General Information
Program Schedule
Organizers
Travel Information

Registration

Registration for REE LA 2009 is now closed.

Hosts

Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation:
www.cei.udd.cl

Stanford Technology Ventures Program:
stvp.stanford.edu

Sponsors

Accel Partners:
www.accel.com

Contact Us

Mr. Carlos Varela
Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Universidad del Desarrollo
Tel: +56-2-3279213
Fax: +56-2-3279241
cvarela@udd.cl

Program Schedule

REE Latin America 2009 will take place in Termas de Chillán, at Bío Bío Region, Chile. The nearest airport to Termas de Chillán is in Concepción. If you are coming from overseas you will get first to Santiago. We recommend booking the first or second flight from Santiago to Concepción on October 25th. Once there, REE LA will have transportation arranged, to take you to the mountains.

Wednesday, November 25th 2009



AM Transport from Concepción Airport to Termas de Chillán
(2.5 hour drive)


Location: Termas de Chillán

12:30 PM - 01:30 PM Registration
01:30 PM - 02:30 PM Lunch & Welcome Remarks
  • Tina Seelig - Stanford University, USA
  • Carlos Varela - Director REE LA 2009, CHILE
02:30 PM - 03:00 PM Speed Dating
03:00 PM - 03:20 PM UDD Welcome Address REE LA 2009
  • Ernesto Silva - Rector UDD, CHILE
  • Patricio Cortés - CEI UDD, CHILE
03:20 PM - 04:00 PM Keynote Speaker: Doing Well by Doing Good
Daniel González - Strategic Initiatives for Latin America, AVINA Foundation
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM Panel Session: Promoting Entrepreneurship in Latin America: Main Challenges and Potential Drivers
  • Hernando Varón - Christian Gómez, Universidad EAN, COLOMBIA
  • José Ruiz Navarro - Universidad de Cádiz, ESPAÑA
  • José Alonso González - U. de San Buenaventura, COLOMBIA
  • Carlos Vignolo - Universidad de Chile, CHILE
05:00 PM - 05:30 PM Coffee Break
05:30 PM - 07:00 PM Networking in the Hot Springs
  • Tina Seelig - Stanford University, USA
  • Carlos Vignolo - Universidad de Chile, CHILE
07:00 PM - 08:00 PM Free
08:00 PM - 09:30 PM Dinner


Thursday, November 26th 2009



Location: Termas de Chillán

07:30 AM - 08:00 AM Starting the Day: Stretch in the Andes
08:00 AM - 09:00 AM Breakfast
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM Keynote Speaker: Teaching Our Students About Business Models
John W. Mullins, PhD - London Business School, United Kingdom
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Keynote Speaker: Increasing the Chances of Success in the Market
Nathan Furr, PhD - Brigham Young University, Utah, USA
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Coffee Break (Invitation to see Poster Session)
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Panel Session: Ever-changing Methodologies for Entrepreneurship Education
  • Margarita Rodriguez - U. Industrial de Santander, COLOMBIA
  • Elías Tefarikis, Kenneth Gent, Momento Cero - CHILE
  • Nailya Bagautdinova, Oleg Stolyarov - KSTU, RUSSIA
  • Nayeth Solorzano - ESPOL, ECUADOR
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch & Music
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Panel Session: The Younger, the Better: Impacting Secondary Education Through Entrepreneurship
  • Mauricio Higuita - ITM, COLOMBIA
  • Lily Lyman - Endeavor, CHILE
  • Juliano Seabra - Endeavor, BRAZIL
  • Patricio Cortés - Universidad del Desarrollo, CHILE
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM EE-Challenge: Building a Latin American Model for Earlier Entrepreneurship Education
04:00 PM - 04:30 PM Coffee Break
04:30 PM - 07:30 PM Free
07:30 PM - 09:30 PM Power Dinner
Keynote Speaker: The Entrepreneurship Adventure
Rodrigo Jordán - Vertical S.A. - Endeavor - Universidad Católica, Chile
09:30 PM Risk-taking Lab at the Hotel Casino / Playing Entrepreneurial Games


Friday, November 27th 2009



Location: Termas de Chillán

07:30 AM - 08:00 AM Breakfast
08:00 AM - 12:00 AM REE-LA Versus The Volcano: Hiking beyond 7,000 feet
Rodrigo Jordán will lead this journey of sharing and discovering ...
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch & Bits (one-minute pitches open to everyone)
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Pitching Session: Developing Entrepreneurs Beyond University
  • Carlos Varela - U. del Desarrollo, CHILE
  • M. de los Ángeles Briceño - CESA, COLOMBIA
  • Yuri Gortyshov, Sergey Mikhailov - KSTU, RUSSIA
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM Panel Session: Entrepreneurship Education Models in Action
  • Carlos Albornoz - Florida International University, USA
  • María Paola Podestá - Universidad EAFIT, COLOMBIA
  • Vesna Karmelic - U. de Tarapacá, CHILE
04:00 AM - 04:30 PM Coffee Break
04:30 PM - 05:30 PM Keynote Speaker: Ecosystems for Entrepreneurship
Alfredo Roldán - Director Red Nacional de ParqueSoft, Colombia
05:30 PM - 08:30 PM Free
08:30 PM - 10:00 PM Dinner
10:00 PM Closing Party


Saturday, November 28th 2009



Location: Termas de Chillán

07:30 AM - 08:00 AM Starting the Day: Stretch in the Andes
08:00 AM - 09:00 AM Closing Breakfast
AM Buses take participants to Concepción Airport
(2.5 hour drive)