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The goal of the Latin America Tech Meetup is to bring members of tech community, including noted entrepreneurs and investors, to discuss trends and opportunities in the convergence of startups, technology and Latin America.
 
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Jake Schwartz (Co-founder CEO General Assembly), started GA with 3 friends in 2011. Prior to founding General Assembly, Jake worked for Associated Partners, a private equity firm. He countsith a B.A. in American studies from Yale University and an MBA from Wharton. General Assembly has scaled to nine cities (in the US, Asia, and Europe) in less than three years, working with more than 70,000 students and employing 300 people; he has raised over $45 million to date.


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<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><A HREF="http://techcrunch.com/" REL="nofollow"><IMG STYLE="border: 8px solid white; float: left;" SRC="https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/46413725/techcrunch.png" ALT="" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="200"></A><IMG STYLE="float: right; border: 8px solid white;" SRC="https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/46413725/omartellez.png" ALT="">Omar Tllez (Moovit President, TechCrunch Contributor) - Moovit's President (public transit mapping funded by Sequoia) sits on Moovit's and Solomoto's (enabling SMB's in the online space) advisory boards. Prior tothat he was part of the Synchronoss Technologies, Inc., executive team (NASDAQ: SNCR ; Best software IPO of 2006). His views on LATAM can be seen in these two TechCrunch articles: <A HREF="http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/06/producing-unicorns-in-the-land-of-futbol-samba-and-el-dorado/" REL="nofollow">Producing Unicorns In The Land Of Ftbol, Samba And El Dorado</A>, <A HREF="http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/07/understanding-tech-penetration-in-latam/" REL="nofollow">Understanding Tech Penetration In Latin America</A>. He can be followed @ohtellez</DIV>
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Agenda
 
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Adrian Avendano,founder of the Latin America Tech Meetup in NYC and SF and CEO of Peoplehunt. Adrian was born in Mexico City, raised in New York City, and has lived in Chile, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, UK, and San Francisco. His obsession is making things that change the world. He started his fist company in Ireland in 2008. Since then he has been startingtech companies that connect people face to face.Yahoo bio press<A STYLE="color: #0f90ba; text-decoration: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" HREF="http://yhoo.it/1kx3yqc" REL="nofollow">http://yhoo.it/1kx3yqc</A>
 

 

<IMG STYLE="border: 20px solid white; float: left;" SRC="https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/4617774/profilepicfelipesaenz.png" ALT="">Felipe Saenz,was born in Colombia and grew up in Miami; is the Founder & CEO of a music startup and co-organizer of the LatAm Tech Meetup. The music startup is a platform that digitizes the middle man for musicians and later on for any type of digital content creator. Some backers uncluding a University part of Berklee's College of Music. Felipe has also gathered his team of five, to make his startup a reality.<SPAN STYLE="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; height: 1px; width: 1px; overflow: hidden; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); word-wrap: normal; position: absolute !important;">Click to edit summary
 
 


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