First day: 15 May 2014

8,00 a.m. Opening Ceremony

Recording:


Antonio de Lecea, Minister, Principal Advisor for Economic and Financial Affairs, Delegation of the European Union to the United States

 

Eduardo Padrón, President of Miami Dade College
 
Tomás Regalado, Mayor of the City of Miami
 

Introduced and presented by: Benita Ferrero-Waldner, President of Euroamerica Foundation
 

 

8,30 a.m. First session: Infrastructure sector: opportunities and challenges. The PPP model (Public Private Partnership) in Europe and the United States

Recording:

 

Juan Carlos Arteaga, Deputy Director, Water & Sewer, Miami Dade

Rafael Catalá, Secretary of State of Infrastructures, Transports and Housing, Ministry of Public Works, Spain
 
Eduardo González, Chairman of FCC AQUALIA
Anne Lee, Chief Financial, Miami International Airport
 
Felix Leinemann, Transport Counselor at the European Union Delegation in Washington
 
Francisco Marín Nortes, Manager North America of OHL Construcción
 
Felix Pereira, Chief of Planning, PortMiami
 
Ananth Prasad, Secretary of Transportation, Florida
 

Introduced and presented by: Mario F. Buisán, Trade Commissioner, Embassy of Spain in Miami
 

 

11,00 a.m. Second session: The growing importance of Hispanics in the United States

Recording:

 

Esther Aguilera, President and CEO, Caucus Hispanic Congressional Institute (CHCI)

Eduardo Padrón, President of Miami Dade College
 
Raquel Regalado, Board member of National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO), Board member of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools
 

Introduced and presented by: Carme Chacón, Miami Dade College
 

 

12,00 p.m. Third session: The role of financial system in economic and social development

Recording:


Rudy Araujo, Secretary-General, Association of Supervisors of Banks of the Americas, ASBA

 

Antonio de Lecea, Minister, Principal Advisor for Economic and Financial Affairs, Delegation of the European Union to the United States
 
José Juan Ruiz, Chief Economist and Manager of the Research Department, BID

Introduced and presented by: Javier Rosado, Partner and Managing Director in Panama, Llorente & Cuenca

 

 

 

3,00 p.m. Fourth session: The importance of the audiovisual and entertainment industry

Recording:


José Luis Acosta, President, Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, SGAE

 

John Echevarría, President, Universal Music Latin Entertainment
 
Luis Fernández, Producer
 
Jorge Mejía, Vice President Sony/ATV Music Publishing Latin America
 
Julio Reyes Copello, Producer an composer
 
Raúl Vázquez, General Manager, Egeda Latin America
 

Introduced and presented by: Ángel Durández, Producer. Vicepresident of Euroamerica Foundation
 


Second day: 16 May 2014

8,15 a.m. First session: Revitalizing the Transatlantic Relationship and the challenge of Triangulation with Latin America

Recording:


Politic point of view:
Mario Diaz-Balart, Congressman, Florida, co-chair of the TLD

 

José Ignacio Salafranca, Member of the European Parliament and President of Eurolat (VIDEO)

Commercial point of view: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
Antonio de Lecea, Minister, Principal Advisor for Economic and Financial Affairs, Delegation of the European Union to the United States

Manuel A. Mencia, Member of the Board of Directors of the National States' International Development Organization (SIDO) and Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer, International Trade and Business Development, Enterprise Florida
 

Introduced and presented by: Cristina Barrios, Consul General of Spain in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina

 

 

10:15 am. Second session: Innovation and new technologies. Miami as a hub in United States-Europe-Latin America triangulation

Joe Garcia, and energy sector

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ICT's sector

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Innovation and research sector

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Key Note Speaker:
Joe García, Congressman, Florida

 


Bet on innovation in energy sector: R&D in service of efficiency, technology strategy and sustainability

Patrick J. Sheehan, Director, Florida Office of Energy

 

Francisco Ortigosa, Director of Geophysics E&P, Repsol

The role of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT´s) in developing countries, growth of business and creating new markets

Mindel de la Torre, Chief of the International Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), United States of America

 

Andrés Escobero, Vice President GMV SES, USA
José Jiménez, Member of Board of Directors, Hispanic Information Technology Executive Council, HITEC
Carmen Suárez, Division Director of the Information Technology Department of Miami-Dade County
 

Innovation and research: critical assets in growth health sector

John Armstrong, Florida's State Surgeon General and Secretary of Health, Estate of Florida

 

Luis Fernando Álvarez-Gascón, General Manager GMV
 
José Szapocznik, Ph.D. Director of Miami Clinical Translational Science Institute. Director of Center for Family Studies. Professor & Chair, Department of Public Health Sciences

Introduced and presented by: Stephanie Kleiner, Relationship Manager, Microsoft Corporation Public Sector, State & Local Government

 

 

12,45 p.m. Closing Remarks

Recording:


Carlos A. Giménez, Mayor of Miami Dade

 


Introduced and presented by: Benita Ferrero-Waldner, President of Euroamerica Foundation
 

 

2,00 p.m. Closing Lunch

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Carlos López-Cantera, Lieutenant Governor of Florida

 

Rafael Catalá Polo, State Secretary for Infrastructure, Transport and Housing, Ministry of Public Works,Spain  

Introduced and presented by: Benita Ferrero-Waldner, President of Euroamerica Foundation