11:00 - 11:30 Welcome coffee and registration of participants11:30 - 13:00 Session IEMERGING ONTO THE WORLD STAGELatin America has leapt to centre stage of late. Brazil’s growing political self-confidence and economic muscle is being repeated in various degrees throughout Latin America by an assertive new spirit of industrial innovation and social progress. (...)Speakers include:Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)Christian Leffler, Managing Director for the Americas of the European External Action Service (EEAS)13:00-14:00 Networking lunch14:00 - 15:30 Session II ACCELERATING THE INFORMATION AGEJust as the telecommunications and computer revolutions have transformed Asia, so too has Latin America begun to see the same dynamic at work. Mobile phones and access to the Internet are set to be the key development tool for most countries there, holding out the promise of better healthcare, education and greater access to banking and to both business and government services. (...)Speakers include:Alejandro Cruz, Minister of Science and Technology, Costa RicaJolita Butkeviciene, European Commission Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, Directorate General for Development and Cooperation – EuropeAid15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break16:00 - 17:00 Session III  WORKING WITH EUROPE ON RESEARCH AND INNOVATIONA number of determined efforts, initiated by the European Commission’s LIS2 Programme, are now underway with the aim of enhancing cooperation on information and communication technologies both within Latin America and between Latin America and the European Union. (...)Speakers include:Alejandro Toledo, President of the Global Centre for Development & Democracy and former President of PeruLaura Frigenti, Director of Strategy and Operations for the Latin America and Caribbean Region at the World Bank17:00 End of summit