Organized by GeSI

Summit Schedule

August 25 - August 26, 2026

Summit Venue

Buenos Aires

Digital with Purpose: Land, Water and Data: Just Transition Starts in the South

Where global collaboration meets real-world implementation

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About the Event

Digital with Purpose Global Summit 2026

In a rapidly evolving geopolitical landscape, Latin America faces critical questions about its global role in the digital sustainability transition. This Summit provides a vital platform to position the Global South not as adopter of others' transitions, but as architect of its own digital transformation. By embracing Digital with Purpose, Latin America can assert its voice as a provider of both natural resources and digital innovation, ensuring equitable development, resource sovereignty, and sustained competitiveness.

The Digital with Purpose Global Summit 2026 Buenos Aires comes at a critical moment. It aims to contribute to Latin American innovation, leadership, and just transition strategy. Held in Buenos Aires—a hub of regional influence—the Summit will gather policymakers, indigenous leaders, private sector pioneers, and technology innovators to align around a shared vision: how digital transformation can enable a more sustainable, equitable, sovereign, and resilient Latin America.

This Summit is built around four core imperatives:

Strategic Imperatives

1. Resource Sovereignty through Digital Innovation

Develop digital and technological capabilities that allow Latin America to be a strategic provider of natural resources (lithium, copper, fish, data, knowledge) without repeating extractivist models. Shift the conversation from raw material supplier to integrated solution provider.

2. Communities at the Center of Infrastructure

Ensure that digital infrastructure (data centers, AI systems, connectivity) serves local communities equitably. Establish governance models, indigenous consultation protocols, and benefit-sharing mechanisms that prioritize community agency and environmental justice.

3. LatAm as a Force for Peace & Diplomatic Leadership

Position the region's commitment to consensus-building, indigenous wisdom, and community-centered development as a counterweight to geopolitical tensions. Use digital platforms to strengthen South-South cooperation, regional knowledge-sharing, and peaceful pathways to shared challenges.

4. Frugal Innovation as Global Competitive Advantage

Position Southern innovation—solving problems with constraints—as a repeatable, exportable competitive advantage. Demonstrate how Latin American companies (Globant, Mercado Libre, Nubank, dLocal) prove that resourcefulness drives profitability and resilience.

5. Digital as the Driving Force for Just Transition

Leverage digital technologies to enable a just and equitable transition toward net-zero economies. Use data, AI, and digital platforms to optimize resource use, protect nature, enable community participation, and create new economic pathways for workers and regions dependent on fossil fuels or extractive industries.

Our Speakers

Meet Our Expert Speakers

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Luis Neves
Luis Neves
CEO of GeSI
Facundo Armas
Facundo Armas
Sustainable Business Director, Globant
Sam Enoka
Sam Enoka
CEO, Greensparc
Nizar Kammourie
Nizar Kammourie
CEO, Sawaco
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Panel Topics & Dimensions

Green Bonds & Sustainable Debt

How is LatAm currently accessing capital for climate and digital infrastructure? What are the barriers and opportunities for Argentine issuance? How do sovereign and sub-sovereign green bonds become vehicles for funding just transitions?

Blended Finance & De-Risking

What concessional capital (from BID, CAF, IFAD, development banks) is available to de-risk private investment in climate-tech and nature-based solutions? How can first-loss and subordinated capital unlock larger institutional flows?

Impact Measurement & Investor Expectations

How do we quantify the digital and sustainability impact of projects so that impact investors, ESG funds, and institutional capital can flow confidently? What are emerging standards (TCFD, SASB, GRI) and how do they apply to LatAm?

Indigenous Benefit Agreements & Community Finance

Legal and financial structures ensuring indigenous communities and local stakeholders capture economic value from resource and digital projects. How do we move from extractive to regenerative finance models that center community agency?

Supply Chain Finance & Circular Economy

Working capital tools, traceability mechanisms, and supply chain financing enabling responsible mining, manufacturing, and circular product lifecycles. How do blockchain and digital platforms reduce capital costs while improving transparency?

Event Schedules

Agenda - Global Summit 2026

DWP Buenos Aires 2026 - August 25-26 - "Land, Water and Data: Just Transition Starts in the South"

Day 1 — Diagnosis and Consensus Building

08:30 – 09:30

Welcome Breakfast and Registration

09:30 – 09:45

Opening Ceremony

09:45 – 10:15

Keynote: The South Leads — Resources, Technology and Peace

10:15 – 11:15

Panel 1: Mining, Data and Social License - Resources as Leverage

11:15 – 11:30 | Coffee break

11:30 – 12:15

Panel 2: Nature as Digital Infrastructure — From the Amazon to Antarctica

12:15 – 13:00

Panel 3: Innovation in Water Management

13:00 – 14:00 | Networking Lunch

14:00 – 15:00

Panel 4: Communities Define Value — Regenerative and Redistributive Models

15:00 – 15:15 | Coffee break

15:15 – 16:15

Fireside Chat: Data Centers, Energy and Territorial Consent

16:15 – 17:15

Panel 5: Frugal Innovation and Clean Energy — Building from Constraints

17:15 – 17:30

Day Synthesis

Day 2 — Implementation and Commitments

08:30 – 09:00

Welcome and Day 1 Recap

09:00 – 09:45

Keynote Panel: Responsible AI

09:45 – 10:30

Panel 6: Southern Innovation as Competitive Advantage

10:30 – 11:15

Panel 7: AI and Carbon Markets

11:15 – 11:30 | Coffee break

11:30 – 12:15

Panel 8: Education and Talent for the Digital Transition

12:15 – 13:00

Panel 9: Smart Cities and Sustainable Food Systems

13:00 – 14:15 | Lunch

14:15 – 15:00

Panel 10: Financing the Transition from the South

15:00 – 16:45

Co-creation Workshop

16:45 – 17:00

Closing and Next Steps

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