8CLAC: Cluster Ecosystems Building regional competitiveness in Latin America

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1 DAY 1 - TUESDAY, JUNE 16 Registration 7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Cluster experiences and good practices 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. 09:00 a.m. - 09:50 a.m. Hall: Girardot 09:00 a.m. - 09:40 a.m. KNOWLEDGE, NETWORKING AND BUSINESSES Networking Area" Commercial Networking 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Smart Specialization Clusters as tools for regional strategies of innovation and smart specialization. Case: Europe. Jaime del Castillo, Infyde (Basque Country, Spain). Smart Specialization benchmark - Latin America and European Union. Renaud Guillonnet, Fundación EU-LAC, (Hamburg, Germany) 09:55 a.m. -10:10 a.m. 10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Public Policies and Public-Private Collaboration The City Council supports Cluster initiatives. Case: Medellin. Fabio Rivera, Chairman of the Council of Medellin (Medellin, Colombia). - 10:50 a.m. - 11:40 a.m. Sustainability Models 09:40 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. Hall: Girardot 09:55 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. ICT Cluster Co-creation Workshop and Other Players of the Cluster Ecosystem Enrique León, TECNALIA. (Bogota, Colombia) From strategy to action. Case: Antioquia, Valle del Cauca, Santander, La Guajira and Sucre (Colombia). Marc Papell, Cluster Development (Medellin,Colombia). Governance and operating structure. Cases: Automobile Cluster of Nuevo Leon and Mining Cluster of Zacatecas. Fabiola Aguilar, Automobile Cluster (Monterrey, Mexico). - 11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Trends and Appropriation of ICT in Cluster Initiatives Enrique León, TECNALIA (Bogota, Colombia) Inter-cluster Collaboration. Future Makers Medellin: New opportunities based on inter-cluster collaboration. The case of Medellin and its Cluster initiatives. Luis Felipe Mendoza, Grupo VID (Medellin, Colombia). Maria Isabel Sierra, Créame (Medellin, Colombia). Lunch 12:20 p.m. - 1:40 p.m.

2 - 1:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. Measurement Tools Indexfokus: Measuring the gaps of competitiveness. Case: Transportation and Logistics, Navarra (Spain). Enrique Díaz Moreno, D.G. Businessfokus Soluciones Competitivas (Pamplona, Spain) - 2:20 p.m. - 3:10 p.m. Generating Knowledge for Cluster Initiatives: The role of higher education institutions Identifying territorial potentials to develop Cluster initiatives. Hernando Granados, Institución Universitaria Esumer, Medellin (Colombia). Higher education institutions used as strategic tools to manage and transfer knowledge in Cluster initiatives. Case: Alliance of Universidad de Santander and the Bucaramanga Chamber of Commerce. Luis Reina Villamizar, Universidad de Santander (Santander, Colombia). - 3:15 p.m. - 4:20 p.m. Lessons from Cluster Initiatives in Colombia from the viewpoint of different players Public sector: Carlos Enrique Cárdenas, Director of the Metropolitan Healthcare Network. Case: Hospired (Medellin, Colombia) Chamber of Commerce: Cluster initiatives as tools for sectorial development in Colombia. Case: Bucaramanga. Miguel Angel Bustos Uribe, Bucaramanga Chamber of Commerce (Bucaramanga, Colombia). Cluster Network: Case: Cluster Network of Colombia. Alejandro Caicedo (Bogota, Colombia) 4:25 p.m. - 4:35 p.m. - 4:40 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Lesssons from Cluster Management Initiatives - Tourism and ICT case Methodology to generate local management skills for a tourism Cluster. Case: Magdalena Central, Colombia. Fernando Estupiñan Vargas, Métrica Investigaciones y Proyectos (Bogota, Colombia). Lessons from Cluster management initiatives. Case: Corporación Cluster CreaTIC, Natalia Majin and Laura López (Popayan, Colombia)

