuito, IFÉ, fue parte del proyecto con la cantante ecuatoriana Huaira, el reconocido cantante español Ape Chimba, el producto americano Biomigrant, el Dj japonés Ground y actualmente presenta su proyecto CATEGAL. Obtuvo su maestría en Filmscoring en la universidad Berklee College of Music. Colabora para los sellos discográficos ZZK Records y Aya Records, que buscan realzar los sonidos latinoamericanos desde la raíz con la fusión de sonidos electrónicos. Actualmente docente de la Universidad de las Américas. (UDLA)

Mercedes López Martínez

Climate and crops

Mercedes López Martínez.Advocate for ancestral corn and climate change and regenerative projects. As the director of Via Organica and the Organic Consumer’s Association in Mexico City, Mercedes is a passionate writer and speaker on regenerative topics such as ancestral corn, climate change and in particular educating indigenous and farming communities in Mexico. She is also the representative for the Demanda Colectivs contra el Maiz Transgrnico, an organization which champions the protection of native and ancestral corn varieties and an end to transgenic corn farming in Mexico. She holds a doctorate Latin American studies from UNAM. She is a prominent voice at world conferences on climate change such as COP 21, COP 22, COP 24, COP 13 as well as throughout Latin America.

Sergio Martell

Technology

Sergio Martell is a technologist and entrepreneur focused on the development of Civic Technologies that span from Public Safety, Sustainability and Financial Services, he is the founder of Motley Ds, METAclaims and SuperSticky, and has been actively participating in the evolution and development of systems in Web 3

Tayler Ava Friar

Art Historian/Writer

Tayler Ava Friar is a PhD fellow in art history at the University of Cape Town focusing on the eroticization of black bodies as resistance in African contemporary art. She has held various positions with United Nations, the World Bank and Google. As a writer, she is a contributor at Business Insider and has been featured in Vogue Magazine speaking on black consciousness. Her passion for the decolonization of global histories inspires both her academic and political involvement in the creative arts. She is the founder of ART|unknown. - a multidisciplinary creative agency that explores the intersection of art, black voices and the Sustainable Development Goals. Her most recent exhibition FLOW of Change: Black voices for climate action (2022) was the largest climate-inspired water installation in Mexico City, marking the opening of the COP27 Conference in Egypt. Cultivating a cosmopolitan lifestyle, she lives between Paris and San Miguel de Allende but is proudly from Oakland, California.