Octavio Landa

Octavio Landa is an entrepreneur and business consultant with over forty years of experience guiding micro and small business owners in Mexico on their path to professionalization and success. For decades, he dedicated himself to designing practical methods to streamline businesses, make them profitable, and help their owners gain freedom in terms of time and life.

His story took a radical turn when he was diagnosed with an aggressive, metastatic cancer. Faced with this challenge, Octavio decided to become the active protagonist of his own healing: he studied neuroscience, psychoneuroimmunology, the biology of emotions, quantum physics applied to health, nutrition, guided meditations, and various holistic healing approaches in depth. From this process, he developed a personal method that integrates science, mind, emotions, energy, spirituality, and lifestyle habits, with which he largely reversed his illness.

Today, Octavio shares his experience not from the perspective of a detached expert, but as someone who walked through the tunnel of diagnosis and found a way out. Her purpose is to inspire, inform, and support others in discovering their own power to actively participate in their healing process. Her book, "How I Healed Myself from Aggressive Cancer," is a living testament to that inner and outer journey.

Sofía Morgenroth Gallardo

Founder of Idélu Educación Inclusiva, Speaker, Mentor, and Inclusive Education Innovator

In 2021, she founded Idélu Educación Inclusiva. Her journey began in 2019 when she developed Kúbits, a tool designed to help an older adult who had recently lost her sight, addressing the lack of accessible materials to learn Braille independently. Seeing its impact, she decided to reach more lives by creating additional products using educational, playful, and inclusive methodologies suitable for people of all abilities and ages.

Through Idélu, she has been finalist and winner of several high-impact innovation and entrepreneurship competitions across LATAM, and has participated in two entrepreneurship and innovation reality shows.

With over eight years of specialization in research on inclusion, disability, aging, and health in Uruguay and Spain, she holds two intellectual property registrations through IMPI, including patents and industrial designs.

Currently, she organizes the inclusion program at FIL Guadalajara, sells her products at a stand since 2022, and serves as a mentor for socially impactful innovation projects focused on disability and older adults at ITESO’s incubator.

She is a speaker and workshop facilitator, passionate about innovation and inclusion for people with disabilities and older adults. She holds a Bachelor’s in Psychology from ITESO, a Master’s in Gerontology, and is a Doctoral candidate in Health and Disability at the University of Salamanca, Spain.

Juan Pablo Alejandro Valadez Murillo

Audiologist and Member of the Mexican Community of People with Hearing Loss

He is a medical doctor specialized in Audiology and an active member of the Mexican Community of People with Hearing Loss. Born with microtia, he began using a hearing device at age 12, which transformed his life. Today, he uses the BONEBRIDGE implant and the ADHEAR device, significantly improving his quality of life.

Edith Bibiana García del Toro

Mother, Nursing Technician, and Founding President of Treacher Collins México A.C. Since her daughter’s diagnosis, she has turned this challenge into a life mission, supporting, informing, and raising awareness for people living with craniofacial syndromes. Her activism has impacted over 120 families across Mexico and Latin America, fostering medical, social, and community alliances to promote inclusion.

Alexa Gabriela Cuevas Hernández

Physician and Audiologist

She graduated as a Surgeon and Obstetrician from the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara. Her vocation for care began during her social service at the Ave Fénix nursing home. She holds a Diploma in Hearing Aid Technology and a Master’s in Audiology and Balance from the Universidad Autónoma de Murcia, Spain. With professional experience at Starkey México, she currently provides consultations at Mundo Oír in Guadalajara, Jalisco.

Angélica Mariana Lenz Tiemann

Despite having a visual disability, Angelica has led a productive and inspiring life, fulfilling her dreams while helping others. She is a mother of three and spent 18 years working at a trading company, which she co-founded, managing relationships with businesses in over 10 countries and communicating in three languages. Driven by her desire to support others, Angelica became an International Coach certified by the International Coaching Community (ICC, London), and a Thanatology and Life Coach (ICF). She studied Existential Analysis and Logotherapy with certification from GLE International, Vienna, and specialized in Thanatology at the Instituto Mexicano de Tanatología A.C., as well as Integrative Transpersonal Psychotherapy at the Centro de Tanatología del Instituto Mexicano de Psicooncología A.C. She is also certified to create and lead support groups. Angelica is the author of the Amazon bestsellers El Reto ante la Pérdida de Visión and Un Nuevo Camino de Vida. From 2017 to 2020, she volunteered with the Asociación Para Evitar la Ceguera I.A.P., advising and supporting patients and their families. In addition to providing individual guidance to people facing loss and adversity, Angelica channels her personal experiences to inspire and impact a broader audience as a conference speaker and coach. She has participated in conferences, congresses, and forums, including an event at the Mexican Senate in October 2019, and delivers talks for companies, universities, schools, and health centers.

Adriana Macías

This incredible and inspiring Mexican woman, born without both arms, has developed various tools to enhance her quality of life and is dedicated to sharing them with others, striving to leave a positive impact on the world. Through discipline, self-commitment, and a constant sense of optimism and humor, she has achieved remarkable personal and professional growth.

Adriana earned her Law degree, specializing in Human Resources Management, and further complemented her education with studies in Psychology. She began her journey as a motivational speaker nearly 23 years ago, and over the years, has earned recognition in multiple countries as the #1 Motivational Speaker in the World.

Sergio Sánchez Fuentes

Dr. Sánchez holds a Doctorate in Education from the University of Salamanca. He is currently a tenured professor in the Department of Developmental Psychology and Education at the Autonomous University of Madrid. He has actively led and participated in research projects focused on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) across Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Dr. Sánchez is also a co-founder of the research group onInclusion.es at UAM and the author of Universal Design for Learning: A Practical Guide for Teachers, published by Narcea.

Valentina Alvear Obregón

She is a Kindergarten and Basic Education Teacher from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and holds a Master’s degree in Educational Technologies and Digital Competencies from the University of La Rioja, Spain, with 10 years of classroom experience.

Currently, she works as Innovation and Educational Technology Manager at Caligrafix, where she leads the design and development of learning resources focused on inclusion, educational transmedia, and gamification. Her work aims to provide accessible, safe, and culturally relevant teaching materials that strengthen early childhood education practices.

She also conducts applied research on the implementation of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in collaboration with Professor Sergio Sánchez of the Autonomous University of Madrid. Her research examines UDL in Latin American school contexts from pedagogical, curricular, and technological perspectives, integrating theory, public policy, and classroom practices to promote teaching models that address student diversity through design.