Conference #1
Latin America Forest Investment Conference
Porto Alegre, Brazil - September 23 2024
Sunday 22 September
Monday 23 September
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| 1600 - 1800 | Registration Desk Open |
Monday 23 September
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| 700 | Registration Desk Open | |
| 0800-0850 | Morning Coffee | |
| 0850-0900 | Conference Opens - Welcome & House Keeping | Dennis Neilson - Director, DANA (NZ) Ltd, New Zealand |
| 0900-0930 | Keynote Address #1 - Outlook for Latin America Commodity Demand and Prices: 2024-2025 | Marcio Farid - Vice President, Equity Research Analyst, Goldman Sachs, Brazil |
| 0930-1000 | Keynote Address #2 - The Importance of Forest Investment for a major Pulp Company | Suzano Speaker Confirmed |
| Theme | International Institutional Forest Investment | |
| 1000-1015 | Where do international Investors invest | Tracy Buran Evens - Principal, TimberLink LLC, USA |
| 1015-1030 | What return profiles do they expect? Where does Latin America fit in? | Peter D’Anieri - Senior Resource Consultant, Sewall Forestry & Natural Resource Consulting, USA |
| 1030-1115 | Morning Break | |
| Theme | Regional Forest Investment Trends and Players - What types of investments are being done, what types of investors, Challenges and Opportunities | |
| 1115-1145 | Brazil | Claudio Ortolan - Director of Forest Strategy and Planning, Klabin, Brazil |
| 1145-1215 | Chile | Ricardo Boaventura - Managing Director LatAm Investments, Forest Investment Associates, Brazil |
| 1215-1245 | Uruguay | Alvaro Perez del Castillo - General Manager, Pike&Co., Uruguay |
| 1245-1415 | Lunch | |
| 1415-1445 | Argentina and Paraguay | Jefferson Mendes - Director, BM2C-Business Management Consulting, Brazil |
| 1445-1515 | Central America (Colombia, Panama, Guatemala, Costa Rica) | Jose Luis Romero - Managing Director, Equiforest S.A., Colombia |
| Theme | Forest Management Options (continued) | |
| 1515-1525 | Forest Carbon | Alvaro Perez del Castillo - General Manager, Pike&Co., Uruguay |
| 1525-1535 | Conservation | BTG/Conservation International Speaker Confirmed |
| 1535-1545 | Pulpwood (partnerships with pulp mills) | Rodrigo Sobreiro - Director, Copa Gestao de Investimentos Ltda.,Brazil |
| 1545-1615 | Afternoon Break | |
| Theme | Forest Management Options (continued) | |
| 1615-1630 | Eucalypt plantations for higher-value utilization: Sawing and / or rotary peeling" | Evan Shield, International Forest Industry Advisor, Argentina |
| 1630-1640 | Teak | Samuel Figueiredo – Vice President of Operations, Teak Resource Company, Brazil |
| 1640-1650 | Sawlog regimes | Vilmar Campos - Sales Manager, Arauco , Brazil |
| 1650-1700 | Pine and resin production | Alexandro Cunningham - Director, Brazilian Pine Chemicals Institute | Pine Chemicals Consulting, Brazil |
| 1700-1730 | New Projects Panel | |
| 1730 | End of Conference | |
| 1730-1830 | Combined Forest Investment Wood Fibre Trade Networking Reception | |