Wednesday, August 5

08.30 – 09.00   Registration

9.00 – 09.45     Meeting of heads of delegation of participating countries (Conference room Morelos F, 1st floor)

09.45 – 10.00   Coffee break

10.00 – 10.45   Opening session

• Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary – Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
• José Clastornik, executive director – Electronic Government and Information Society Agency of Uruguay (AGESIC)
• Alejandra Lagunes, coordinator of the National Digital Strategy – Mexico
• José Antonio Meade Kuribreña, Minister of Foreign Affairs – Mexico

10.45 – 11.00   Election of officers and adoption of the provisional agenda of the meeting

11.00 – 13.30   Opening statements: digital technologies, economy and society

Moderator: Alejandra Lagunes, coordinator of the National Digital Strategy – Mexico.

• Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary – ECLAC
• Fadi Chehadé's, CEO – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
• Kathy Brown, CEO – Internet Society (ISOC)
• Daniel A. Sepúlveda, Ambassador, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and Coordinator for International Communications and Information, State Department – United States
• Benedicto Fonseca Filho, ambassador and director of the Department of Scientific and Technological Affairs of the Ministry of External Relations – Brazil
• Zoran Stančič, Deputy Director-General of DG Connect – European Commission

13.30 – 14.30   Lunch

14.30 – 15.00   Opening presentation: the policies challenges for digital technologies

• Robert Pepper, vice president of global technology policy – CISCO

15.00 – 16.45   Panel 1: digital ecosystem and development vision

Moderator: José Clastornik, executive director – Electronic Government and Information Society Agency of Uruguay (AGESIC).

• Andrés Gómez-Lobo, Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications – Chile
• David Luna, Minister of Information and Communications Technologies –  Colombia
• Marcelo Jenkins Coronas, Minister of Science, Technology and Telecommunications – Costa Rica
• Augusto Espín Tobar, Minister of Telecommunications and Information Society – Ecuador
• Mónica Aspe, Undersecretary of Communications of the Secretariat of Communications and Transportations – Mexico
• David Ocampos, Minister of the Secretary of Information Technologies – Paraguay

16.45 – 17.00   Coffee break

17.00 – 18.30   Panel 2: public policies and regulation for the deployment of digital technologies

Moderator: Mauricio Agudelo, senior specialist in telecommunications and ICTs, Direction of analysis and sectoral programming – Development Bank of Latin America – CAF.

• Gabriel Contreras Saldívar, President Commissioner of the Federal Institute of Telecommunications (IFT) – Mexico
• Karim Antonio Lesina, vice president of international external affairs for the European Union, the Caribbean and Central and Latin America – AT&T
• Kojo Boakye, policy director – Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI)
• Reinald Krueger, Head of Regulatory Coordination and Markets Unit – DG CONNECT, European Commission
• Juan Manuel Wilches, executive director of the Regulatory Commission of Communications (CRC) – Colombia
• Bruno Ramos, Regional Director for the Americas – International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
• Pablo Bello, executive director – Ibero American Association of Centers of Research and Telecommunications Companies (AHCIET)

Thursday, August 6

09.00 – 09.30   Opening presentation: globalization and innovation in the era of digital economy

• Robert D. Atkinson, president – Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

09.30 – 11.00   Panel 3: digital economy and innovation for structural change

Moderator: Mario Cimoli, director of the Division of Production, Productivity and Management – ECLAC

• Raúl Katz, director of business strategy at the Columbia Institute – Columbia University, United States
• Carlos López Blanco, general director of public affairs and regulation – Telefónica
• Silvia Bidart, general director – Federation of Entities of Information Technologies of Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal (ALETI) 
• Adriana Tortajada Narváez, general director of entrepreneurship and financing programs,  National Institute for the Entrepreneur – México
• Jacobo Cohen Imach, member of the board – Latin-American and Caribbean Internet and e-Commerce Federation (e-COM-L@C)

11.00 – 11.15   Coffee break          

11.15 – 13.00   Panel 4: digital government and citizenship

Moderator: Alejandra Naser, ICT expert – ILPES/ECLAC

• José Clastornik, president – Network of e-Government Leaders of Latin America and the Caribbean (Red GEALC)
• Jorge Alzamora, chief of the Unit of modernization and e-government, Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency – Chile
• Irvin Halman, general manager, National Authority for Innovation – Panama
• Arturo Muente-Kunigami, senior ICT policy specialist – World Bank
• Fabrizio Scrollini, coordinator – Latin American Open Data Initiative (ILDA)
• Yolanda Martínez, head of the digital government unit of the Secretary of the Public Management – Mexico
• Miguel Luengo-Oroz, research chief – UN Global Pulse

13.00 – 14.30   Lunch

Friday, August 7

09.00 – 10.45   Panel 5: social inclusion and digital technologies

Moderator: Yolanda Ursa, coordinator – Latin America-Europe ICT Research & Innovation Partnership (LEADERSHIP)

• Miguel Brechner, president of the board of directors of the  CEIBAL Plan – Uruguay
• Marcelo D'Agostino, responsible of the systems unit – OPS/OMS
• Julián Casasbuenas, director of Colnodo – Colombia
• Scarlett Fondeur Gil, economic affairs officer, ICT Analysis Section, Science, Technology and ICT Branch – UNCTAD
• Raúl Echeberría, vice president of Global Engagement – ISOC
• Amparo Arango, responsible for international relations of the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications – Dominican Republic
• Ana Eugenia Garduño, general coordinator of @aprende.mex – Mexico

10.45 – 11.00   Coffee break

11.00 – 12.45   Panel 6: implications of internet governance for the regional context

Moderator: Sebastián Bellagamba, Regional Bureau Director for Latin America and The Caribbean – ISOC

• Megan Richards, principal adviser,  DG Communications Networks, Content and Technologies – DG CONNECT, European Commission
• Olga Cavalli, vice president of the Government Advisory Committee (GAC) – ICANN and representative of the Government of Argentina
• Benedicto Fonseca Filho, ambassador and director of the Department of Scientific and Technological Affairs of the Ministry of External Relations – Brazil
• Rodrigo de la Parra, vice president for Latin America and the Caribbean – ICANN
• Óscar Robles, executive director – Latin America & Caribbean Network Information Centre (LACNIC)
• Valeria Betancourt – Association for Progressive Communications (APC)

12.45 – 13.30   Adoption of the Mexico City Commitment and closure of the event

• Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary – ECLAC
• Alejandra Lagunes, coordinator of the National Digital Strategy – Mexico