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| 8:00AM | ACCREDITATION – HOTEL MARRIOTT | |
| 9:00AM | OPENING | |
| Enrique Arturo de Obarrio, Chair, Organizing Committee, IV OAS Private Sector Forum and Vice President , Private Sector of the Americas | ||
| Stanley Motta, President, Copa Airlines, Panama | ||
| H.E. Alejandro Ferrer, Minister of Trade and Industry, Panama | ||
| 10:00AM | Toward a New Energy Order in the Americas | |
| Ambassador Albert Ramdin, Assistant Secretary General, Organization of American States (OAS) | ||
| 10:15-10:30AM | COFFEE | |
| 10:30-11:30AM | Panel 1: | |
| Diversification and Conservation of Energy Sources- Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency and Bioenergy Promotion | ||
| Moderator: | ||
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Mark Lambrides, Department of Sustainable Development, OAS ►Diversificación y Conservación de Fuentes Energéticas |
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Juan Pablo Bonilla, Coordinator of the Sustainable Energy and Climate Change
Initiative, Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) ►Iniciativa de Energía Sostenible y Cambio Climático(SECCI) |
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Fernando Sánchez Albavera, Director, Natural Resources and Infrastructure
Department, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) ►Eficiencia Energética, Energías Renovables y Bioenergía en America Latina |
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Bruce McCallum, President, Canadian Bioenergy Association, Canada ►Energy for Development in the Americas |
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Jaime Arimany, CEO, Hidroeléctrica Papeles Elaborados, Guatemala ►Papeles Elaborados, S.A. Central Hidroeléctrica “POZA VERDE” |
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| Questions and Answers | ||
| 11:30AM -12:30PM | Panel 2: | |
| Energy Integration and Cooperation | ||
| Moderator: | ||
| Carlos Jorquiera, President, Santiago Chamber of Commerce, Chile | ||
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José Enrique Martínez Arbelo, General Manager, Central American Regional
Electricity Transmission System (SIEPAC) ►SIEPAC el vehículo diseñado para avanzar hacia la … Cooperación e Integración Energética - Vídeo (parte de la presentación) |
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Luis Fernando Alarcón Mantilla, General Manager, Interconexión Eléctrica
S.A, (ISA), Colombia ►Integración y Cooperación Energética |
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Isaac A. Castillo, General Manager, Empresa de Transmisión Eléctrica (ETESA),
Panama ►Interconexión Panamá - Colombia - El enlace entre los Mercados de la Región Andina y América Central |
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Roberto Duque, International Coordinator, Federal Electricity Commission,
Mexico ►Integración y Cooperación Energética: Interconexión Eléctrica México – Guatemala - Centroamérica |
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| Questions and Answers | ||
| 12:45-2:00PM | LUNCH | |
| Introduction: Antonio Fletcher, President, Panamanian Association of Executives (APEDE), Panama | ||
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Speaker: Ricardo de Gusmão Dornelles, Director, Department of Renewable
Fuels, Ministry of Mines and Energy, Brazil ►The Brazilian Experience with Biofuels |
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| Introduction: Alberto Vallarino, | ||
| Speaker: Enrique Iglesias, General Secretary, Ibero-American Secretariat | ||
| 2:00-5:00PM | SIMULTANEOUS WORKING SESSIONS | |
| Working Group 1: | ||
| Energy Cooperation and Integration | ||
| Chair: Nigel Hosein, Executive Director, CARILEC | ||
| Working Group 2: | ||
| The Future of Sustainable Electricity | ||
| Chair: Eduardo Vallarino, Vice President, FERCCA | ||
| Discussants: | ||
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Gilles Favreau, International Hydropower Association, Canada ►The Future of Sustainable Electricity |
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Gonzalo Rico Calderón, E+Co, South America ►Empresas Energéticas Sostenibles para la Base de la Pirámide Social |
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| Rony Carrillo, Director of Engineering, ALCATEX, Honduras | ||
| Working Group 3: Biofuels as an Alternative for the Transportation Sector | ||
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Chair: Bruce McCallum, President, Canadian Bioenergy Association, Canada ►Energy for Development in the Americas |
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| Discussants: | ||
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F. Armando Arias, President, Association of Sugar Growers, El Salvador ►Caña de azúcar: Energía para el desarrollo de El Salvador |
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| 6:30-9:00PM | COCKTAIL | |
| SPONSORED BY -YABT -HOTEL EL PANAMA -SALON BELLAVISTA | ||
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| 8:45 – 9:30AM | OPENING: | |
| Ernesto Gutiérrez, President, Private Sector of the Americas | ||
| José Miguel Insulza, Secretary General, Organization of American States, OAS | ||
| H.E. Martín Torrijos, President of the Republic of Panama | ||
| 9:30 – 10:45AM | KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: | |
