President of Georgia Tech to inaugurate API Silver Jubilee
Panama City, Panama - Friday, August 29, 2025
The official events of the Silver Jubilee of the Pan American Academy of Engineering (API) will begin on Thursday, September 18, at the Atlapa Convention Center, in the City of
Panama, when prestigious academics and engineering professionals meet to speak on important topics of high relevance to the future of engineering.
Under the motto “Artificial Intelligence and Engineering for Socio-Economic Development and the Welfare of Humanity”, the API will celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary simultaneously with the celebration of the XVI International Congress of Civil Engineering 2025, an event organized by the College of Civil Engineers of Panama (COICI) and the Panamanian Society of Engineers and Architects (SPIA).
As part of the opening events of the API Silver Jubilee, the distinguished Dr. Ángel Cabrera Izquierdo, president of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), will give the keynote lecture “Artificial Intelligence in Engineering”.
Cabrera Izquierdo is a prominent Spanish engineer who, after completing his studies in Telecommunications Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, was honored with
the Fulbright scholarship, thanks to which he was able to continue postgraduate studies until he received his doctorate in Cognitive Psychology from Georgia Tech.
Meanwhile, his academic career, specializing in work on learning, management and leadership, began in 1998 as a professor at the IE Business School, an institution of which he was dean between 2000 and 2004. From there, he set out to direct the institutional destiny of the Thunderbird School of Global Management and, in 2012, he was appointed president of George Mason University.
On June 13, 2019, Cabrera Izquierdo was appointed president of Georgia Tech, becoming the first president of an American university born in Spain.
The appearance of the outstanding Spanish engineer at the API Silver Jubilee coincides with the celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the Center for Innovation and Research. This is an academic initiative launched in 2010 between the prestigious university institution and the Panamanian government with the purpose of strengthening the Central American country as the axis of maritime trade to become the logistics and commercial center of the Americas.
To celebrate the Center's 15th anniversary, on September 17, a group of Georgia Tech graduates will lead a panel discussion on the transformational power of education and technology that will be moderated by Cabrera Izquierdo. This conversation, scheduled for 12:30 in the afternoon, will take place in the Orchid Room of the Tech Valley Conference Center, located in Panama City.
