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PROGRAM
 
  Wednesday, May 7
This day will be spent on internal activities of ALIDE’s institutional bodies. The activities of the 44th General Assembly will start on Thursday, May 8.
 
9:00 – 17:00 hours Participant registration
10:00 – 13:00 hours 41st Meeting of ALIDE National Coordinators
13:00 hours Luncheon in honor of the ALIDE National Coordinators
18:00 hours Meeting of the ALIDE Executive Committee / Advisory Council
20:00 hours Dinner to honor the Board of Directors and the Advisory Council of Alide
  Thursday, May 8
8:00 – 17:00 hours Participant registration
9:00 – 18:00 hours Bilateral Meetings
9:00 – 9:15 hours Preliminary Session (election of the chairman of the General Assembly Meeting)
9:20 - 10:55 hours

Opening Session

Addresses by:

  • Mayor of Cartagena, Dionisio Velez Trujillo  TBC
  • President of Findeter, Luis Fernando Arboleda 
  • President of Alide
  • High Authority of the Government of Colombia: Sectorial and Territorial Latin-American Development: knowledge, innovation, technology and impact financing


10:15 – 11:15 hours

Coffee break

11:15 – 12:45 hours

First Plenary Session

Topic 1Knowledge and innovation as the basis of development banking

  • Cities of knowledge, sustainable cities. Experiences of development banking support.
  • Innovation in financial institutions and market knowledge. Innovative solutions for financing productive sectors.
  • Banking models to finance innovation and technological development.

Chair: Diego Molano Vega, Secretary of Information and Communications Technologies.  TBC

Speakers:

  • Maria Soledad Barrera, President, Corporacion Financiera Nacional (CFN), Ecuador.  Yachay, The city of knowledge,
  • Luis Castro Vergara, President, Bancoldex, Colombia. Innovation and knowledge as Bancoldex key principle + iNNpulsa Colombia.
  • Juan Pablo Newman, Financial Deputy Director General, Nacional Financiera (NAFIN), México. Innovation in development banking to promote micro, small and medium enterprises.
  • Juan Ketterer, Division Chief Capital Markets and Financial Solutions, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
12:45 – 13:00 hours General Discussion
13:00 – 15:00 hours

Lunch

15:00 – 16:30 hours Second Plenary Session

Topic 2:  Sustainable sectorial policies and practices

  • Which are the sectorial good practices in development banking to mitigate climatic change and environmental sustainability in the region?
  • Example of programs in specific sectors: transportation.
  • Consideration of the impact of financial action.
  • The role of international financial cooperation. Possibilities for Latin American development banking.

ChairTBD

Speakers:

  • Luis Fernando Arboleda, President, Findeter: The development of sectorial actions to mitigate the impact climatic change.
  • Valmir Pedro Rossi, President, Banco da Amazonia S.A., Brazil. Promotion and Financing of Sustainable Investments in Amazonia. TBC
  • Gustavo Marangoni, President, Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (BAPRO), Argentina
  • Felipe Targa. TOD Transit Oriented Development – financing and development of sustainable urban mobility.

 

16:30 – 16:45 hours General Discussion
16:45 – 18:00 hours Third Plenary Session

Topic 3:  Challenges and opportunities of the development banking as integrator between rural and urban spaces

  • What lessons can we learn for the integration process from the microcredit program designed for the city and the country?
  • What sectors need to be prioritized in the integration of rural and urban areas from the economic, environmental and social points of view?
  • Development banking programs and experiences aimed at narrowing the rural-urban gap.

Chair: Alvaro Navas Patron, President, Banco Agrario de Colombia S.A. TBC

Speakers:

  • Luis Eduardo Gómez Alvarez, President, Fondo para el Financiamiento del Sector Agropecuario (FINAGRO), Colombia.  Financing of rural development and decrease of the rural-urban gap.
  • Fernando Naranjo, General Manager, Banco Nacional de Costa Rica.  The small rural estates, from agricultural enterprises to tourist attraction enterprises.
  • Stélio Gama Lyra Junior, Director, Sustainable Development and Microfinance, Banco do Nordeste do Brasil.  CrediAmigo and AgroAmigo. Lessons for the rural and urban integration.
  • Carlos Garatea Yori, Director, Banco Agropecuario (Agrobanco), Perú.  Innovation for the insertion of small and medium rural producers to the economy

 

18:00 – 18:15 hours General Discussion
19:00 hours Welcome Cocktail
  Friday, May 9
9:00 – 17:30 hours Bilateral Interviews

 

8:30 to 9:99 hours

Magistral Lecture:     Innovation and sustainable development of intelligent cities and territories
- Alfonso Vegara, President, Fundacion Metropoli, Spain

9:00 – 10:30 hours

Fourth Plenary Session

Special Topic: Core banking, a critical aspect for development banking management

  • Technological platform modernization experiences in development banking for the current needs of the banking business.
  • Problems found and proposed solutions.
  • Lessons from computer systems suppliers in developing core banking platforms.

Chair:  Fernando Calloia, President,, Member of the Advisory Council of Alide

Speakers:

  • Dario Berbey de La Rosa, General Manager, Banco Nacional de Panamá.  Technological modernization of a national bank. Leadership to implement the new core banking.
  • Jorge García, Vicepresident Operations, Banco de Comercio Exterior de Colombia (Bancoldex). Strategic approach for the application of a world class technologic solution.
  • Marcelo Kosec, General Manager, De Larrobla & Asociados, Uruguay. Lessons learned in the development of core banking and technological platforms for financial institutions.
10:30 – 10:45 hours General Discussion
10:45 – 11:00 hours Coffe break

 

11:15 – 13:00 hours

Session on Institutional Matter

  • 2013 Annual Report and Balance Sheet
  • ALIDE Awards 2014 “Best practices in development banking”
  • 2014-2015 Working Program
  • Budget for 2014
  • Election of ALIDE’s Executive Committee for 2014-2016
  • The Bank of the Year 2014
  • Site of the ALIDE General Assembly 2015
13:00 – 15:00 hours

Lunch

 

15:00 – 17:00 hours

Meetings of the Alide Technical Committees

  • Rural and Urban SME Financing
  • Business and Investments
  • Infrastructure and Housing Financing
  • Environmental and Climatic Financing
17:00 – 17:30 hours

Closing Session

  • Conclusions of the Meeting
  • Cartagena Declaration of ALIDE 44 Central Topic
17:30 hours Closing Cocktail