3 DAY 2 - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 Registration 7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Gran Salón Antioquia 2 Conversatorio Introductorio a las Rutas Cluster: Ecosistema Cluster de Medellín 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Tomás Mejía, Alcaldía de Medellín (Medellín, Colombia) Jaime Echeverri, Cámara de Comercio de Medellín para Antioquia (Medellín, Colombia) CLUSTER ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS TCI Network Experiences in Latin America Practical cases: Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Chile and EU 9:05 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Patricia Valdenebro, TCI Network (Barcelona, Spain) Cluster Ecosystem Tours in Medellin Tour 1. 9:35 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Includes lunch) Green Tour Red Tour Yellow Tour Blue Tour Orange Tour Pink Tour Experience 1 Experience 1 Experience 1 Experience 1 Knowledge and Networking Events: experiences that connect industries. Company: Grupo Videobase Engineering and Infrastructure Business Networks: development of solutions backed by business leadership, knowledge and technology. Company: ISAGEN Medellin Smart Services: integrating corporate capacities geared to outsource ICT-based high added-value services, making use of market opportunities. Company: Intergrupo E-Health: a strategy for the international promotion of clinical knowledge and excellence in markets worldwide Initiative: Living Lab, Parque de la Vida of Medellin Experience 1 Experience 1 Coffee: the city-region build ties to serve the most sophisticated markets. Company: El Laboratorio de Café Fashion: connecting different players of the fashion ecosystem of the city based on industry opportunities. A viewpoint from the education sector. Institution: Colegiatura Colombiana

4 Cluster Ecosystem Tours in Medellin Tour 2. 2:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. (Includes snack) Green Tour Red Tour Yellow Tour Blue Tour Orange Tour Pink Tour Experience 2 Experience 2 Experience 2 Experience 2 Experience 2 Experience 2 Coffee: the city-region build ties to serve the most sophisticated markets. Company: El Laboratorio de Café EventKnowledge and Networking Events: experiences that connect industries. Company: Grupo Videobase Engineering and Infrastructure Business Networks: development of solutions backed by business leadership, knowledge and technology. Company: ISAGEN Medellin Smart Services: integrating corporate capacities geared to outsource ICT-based high added-value services, making use of market opportunities. Company: PersonalSoft E-Health: a strategy for the international promotion of clinical knowledge and excellence in markets worldwide Initiative: Living Lab, Parque de la Vida of Medellin Fashion: Connecting different players of the fashion ecosystem of the city based on industry opportunities. A viewpoint from the private sector. Company: Cueros Vélez

5 DAY 3 - THURSDAY, JUNE 18 Registration 7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Opening Ceremony - Protocol Greetings 8:30 a.m. - 8:50 a.m. Cecilia Álvarez-Correa Glen, Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism of Colombia - Aníbal Gaviria, Mayor of Medellin Christian Ketels, President of TCI Network - Gabriel Harry Hinestroza, Chairman, Medellin-Antioquia Chamber of Commerce Fabio Humberto Rivera Rivera, President, Council of Medellin. TERRITORY Cluster Networking Area Institutional* and Corporate Showcase Panel A: TERRITORY Industrial Policy and Challenges for Developing Economies 8:55 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Cecilia Álvarez-Correa Glen, Minister of Commerce. Industry and Tourism of Colombia (Bogota, Colombia) Christian Ketels, President TCI Network (Stockholm, Sweden) Moderator: Marco Llinás, Private Council of Competitiveness of Colombia (Bogota, Colombia) 09:35 a.m. - 09:45 a.m. Plenary session: TERRITORY Cluster Ecosystems to Leverage Economic Growth 09:50 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. Christian Ketels, TCI Network and Harvard Business School (Stockholm, Sweden) Panel B: TERRITORY Territory, Clusters and Innovation - challenges for regions of Latin America 10:25 a.m. - 11:40 a.m. Luis Felipe Hoyos, Vice Mayor of ICT, Economic Development, International Promotion and PPA, Mayor's Office of Medellín (Medellin, Colombia), Julián Goñi, CORFO (Osorno, Chile), Antoni Subirá, IESE Business School (Barcelona, Spain) Moderator: Jaime Echeverri, Medellin-Antioquia Chamber of Commerce Panel A: TERRITORY Smart Specialization for Territorial Development Strategies 11:45 p.m. - 12:35 p.m. Maria Jose Aranguren, Orkestra-Instituto Vasco de Competitividad (Basque Country, Spain) Frédéric Miribel, TCI Network and Aderly - Economic Development Agency of Lyon (Lyon, France) Moderator: Catalina Ortiz, Dynamic Ecosystem Platform, Bancoldex (Bogota, Colombia) Lunch 12:40 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

