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Finance Colombia Executive Editor Loren Moss recently made the trip to Manizales to discuss the progression of Colombia's wine scene with Bernal and also to understand why someone in the wine industry would abandon an international capital like Bogotá for a small, mountainous...

"Colombia is heavily underinsured. If you look at insurance penetration ... Colombia is about a quarter of where it should be," said John Nelson, chairman of Lloyd's of London.

"We Colombians also have a right to drink quality coffee," said Andres Restrepo of Santo Kaffeto café.

Kaptar is an innovative project in Medellín that is "trying to take advantage of that economic potential" of waste material.

Customers and providers that adopt the “as a service” model will find themselves relatively insulated from political winds.

"Colombia is always advancing in the use of technology — so we see an important opportunity," says Luis Rico of HP.

"This is a creation and meeting laboratory," says Camilo Cantor about Medellín's new Exploratorio makerspace.

"It has 24,000 nozzles that apply ink smoothly and evenly and print the page immediately," says Marcela Fonseca of HP Inc.

"They’re still a bit far from investing what a U.S. company invests in the area of denial of service," says Felipe Gómez of Level 3.

"Looking at the kinds of disasters in Colombia, I think systems like ours make a lot of sense," says Anand Anupam of Unified Messaging Systems.