V OAS PRIVATE SECTOR FORUM – XXXVIII OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

 

“Governance for Development and Competitiveness in the Americas:

The Role of Public-Private Partnerships”

 

INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL

Medellin, Colombia: May 29 – 30, 2008

 

Program

 

FIRST DAY –THURSDAY, MAY 29

 

8:00                    ACCREDITATION – FOYER ANTIOQUIA ROOM

 

8:30                   OPENING PLENARY – ANTIOQUIA II ROOM

Eugenio Marulanda, Chair, Organizing Committee, V OAS Private Sector Forum

H.E. Alonso Salazar Jaramillo, Mayor of Medellin

H.E. Luis Guillermo Plata, Minister of Trade, Industry and Tourism, Republic of Colombia

 

9:15                        KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

H.E. Albert Ramdin, Assistant Secretary General, Organization of American States (OAS)

Alan Rosling, Executive Director, Tata Sons, India

                               

10:00-10:15             COFFEE

 

10:15-11:15              PANEL 1: COMPETITIVENESS IN THE AMERICAS: THE CHALLENGES OF THE XXI CENTURY

Remarks and Moderator: Robert Devlin, Regional Advisor, UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

                Panelists:

Emilio Lozoya, Director for Latin America, World Economic Forum, Geneva

Gabriel Rozman, Executive Vice President for Emerging Markets, Tata Consulting Services, India

Fabio Valencia Cossio, High Presidential Commissioner for Competitiveness and Productivity, Colombia

Fernando Illanes de la Riva, President, Latin American Business Council (CEAL)

 

Questions and Answers

 

11:15-12:45             PANEL 2: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND DEMOCRACY: THE GOVERNANCE CHALLENGE

Moderator: Marta Erquicia, Transparency International

Presentation: Graciela Coatz Romer, Graciela Romer and Associates, Argentina

Panelists:

Carlos Ominami, Senator, Senate of the Republic of Chile

Jennifer McCoy, Director, Americas Program, Carter Center

 

Questions and Answers

 

1:00-2:30                LUNCH - BRASSERIE TERRACE

Introduction: Enrique de Obarrio, Vice President, Private Sector of the Americas

Raul Cuero, Scientist and Inventor, Recipient of NASA Technology Award 2008, and Professor of Texas A&M-Prairie View

Felipe Osorio, President, Alianza TEAM, Colombia
Sebastián Serna, Young Inventor and Member of Creativity Parc, Colombia
Alex Quintero, Young Inventor and Member of Creativity Parc, Colombia

 

 

 

Working Group 1 – BOLIVAR ROOM Skills Training, Youth Employment and Competitiveness   Chair: Brigette McDonald Levy, Private Sector Organization of Jamaica (PSOJ), Jamaica   Discussants: Keynor Ruiz, International Center for Human Development, Costa Rica Francisco Lara, Centro de Participación Integral, Venezuela         Working Group 2 – CORDOBA ROOM Governance,  Business Climate and Enterprise Formalization   Chair: María Fernanda Campo, President, Chamber of Commerce of Bogota, Colombia     Discussants: Paula Trujillo, Director, Medellin Cooperation and International Investment Agency, Colombia Working Group 3 – GIRANDOT ROOM Innovation in the Globalization Era   Chair: Joyce de Ginatta, President, Inter-American Entrepreneurship Federation (FIE), Ecuador     Discussants: Karla Blanco, Manager, Corporate Affairs, Intel, Costa Rica María del Pilar Noriega, Technical Director, Instituto de Capacitación e Investigación del Plástico y del Caucho (ICIPC), Colombia Aldo Aspilcueta, International Program Manager, Octantis-Business Accelerator, Chile

2:30-5:30                SIMULTANEOUS WORKING SESSIONS

 

 

 

 

6:00                                        RECEPTION AND OPENING OF TIC AMERICAS’ EXHIBITION -

ANTIOQUIA I ROOM

                                               (Sponsored by Young Americas Business Trust and Private Sector of the Americas)

 

PRESENTATION: Rodrigo Arboleda, Director of Development Latin America and the Caribbean, One Laptop Per Child and Per Teacher Project, United States

                                              

Recognition of TIC Americas Finalists by José Miguel Insulza, Secretary General, OAS

 

                                               The Exhibition will be open to the public Thursday and Friday

 

 

SECOND DAY- FRIDAY, MAY 30

                              

8:30                        PLENARY - ANTIOQUIA II ROOM

SETTING THE STAGE FOR A WORKABLE PARTNERSHIP

Ernesto Gutiérrez, President, Private Sector of the Americas

H.E. Fernando Araújo, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Colombia

H.E. José Miguel Insulza, Secretary General, Organization of American States (OAS)

               

9:30-11:00               FORGING A PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE IN THE AMERICAS

                Introduction: Eugenio Marulanda, Chair, Organizing Committee, V OAS Private Sector Forum

Enrique Iglesias, Secretary General, Ibero-American Secretariat

Manlio Fabio Beltrones, President, Mexican Senate

Germán Efromovich, CEO, Synergy Group, Brazil

 

Questions and Answers

 

11:00-11:15              COFFEE

 

11:15-12:45             YOUTH LEADERSHIP IN THE PROMOTION OF GOVERNANCE

AND COMPETITIVENESS

Moderator: Christopher Sabatini, Council of the Americas, United States

Panelists:

Mario Cader-Frech, Vice President, Public Affairs & Corporate Social Responsibility

MTV Networks Latin America

                                                                            Salvador Paiz, President of FUNSEPA and Grupo Paiz, Guatemala

Alberto Vollmer, President, Alcatraz Project, Venezuela

Yimmy Robert Sojo González, Member, Alcatraz Project, Venezuela

 

                                                                            Questions and Answers

 

1:00-2:45 LUNCH – BRASSERIE TERRACE

SPECIAL SPEAKERS: 

Introduction: David Bojanini, CEO, Suramericana de Inversiones, Colombia

Luis Alberto Moreno, President, Inter-American Development Bank

Joyce Chang, Head of Emerging Markets Strategy and EM Americas Client Business, JP Morgan Chase & Co., United States

 

 

3:00-4:00        CORPORATE GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP IN THE XXI CENTURY

Moderator: John Sullivan, Executive Director, Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE),

United States

Panelists:

Francisco Díaz Salazar, CEO and President, Organización Corona, Colombia

María Eugenia Brizuela, Regional Director for Corporate Sustainability, HSBC Latin America, El Salvador

Bradley Googins, Executive Director, The Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, United States

                                                                           

                                                                            Questions and Answers

                              

4:00-4:15 COFFEE

 

4:15-5:00 Presentation of 2008 TIC Americas Awards by Young Americas Business Trust

 

5:00-6:00                CLOSING

H.E. Alvaro Uribe Vélez, President of the Republic of Colombia

 

8:00-11:00               RECEPTION– SPONSORED BY PRIVATE SECTOR OF THE AMERICAS

                PLAZA PIES DESCALZOS