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Latin America Emerging Markets Summit - Growing the Global Network
Hosted by Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems will host its first Emerging Markets Summit in Latin America on May 13, 2008. This event in São Paulo, Brazil, brings together key influencers and opinion leaders from the private sector, government, academia and NGOs, along with media and analysts, for an open discussion on issues and trends that are shaping the growth of the network economy in Latin America.
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Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Time: 10:30am to 3:45pm São Paulo Time
Location: Renaissance Hotel, São Paulo, Brazil (Alameda Jau, 1620)
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Highlights and Resources
Event Agenda:
- 10:00am - Registration
- 10:30am - Welcome & Event Overview: Miguel Martinez, President, Sun Microsystems Latin America
- 10:45am - Opening Remarks: Crawford Beveridge, Executive Vice President and Chairman, EMEA, APAC and the Americas, Sun Microsystems Inc. /
- 11:00am - Keynote Speech: Miguel Kiguel, Director of Econviews
- 12:00pm - Lunch
- 1:00pm - Afternoon Session Kickoff: Jonathan Schwartz, CEO, Sun
Microsystems (via web/satellite)
- 1:15pm - Panel Session 1: "Advancing Technology and Driving
Economic Growth in Latin America"
- 2:30pm - Panel Session 2: "Here Comes the Millennials: The Impact
of a Rising, Tech-Savvy Generation in Latin America"
- 3:45pm - Close
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 Did you know that...?"
- The Latin America and the Caribbean region's economy grew on average more than 4% in the last three years, benefiting from higher export revenues and volumes resulting from record commodity prices and high world growth
— Latin America as an important Emerging Market
Interesting Facts
- Brazil's 35 million Internet users account for over half of those
in Latin America as a whole.
- Some 25 million people in Brazil visit social networking site
Orkut, which represents nearly 70 percent of all Internet users in
this country of more than 188 million people.
- Rafael Correa, the President of Ecuador, has his own YouTube Site.
- Brazil placed 8 Companies on the Boston Consulting Groups' 50
Dynamos List for 2008!
- Internet use in Latin America has grown 590% since 2000, compared
to 250% for the rest of the world.
- Internet use in Guatemala has grown at 3,718.2 % since 2000, the
fastest of any Latin American country.
- The most visited Spanish language websites are all local versions
of Google (Google Chile, Google Mexico, Google Venezuela, and
Google Argentina)
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Bios
Paulo Sotero Marques (Panelist)
Director of Brazil Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Malena Martini (Panelist)
President, People Management Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce
Pedro Paranagua (Panelist)
Professor, Fundacao Getulio Vargas and advisor to the Brazilian Ministry of Culture
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Miguel Kiguel (Keynote Speaker)
Director of Econviews and policy advisor to governments and private sector institutions
Luiz C. M. Rego (Panel Moderator)
Professor, Operations and Logistics Management Department of the São Paulo Business School
Rodrigo Baggio (Panelist)
Founder, Committee for Democracy in Information Technology
Howard Weinstein (Panelist)
Ashoka Fellow 2008 and Consultant at LSS Consultoria
Claudia Werneck (Panelist)
General Superintendent, Escola de Gente - Comunicacao em Inclusao
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Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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