GIL Latin America - Event Agenda

1:30pm

Registration, and Exhibition

2:15pm

Ice Breaker, Welcome, and Introduction

2:30pm

KEYNOTE

A Holistic Strategy for Accelerating Growth

3:00pm

GLOBAL ECONOMIC SUMMIT KEYNOTE

Eye on the Economy: What type of recovery?

Marcelo Carvalho, Executive Director / Chief Economist - Latin America, Morgan Stanley

The global economy has recovered from its worst recession since the great depression, under impressive global monetary and fiscal policy stimulus. What type of expansion should we expect going ahead, and what are the risks? In turn, what does the global outlook entail for Latin America in general and Brazil in particular? What are the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for doing business in the region?

Key take-aways:

The global economic outlook: where from here?
What are the prospects for Latin America and Brazil?
What are the challenges and opportunities ahead?

3:45pm

GLOBAL SUMMIT EXECUTIVE BULLETIN

Geographic Expansion in Growth Economies

A discussion of the tactical understanding of how to build and execute a geographic expansion strategy.

Responding to the unique political and economic climates of emerging markets
The best processes, services and functions to empower service/product portfolios with flexibility and scalability
Building the global infrastructure for provision of integrated solutions/products to clients through Quality Control and Supply Chain Management.
Global infrastructure for customer management operation / Customer Service
Accelerating Growth through Principled and Repeatable Entry Strategy
Competitor Evaluation
Customer Due Diligence
Communications Planning
Pricing Positioning Analysis

PANELISTS INCLUDE:

Paulo G. Franklin de Abreu, Head of Business Collaboration and Strategy
Corporate Planning, Embraer

Martin Umaran, COO, Globant, Inc

4:45pm

INTERACTIVE

Concurrent Career Tracks Breakout Sessions: Create, Communicate, and
Connect

Participant-driven discussions focusing on your key challenges and concerns.

Choose one of the following:

RT1. Customer Driven Growth Strategies

RT2. Sales & Marketing Optimization

5:45pm

EXECUTIVE ADDRESS

Building a Powerful and Sustainable Growth Pipeline

Krishna Srinivasan, Global President and Managing Partner, Frost & Sullivan

Great growth pipelines will drive profitable corporate growth. But selecting the
right combination of growth opportunities and strategies and empowering a
team with the necessary tools and techniques to implement the strategies is
easier said than done. This session dives into the nature of the problem and
details what steps are necessary to ensure a disciplined
approach.

Key Take-Aways:

10 key growth processes
A rigorous framework of the growth pipeline opportunity and evaluation phase
Key steps to structure the growth pipeline process to feed continuous growth
A growth pipeline implementation model
Insights on growth innovation: what it really is and how to stimulate it

6:15pm

Executive Insights Panel: Best Practices in Achieving Growth Excellence

This Executive Insights Panel session brings together some of the top leaders
in various industries to share their best practices and strategies for addressing
the challenges they face in growing their companies in the current economic
climate. As CEOs are the people driving the vision and growth prospects of
their companies, they are uniquely situated to provide the best insights on
where we are going, and how the industry can best overcome these
challenges.

Questions to be addressed include:

What are you doing to spark innovation?
What opportunities do you see during this recession and what are you doing about it?
Where in the recession is your company: bottom, starting recovery, still scared its going down
How did the current downturn impact your growth strategy?

7:15pm

Executive Congress Networking Reception
Runs concurrently with:

2009 Growth Excellence Awards Reception and Banquet Join us in celebrating
growth, innovation and leadership as Frost & Sullivan presents these
prestigious awards recognized by industry leaders, the investment community
and the media at our Annual Growth Excellence Awards Reception and
Banquet. Participation involves an additional fee and separate registration.
See register for details