Innovation, artificial intelligence, food security, energy investments and opportunities in sectors such as transport and infrastructure are among the topics of the forum organized this Wednesday in New York by EL PAÍS and the Spain-USA Chamber of Commerce. The event analyzes these trends and the challenges facing Latin America, the United States and Spain in the global economy. The motto of the event is the participation of the Acting President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the Governor of Spain Nueva Jersey, Phil Murphy.
The forum, sponsored by Abertis, Baker McKenzie, Grupo Nutresa, Iberia, Inditex and Indra and in collaboration with the Organization of Ibero-American Educational, Scientific and Cultural States (OEI), will be broadcast live on the EL PAÍS website. starting at 8:20 a.m. New York time (2:20 p.m. Spanish Peninsula Time). It will take place at the Roxy Hotel in New York, the same week that the United Nations (UN) General Assembly meets in the city.
The United Nations Assembly is dominated by the war in Ukraine and the geopolitical tensions affecting the world. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is present in person for the first time since the Russian invasion, via video conference since last year.
The President of Prisa, Joseph Oughourlian, and the President of the Spain-USA Chamber of Commerce, Alan D. Solomont, opened the event with some welcoming remarks. This is followed by the opening speech by Pedro Sánchez, moderated by the director of EL PAÍS, Pepa Bueno.
A roundtable analyzes the investment opportunities that have opened up in the United States with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. They include Gabriel Alonso, CEO of 547 Energy; Susan Nickey, President of American Clean Power and Puneet Verma, Vice President of Federal Affairs at Avangrid. The panel will be moderated by José Morán, Partner and President of the Energy, Mining and Infrastructure Practice Group at Baker McKenzie.
Afterwards, Miguel Jiménez, chief correspondent of EL PAÍS in the United States, interviews the Secretary General of the OEI, Mariano Jabonero, who presents his vision on economic and social trends in Latin America. What follows is a conversation about the impact of multinational technology corporations in America, spoken by Marc Murtra, President of Indra, and interviewed by the Director of EL PAÍS América, Jan Martínez Ahrens.
The table below discusses the trends and opportunities common to the main sectors of Spain and America. They include Christian Barrientos, General Director of Abertis Mobility Services, and Teresa Parejo, Director of Sustainability of Iberia, in a Spanish Chamber of Commerce discussion moderated by Inmaculada Riera, CEO.
Next, José Manuel Albares, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of the Spanish Government, who is also attending the UN General Assembly, will give a speech.
The challenges and keys to sustainable and inclusive food security are analyzed in the table below. Carlos Ignacio Gallego, President of Grupo Nutresa, intervenes; Álvaro Lario, President of FIDA, Mario Lubetkin, Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean of the FAO-Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Ana Catalina Suárez, Director of Strategy and Innovation of the Global Foodbanking Network. The table will be moderated by Macarena Vidal Liy, EL PAÍS correspondent in Washington.
The next twist is the speech by New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, a position he has held since 2018. He is the first Democratic governor in 44 years to serve a second term in New Jersey.
The final colloquium of the day analyzes the impact of artificial intelligence on the global economy. It features Beena Ammanath, Managing Director of the Deloitte Global Institute of Artificial Intelligence, and Carme Artigas, Secretary of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence of the Spanish Government, in a panel moderated by Ángel Alonso Arroba, Vice Dean of Management and Development of the School of Public and Global Affairs at IE University.
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