Building Brazil’s Future: A Conference on Innovation, Investment and Economic Development
Sat, 7 October, 2017
7:00pm - 8:00pm
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Building Brazil’s Future brings together researchers, business leaders, and policymakers to discuss the country’s efforts to launch a sustainable economic recovery through game changing innovations and investments along with key policy reforms. The conference features two discussion panels. The first treats the issues surrounding the role of innovation in developing the Brazilian economy and the second focuses on how investments can promote innovation and higher productivity across sectors.
Speakers
- Raphael Gheneim Camargo, Secretary of Planning and Innovation of the Municipality of Cotia, SP, Columbia University
- Otaviano Canuto, Executive Director, Brazil, The World Bank Group
- Thiago Augusto Cesar, CEO at Bit.One
- Maggie Chen, Director of the Institute of International Economic Policy
- Gregory Harrington, Partner at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
- Antonio Josino Meirelles, Executive Director Brazilian Industries Coalition
- Gabriel Petrus, Executive Director, Brazil International Chamber of Commerce
- Justin Duarte Pine, Director, International Affairs for the Biotechnology Innovation Organization
- Antonio H. Pinheiro Silveira, Executive Director, Brazil and Suriname Inter-American Development Bank
- Stefan Schimenes, Founder and CEO at Investorise