ENTREPRENEUR · INNOVATION · FUTURES
Exponential
Innovation.
Serial entrepreneur and businessman. Founder of several companies. Disseminator of the effects of exponential phenomena on society and the application of innovation to improve people's quality of life, taking cities as the engine of change for the entire planet. Expert in Digital Transformation and recognized analyst on issues of the fifth industrial revolution and social transformations from deep technologies.
01 / ABOUT
Career, innovation and transformation.
International Speaker.
Founder & CEO La MousAI
First Director of the Medellín Science,Technology and Innovation Plan, Ruta n.
Former Director Planning & Prospective Area, Ruta n. 2015-2020.
Founder with associates of the IT Tech Group CompuRedes. Sold to the SURA Group.
Former Investment Committee member, Velumventures.com fund.
Former member fAIr LAC IADB, Ethical Implications i Intelligence AI.
Former Executive Director elede Foundation.
Board member TIG: Biosciences group, F2X: Intelligent Transport Systems, Fluid Inc: Cybersecurity.
IFC World Bank Consultant.
02 / SPEAKING
International
Speaker.
Through cities, innovation to achieve an increasingly better world
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03 / NEWS & VIDEO
RECENT FIRST
Recent videos & podcast.
Newest selected material appears before the historical archive.
Entre Sorbo y Sorbo — Episode 2
Entre Sorbo y Sorbo — Episode 3
Recent video
Video
Video
Medellín en Grande — Podcast
Listen on SpotifyMedia Archive
Colombia: de narcos a Marte gracias a la innovación
Deutsche WelleElkin Echeverri, director de Planeación y Prospectiva de Ruta N, deja su cargo
El ColombianoElkin Echeverri: “Medellín atrajo 500 empresas de 32 países en siete años” | El Deber
Rionegro y Medellín: más que vecinos
Acuerdo entre Ruta N de Medellín e Innobasque
Una visión práctica de la Teoría de la Información en las telecomunicaciones
CompuRedes S.A Outsourcing
CompuRedes – Certificación ISO 2000
Fundamentos de la Teoría de la Información para la Industria de las Telecomunicaciones - Cátedra EPM
La inversión se puede mantener
El futuro está aquí: Fractal 11.
Lanzamiento Clúster MDE Concejo Asesor
Johanna Blakley Blog - Let Me Infotain You
Wifi: 31 sitios de acceso en Medellín
Voluntarios hacen ciencia desde su PC
Tienda IT - IT Manager 2012
Videos.
Video archive 01
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Video archive 05
Video archive 06
Video archive 07
TAGME 2013: "Lobotomía Cerebral e Innovación": Cultura y Educación hacia Innovación.
Video archive 09
Beyond Silicon Valley — Way Beyond
INNOVATION ARCHIVE
Spreading the impact of innovation across societies worldwide
Fifth Industrial Revolution
Innovation Meta-Cities · 01
Innovation Meta-Cities · 02
Innovation Meta-Cities · 03
Innovation Meta-Cities · 04
Innovation Meta-Cities · 05
Innovation Meta-Cities · 06
The Bandwidth of the Human Being
Hack a City
Interview and article on how innovation ecosystems can transform a city.
Read at IADB04 / IDEAS THROUGH TIME
Ideas that evolved through the years.
A living archive of phrases and posts collected from the historical record.
RANDOM THOUGHT FROM THE ARCHIVEOriginal post on X
“Cities are not innovative on their own. Innovators are the people who inhabit them.”2013
“Innovation must be the engine that allows to change the socio-economic conditions of a society.”2014
“Innovation is a virus that is transmitted from person to person.”2015
“Activating citizens generates collective intelligence, the power of many.”2016
“Cities are the largest innovation laboratories of the world.”2018
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"Power gives it, all over the world, the ability to integrate" 2013View original post on X
"+Surprise= +Information (entropy from a source)" 2011View original post on X
"The input bandwidth of a human is 9GB and output 1GB" 2011View original post on X
Can Medellín have world-class Data Centers? 2012View original post on X
"SMEs must migrate their information systems to cloud computing" 2011View original post on X
"Cities are not innovative on their own. Innovators are the people who inhabit them." 2013View original post on X
"Innovation is a model of economic development" 2014View original post on X
"The more inhabitants in a city, the greater the ability to innovate" 2014View original post on X
"Innovation must be the engine that allows to change the socio-economic conditions of a society" 2014View original post on X
"We believe in the development of society based on science and innovation" 2014View original post on X
"Societies have to unite to solve problems" Peru 2014View original post on X
"The State is us, who must put ourselves at the forefront of the transformation" 2014View original post on X
"Women are transforming the culture and the environment" 2015View original post on X
"Innovation is a virus that is transmitted from person to person..." #Global2015View original post on X
"Activating citizens generates collective intelligence, the power of many" 2016View original post on X
"Innovation is changing the reality" 2016View original post on X
"Innovation has a great social impact" 2016View original post on X
"We are committed to transforming Medellín through science, technology and innovation" 2016View original post on X
"We have innovation as a tool to improve the quality of life in Medellín" 2016View original post on X
"Innovation = Productivity!" 2017View original post on X
"The Future is more of the cities" 2017View original post on X
"Cities are the largest innovation laboratories in the world" 2018View original post on X
"Company data can be equally or more valuable than the products/services they sell" 2017View original post on X
"Are we ready for the fifth industrial revolution?" 2019View original post on X
"We are very close to the fifth industrial revolution" 2020View original post on X
"A year of a bad economy is an eternity" 2020View original post on X
“Innovation is changing the reality.”— Elkin Echeverri, 2016
05 / RECOGNITION & CAREER
Awards & credentials.
2020
2013
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2009
1989
06 / GALLERY
A shared passion for transforming our world through ST+i.
talks, projects and public life.
07 / BOOKS
Books.
Hack a City — Soon Available.
08 / IMPACT
The Community of the Future
Transforming the Lives of Young People
You can help too. I donate a portion of my speaking fees to children in need
I am one of the founders of Read&Write, the most revolutionary initiative to enable deaf children to read and write just like any of us.
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