Speakers who have already confirmed their presence:

Pablo Abarca, (OPS/OMS) Consultant to the Gender, Rights, Cultural Diversity and Bioethics Area at the Pan American Health Organization in Washington. MD from the Central University of Ecuador.

Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas, (Colombia) Deputy Minister of Criminal Policy and Restorative Justice. Ministry of Justice and Law of the Republic of Colombia.

Mauricio Boraschi, (Costa Rica) Deputy Minister of the Presidency in Security Affairs and National Drug Commissioner of Costa Rica. Chairman of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control (CICAD).

Lumena Almeida Castro Furtado, (Brazil) Assistant Secretary for Health to the Municipio de Sao Bernardo do Campo. Coordinator for Care Policy in the Alcohol and Drug Network.

Cesare Cattini, (Colombia) Director of the Social and Training Foundation “Arca de Noé”.

Dr. Hugo A. Cohen, (PAHO) Sub-regional Advisor on Mental Health for South America.

Juan Carlos Celis, (Colombia) Director of “Procrear” Foundation.

Wagner Coutinho Alves, (Brazil) Founding member and Secretary, of the Association of Social Studies of the use of Psychoactive Substances (ABESUP)

Pablo Cymerman (Argentina) Coordinator of the Organizing Committee.  Psychologist.  Responsible for Institutional Relations at Intercambios Civil Association.  Professor and researcher at the University of Buenos Aires.

Liz Evans. (Canadá). Executive Director of PHS Community Services Society. InSite.

Susana Fergusson, (Colombia) Advisor on issues of community services organization, at the Ministry of Health and Welfare.

Iván Fornís Espinosa, (Spain) Technician for the management of the Drug Analysis Service in Energy Control.

Guillermo García Miranda, (UNODC) Head of the Alternative Development Program at the United Nations Office in Colombia.

Alejandro Gaviria Uribe, (Colombia) Minister of Health and Social Protection of the Republic of Colombia.

Oscar Gómez da Trindade, (Uruguay) Vice Minister of Education and Culture of Uruguay.

Javier Gonzáles Skaric, (Bolivia) Technical Secretary at the Observatory of the declared illegal crops.

Édgar Gutiérrez Girón, (Guatemala) Guatemala Ambassador on Special Mission for Drug Policy Reform.

Alejandro Hope, (México) Head of the MC2 “Less Crime, Less Punishment” Project, joint initiative between the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO) and México Evalúa, in subject of Public Security.

Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo, (Colombia) Secretary of Health, Mayoralty of Bogotá.

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll, (Colombia) Doctor in Law. Associate professor at the Universidad de los Andes Law School.

Marie Nouguier, (IDPC) Head of research, publications and web site development of the International Consortium on Drug Policy.

Òscar Parés Franquero, (Spain) Contributor for the Prevention team of the General Subdivision for Drug Dependency, Agència de Salut Pública de la Generalitat de Catalunya.

Aldemar Parra Espitia, (Colombia) Area Coordinator of the Reduction on Consumption of Psychoactive Substances, Ministry of Health and Social Protection.

Gustavo Petro Urrego, (Colombia) Mayor of Bogota.

Fabiola Piñacué Achicué, (Colombia) Founder and legal representative of Coca Nasa, National Executive Committee Member of the Alternative Democratic Pole for indigenous peoples, Member of the Andean Council of Coca Leaf Producers.

Julián Andrés Quintero, (Colombia)  Executive Director of the Technical Social Action Corporation (ATS).

Socorro Ramirez, (Colombia) Retired Professor from the Universidad Nacional in Colombia and Columnist for El Tiempo Newspaper.

Juan Diego Restrepo, (Colombia) Editor and Project Editor on the Semana.com and VerdadAbierta.com Sites, respectively.

Tránsito Ruano, (El Salvador) Director at the Training and Education Center “PASSOS”

Javier Sagredo, Coordinator for SAVIA-Drugs Project. Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission of  the Organization of the American States (CICAD/OAS).

Eder Jair Sánchez Zambrano, (Colombia) President of the Putumayo National Association of Rural Users ANUC-PUTUMAYO.

Graciela Touzé, (Argentina) President of Intercambios Civil Association. Teacher and researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires.

Pedro Vieira Abramovay, (Brazil) Professor of Law at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro and Avaaz Campaign Director. He was secretary of legislative affairs at the Ministry of Justice and National Secretary of Justice of the Federative Republic of Brazil.

John Walsh, (USA) Senior Associate for Drug Policy and the Andes, at the Washington Office of Latin America (WOLA).

Daniel Wolfe, (USA.) Director of the International Harm Reduction Development Program at the Open Society Foundations.