THIRD STRATEGIC PARTNERS DIALOGUE FEBRUARY, 14 FROM 8:30 AM – 2:30 PM - ENRIQUE V. IGLESIAS CONFERENCE CENTER 1335 NEW YORK AVE, NW – WASHINGTON, DC
8:30 am – 9:00 am
Registration and Coffee
9:00 am – 9:15 am
Welcome remarks by Luis Alberto Moreno, President of the Inter-American Development
9:15 am – 9:30 am
“Setting the Tone”, an Overview of the Dialogue
9:30 am – 10:00 am
Facilitation: Michael Chu, Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School
“New Partnerships for Development”
Bernardo Guillamon, IDB’s Advisor to the Office of Outreach and Partnerships
10:00 am – 11:00 am
Nizan Guanes, Executive Chairman, Grupo ABC
“Realizing the Potential of Low-income Markets: Taking Pre-commercial Pilots to Fully Profitable Business Models”
Israel Moreno, Director and Founder of Patrimonio Hoy, CEMEX
Fabrice Serfati, CEO, IGNIA Fund
Moderator: Paul Callan, Associate Partner, Dalberg Development Advisors
11:00 am – 11:30 am
“The Enabling Environment for Private Sector Solutions”
André Urani, President and Researcher at Institute for Studies on Labor and Society (IETS)
11:30 am – 12:15 pm
Open discussion to inform the agenda: IDB International Conference on Market Solutions for the Base of the Pyramid, June 27th and 28th of 2011, Sao Paulo, Brazil
12:15 pm – 1:00 pm
“Identifying Opportunities for Collaboration”, and closing remarks
Michael Chu, Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School
Luiz Ros, Manager of Opportunities for the Majority, Inter-American Development Bank
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Luncheon in Las Americas (7th Floor). Key note speaker: Michael Fairbanks, co-founder, S.E.VEN Fund, editor of the book “In the River They Swim: Essays from Around the World on Enterprise Solutions to Poverty”