Conference Speaker

Alejandro Merle Otero

Founder, StarHorizon

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Operating somewhere between Brooklyn, San Juan, and whatever dimension hosts the next civilization upgrade, Zen is a multi-planetary systems architect disguised as a creative producer. Founder of StarHorizon Takes-U-Places Inc. and a driving force behind Footprints of Peace, he is the kind of operator who can coordinate AR activations, peace movements, and space infrastructure concepts in the same meeting. His work lives at the intersection of XR as consciousness interface, culture as propulsion system, and space as the next neighborhood. He has led initiatives spanning global XR activations, regenerative material ecosystems, space-adjacent infrastructure thinking through the Caribbean SpacePort Alliance, and cultural diplomacy disguised as events that feel like festivals but operate like soft power infrastructure. Zen doesn’t separate art, science, or governance because in his world, those are just different interfaces for the same system.


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