Tikso 2025 was held on September 23 and 24, 2025, a day in which we explore how technological innovation and financial opportunities combine to enhance the impact of organizations and communities.
From practical and scalable digital solutions that drive more efficient and inclusive development, to innovative financing mechanisms that strengthen sustainability, the event showcased concrete pathways to generate real growth and transformation.
Academic Agenda
Morning agenda.
Technology for social change
Technology for a sustainable future: innovation with impact.
- 8:15 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.
Explore how AI, automation and digital platforms drive sustainable models with social and environmental impact.
Tools and strategies for adopting these technologies in an ethical, efficient and inclusive manner will be discussed.
- Rommy Rios Nuñez - Manager of the Baltazar and Nicolás Foundation.
- Carolina Ferreira - Territorial Strategy and Sustainable Development Advisor, Ceibal.
- Diana Castillo Rivera - Latitud R platform consultant for Colombia and Central America, Fundación Avina.
Impact Dialogues
- 9:20 a.m. - 9:35 a.m.
Green jobs in Antioquia: opportunities for a sustainable future
- Juan Manuel Sánchez Díaz - Knowledge Management Leader of Comfenalco Employment Agencies.
By Comfenalco Antioquia
Coffee break and networking
- 9:35 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Panel
- 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Closing gaps with technology: innovation for digital inclusion.
Analyzes how connectivity and 4.0 technologies can close digital and labor gaps. Cases and strategies for digital inclusion and green employment will be highlighted.
- Olga Patricia Paz - Administrative and Project Director, Colnodo.
- Erika Acevedo Orduña - Director of Scalability, Fundación Carvajal.
- Megan Bentley - Expert in global governance of artificial intelligence, Independent consultant.
- Moderator: Carlos González - Executive Director, Makaia.
Impact Dialogues
- 11:05 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.
Experiences of Digital Transformation in Social Organizations
By the Medellin Chamber of Commerce for Antioquia
- Juan Diego Ramírez - Structural Services Project Coordinator, Medellín Chamber of Commerce for Antioquia.
- Lina María López - Rector, Aldea Celeste Foundation.
Experiential workshops
- 11:30 a . m. - 12:30 p.m.
Workshop 1 - AI for Strategic Knowledge Management: intelligent conversations with data.
Keys to apply Artificial Intelligence in the knowledge management of your organization, identifying opportunities from your internal information, connecting it with external trends, and thus facilitating a more strategic and contextualized decision making.
- Said Ali Martínez - Senior Project Coordinator, Makaia.
- 11:30 a . m. - 12:30 p.m.
Workshop 2 - Decisions that transform: artificial intelligence and data to reinvent human management processes.
Keys to apply Artificial Intelligence in the knowledge management of your organization, identifying opportunities from your internal information, connecting it with external trends, and thus facilitating a more strategic and contextualized decision making.
- Jeison Andrés Marín - Administrative and Financial Assistant Director, The Rehabilitation Committee.
- 11:30 a . m. - 12:30 p.m.
Workshop 3 - AI Biases
- Daniela Flórez - Communications and Strategy Director, Green Lantern.
- Pablo Manrique - Journalist specialized in AI content, La Silla Vacía.
- Jorge Llano - Digital Transformation Coordinator, Makaia.
Afternoon agenda
Resource Mobilization
Financing for Resilience - Addressing global changes and diversifying opportunities.
- 2:00 p. m. - 3:00 p. m.
It will address how to diversify income and strengthen financial sustainability with innovative models.
Case studies will show viable paths to economic independence with impact.
- Lucas Bravo - CEO and founder, Educambio.
- Álvaro González - Cartagena Territory Director, Santo Domingo Foundation.
- Anamaría Melguizo Villa - Executive Director Fundación Juanfe Medellín - Urabá.
- Moderator: Catalina Escobar – Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Makaia.
Family Philanthropy in Latin America: Results that Inspire Action
- 3:05 p. m. - 3:20 p. m.
Learn about the main findings of the study conducted by MAKAIA on the impact and current dynamics of family philanthropy in the region.
The Future of development finance: new narratives and emerging instruments for impact.
- 3:25 p. m. - 4:25 p. m.
A reflection on changes in international cooperation and global philanthropy.
Trends, new requirements and how organizations in the global south must adapt will be discussed.
- Luis Antonio de la Rosa - Manager of Intelligence and Education, SVX Mexico.
- Virginia Saiz - Director of localisation and decolonisation, Plan International.
- moderates: Santiago Quiñones -Director of Demand for International Cooperation Presidential Agency for International Cooperation of Colombia.
Impact Dialogues
- 4:30 p. m. - 4:45 p. m.
- Edgard Alfonso Polanco, SEC Colombia Leader at Swisscontact.
By Swisscontact
- 4:30 p. m. - 4:45 p. m.
Coffee break and networking
- 4:45 p. m. - 5:00 p.m.
Workshop 1 - “And how do I measure it? Impact indicators
- 5:00 p. m. - 6:00 p. m.
Learn how to define key indicators and build a measurement matrix applied to your project.
- Nathalia Pinilla Rodríguez - Director of business intelligence and knowledge management, Fundación Bolívar Davivienda.
Workshop 2 - Innovative financial instruments: How to prepare my organization to access them?
- 5:00 p. m. - 6:00 p. m.
Explore impact bonds and blended finance to prepare your organization with practical tools.
Workshop 3 - Design your theory of change for pay-for-performance models.
- 5:00 p. m. - 6:00 p. m.
Explore impact bonds and blended finance to prepare your organization with practical tools.
- Clara Inés Restrepo - Independent Consultant. Social Worker, Master in Social Planning.
- José Miguel Abad- Independent consultant.
Workshop 4 - Mapping opportunities: navigating the new cooperation ecosystem.
- 5:00 p. m. - 6:00 p. m.
Identifies networks, actors and mechanisms of the new cooperation ecosystem in a collaborative exercise.
- Anuar Hernández - Resource Mobilization Professional, Makaia.
Speakers:
Clara Inés Restrepo
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