6 Hall: Medellín Workshop I: CLUSTER Generating settings of belonging, trust and innovation 1:50 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Juan Londoño, Talentum (Madrid, Spain) Hall: Citará Workshop II: CLUSTER Work teams for a creative economy 1:50 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Juan Freire, Teamlabs (Madrid, Spain) Panel B: CLUSTER. Key elements to manage Cluster initiatives 1:50 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Inter-organizational trust. Case: Winegrowing Cluster in the valley of Casablanca in Valparaiso, Chile. Etienne Germán Choupay, Ministry of Economy, Enhancement and Tourism of Chile (Valparaíso, Chile) Oscar Rivera Rodríguez President of Prosoftware. Case: Prosoftware, IT Cluster (Mexico City, Mexico D.F.) Moderator: Patricia Valdenebro, TCI Network (Barcelona, Spain) 3:05 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. CLUSTERS Panel C: CLUSTER Business Culture, Policy and Strategy - pillars for sustainable Cluster initiatives 3:20 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Ifor Ffowcs-Williams, Cluster Navigators Ltd. (Nelson, New Zealand), Alberto Pezzi, TCI Network and ACCIÓ / General Direction of Industry (Barcelona, Spain) Moderator: Tomas Mejia, Mayor's Office of Medellin. Hall: Citará Panel D: CLUSTER Business Models based on Cluster initiative dynamics 4:20 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Clusters, Competitive routes, Global value chains? Differentiation strategies. Cases: Cataluña (Spain), Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Morocco and Egypt). Lluís Ramis, Cluster Development (Barcelona, Spain) Building a Cluster strategic vision and business models. Case: Brazil. Carlos Tarrasón, Cluster Consulting (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) ""Puro Veracruz"" - a tobacco case. Case: Veracruz, Mexico. Claudia Dacunha, Competitiveness Group Colombia (Bogota, Colombia) Moderator: Jaime Echeverri, Medellin-Antioquia Chamber of Commerce (Medellin, Colombia) Hall: Medellín Panel E: CLUSTER Regionalizing Public Policies 4:20 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. From Dialogue to Public-Private Collaboration: the case of Chihuahua (Mexico). Luis Oliver Torres, Council for the Economic Development of the State of Chihuahua (Chihuahua, Mexico) Regional and Meso-regional strategic programs on Smart Specialization - design and implementation in Chile. Case: Chile. Mauricio Rebolledo, CORFO (Santiago, Chile) Moderator: Alberto Pezzi, TCI Network and ACCIÓ / General Direction of Industry (Barcelona, Spain)" Panel C: CLUSTER. Developing Cluster Initiatives in Colombia. Case: Competitive routes 4:20 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Moderator: Daniel Arango, Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism (Bogota, Colombia)" Dinner and Closing Ceremony 7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Marmoleo Restaurant

7 DAY 4 - FRIDAY, JUNE 19 Panel F: INNOVATION Market Access, from Theory to Practice 9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Karin Gjerløw Høidahl, Manager of International Relations, Innovation Norway (Oslo, Norway) Juan Camilo Quintero, Executive Director, Ruta N (Medellin, Colombia) Moderator: Frédéric Miribel, TCI Network and Aderly - Agency of Economic Development of Lyon (Lyon, France) 10:20 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. INNOVATION Cluster Networking Area Institutional* and Corporate Showcase Hall: Santader Workshop III: INNOVATION Inter-cluster dynamics and design thinking 10:35 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Jaime Villa, X-perience (Medellin, Colombia) Hall: Citará Workshop IV: INNOVATION Cluster Initiative Trend Analysis 10:35 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Juan Carlos Santos, Cultura y Mercadeo (Madrid, Spain) Panel G: INNOVATION. Knowledge generation - practical cases engaging the education sector and the private sector 10:35 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Jorge Petit-Breuilh, IDER - Universidad de la Frontera (Temuco, Chile) Micaela Camacho, Universidad Católica del Uruguay (Montevideo, Uruguay) John Romeiro Serna, Institución Universitaria Esumer (Medellin, Colombia) Moderator: Maria Jose Aranguren, Orkestra-Instituto Vasco de Competitividad (Basque Country, Spain) Conclusions and Closing of 8CLAC 11:50 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Tomas Mejia, Mayor's Office of Medellin (Medellin, Colombia) Presentation of 9CLAC in Temuco, Chile Presentation of the 18 Global TCI Network Conference in Daegu, Korea

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