Opening: 09h30- 10h15 (CEST)
https://webcast.ec.europa.eu/eu-lac-business-roundtable-opening-23-07-17

Keynote address: 12h30 - 13h00 (CEST)
https://webcast.ec.europa.eu/eu-lac-business-roundtable-keynote-address-23-07-17

Closing: 14h00- 14h30 (CEST)
https://webcast.ec.europa.eu/eu-lac-business-roundtable-closing-23-07-17

Parallel Round Table 1

Energy Transition: Sustainable Solutions for All

Main Room: Schuman (Listening Room – Salle Cinema)

How can the private sector contribute to advance the fair and green energy transition in the EU and LAC?

Introductory Remarks:
• Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice-President, European Commission

Panellists:
• Paolo Scaroni, Chairman, ENEL (Italy)
• Elbia Gannoum, CEO, ABEEólica (Brazil)
• Mario Ruiz Tagle, CEO Spain, Iberdrola (Spain)
• Philip Julien, Chairman, Kenesjay Green Limited (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Tim Oliver Holt, Member of the Executive Board, Siemens Energy AG (Germany)
• Antonio Pinheiro Silveira, Manager of Infrastructure and Digital Transformation, CAF

Facilitator: Rodrigo Madrazo García de Lomana, CEO, EDFI Management Company

Parallel Round Table 2

Sustainable and Inclusive Economic Integration: Opportunities for Growth

Main Room: Hallstein (Listening Room – Jean Rey)

Opportunities for growth driven by responsible trade and investment with a special focus on the integration of the Amazonian region.

Panellists:
• Fredrik Persson, President, Business Europe
• Carlos Rey de Vicente, Regional Head of South America, Banco Santander (Spain)
• Marcelo Behar, Vice President of Sustainability & Group Affairs, Natura & Co. (Brazil)
• Maria Alexandra Moreira Lopez, Secretary General, Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (OTCA)
• Rafael Clavijo, Founder, Parque Ecológico Mundo Amazónico (Colombia)
• Alfonso Garcia Mora, Regional Vice President, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, IFC
• Esther Lynch, General-Secretary, European Trade Union Confederation

Facilitator: Ana María Ibañez, Vice President for Sectors and Knowledge, IDB

Parallel Round Table 3

Bridging the Gap: Unlocking Investment Potential in the Caribbean

Main Room: Schuman (Listening Room – Salle Cinema)

Caribbean region's investment attractiveness in sectors such as energy, tourism, agriculture, and manufacturing.

Introductory Remarks:
• Aubyn Hill, Senator & Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce of Jamaica

Panellists:
• Jean-Noël de Charentenay, VP Strategy, HDF Energy (France)
• Elizabeth Mena, Vice President, Mining Dominican Corporation, and President, ADOEXPO (Dominican Republic)
• Deodat Maharaj, Executive Director, Caribbean Export Development Agency
• Warsha Sharon Sarjoe, Executive Committee Member, CARICOM Private Sector Organisation (CPSO) & CEO, Rudisa International N.V. (Suriname)
• Diego Perdones, Head of Latin America, AP Moller Maersk (Denmark)
• Lilia Burunciuc, Country Director, Caribbean, World Bank

Facilitator: Hyginus Leon, President, Caribbean Development Bank

Parallel Round Table 4

Critical Raw Materials and E-Mobility

Main Room: Hallstein (Listening Room – Jean Rey)

Conducive conditions for urban electric mobility, including incentives for consumers and businesses and sustainable supply chains of critical raw materials needed for electric batteries.

Introductory Remarks:
• Valdis Dombrovskis, Executive Vice President, European Commission

Panellists:
• Claudia López, Mayor of Bogota, (Colombia)
• Luis Castilla, CEO, Acciona Infrastructure (Spain)
• Patricia Vasconcelos, CEO, CaetanoBus (Portugal)
• Renato Villar, Founder, Voltz Motors (Brazil)
• Geoff Streeton, Chief Development Officer and Member of the Executive Committee, Eramet (France)
• Andrés Rebolledo Smitmans, Executive Director, Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE)

Facilitator: Christian Asinelli, Vice President, CAF

Parallel Round Table 5

Linking Up: Fair Digital Transition and Last Kilometre Connectivity

Main Room: Schuman (Listening Room – Salle Cinema)

Reducing the digital divide and social inequalities by expanding connectivity and reinforcing physical digital infrastructure via fibre connections, mobile networks (5G) and satellite systems.

Introductory Remarks:
• Josep Borrell Fontelles, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy / Vice-President of the European Commission
• Paula Bogantes, Minister of Science, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications, Costa Rica

Panellists:
• Eduardo Navarro, Chief Corporate Affairs & Sustainability Officer, Telefónica (Spain)
• Federico Guillen, President of Network Infrastructure, Nokia (Finland)
• Chafic Nassif, President, North & Central Latin America and the Caribbean, Ericsson (Sweden)
• Miguel Ángel Panduro, CEO, Hispasat (Spain)
• Luis Ureta, Executive Vice President, Globant Europe (Argentina)

Facilitator: Irene Arias Hofman, CEO, IDB Lab

Parallel Round Table 6

Sustainable Financing in LAC: Scaling up the Sustainable Bond Market

Main Room: Hallstein (no listening room)

Potential impact and scope for scaling up green bonds and complementary sustainable financing instruments like blue and social bonds.

Introductory Remarks:
• Azucena Arbeleche, Minister of Economy and Finance, Uruguay
• Gustavo Manrique Miranda, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility of Ecuador

Panellists:
• James Scriven, CEO, IDB Invest
• Ricardo Mourinho Félix, Vice President, European Investment Bank
• Javier Rodríguez Soler, Global Chief Sustainability Officer, BBVA (Spain)
• Ian Johnston, Vice President, Head of Corporate Finance, Liberty Latin America
• Fuensanta Cobacho Diaz, Head of Structured Finance Americas, Intesa Sanpaolo (Italy)

Facilitator:  Koen Doens,Director-General for International Partnerships, European Commission

Parallel Round Table 7

Enhancing Health Resilience

Main Room: Jean-Rey (no listening room)

Investing in pharma, biotech and med-tech sectors to boost regional innovation and facilitate equitable access to health products: what are the key drivers for success?

Introductory Remarks:
• Martin Seychell, Deputy Director General for International Partnerships, European Commission
• Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, Minister of State for Development Francophonie and International Partnerships

Panellists:
• Laura Gutierrez, VP, Head of Global Corporate Public Affairs and Policy, Sanofi (France)
• Mónica Assef, President, Cámara de la Innovación Farmacéutica de Chile
• Matthias Berninger, Senior Vice President Public Affairs, Science & Sustainability, Bayer (Germany)
• Carlos Batthyany, Executive Director, Institut Pasteur de Montevideo (Uruguay)
• James Fitzgerald, Director, Department of Health Systems and Services, PAHO
• Camila de Pamphilis, Chief Data & Patient Experience Officer, Mamotest (Argentina)

Facilitator: José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)