Thu, Oct 08 2026

• Terrace, third floor
  Official photograph of heads of delegation
  08:30 am to 08:45 am
• Summa I and II conference room, third floor
  Presentation of the document Ruptures and opportunities: proposals for Latin America and the Caribbean to thrive in the new geopolitical era
  09:00 am to 12:30 pm

  Prepared by the ECLAC Commission on Geopolitics, Globalization and Development for Latin America and the Caribbean

  Opening remarks:
  • José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC

  Presentation of the report:
  • Michelle Bachelet, Co-Chairperson of the ECLAC Commission on Geopolitics, Globalization and Development for Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Keith Nurse, President of the College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago from 2022–2025 and member of the ECLAC Commission on Geopolitics, Globalization and Development for Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Iván Duque, Co-Chairperson of the ECLAC Commission on Geopolitics, Globalization and Development for Latin America and the Caribbean (virtual)

  Comments:
  • Albert Ramdin, Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS)
  • José Antonio Ocampo, Professor Emeritus of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs at Columbia University 
  • Mario Lubetkin, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay, the country serving as pro tempore Chair of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and Chair of the Group of 77 and China (virtual)

  Dialogue of ministers of foreign affairs and high-level authorities on the document Ruptures and opportunities: proposals for Latin America and the Caribbean to thrive in the new geopolitical era

  Albert Ramdin - Intervención del Secretario General de la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA)
• Centro de Convenciones y Cultura Dominicana, second floor
  Lunch hosted by Víctor Orlando Bisonó, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic, for ministers of foreign affairs and heads of delegation (by invitation)
  12:30 pm to 02:30 pm

  (museum of the Centro de Convenciones y Cultura Dominicana UTESA, second floor)

• Salones Summa I y II, piso 3
  Osvaldo Sunkel Weil: in memoriam
  02:30 pm to 03:00 pm
• Summa I and II conference room, third floor
  Panel 1: A new stage of regional integration: what to do and how to move forward
  03:00 pm to 04:30 pm

  Moderator: Rubén Silié, Deputy Minister for Multilateral Foreign Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic
  • Christopher P. Sinckler, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados
  • Daniela Arruda Benjamin, Director of the Regional Integration Department, Secretariat for Latin America and the Caribbean in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil
  • Raquel Serur Smeke, Undersecretary for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico
  • Carla Natalie Barnett, Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
  • Carlos Díaz-Rosillo, Founding Director of the Adam Smith Center for Economic Freedom at Florida International University
  • Fernando Capellán, President and Chief Executive Officer, Grupo M & Codevi, Dominican Republic
  • Lina Ajoy Rojas, Secretary-General of the Central American Integration System (SICA)

  Carla Barnett - Intervención de la Secretaria General de la Comunidad del Caribe (CARICOM)
  Lina Ajoy - Aprovechamiento de la Integración Regional como un Activo Estratégico para el Desarrollo
• Summa I and II conference room, third floor
  Statements by delegations
  04:30 pm to 05:00 pm
• Summa I and II conference room, third floor
  Panel 2: Digital transformation, artificial intelligence and productive development
  05:00 pm to 06:30 pm

  Moderator: Luis Madera Sued, Deputy Minister for Government Coordination and Follow-up, Ministry of the Presidency of the Dominican Republic
  • Craig Ramlal, Chair of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union’s (CTU) Caribbean Taskforce on AI and Executive Director of the Artificial Intelligence Innovation Centre of the University of the West Indies
  • Mercedes Aramendía, Executive Director of the Alliance for Digital Infrastructure and an Open Internet (DIG.IA-LAC) of Uruguay
  • Anne Lemaistre, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Representative to Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Haiti
  • Secilio Espinal, Rector of the Pontifical Catholic University Madre y Maestra (PUCMM), Dominican Republic 
  • Ulises Canchola, Special Ambassador for Emerging Technologies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico (virtual) 

  María Mercedes Aramendía - De conectar a transformar: Infraestructura digital y adopción de IA como estrategia de desarrollo
• Summa I and II conference room, third floor
  Statements by delegations
  06:30 pm to 07:00 pm
• Terrace around the Monument to the Heroes of the Restoration
  Reception hosted by the Dominican Republic
  07:00 pm to 08:15 pm