Interactive Programme System

10
May
Monday
11
May
Tuesday

Welcome Session
17:00 - 17:20 GMT+2
Best Practices Guidelines (BPG) consultation: Regulatory uplift for financing digital infrastructure, access and use
17:20 - 17:30 GMT+2
GSR Roundtable 1: Setting the Scene: Toward Collaborative 5th Generation Regulation
17:30 - 18:40 GMT+2
GSR Roundtable 2: Regulatory and Economic policies and strategies for ICT development in the Americas Region – COVID-19 implications
18:40 - 20:00 GMT+2

Welcome Session

Introduction
	Mrs Sofie Maddens Head of Regulatory and Market Environment Division, Telecommunication Development Bureau International Telecommunication Union Biography
Speaker
	Mr Stephen Bereaux Deputy Director of the Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) International Telecommunication Union Biography
	H.E Josué Edmundo Lemus Cifuentes Ministro Ministerio de Comunicaciones, Infraestructura y vivienda Guatemala (Republic of)
	Mr Rodolfo José Letona Montoya Viceministro de Comunicaciones Ministerio de Comunicaciones, Infraestructura y vivienda Guatemala (Republic of) Biography
	Mr Marco Antonio Baten Superintendente de Telecomunicaciones Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (SIT) Guatemala (Republic of) Biography
	Ms Mercy Wanjau GSR Chair and Acting Director General Communications Authority of Kenya (CA Kenya) Kenya (Republic of) Biography

Best Practices Guidelines (BPG) consultation: Regulatory uplift for financing digital infrastructure, access and use
Keynote presentation: GSR-21 Best Practices Guidelines (BPG) consultation
Presentation
	Ms Carmen Prado-Wagner Senior Officer, Regulatory and Market Environment Division, Telecommunication Development Bureau International Telecommunication Union GSR-21 Best Practice Guidelines Consultation \| Biography
Panelist
	Mr Rodrigo Robles Program Officer, Regional Office Brasilia International Telecommunication Union GSR-21 Best Practice Guidelines Consultation \| Biography

GSR Roundtable 1: Setting the Scene: Toward Collaborative 5th Generation Regulation
Keynote presentation: Collaborative Regulation in the Americas – presentation of G5 Benchmark and case studies
Moderator
	Ms Youlia Lozanova Senior Programme Officer, Regulatory and Market Environment Division, Telecommunication Development Bureau International Telecommunication Union Biography
Presentation
	Mrs Sofie Maddens Head, Regulatory and Market Environment Division, Telecommunication Development Bureau International Telecommunication Union Collaborative Regulation for Inclusive Connectivity \| Biography
Panelist
	Mr Carlos A. Bello Hernández ITU Expert Toward Collaborative 5th Generation Regulation \| Biography
	Mr Ramiro Camacho Castillo Comisionado Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT) Mexico Biography
	Mr Carlos Lugo Comisionado de la Sesión de Comisión de Comunicaciones Comisión de Regulación de Comunicaciones (CRC) Colombia (Republic of) Biography
	Mr Fabio Casotti Head of Wholesale Relations Division, Competition Superintendence National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) Brazil (Federative Republic of) Biography

GSR Roundtable 2: Regulatory and Economic policies and strategies for ICT development in the Americas Region – COVID-19 implications
Keynote Presentation: Pandemic in the Internet Age: From second wave to new normal, recovery, adaptation, and resilience
Moderator
	Mr Rodrigo Robles Program Officer, Regional Office Brasilia International Telecommunication Union Biography
Panelist
	Mr Scott Minehane ITU Expert Windsor Place Consulting (WPC) Pandemic in the Internet Age: From second wave to new normal, recovery, adaptation and resilience \| Biography
	Mr Raul Katz Director of Business Strategy Research Columbia Institute for Tele-Information La industria de las telecomunicaciones en el post-COVID 19 \| Biography
	Mr Riaz Boodram Generation Connect – Americas Youth Group Trinidad and Tobago Biography
	Mr Marco Vílchez Subgerente de Regulación de la Dirección de Política Regulatoria y Competencia Organismo Supervisor de Inversión Privada en Telecomunicaciones (OSIPTEL) Peru Perspectivas y regulación de las TIC frente al COVID-19 en el Perú \| Biography
	Mr Selby Wilson Telecommunications Strategist and Regulatory Expert Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) Caribbean Telecommunications Union
	Ms Jane Coffin ISOC Biography
	Mr Lester Benito García Facebook Biography

