Nicolas Afanador

Delivered AI and business intelligence workshops across 25 projects, trained 300 professionals (40% entrepreneurs) in Excel, Power BI and Power Pivot, and implemented methodologies to create performance indicators for improved decision-making.

Planned and led development of a profiling module for Atynea’s platform, mapped entrepreneur archetypes from a 180-company pilot, and supported adoption by entrepreneurship programs, contributing to strengthened organizational strategy.

Managed a BI academic track integrating AI and data-driven strategy, taught marketing analytics and supervised predictive modelling and social media analysis projects to forecast audience behaviour and optimise engagement.

Created and launched the WebAsamblea business unit delivering secure electronic voting and assembly management, enabling over 1,000 assemblies and improving governance and decision-making for clients like Ecopetrol; ensured compliance with audits by PwC and KPMG.

Designed and delivered courses in business statistics, R programming and business intelligence, piloted statistical inference projects and taught web analytics methods to improve data-driven decision-making skills.

Led strategic IT consulting and BI projects, designed BI frameworks and supported Smart Cities and digital transformation initiatives to align technology with organizational goals and improve operational efficiency.

Coordinated undergraduate TICS courses, integrated data visualization and Tableau/Power BI into curricula, and updated online business modelling courses contributing to increased enrollment and supporting international accreditation efforts.

Collaborated on nanotechnology projects for agriculture with Corpoica and Fedepapa, contributing to material science innovations that improved nanoparticle release lifetime by 15% and supported technology adoption.

Activities and societies: Research and publications on innovation culture and qualitative/quantitative research.

Enrolled as a Doctor in Business Administration (DBA) student focusing on innovation culture analysis and mixed-methods research.

Activities and societies: Studies in instructional design for b-learning and cross-cultural communication.

Completed a leadership program in blended education and b-learning with a focus on instructional design and cross-cultural communication.

Activities and societies: Thesis research in visual analytics and big data methodologies.

Completed Master in Visual Analytics and Big Data with thesis pending, focused on data-driven decision making and advanced visualization.

Activities and societies: Research projects and coursework in statistical modelling and computational physics.

Completed a Master in Physics with emphasis on computational and statistical modelling applied to complex systems.

Activities and societies: Research collaborations and projects linking physics and computational methods.

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Physics with focus on modelling and computational analysis.

Activities and societies: Applied studies in business intelligence tools, econometrics, and process improvement.

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering with coursework in business intelligence and econometrics.