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Join us for the Inaugural Latinx Virtual Supplier Showcase on Wednesday, September 29, 2021 from 10 am - 12:30 pm PT.
This exclusive event has been organized to celebrate and increase opportunities for Latinx suppliers by introducing them to key buyers and stakeholders.
Programming is designed to give you an inside look at Facebook initiatives that focus on the Latinx community.
At the event, you can expect:
Executive remarks from Adam Mosseri,Facebook Latin@ sponsor and Head of Instagram
Product discussion of Latinx-projects with Facebook employees and Latin@ community members
The chance to pitch and discuss your business with Facebook sourcing representatives
Additional opportunities to learn about Facebook’s supplier contracting process
A finale performance from Latin Grammy nominee Gina Chavez
This event is co-hosted by Facebook Supplier Diversity and the Latin@ Facebook Resource Group
Adam Mosseri is the Head of Instagram where he oversees all functions of the business including engineering, product and operations. Adam has been at Facebook for more than 11 years. He was design director for Facebook’s mobile apps and then moved into product management where he led the News Feed product and engineering teams for many years. He was Head of News Feed prior to joining Instagram where he oversaw product before managing the entire organization.Prior to Facebook, Adam worked at TokBox as the company’s first designer. He began his career founding a design consultancy in 2003 with offices in New York and San Francisco that focused on graphic, interaction and exhibition design. Adam holds a BA from the Gallatin School of Interdisciplinary Study at NYU where he studied Information Design and Media. Born and raised in New York, he now lives in San Francisco with his wife and two sons.
Pablo Quintanilla
Facebook
Pablo is a founding member of Facebook’s Responsible Innovation team, which helps product teams identify and mitigate potential unintended harm in products. Before joining Facebook in May 2020, Pablo served as Salesforce’s first fellow to the World Economic Forum, working with government, civil society, academia and industry to create resources for companies to integrate ethics- and human rights-based approaches into technology development. Before that, Pablo was head of Salesforce’s public policy in Asia and Latin America. He served as a U.S. diplomat in Hong Kong, Beijing and in D.C. from 2007-2011. Outside of work, Pablo is active with the Council on Foreign Relations, the Asia Society, and with his local public elementary school. He lives in San Mateo with his spouse, Silvana, and two children -- Matías and Amaya -- in San Mateo, California.
Sal Becerra
Instagram
As the Head of Research for Instagram Communities, I’m supporting teams that span Well-Being and Integrity, New User Experiences and Graph, Youth and Identity, Instagram as an Ecosystem and how it communicates through navigation, notifications, existing interfaces and emergent future ones.Work here has launched an Equity product team, a prioritization of emergent markets, and exploring the future of youth, households, and technology. Over my 5 years at the company, I’ve been a champion of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Work here launched our Research Associate Program (https://facebookrap.com (https://facebookrap.com/)), incorporated Facebook’s Research into our Ambassador & Connections Program for outreach, and strengthened inclusive product development through leadership trainings, culture catalyzing, and product strategy.I’m a proud child of immigrants from Mexico, a member of the LGBTQAI+ communities, and a first generation college student. I enjoy time with my 13 year old son and partner, outdoor adventures and exploring the world.
Gina Chavez
Gina Chavez is a multi-ethnic, Austin native is a queer, Catholic, internationally-acclaimed Latinx pop artist who is redefining Latin music in Texas and beyond.Growing up in Austin, TX, Gina Chavez didn’t pick up a guitar until she was in college. The instrument proved to be her ticket around the world. Since then, she has traveled to Japan as a cultural ambassador for the city of Austin. She also toured the world as a cultural ambassador with the US State Dept, performing to international audiences in 10 countries. To date, Chavez has won multiple awards, including 12 Austin Music Awards and the Grand Prize for the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. She topped the iTunes and Amazon Latin charts with her second album, Up.Rooted. She closed out the decade alongside Oprah, Loretta Lynn and Beyonce as one of 100 women featured in Garden & Gun’s new book, Southern Women: 100 Stories of Innovators, Artists and Icons. Chavez’s multi-ethnic folk-pop sound also won her spotlights on national TV and radio shows in the US. She has been featured on NPR’s three nationally broadcast shows: NPR's All Things Considered, First Listen, and Tiny Desk Concerts. Her performances garnered nearly 1 million views on YouTube and earned her a spot on NPR’s Top 15 Tiny Desk Concerts. She also was chosen to perform at The Kate on a nationally televised hour-long episode on PBS. To date, the artist has released three award-winning albums that showcase Chavez’s versatility as a songwriter and performer: her acoustic folk-pop debut album Hanging Spoons (2007), her Spanish/English album Up.Rooted (2014) and her soul/R&B EP Lightbeam (2018). Currently, Chavez lives in Austin with her wife, Jodi Granado. Together, they co-founded the Niñas Arriba, a college fund that offers full scholarships to a private, Catholic university for young girls in Soyapango, El Salvador.
Jason Trimiew
Facebook Global Supplier Diversity
For two decades, Jason has worked at the intersection of the marketplace and social impact in international microfinance, community and economic development and venture philanthropy. In 2016, Jason joined Facebook to launch and lead the company’s supplier diversity program and create more opportunity for diverse-owned firms to do business with Facebook and the people and communities that Facebook connects. Facebook has now spent more than $1.1 billion cumulatively with US companies certified as minority, women, veteran, LGBTQ or disabled-owned in categories spanning creative services, network infrastructure, facilities management and more.