OPENING SESSION 

• Rafael Mendive, Director of MIEM-Dinapyme
• Alvaro Ons, Secretary of Productive Transformation and Competitiveness
• Germán Ríos, Director Representative of CAF-development bank of Latin America in Uruguay 
• Embassador Javier Paulinich (Spanish), Permanent Secretary of SELA

SESSION I. Productive transformation programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean: Progress and perspectives

Moderator: Manuel Albaladejo, Director of the UNIDO Regional Office 

• Alvaro Ons, Secretary of Productive Transformation and Competitiveness. Productive transformation programmes in LAC: Uruguay case (Spanish).
• Pedro Rojas, Vice-President of Manufacturing and Services of Colombia Productiva. Colombia Productiva (Spanish).
• Claudio Valenzuela, Manager of Networks and Competitiveness of CORFO, Chile. Productive transformation programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean: progress and perspectives from Chile (Spanish).
  

OPEN DEBATE

COFFEE BREAK

SESSION II. MSMEs in productive transformation programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean

Moderator: Adolfo Castejón, Chief Executive of the Private Sector Technical Analysis and Assessment Directorate of CAF-development bank of Latin America 

• Anna Wiersma, Policy Analyst for Latin America and the Caribbean, OECD. Policies for competitive SMEs in the Pacific Alliance and participating countries from South America: OECD policy index for SMEs. (Spanish). 
  
• Santiago Matallana, Technical Vice-President of Colombia’s Private Council on Competitiveness. Productive transformation in Colombia: progress and challenges (Spanish).
• David Cabrera, Regional Business Environment Adviser of CENPROMYPE. Productive transformation programme in LAC: CEMPROMYPE case (Spanish)..

OPEN DEBATE

SESSION III. Modernization of public administration for productive transformation

Moderator: Eduardo Piña,Specialist of Studies and Proposals of SELA 

• Jorge Alejandro Patiño, Expert of the Innovation and New Technologies Unit, Productive Development and Business Division, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Productive transformation in the digital age: an opportunity for MSMEs in Latin America and the Caribbean. Vision of ECLAC (Spanish).
• Pablo Veintimilla, National Director for Provision of Services of the Under-Secretariat for Electronic Government of Ecuador. Modernization of public administration for productive transformation (Spanish).
• Karime Ruibal, Director for Digital Services of the Agency for the Development of Electronic Government and Information and Knowledge Society of Uruguay (Agesic). Digital transformation (Spanish). 

OPEN DEBATE

LUNCH

Afternoon

14:30 – 15:50

SESSION IV. Innovation within the framework of productive transformation programmes

Moderator: Daniel Kefeli, National Directorate for Industries of MIEM-DNI 

• Néstor Simone, Director of FONSOFT of Argentina’s ANPCYT. Promotion of science, technology and innovation in Argentina. Plus Video. (Spanish)
• Francisca Cárdenas, Executive Director of Guatemala’s National Competitiveness Programme (PRONACOM). Productive transformation programmes: Guatemala case (Spanish).
• Fernando Brum, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Uruguay’s National Research and Innovation Agency (ANII)
• Aideé Orozco, Deputy Director for Technological Development, Cooperation and Innovation of Mexico’s National Council on Science, Technology and Innovation (CONACYT). Pentahelice: National Technology and Open Innovation Strategic Programme (PENTA) (Spanish).
• Victor Manuel Galindo, Director of INNPULSA Capital, INNPULSA Colombia. INNPULSA Colombia 2018 (Spanish).

15:50 - 16:00

OPEN DEBATE

16:00 - 16:30

GENERAL DEBATE

Tuesday, 30 April 2019

9:00 – 10:40

SESSION V. Opportunities of digital technologies for business development

Moderator: Cecilia Durán, Coordinator, Productive Transformation and Competitiveness System 

• Mateo Ferriolo, Programme Officer of UNIDO Regional Office. Centre for Industrial Automation and Mechatronics (CAIME) (Spanish).
• Giovanni Stumpo, Head of Investment and Business Strategies Unit, Productive and Business Development Division, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Digital technologies: opportunities and challenges for Latin American SMEs (Spanish).
• Mauricio Agudelo, Chief Executive of the Infrastructure Technical Analysis and Assessment Directorate of CAF-development bank of Latin America. Digital technologies for business development: opportunities and challenges (Spanish).
• María Eugenia Suárez, Subgerente de Relaciones Institucionales, Gerencia de Relaciones Institucionales y Comunicación, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Industrial de Argentina (INTI). Industry 4.0: between the physical and digital worlds (Spanish).

10:40 – 11:00

OPEN DEBATE

11:00 – 11:15

COFFEE BREAK

11:15– 12:35

SESSION VI. Opportunities of digital technologies for business development (Continuation)

Moderator: David Cabrera, Regional Business Environment Adviser of CENPROMYPE 

• Leonardo Loureiro, President of the Uruguayan Chamber of Information Technologies (CUTI)
• Rosmery Rivera, Director of Monitoring and Assessment of the Technological Institute of Production of Peru. Opportunities of digital technologies for business development (Spanish).
• Marcelo Montado, Vice-President of the Chamber of Digital Economy of Uruguay (CEDU) 

12:35 – 12:45

OPEN DEBATE

12:45 – 13:30

SESSION VII. Business partnership and technology transfer in the digital era

Moderator: Eduardo Piña, Specialist of Studies and Proposals of SELA 

• Jorge Gálvez, Economist, OECD. Digital transformation: global trends and opportunities for Latin America (Spanish). 
• Oscar Vázquez, Director of Innovation and New Business of Nuevo León Institute for Innovation and Technology Transfer - Mexico. Consolidation of knowledge economy and society (Spanish).

13:30 – 13:40

OPEN DEBATE

13:40 – 14:40

LUNCH 

Afternoon

14:40 – 15:40

SESSION VIII. Importance of financing in productive transformation

Moderator: Martín Dibarboure, President of Uruguay’s National Development Agency (ANDE) 

• Germán Ríos, Director Representative of CAF-development bank of Latin  America in Uruguay
• Sergio Avilés, Coordinator of Financing for Development of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI). Importance of financing in productive transformation (Spanish).
• Pablo Angelelli, Specialist of Innovation and Competitiveness of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). A proposal for a public policy framework for digital transformation (Spanish).

15:40 – 15:50

OPEN DEBATE

15:50 – 16:20

GENERAL DEBATE AND FOLLOW-UP PROPOSALS

16:20 – 16:30

SESIÓN DE CLAUSURA 

• Andrés Tolosa, President of Uruguay’s National Telecommunications Administration (ANTEL)
• Guillermo Moncecchi, Minister of Industry, Energy and Mining of Uruguay
• Ambassador Javier Paulinich, Permanent Secretary of SELA