We present you our weekly meetings!
Twice a month the Coordinator Group for “Young People and Engineering Business Forum” meets to discuss the next steps towards our great event.
Last Tuesday we reviewed the list of speakers and we can confirm you with great pleasure that Marcio de Miranda Santos and Miguel Brechner Frey are joining us.
Miguel Brechner Frey is Telecommunication Engineer, graduated from the Imperial College in London. For more than 25 years he was linked to the pursuit and implementation of new technologies. He was responsible for the introduction of Digital Equipment Corp., then Compaq, and Acer in Uruguay, as well as Sonda and Newbridge technologies, in the areas of systems and telecommunications. He is responsible for the implementation of Project Ceibal in Uruguay, based on the OLPC (One Laptop per Child) and implemented by LATU, emphasizing social inclusion, technology and education. Between November 2007 and October 2009 all children and public school teachers received their computer with internet connection.
Currently also serves as Director of Research and Innovation Agency and as President of CITS (Centre for Technology and Social Inclusion), an institution created by the Uruguayan parliament in 2010 for the implementation of programs to support children and teenagers attending public education.
Marcio de Miranda Santos, a Brazilian national, is an Agronomist; He developed most of his career with the Brazilian Corporation for Agricultural Research – Embrapa, in the field of conservation and use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture-PGRFA. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard University (1995-1997), where he studied the impacts of intellectual property rights regimes on the access and ownership of plant genetic resources utilized in food production and in other agriculture production systems.
Major professional appointments include: General Director, National Center for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology (1991-1995); Head, Embrapa Department for Research and Development (1997-1999); Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Catholic University of Brasilia (2000 to 2003); Executive Director, Center for Strategic Management and Studies on Science, Technology and Innovation (2000 to date).
He has also represented Brazil in the FAO/Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and in the UNEP/CBD Conference of the Parties (COP). Dr Santos is the current Chair of the Center of Reference on Environmental Information (CRIA) Board of Trustees.
We also defined the final questionnaire to be distributed nationally. From these answers we intend to obtain a broad view of young engineers believes and opinions regarding the three main themes we will develop in the Forum.
The meeting was enriched by the presence of. Eng. Jorge Fontan Balestra, member of the Academic Council for Engineering World Congress 2010, who listened to our proposals in order to communicate our vision in his various meetings regarding the Congress organization.
Look at the photos and get the chance to know the team!
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