Some of the outstanding speakers include: on behalf of the hosts, David Garza, President Tecnológico de Monterrey; Juan Pablo Murra, Rector for Higher Education of Tecnológico de Monterrey; José Escamilla, Associate Director of the Institute of Higher Education, and Beatriz Palacios, Director of Educational Innovation and Digital Learning. Also in attendance will be the Undersecretary of Education of the Mexican government, Luciano Concheiro, the Minister of National Education of Colombia, María Victoria Angulo, as well as Raquel Bernal, President of the Universidad de los Andes, and Ignacio Sánchez Díaz, President of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, among other leaders of universities recognized for their innovative systems.

Today more than ever it is time to reflect on the great challenges that the world presents in education, such as the digital gap, the digitization of content, new teaching-learning strategies and methodologies and the role of teaching in their implementation. The 8th International Conference  on Educational Innovation by the Tec de Monterrey will be the fertile ground for dialogue, collaboration, experimentation and entrepreneurship to build together the future of education.

Tecnológico de Monterrey (http://www.tec.mx) is a private, non-profit, multi-campus university system. Since its founding in 1943, it has stood out for its academic excellence, educational innovation, entrepreneurship and internationalization, as well as for its links with industry and employers, and its great capacity for execution. It has campuses in 29 cities in Mexico; an enrollment of more than 67 thousand professional and graduate students, and almost 7 thousand professors; in addition to more than 26 thousand high school students and 2 thousand 500 high school teachers. The institution has been accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACSCOC) since 1950. According to the QS World University Rankings (2022), it is in position 161, ranking 30th among private universities in the world; and in the QS Graduate Employability Rankings (2022) as number 1 in Latin America and 26th in the world. In the Times Higher Education Latin America University Rankings (2022), it is ranked 4th in Latin America; it is also the only university outside the U.S. in the Top Schools for Entrepreneurship Ranking (2022) of Princeton Review and Entrepreneur, ranking 6th in entrepreneurship programs at the undergraduate level. It belongs to several prestigious international networks such as the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), Universitas 21 (U21) and The Worldwide Universities Network (WUN), among others.