The event will be held in a hybrid format and can be followed online through the social media of the Economic and Commercial Office of Spain in Colombia: Twitter and LinkedIn, and in person, with limited capacity, prior registration request to the email bogota@comercio.mineco.es.

The event will begin with welcoming remarks from Spain's economic and commercial counselor in Colombia, Alicia Montalvo, and the director of Economy and Business of the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB), Pablo Adrián Hardy.

Next, the presentation of the LATAM Global Report 2021 will take place by Adrián Blanco, head of the LATAM Desk of ICEX-Invest in Spain, and Martha Elena Delgado, director of Macroeconomics of FEDESARROLLO.

The event will continue with the conversation 'Building global companies from innovation', in which Andrés Gómez, founder and CEO of MELONN, and Mario Loaiza, commercial manager of ARUS, will participate. The talk will be conducted by Fernando Quijano, director of La República.

To conclude, the panel 'How to have more global Latin companies? The cases of Colombia, Spain and the Dominican Republic' will take place, which will be moderated by Narciso Casado, permanent secretary of the Council of Ibero-American Entrepreneurs (CEIB). The panelists will be Bruce Mac Master, president of the National Association of Colombian Entrepreneurs (ANDI); Íñigo Fernández de Mesa, vice-president of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE) and William Matías Ramírez, president of the Employers' Confederation of the Dominican Republic (COPARDOM) and president of CEIB.

After the presentation, a networking breakfast will be offered. The Global LATAM 2021 report will be available in the Publications section of www.investinspain.org at the end of the event.