• Welcome Remarks

InfoDev Business Incubator Initiative, Vivek Chaudhry

• Session 1: Regional Perspective of the Challenges and Strategies: Facilitating an Entrepreneurial Environment

Miguel Aldaz, MIF/IADB
Domingo Giorsetti, MIT 50K Business Development Plan Competitions/Argentina
Mauricio Guedes, Director del Parque Tecnologico de Rio, Brazil
Esteban Cassin, SECYT, Argentina

• Session 2: Financing Challenges for ICT and ICT-Enabled SMEs

Pablo Angelelli, IADB
Juan Carlos Carullo, Venture Capital Program, SECYT, Argentina
Víctor Zerbino, Prosperitas Venture Capital, Uruguay
Eduardo Garrido – University Program – Banco Río, Argentina

• Session 3: Development of Innovation and Entrepreneurial Support in Latin America and the Caribbean

  Domingo González, Development and InnovationCenter, PUC, Peru
  Gonçalo Guimaraes, ITCP, Brasil
  Antonio Holgado, AccessNova, Chile
  Ricardo Endara, International Technopark Panama
  Maria Bustamente, Agroinnova Colombia

• Session 4: Regional Perspective of How the Public Sector Can Foster Innovation & Entrepreneurship

  María Soledad Salvador, Prov. Government of Pichincha, Ecuador
  Myriam Aldabalde, Technology Development Program (PDT), Uruguay
  Ramiro Sanhueza, CORFO, Chile
  Richard White, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise
  José Alberto Aranha, Facultades Católicas, Brasil
  Ing. Alejandro Cruz Molina, Presidente Comisión Asesora Alta Tecnología Coordinador Estrategia Siglo XXI

• Session 5: Public-Private-Partnerships: How Can the Public and Private Sector Collectively Support Innovation and Entrepreneurship

  Andrés Benavides – Programa Bicentenario, CONICYT Chile
  Humberto Dingler – Municipality of Monterrey, Mexico
  Inés Carazo – Ministry of Production, Peru
  Marcelo Vásquez – Fundación Chile

• Session 6: Working Models on ICT, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Network Development

  Luis Barnola, Senior Program Specialist Institute for the Connectivity in the Americas
  Carlos Galián, IASP, Argentina
  Gabriel Hidalgo, Octantis, Chile
  John Restrepo, ParqueSoft, Cali, Colombia

• Session 7:Perspectives from the entrepreneurs and SMEs: Challenges and Strategies.

  Roy Thomasson, YABT, USA
  Catalina Escobar, Emprendemos, Colombia
  Robson Souza, Coperativa Arco-Iris, Brasil
  Alvaro Margolis, EviMed, Uruguay
  Marta Ojeda,Jump, Colombia

• Designing Sustainable Business Models; Managing Business Incubators and Science Parks

African Feedback to LAC - Steve Giddings
Project Manager: Africa Regional Network

Key Issues from ECA, Asia, MENA and Africa infoDev Workshops - Julian Webb