Ali Anderson Navarro Aguilar

Artist, Designer, Explorer, Student

I'm an entrepreneur and speaker from Tarapoto, in the Peruvian rainforest. I'm the director of TEDxTarapoto and the manager of Kintsugi Perú, a training company through which I help people and teams communicate with confidence and use artificial intelligence to grow their businesses. For years, my job was to build stages so others could shine: selecting speakers, refining their talks, and producing the events. Today, I work so that more professionals and entrepreneurs from the regions far from the capital dare to step onto their own stage and let their ideas be heard. I believe talent exists everywhere; what's often missing is the confidence to show it.

I'm passionate about democratizing communication and technology from the regions. I want an entrepreneur in Tarapoto to have the same public speaking and AI tools as one in a major capital. What drives me is that exact moment when someone who believed they were "bad at speaking" discovers that they can and that their idea matters. That instant in a workshop, a rehearsal, or on a stage is my fuel.

Communicating with confidence isn't about not being afraid: it's about learning to speak with the fear right beside you. And that skill, which seems reserved for a lucky few, can be trained in anyone, anywhere even in a small city in the rainforest.

AI for business, Communication skills, Entrepreneurship, Event organizing, Leadership, Personal branding, Public speaking, Regional development, Storytelling, Training and workshops

I came to TED from the other side of the stage: as an organizer. Founding and directing TEDxTarapoto meant bringing to my city a platform that usually stays in big capitals, and guiding each local speaker through the process of turning their experience into an idea worth spreading. Watching people from my region stand before an audience and move them confirmed exactly why I do what I do.

I help others speak in public, but I still find it hard to put myself in front of a camera. I'm learning to apply my own method to myself and documenting that process, nerves and all, is part of what makes me a better coach.