SABF 2012 Closing ceremony of SABF 2012 The closing ceremony of the eighth edition of South American Business Forum was opened by Rob Britton, director of Airlearn. In this ceremony, Britton pointed out different topics and aspects mentioned by all
English Group Dynamics The “Group Dynamics” was organized by Cristina Gutierrez, Directora y Coach Senior, Hacer Historia Consultores. The idea was that participants try to connect with their origin because that is the background of their
English Final Round Tables Another new feature of SABF’s 8th Edition was the Round Table. During this plenary, current leaders from different issues and areas, gathered around and exposed their views and main ideas with regards
SABF 2011 Dynamic Keynotes After lunch, students have continued participating in different workshops. The speakers of the Dynamic Keynotes were: Roxana Víquez Salazar, Daniela Kreimer, Pierre Ianni and Nora Brown. Roxana Víquez Salazar is Regional Director of
English Workshops at IMPSA, Kimberly-Clark and Globant This year the students had the chance to participate in office workshops at IMPSA, Kimberly-Clark and Globant. At IMPSA the students were welcomed by Rubén Sánchez Perco who is the Commercial Director. IMPSA
cooperation Student-Run Workshops On Saturday, activities started with the Student Workshops. This dynamic gives students the possibility to present the best essays of the eighth edition of the South American Business Forum. In this edition, the
Institutions Diego Luzuriaga: First Day Conclusions SABF 2012 closed its first day of debate with its conclusions presented by Diego Luzuriaga, Founder and Executive Director at Equitas Ventures. During his presentation, Luzuriaga reminded us about today´s Guibert Englebienne
agent of change Gerry Garbulsky & Rick Dow: Final Plenary This plenary session was in charge of Gerry Garbulsky, Director and Founder of Oblogo and Rick Dow, Advisor at Solution Partners. Gerry Garbulsky started this Plenary showing how some advances in positive psychology
Crisis Crisis? What Crisis? After the first SABF lunch, it was time to listen to Juan Carlos de Pablo, who is Director at Contexto. He was interviewed by Enrique Diaz Leimbacher, Associate Professor at ITBA. The interview
Guy Sorman Guy Sorman: The sources of sustainable growth and social equity The first plenary session was led by Guy Sorman, French economist and philosopher. In this session, Sorman pointed out which actions should be taken in order to achieve a sustainable government. He started
Guibert Englebienne SABF 2012 has started! The 8th edition of the South American Business Forum started this morning. The SABF directors, Paula Montaldi and Lucas Diaz, started the conference by congratulating the participants because of the quality of their
SABF 2012 Be part of SABF 2012 from any place in the World Welcome everyone! SABF 2012 is already about to begin. All the members of the Organising Team are really glad that this time has finally come. It is in this event where we will
English Alternative education, new ways of teaching In late April, under the theme “Inspire your ideas” took place in Buenos Aires the first universitary TEDx event in Argentina,TEDxUTN. Probably most of you already know what are these globally spread
essays What do the SABF 2012 participants think? Like every year, during the application time we receive the essays written by potential participants seeking to be part of the event. We congratulate each student who worked inspired by the main topic.
entrepreneurs The Founding Team This article is part of a series about going from “I’d like to start a business” to having a small start-up running, and beyond. If you haven’t read the previous articles,
Environment Energizar an Argentinean Foundation that cares about energy Diego Musolino, one of Energizar’s founders is an engineer interested in making known about the projects of environmental high impact arising from Latin America.Energizar Foundation is a nonprofit nongovernmental organization where
economy Against Poverty, More Bills I usually chat with a friend of mine who studies psychology about how there can be so many people suffering from hunger around the world. Obviously both of us find it difficult to
Crisis Latin America after an Euro collapse Euro’s partial or total death seems to be behind the corner. Even if Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, keeps injecting liquidity or the European Central Bank decides to “rescue” Spain
conferences Rio+20: Writing the future that we want? The representatives of 193 governments were reunited in Rio de Janeiro from the 20th to the 22th of June in order to take part in the United Nations’ Conference on Sustainable Development, also
power groups The social protests in Latin-America as a tool of power groups. The massive communication and the citizen’s participation in politics Currently, the social networks have turn into the tools of the construction of a world with an interconnection that can not be compared.
entrepreneurs I have already built my MVP... Now what? In the previous post we covered the first steps to building our MVP, or Minimum Viable Product. The question is… what are we supposed to do next? Remember that an MVPs goal is
economy Solving Social Problems through Business A quick look at the world scenario allows us to notice we must still solve many challenges in the social field. While technological development and knowledge production follow a course of steady growth,
entrepreneurs MVP (Minimum Viable Product) This article is part of a serie about going from “I’d like to start a business” to having a small start-up running, and beyond. If you haven’t read the previous articles,
Democracy Telecommunications: an opportunity to shorten educational and democratic gaps Latin America is going through a formidable economic moment. Economic growth rates are extraordinary and unemployment has reached its lowest record in history. Foreign Investment (in most of the countries) has exceeded every
application The SABF 2012 is getting closer Twenty five days after the inscriptions closure and through weeks of intense work to evaluate applications and essays, we have come to seleciton the 100 SABF 2012 participants reaching a diversity of over
