Leonardo Pigñer
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Co-founder and chief executive of Ekoparty, the Buenos Aires conference that became Latin America's largest hacking event - one of the five who started it in 2001, alongside Juan Pablo Daniel Borgna, Federico Kirschbaum, Jeronimo Basaldua and Francisco Amato.
Pigner is the founder who stayed operational: he runs the conference as an organisation rather than an annual event, with year-round community programmes, a publishing arm and training. With Basaldua he also built the security firm Base4. The Ekoparty model - a commercially sustainable conference that never stopped being a hacker gathering - is the template most Latin American organisers now study, and it is why the region has an independent circuit rather than franchised editions of northern events.
Also known as: ekoparty ceo, base4 security, ekolabs