This document provides the agenda for Day 2 of the Latin American Forum on Youth Employment. The day includes sessions on building commitment for youth entrepreneurship initiatives, trends and challenges in promoting youth employment, and parallel study case sessions on topics like ICTs and CSR programs. It also lists workshops and multistakeholder concertation tables to develop a Latin American agenda on youth entrepreneurship for 2008-2010. The day concludes with a closing ceremony.

1. AUGUST 8TH
II Latin American Forum on Youth Employment
Policies, Partnerships and Programs for Entrepreneurship
August 7th and 8th
Convention Center, City of Knowledge
AGENDA IN ENGLISH
Day 2: Friday, August 8th, 2008
T I M E SESSION PLACE ROOM
8:30 am – 9:00am
Registration Convention Center Hall
9:00 am – 9:45 am Plenary 4
Building Committment for 2 Millions Young Entepreneurs
From YES 2008 to YES 2010
Convention Center 108
*Poonam Ahluwalia, President, YES Inc.
*Carl Mossfelt, Executive Director, Tallberg Foundation, Sweden.
*Caroline Stiernstedt Sahlborn, Program Coordinator YES 2010, Tallberg Foundation,
Sweden.

2. AUGUST 8TH
9:45am – 10:15am Convention Center
Coffe Break 110
Plenary 5
Reaching the 2 Millions Opportunities Mark
10:15 am – 11:00am The YES Fund Model
Convention Center 108
*Poonam Ahluwalia, President, YES Inc.
*Samuel González, President, Fundación E.
11:00am-12:00md Plenary 6
Trends and Challenges for the Promotion of
Youth Employment and Entepreneurship Convention Center 108
*Myrian Franco de Martínez, Director, Centro de Recursos Tajy de San Estanislao/YES
Paraguay Network, Paraguay.
*Luis Fernando González Preciado, Regional Manager, Central America and Dominican
Republic, MANPOWER.
*Rafael Luna, Regional Representative, Mesoamerica, AVINA.
*Juan Carlos Córdoba, Youth Coordinator, First Lady Office, Panama.
*Javier Álvarez Ramos, Education Secretary, Chiapas State, Mexico.
12:00md – 1:00 pm Convention Center
Lunch
110
Parallel Sessions 2 –Study Cases
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
S8 Convention Center
S5 S6 S7 Entepreneurship (CC)
ICTs Empowering Youth CSR Programs Training Programs & S5: 301, TBC
S6: 302, TBC
Training and Business S7: 105,TBC
*Case Center (TBC) S8: 102, CC
Building 105

3. AUGUST 8TH
S5 S6 S7 S8 PLACE ROOM
ICTs Empowering Youth CSR Programs Entepreneurship
Training Programs
*Case IAD, YES *Case United *Case Banks in *Case Fundacion E,
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Peru/Microsoft Network of Young Action-Latin Chile: Graciela
Program, Peru: Peacebuilders: America, Citi Duran, Regional
Arturo Alfaro, YES Humberto Parra, Foundation/ Director-South
Peru Leader. Executive Junior America, Fundacion
Director, Bolivian Achievement: E. Convention Center
*Case TICs Youth Itza Perez Polo, (CC) S5: 301, TBC
Americas, Foundation/YES Coordinator year *Case & S6: 302, TBC
YABT/OAS: Edgar Bolivia Network, 2007 & young Empretec/Chamber S7: 105,TBC
Maestre, Program Bolivia. winners. of Commerce: Training and Business S8: 102, CC
Manager, Young Panama: Felipe Ariel Center (TBC)
Americas Business *Case Institute of *Case Rodriguez, President, Building 105
Trust (YABT Youth Levi´s/Fundacion Empretec.
Competitiveness E: Samuel
Institute/COSPAE: González, *Case PACE/GTZ,
Fabio Carranza, President Guatemala: Mauricio
Director, Panama. Fundacion E and Quintana, Advisor
Vanessa Siliezar, Youth and
YES Honduras. Entepreneurship,
*Case YES GTZ in Guatemala.
Guatemala: *Edgar Bermúdez,
Vivian Noelia CSR Coordinator,
Chacón González, AVINA
member of YES Mesoamérica.
Network.

4. AUGUST 8TH
Parallel Sessions 3
Workshop (W) and Multistakeholder Concertation Tables (MCT))
PLACE ROOM
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
W1 MCT 1 MCT 2 MCT 3
*Young Enterpreneurs
and the MDGs, Blue Latin American Latin American
Print Project, Agenda on Youth Agenda on Youth Latin American Agenda on
IYFP/YES Latin Entepreneurship Entepreneurship Youth Entepreneurship 2008
America. 2008-2010 2008-2010 2010 Convention Center
(CC)
3Ps (Policy, 3Ps (Policy, 3Ps (Policy, Partnerships and & T1: 102,CC
Partnerships and Partnerships and Programs MCM1: 105,TBC
Programs Programs Training and Business MCM2: 301, TBC
Center (TBC) MCM3:302, TBC
Building 105
Facilitator:
Ursula Carrascal, YES Facilitator: Facilitator: Facilitator:
Latin America *Juan Carlos Maribel Landau, *Felipe Rodriguez,
Cordoba, Youth UNDP Panama. President,
Coordinator, First Empretec, Panamá.
Lady office,
Panama.
4:00-4:30pm Coffe Break Convention Center 110

5. AUGUST 8TH
4:30pm-5:00pm
Plenary 7
ICTS for Entrepreneurship Convention Center 108
*Verónica Tostado, Regional Manager, Cisco Entepreneur Institute, Latin America
5:00pm-6:00 pm Convention Center 108 y 109
CLOSING CEREMONY
*Multistakeholders Concertation Roundtables (MCT)- Latin American Agenda on Youth
Entepreneurship 2008-2010 (Policies, Partnerships and Programs).
*YES Latin America Award 2008- to Jose Ignacio Morales “El Artístico” for his
contributions to youth employment in Dominican Republic and his committed service
to YES in Latin America.
*Recognition to Diamond Sponsors:
-First Lady Office in Panama
-Tigo
*Launch of YES Fellows for Latin America-pilot in Nicaragua:
- Joel Nitzberg, Director, Institute for Lifelong learning and Community Building
Cambridge College
- Jaime Aguilar, YES Leader, Nicaragua
*Launch YES Fund for Latin America:
- Poonam Ahluwalia, President, YES Inc.
- Samuel González, President, Fundacion E.
- Modaldo Tuñon, President, COSPAE, Panama.
-
Official Closing
of Panama.