LABITCONF organizers announce search for new leadership
The Buenos Aires conference closed with a succession announcement, while an organizer described plans for a more institutional audience and continued Bitcoin focus.
LABITCONF's October 30–31, 2026, edition in Buenos Aires ended with an announcement that Fundación Bitcoin Iberoamérica would seek new leadership for the conference. Post-event reporting described Diego Gutiérrez Zaldívar reading the closing statement and inviting a successor to carry the project forward.
In an October 31 interview with Forbes Argentina, Gutiérrez Zaldívar also described plans for a more business-oriented format while retaining Bitcoin as its central subject. The founders would remain connected, but the future leadership and organizational structure had not been settled.
LABITCONF had brought Latin American developers, entrepreneurs and communities together since 2013. A change in stewardship therefore concerned the continuity of a regional meeting institution, not simply the repetition of another annual gathering.
The announcement was a succession search and a proposed next direction. It was not the conference's cancellation, a completed transfer to a named buyer or proof that a new format had already been delivered.