Day One: Thursday, September 2, 2010

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Day One: Thursday, September 2, 2010
8am

Registration & breakfast

8.50am

Opening remarks

 

WHAT’S MOVING BRAZIL

9am

Panel session: The games and beyond

  • Where are we and where do we need to go?
  • Are new transport projects feasible for 2014?
  • Lessons learned and best practices from Rio's Pan-American Games and past Olympics
 
Mr Joubert Flores,
Director, Institutional Relations and Human Resources, Metro Rio
Mr José Carlos Pinto dos Santos,
Diretor de Obras, Empresa de Obras Públicas do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
9.45am

International keynote session: Brazil and the world - what Brazil can learn from Los Angeles, and vice versa

  • How LA went from a trolley city to a car city, and how it’s fast becoming a metro city
  • TOD: the land use and transit equation for building livable cities
  • Adopting and improving upon the Curitiba model
Mr Diego Cardoso,
Executive Officer, LA Metro
10.15am

Speed networking

11am

Morning refreshment break

 

TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT

11.15am

Panel session: Cities for cars, cities for people

  • Reducing road congestion: license plate restrictions, commuter taxes, and dedicated and reversible lanes
  • Is more metro enough?
  • Multi-center cities and TOD
Mr Dário Berger,
Prefeito, Prefeitura de Florianópolis
Mr Deusdith de Souza Júnior,
Programa Pro-Transporte, Ministerio das Cidades
Dr Eurico Devon Galhardi,
Vice President, Associação Nacional das Empresas de Transportes Urbanos
Dr Julio Lopes,
ex-Secretário, Estado do Rio de Janeiro
12pm

Networking lunch

1.30pm

Panel session: Intelligent Infrastructure for Harmonious Urbanization

  • Setting the stage: from cities to intelligent cities
  • Burning platforms for transportation
  • The impact of cultural differences for public transportation
  • The way out: an integrated vision of clean and intelligent transport
Mr Philippe Guittat,
Global Lead for Infrastructure & Transportation Services, Accenture
2pm

Panel session: Non-motorized transport - an alternative, or another key to transport systems?

  • Bike paths, bike lanes and the “Citizen Cyclist”
  • Footpaths and bike racks in train stations, and the interface between the pedestrian and transport
  • Accessibility: fulfilling the law to assist people with disabilities
Mr Adilson Alcântara,
Founder-President, Ascobike
Ms Alexandra Lichtenberg,
Urban Architect, Ecohouse
Dr Alfredo Lobo,
Diretor de Qualidade, Ministerio do Desenvolvimento, Industria e Comercio Exterior
Mr Claudio Oliveira da Silva,
Arquiteto Urbanista, Ministerio das Cidades
 

FINANCING & INVESTMENT

2.45pm

Panel session: Privatization and the public-private dilemma

  • Best practice: integrating investment, construction and operation 
  • Role of multilateral agencies in urban transport: policies and tools
  • How the private sector can assist and benefit from the Pro-Transport program and other governmental initiatives
Mr Arturo Ardila,
Urban Transport Specialist, World Bank
Mr Joubert Flores,
Director, Institutional Relations and Human Resources, Metro Rio
Mr Jorge Kogan,
Assessor da vice-presidência de Infra-estrutura, Corporação Andina de Fomento
Mr Charles Marot,
Gerente, Banco Nacional do Desenvolvimento (BNDES)
Mr Diogo Prosdocimi,
Superintendente de Controle de Outorgas, Estado de Minas Gerais
3.30pm

Afternoon refreshment break

4.15pm

Panel session: The nuts and bolts of public-private partnerships

  • Procedures for obtaining financing
  • Public tender and how to win contracts: what an attractive bid looks like
  • How to gain an advantage through pre-qualification
Mr Tomas Bruginksi,
Director, Estado de São Paulo
Mr Rogerio de Paula Tavares,
Superintendente, Caixa Economica Federal
Mr Takahiro Hosojima,
Chefe Representante, Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Mr Ronald Munk,
Managing Director for Health Public Services and Infrastructure Brazil and Human Capital & Diversity lead Latin America, Accenture
Mr Isaac Pinto Averbuch,
Director, Ministerio de Planejamento
 

REVENUES

4.45pm

International case study: The Dulles Airport corridor - how to creatively raise funds for metropolitan transport

  • What Brazil can learn from Bond Buyer’s $963 million “Deal of the Year”
  • How to find non-traditional funding sources in a difficult financial environment
  • Using cross-financing from toll revenues to fund rail  projects
 
Mr Robert Clarke Brown,
Chairman, Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority
5.15pm

Panel session: Breaking even - getting public transport to pay for itself

  • Funding sources for public transport and making them viable
  • Fares: matching revenues to costs while keeping transport public
  • Covering investments, operational and life cycle cost
Mr Amin Alves Murad,
President, Supervia
Mr Robert Clarke Brown,
Chairman, Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority
Mr Luiz Carlos Bueno de Lima,
Secretário Nacional, Ministerio das Cidades
Mr Jorge Francisconi,
Consultant, AXIS Consultoria Urbana
Mr Rômulo Dante Orrico Filho,
sub-Secretario de Transportes, Municipio do Rio de Janeiro
Dr Sebastiao Rodrigues,
Secretário, Estado do Rio de Janeiro
6pm

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