8:30 – 9:00 

REGISTRATION 

9:00 – 9:30

OPENING SESSION

• Nilo Dytz, Charge d'Affaires of the Embassy of Brazil in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Representative of the Permanent Secretariat of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA).
• Virginia Cartaya, Official in charge of the Permanent Secretariat of the Latin American Council of SELA.
  

9:30 – 9:40

COFFEE BREAK

9:40 – 11:15

SESSION I: POTENTIAL FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRODUCTIVE ARTICULATION STRATEGIES AND PROMOTION OF EXPORTS IN CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Moderator: Javier Gordon, Director (a.i.) of Relations for Integration and Cooperation of the Permanent Secretariat of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA). 

• Ethnie Miller, Representative of the Caribbean Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (CASME).
• Dav-Ernan Kowlessar, Business Development Consultant of the Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce (CAIC).
• Mauricio Ruano, Competitiveness Advisor of the Secretariat of Central American Economic Integration (SIECA).
• Ximena Valle, Head of the Business Environment of Centre for the Promotion of Micro and Small Enterprises in Central America (CENPROMYPE). 

11:15 – 11:30

COFFEE BREAK 

11:30 – 12:30

GENERAL DEBATE   

12:30– 2:00

Lunch hosted by SELA (5^th Floor)

Afternoon

2:00 – 4:00 

SESSION II: PUBLIC POLICIES FOR THE PROMOTION OF PRODUCTIVE ARTICULATION, FORMATION OF CLUSTERS AND EXPORT CONSORTIUMS IN THE CARIBBEAN

Moderator: Alan Cooper, Policy Analyst of the Enterprise Development Division of the Ministry of Labour and Small and Micro Enterprise Development of Trinidad and Tobago.

• Clifford Spencer, Manager in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce of Jamaica.
• Winston Wilson, Manager of Research and Strategic Planning Business Development Center Suriname.
• Ethnie Miller, Representative of the Caribbean Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (CASME).
• Dav-Ernan Kowlessar, Business Development Consultant of the Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce (CAIC). 

4:00 – 4:15 

COFFEE BREAK 

4:15 – 5:00 

GENERAL DEBATE 

Mañana 

SESSION III: POLICIES FOR THE PROMOTION OF PRODUCTIVE ARTICULATION, FORMATION OF CLUSTERS AND EXPORT CONSORTIUMS IN CENTRAL AMERICA

Moderator: Javier Gordon, Director (a.i.) of Relations for Integration and Cooperation of the Permanent Secretariat of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA). 

• Helen Vanessa Mora Cubillo, SME Management Huetar Caribbean Region of the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Trade of Costa Rica.
• Federico Jose Bermudez González, Manager of Suppliers of the National Commission for Micro and Small Enterprises (CONAMYPE) of El Salvador.
• Ximena Valle, Head of the Business Environment of Centre for the Promotion of Micro and Small Enterprises in Central America (CENPROMYPE) 

11:15 – 11:30

DEBATE

CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS  

Moderator: Javier Gordon, Director (a.i.) of Relations for Integration and Cooperation of the Permanent Secretariat of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA) 

• Ximena Valle, Head of the Business Environment of Centre for the Promotion of Micro and Small Enterprises in Central America (CENPROMYPE)
• Ethnie Miller, Representative of the Caribbean Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (CASME)