Latin American Competitive Intelligence Summit October 21-22

Paulo Gustavo Franklin de Abreu, board member and Head of Business Collaboration and Strategy at Embraer will open the conference, while Adrian Alvarez, board member and Founding Partner will do the closing.  The conference speakers are a balance between people from the region and abroad. Attendees will learn from new techniques and cases carefully selected to cater to the regional needs. In addition, Ben Gilad, CI guru and world known speaker, will be a keynote speaker and also conduct a workshop on war games. Wanderlei Passarella, CEO of GPC Química, will speak on how he uses CI for the management of the company.Event sponsors include Brazilian companies such as Cortex, Plugar, Knowtec and Lafis as well as global ones, such as Global Intelligence Alliance. Their associating with SCIP and the CI Summit will advance the profession throughout Latin America.

"We believe that this event will be the landmark from which we can build a large CI community in the region and expect this event to be just the first one of many to come in the following years," said Adrian Alvarez, board member and conference chair. In addition, this will also bring SCIP closer to its current members, who will receive a reduced conference fee and also will have the opportunity to talk to featured writers and speakers.

Sao Paulo is Brazil's economic capital, with over 60% of Brazil's GDP being produced in that state. Brazil is also the country where competitive intelligence has advanced the furthest in the region and where most CI professionals live. The emergence of global Brazilian companies, such as Embraer, Petrobras, Vale or Brasil Foods will increasingly need CI for successfully competing in the global marketplace.

The Latin American CI Summit will provide a unique opportunity to learn first hand what is going on in the world of CI in Latin America. If you live in the region or have personnel to be trained in the region, this event is one you cannot afford to miss. For more information about the Latin American CI Summit please visit its website. To read the Portuguese version of the brochure, click here.