Cenas Empresariales

Cenas Empresariales is the bridge between Puerto Rico's new generation of doers, the island's serial entrepreneurs, and the world's most influential changemakers. Every three months we select Puerto Rico's top talent and congregate them under one roof.

wHEN?

SEPTEMBER 19, 2015

Are you hungry for innovation? Bring your appetite because that is exactly what we are serving.

$65 per Ticket | 9 Speakers | 10 Breakout sessions | 1 VIP Party

WHO?

THE SPEAKERS

Raphael Paulin-Daigle

Raphael is a serial entrepreneur and online marketing consultant.

He’s the founder of Splitbase.io, which helps companies grow and increase website revenues. He blogs regularly on the topic on both his site, raphaelpaulindaigle.com, and on other notable industry blogs.

Over the last year, he was awarded a national award by Kevin O'Leary, organized bitcoin events in both the USA and Canada, and was invited to talk in many corners of the world from NYC, Las Vegas to Lebanon.

During the Spring of 2014, he founded a bitcoin consultancy that helped companies understand and integrate bitcoin. Fast-forward to November of that year, he was recruited by the CEO of Blockstream, one of the most important company in the bitcoin world, to work on special projects.

His entrepreneurial journey started at the age of 11 years old: passionate about magic, he began performing for 7 years. While he was still in middle and high school, he performed close to 400 magic show for all types of events.

Christine Enid Nieves

Christine is a communicator, a network-waver, and a catalyst for change.

She is the first Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Florida State University’s College of Communication and Information. She is also a StartingBloc Fellow, a non-profit organization that brings together entrepreneurs, activists, educators, and innovators working to create change.

Previously, Christine was a program associate for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, NJ. She joined the Foundation’s Pioneer Portfolio in December 2011 to help source new ideas, design and manage grants and provide strategic thinking for the team’s network. She helped the team identify innovations in health and health care by connecting with people who were not part of the traditional health care system. Christine represented the Foundation at various high-visibility gatherings, including TED, WIRED, SparkCamp, and Hispanicize. She became the Foundation's Spanish-speaking spokesperson for several national health initiatives, including the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps.

Romain Vakilitabar

"Ramon es mi nombre espanol." - Romain Vakilitabar

After a bad accident where he had to be resuscitated, Romain decided he would pursue a journey worth living. Since then, he spent years building a business doomed to fail, published his children's book communicating climate change to younger audiences, and traveled the world with Unreasonable at Sea, a social entrepreneurship accelerator, helping 9 ventures scale globally.

Now, as the Vice President of Watson University, a new university model which brings in 15 of the most promising next generation leaders to Colorado where they learn the skills needed to solve the world’s toughest intractable problems, Romain loves helping students who are looking to make an impact discover the power of entrepreneurship. He's written for Technori.com, is featured in the new books "2 Billion Under 20" and "Compassionate Careers", has lived in the townships of South Africa and was voluntarily homeless in the streets of Scandinavia to train his mental resilience and to test the dogma that “need is the mother of all invention.”

Ocean Pleasant, 18

Ocean Pleasant, is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of REAL Magazine.

Ocean Pleasant, 18, is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of REAL, a national youth culture publication. She works to inspire the next generation while interviewing outstanding organizations and individuals, including His Holiness The Dalai Lama and Alicia Keys. She is the Assistant Editor of ORIGIN Magazine, Mantra Yoga + Health and Thrive, and an Ambassador of the Global Youth Peace Summit.

Ocean was awarded the prestigious 2015 Thiel Fellowship, a $100,000 grant by Peter Thiel (Cofounder, PayPal) to pursue her entrepreneurial endeavors, including her latest project, a "Platonic Tinder for Social Activism" that will align like minded millennials with volunteer opportunities. Ocean engages in humanitarian pursuits from New Delhi to Nairobi, and is a Singer-Songwriter; she recently released of her first single and music video, "Love Letter to Myself (I Will Love)."

R. Harrison