| Intoduction: Nicolás Ardito Barletta, Director General, National Center for Competitiveness, Panama | ||
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José Sergio Gabrielli de Azevedo, President and CEO, Petrobras, Brazil
►Clean Energy: Meeting the Energy Challenges of the 21st Century |
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Andrew Vesey, Vice President and Group Manager, AES Corporation, United
Strates ►Energy and Competitiveness in the Americas |
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| 10:45 – 11:00AM | COFFEE | |
| 11:00 – 12:45AM | “ENERGY AND COMPETITIVENESS IN THE AMERICAS” | |
| ADDRESSES BY HIGH-LEVEL EXECUTIVES FROM LEADING FUEL AND TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES | ||
| Moderator: Susan Segal, President and CEO, Council of the Americas, Estados Unidos | ||
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Robert Riley, Chairman and CEO, BP-Trinidad and Tobago ►Speech ►Energy and Competitiveness in the Americas |
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Rafael Jaen Williamson, Regional Manager, Policy, Public and Governmental
Affairs, Chevron Latin America ►Global realities: diagnosis of current global energy situation |
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Luis Manuel Kolster, Director of Public Policy, General Motors Latin
America, Africa and Middle East ►Energy and Environment |
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| Questions and Answers | ||
| 12:45 – 2:45PM | LUNCH | |
| SPECIAL SPEAKERS: | ||
| Introduction: Eugenio Marulanda, President, Confecamaras, Colombia | ||
| Roberto Rodrigues, Co-Chair, Inter-American Ethanol Commission, Brazil | ||
| Luis Alberto Moreno, President, Inter-American Development Bank, IADB | ||
| 3:00 – 4:00PM | ENERGY DEVELOPMENT AND INVESTMENT OUTLOOK IN LATIN AMERICA | |
| Moderator: | ||
| Alfonso Quiñónez, Executive Secretary, Executive Secretariat for Integral Development, OAS | ||
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José Luis Machinea, Executive Secretary, ECLAC ►El Desarrollo Energético y el Panorama de la Inversión en América Latina y el Caribe |
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| Enrique García, President, Andean Development Corporation | ||
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Jorge Barrigh, Manager, Latin American and the Caribbean, Natsource LLC ►Desarrollo Energético y Panorama de la Inversión en América Latina |
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| Questions and Answers | ||
| 4:00 – 4:45PM | PATHWAY TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN THE AMERICAS | |
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| Joyce de Ginatta, President, Inter American Federation of Business Entrepreneurs (FIE), Ecuador | ||
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Edgardo Volosin, Director, Corporate Affairs, EDENOR, Argentina ►Energía y Competitividad en las Américas |
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Kateri Callahan, President, Alliance to Save Energy, United States ►Pathway to Energy Efficiency in the Americas |
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Paulina Fabara, Department of Foreign Affairs, National
Commission to Save Energy (CONAE), Mexico ►¿Por qué invertir en eficiencia energética es rentable? |
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| Questions and Answers | ||
| Recognition of 2007 TIC America Winners by Young Americas Business Trust | ||
| 4:45-5:30PM | CLOSING | |
| H.E. Samuel Lewis Navarro, First Vice President of the Republic of Panama and Minister of Foreign Affairs | ||
| 6:30 – 8:30PM | COCKTAIL (Marriott Hotel) | |
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THIRD DAY- JUNE 2ND |
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| 8:00PM | BREAKFAST (ON YOUR OWN) | |
| 10:00AM - 1:00PM | BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES IN PANAMA | |
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H.E. Carmen Gisela Vergara, Vice Minister of Foreign Trade Tourism Sector, Jaime Campuzano, President, Chamber of Tourism of Panama Telecommunications Sector, José Quintero, Executive Director of Technology, Cable & Wireless |
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| 11:00 - 11:15AM | COFFEE | |
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Nacional Maritime Strategy and Port Development, Carlos Ernesto González de la
Lastra, Secretary General of the Maritime Authority of Panama Banking and Financial Sector, Gustavo A. Villa, Regulator (Superintendente) of Banking, a.i. Fiscal Incentives in Panama, Luís Laguerre, Partner, Taxes, KPMG Infrastructure, H.E. Benjamín Colamarco, Minister of Public Works Panama Canal (Expansion Project), Ing. Jorge de la Guardia, Manager, Locks Management Program Division, Department of Engineering and Management of Programs, Panama Canal Authority |
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| 7:00 - 10:30PM | DINNER HOSTED BY HIS EXCELLENCY SAMUEL LEWIS NAVARRO, FIRST VICE PRESIDENT AND MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA, AND BY MR. ERNESTO GUTIÉRREZ CONTE, PRESIDENT OF PRIVATE SECTOR OF THE AMERICAS, IN HONOR OF HIS EXCELLENCY ÁLVARO URIBE VÉLEZ, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA. | |
| GRAN SALÓN, HOTEL SHERATON, BY INVITATION ONLY | ||
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