RED Session 1: Incentives to foster affordable ICT services by promoting investment for meaningful connectivity
17:00 - 18:30 GMT+2
RED Session 2: Economic and financial aspects in the digital ecosystem - Effective partnerships for advancing connectivity and achieving the SDGs
18:30 - 19:50 GMT+2
Closing
19:50 - 20:00 GMT+2

RED Session 1: Incentives to foster affordable ICT services by promoting investment for meaningful connectivity
Regulatory and economic strategies to achieve connectivity in rural and isolated areas Identification of affordable bundled ICT services Meaningful connectivity targets for affordable connectivity Impact of satellite and other technology solutions
Moderator
	Mrs Ingrid García Coordinadora Asuntos Internacionales Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (SIT) Guatemala (Republic of) Biography
Panelist
	Mr Víctor Manuel Mayorga ITU Expert La cobertura de las necesidades básicas de comunicaciones de los grupos de ingresos más bajos de América Latina a través de servicios TIC empaquetados: La brecha social se amplía. \| Biography
	Mr Juan Carlos Castro Jefe del Departamento de Economía de las Telecomunicaciones Superintendencia General de Electricidad y Telecomunicaciones (SIGET) El Salvador (Republic of) Evolución de planes pospago de datos y minutos en El Salvador, Servicio Móvil (2018 -2021) \| Biography
	Mr Cristhian Lizcano ITU Expert Obligaciones de Conectividad – Asignación de Espectro \| Biography
	Mrs Maryleana Méndez Presidente Asociación Interamericana de Empresas de Telecomunicaciones (ASIET) Oportunidades y retos para el fortalecimiento de la conectividad en la región: hacia una agenda viable en el marco de la recuperación económica \| Biography
	Mr Ryan Johnson Senior Director, Global Market Access & Government Affairs Viasat, Inc. Conectividad asequible en las Américas \| Biography
	Mr Yacine Khelladi Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) Updates on the adoption and measurement of the Meaningful Connectivity targets \| Biography

RED Session 2: Economic and financial aspects in the digital ecosystem - Effective partnerships for advancing connectivity and achieving the SDGs
Session organized in coordination with the ITU-D Study Group 1 Question 4/1 on Economic policies and methods of determining the costs of services related to national telecommunication/ICT networks, including Next Generation Networks (NGN)
Moderator
	Ms Carmen Prado-Wagner Senior Officer, Regulatory and Market Environment Division, Telecommunication Development Bureau International Telecommunication Union Biography
Panelist
	Mr Arseny Plossky Rapporteur Question 4/1, BDT Study Group 1 Russian Federation Economic policies and methods of determining the costs of services related to national telecommunication/ICT networks including NGN \| Biography
	Mr Jorge Martínez Axon Partners Group El trabajo de la UIT-D Q4/1 sobre costeo de servicios digitales y la importancia de las colaboraciones (Presentation in Spanish and English together) \| Biography
	Professor Emanuele Giovannetti Professor of Economics Anglia Ruskin University (Cambridge) The role of economic regulation in facilitating SGDs – infrastructure sharing, examples of cooperative agreements, modalities of IXP governance \| Biography

Closing
Summary of discussion and way forward
Panelist
	Mr Bruno Ramos Director Regional, Oficina Regional de la UIT para las Américas International Telecommunication Union Biography
	Mr Marco Antonio Baten Superintendente de Telecomunicaciones Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (SIT) Guatemala (Republic of) Biography