Outsourcing
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Agenda for a conference in April in Jersey City on outsourcing

Burgess COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess

Agenda TIME TRACK SESSION SPEAKERS 7:30 am -8:30 am Registration and Breakfast Networking 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM WELCOME KIRK LAUGHLIN, FOUNDER & CEO NEARSHORE AMERICAS 8:45 am – 9:45 am Exclusive VIP Keynote: U.S. Competitiveness and the Problem With the Short-Term Fix Joe Nocera-New York Times Op-Ed columnist 9:45 am – 10:40 am Panel 1 What Global Banks Really Want from Sourcing Partners Moderator: Adrian Hee, Former Managing Director at Wells Fargo - Ankur Prakash, VP and COO for TCS Latin American Operations - Juan Ruiz Coronado, Senior Vice President at Citi 10:40 AM – 11 AM MORNING EXPO AND NETWORKING 11:05 am – 12 noon Panel 2 Panel: Maturity, Process and Performance: How Do Nearshore Markets and Vendors Rate? Moderator: David Rutchik, Partner at Pace Harmon - Rodrigo Slelatt, Principal at A.T. Kearney, Inc - Francisco Alvarez-Demalde, Founder and Partner of Riverwood Capital Partners - Anthony Porter, Director of IT Vendor Management, Procurement, Legal & Strategy at Humana 12 noon – 12:30 pm Keynote Real People and Real Social Impact Mike Barrett, CEO at Unosquare 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM LUNCH 1:35 pm – 2:20 pm Panel 3 Sourcing Domestic or Sourcing Foreign: Where’s the Smart Money Going? Moderator: Eric Hochstein, Managing Director of Highstone Associates - Greg Lipper, Vice President of Global Business Services at Staples - Atul Vashistha, Chairman & CEO of the Neo Group - Kevin Parkih, Global CEO and Sr. Partner of Avasant - Stephanie Moore, President Ameritas Technologies 2:20 pm – 2:50 pm Keynote Keynote: Mexico’s Hemispheric Role in IT Leadership Alfredo Pacheco, Executive Director Mexico IT 2:50 PM –3:00 PM AFTERNOON BREAK 3:00 pm – 3:50 pm Breakout 1 Session A: Brasil IT+: Collaborating to Meet Productivity and Competitive Goals Moderator: Luke Bujarski, Research Director for Nearshore Americas - Paulo Bezerra, Market Development leader for BRASSCOM in the US - Bruno Guicardi, President, North America for Ci&T - Mike Reilly, Senior I/T Director for Application Services for Johnson & Johnson. Breakout 2 “IT Outsourcing Comes of Age” – an IT Executive’s view of how the industry is changing and what you need to consider to manage outsourcing successfully. Moderator: Eric Hochstein, Managing Director of Highstone Associates - Fred Snow, Senior Vice President of Group Sales and Business Development for the Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) division within Xerox Business Services 3:55 pm – 4:40 pm Panel 4 Human Capital and Innovation: The Twin Engines of Latin America’s Emergence Moderator: Kirk Laughlin, Founder & CEO Nearshore Americas - Fabrizio Opertti, Chief of the Trade and Investment Unit of the Integration and Trade Sector at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Fernando Fabre, President Endeavour Global - Santiago Pinzón, Executive Director of the Chamber of BPO & IT at the National Business Association of Colombia – ANDI. - Rudy Ganna, President of Pyhex Enterprises and CEO of Laurus International Enterprises, LLC. 4:40pm-5:00pm Closing Remarks Final Wrapup- What we have learned today. Kirk Laughlin, Founder & CEO Nearshore Americas. 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM RECEPTION NEXUS AFTER DARK: RECEPTION AND ENTERTAINMENT Copyright © 2013 Next Coast Media. All rights reserved. Website by Next Coast Media