The hosts

Your hosts

Four voices with different paths, one conversation every week.

The counterpoint

Four lenses, one conversation that never quite settles

Carlos and Mite's collaboration goes back to the early 2000s, when they first worked together as consultants drafting a Law on Digital Signature and a National ICT Strategy, and it has continued across multiple projects ever since.

Carlos and Fabiola connected in the Singularity University community, and began collaborating when she approached him about AI in education while back in the classroom for an MIT Chief Digital Officer program.

Mite and Fabiola have shared experiences and exchanges for decades from different ends of the spectrum: she from the regulatory role at the Central Bank, he as the engineer leading innovation programs in telecommunications, banking and finance.

Ana Carolina, who calls Fabiola «tía Fabiola», grew up watching her as a strong woman in technology and finance leading the way in change, and the two share a close bond as independent women and as mothers. At any public discussion or conference you know Carlos and Ana Carolina are in the house: they are the ones who raise a hand first, for a question or an opinion.

The show brings the four of them together, each with a unique background, role and perspective, in the same diverse conversation.

Carlos Miranda Levy

The economist, innovator and creator: humanist, visionary, idealist

Carlos pushes subjective assessment: scenarios, models, projections, what-ifs, moonshots and theoretical possibilities. Always optimistic, he pushes limits, explores what could be, and adds complexity and new perspectives to processes, models and ecosystems.

Mitsuteru «Mite» Nishio

The engineer, and the bridge and mediator between the other two

Mite pushes objective assessment: KPIs, measurable variables, numbers and what works in practice. His is the down-to-earth, managerial voice that executives rely on, and he is the bridge and mediator between Carlos and Fabiola.

Fabiola Herrera

The practical, grounded voice

Fabiola keeps the conversation on solid ground: practical, centered and focused on what has to work in the real world. She often stands at the other end from Carlos's visionary views.

Ana Carolina Blanco Hache

The legal, intellectual property and media lens

Ana Carolina brings the legal, intellectual property and media lens: who owns what, what a contract allows, and what the law makes possible for creators and businesses. She joins the show on legal practice, intellectual property and media topics.

They don't settle it, and that's the point. They value each other deeply, enjoy working together, and keep calling on each other for new projects.

Carlos Miranda Levy

Coordinator of Impact, Innovation and Intelligence

Carlos works across content creation, disaster response, artificial intelligence, education, consulting, startups and social entrepreneurship, and has spoken from Singapore, Santiago de Chile, Silicon Valley, Paris, Japan and the Dominican Republic.

In 2000, CNN named him one of the 20 most influential leaders of the Internet in Latin America. He was a Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University (2004–2005), received the Google Foundation's Developing World Scholarship, and served as Social Entrepreneur in Residence at the National University of Singapore.

His mantra is «NEVER HELP: Engage, Enable, Inspire, Empower and Connect». He holds that AI can augment us, but using it to do the same things as always, only faster, cheaper or better, is the surest way for AI to end up doing them instead of us: the road forward is to reinvent ourselves.

Mitsuteru «Mite» Nishio

Systems engineer, technology and digital transformation

Mite is a systems engineer (UNIBE) with more than three decades in technology and digital transformation in the Dominican Republic.

His career took him through Tricom, where he took part in pioneering e-commerce initiatives; Orange Dominicana, in digital channels, applications and innovation; Banco Santa Cruz, in digitalization; and GCS Systems, in innovation leadership. He has taken part in the Cámara TIC and ADOFINTECH, has taught «Empresa 3.0» at Barna Management School, and his work has spanned strategic consulting, fintech and artificial intelligence.

INDOTEL recognized him as a Pionero de Internet in 2015.

Fabiola Herrera

Digital Transformation, AI & Cybersecurity Advisor

Fabiola has more than 30 years in digital transformation, payment systems, cybersecurity and financial-sector regulation.

As Deputy Manager of Systems and Technology Innovation at the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, she led payment-system modernization and the implementation of instant payments, founded the CSIRT and authored the legal framework for cybersecurity in finance. She led the Banking Clearing House for 12 years and the regional payment-system interconnection project (SIPA).

Ana Carolina Blanco Hache

Legal practice, intellectual property and media

Ana Carolina has more than 15 years of experience in intellectual property, entertainment and technology law, with an LLB, an LLM and a Magister Juris from the University of Oxford.

She is the founding and managing partner of Blanche, a law firm in Santo Domingo, and has advised local and international audiovisual productions, investment projects and trademark registrations across jurisdictions. She is also a conference speaker, a professor and the author of publications on intellectual property and digital law.

She joins the show on legal practice, intellectual property and media topics.