Seminars

1. Introduction
2. Objectives
3. Nature and Format of the Seminars
4. Target Public
5. Registration and Publicity
6. Organization and Responsibilities
7. List of Seminars
8. How to Register
9 . The Annals

LIST OF SEMINARS
1- Alternative Ways to Protect the Amazon Region: Valuation and Economic Instruments Applied to the Environment
Objective: To identify and discuss the possibilities of development and protection policies for the Amazon Region based on the use of instruments used in the economic valuation of the environment.
Technical and Academic Responsibility: PIATAM Institute
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2- Japanese Immigration to the Amazon Region: roots, perspectives and ties to regional development
Objective: To identify historical aspects related to Japanese immigration to the Amazon Region, Amazonas and the Manaus Industrial Sector as part of the celebrations to mark the centenary of Japanese immigration to Brazil, and to discuss the contributions and perspectives of this Japanese presence on the development of the region.
Technical and Academic Responsibility: The Amazon Museum of the Federal University of Manaus (UFAM) and the Japanese Consulate in Manaus.
Detailed program

3- The interaction between France and the Amazon Region: technical and scientific cooperation, possible economic undertakings and the possibility of governance of the dynamics in progress
Objective: To identify the dynamics of the interaction between France and the Amazon Region, the perspectives for technical and scientific cooperation, for doing business, and for the possibility of bringing unity and governance, with the purpose of expanding its virtuous effects on the region
Technical and Academic Responsibility: Brazil-France Forum
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4- Energy and Development in the Amazon Region: Macro-dynamic operations already being developed
Objective: To present and discuss public or private, business or academic initiatives which have a significant effect on the solution to the region’s energy problems and which are on the way to coming online or have a real possibility of one day starting up, with the purpose of identifying the region’s real possibilities of supplying enough electrical energy for its development.
Technical and Academic Responsibility: The Amazon Region Energy Development Center of the Federal University of Manaus (CDEAM/UFAM)
Detailed program

5- Tourism in the Amazon Region: Dynamics underway for leveraging tourism
Objective: To identify and discuss initiatives in progress, which have the potential to leverage tourism in the Amazon Region.
Technical and Academic Responsibility: Banco da Amazônia S/A
Detailed program

6- Digital TV and related segments: the current scenarios and emerging trends in the region.
Objective: To identify the manufacturing, research and public policy initiatives, experiences and actions related to digital TV and any closely-related segments that are on the agenda of the institutions and that will have a significant effect on the region.
Technical and Academic Responsibility: The Foundation for Technological Analysis, Research and Innovation Center (FUCAPI) and the Electronic Technology Research and Development Center (CETELI) of the Federal University of Manaus (UFAM)
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7- Biotechnology and Bio-industry in the Amazon Region: an important agenda for the Region.
Objective: To identify and discuss an important agenda for the biotechnology based industry in the region including the CBA management model, access to biodiversity, company incubation options, intellectual property, the commercialization of knowledge, the search for project financing sources, the quality of regional consumables and the results of business generation surveys, in a way that increases the visibility of issues that can contribute towards really establishing biotechnology in the Amazon Region.
Technical and Academic Responsibility: The Superintendence of the Manaus Free Trade Zone (SUFRAMA) / Amazon Biotechnology Center - CBA.
Detailed program

8- Micro and Nanotechnologies Made in Germany
Objective: To promote the exchange of knowledge and the dissemination of information that can effectively accelerate the economic bases for the development of industries based on Micro and Nanotechnologies.
Technical and Academic Responsibility: The Superintendence of the Manaus Free Trade Zone (SUFRAMA) and the Manaus Industrial Sector Science, Technology and Innovation Center (CT-PIM)
Detailed program

9- Logistics in the Amazon Region: projects and promising prospects
Objective: To present the initiatives and/or projects underway or recently concluded, which bring the possibility of improvements to the logistics in the region, be they in terms of transport, airport structures or any other dynamics which have a positive effect on the region.
Technical and Academic Responsibility: The Faculty of Technology of the Federal University of Manaus (FT/UFAM)
Detailed program

10- Technological innovation in industrial segments of unique importance for the region
Objective: To identify segments that demand research, development and innovation (R,D&I) which have a unique nature, fit in cognitively with the Amazon environment and are capable of generating technological platforms of wide productive interest, such as the defense industry and the interaction between biological organisms and microelectronics, with the purpose of discussing their possible development as a strategic policy for the region.
Technical and Academic Responsibility: Genius Institute
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11- Public regional development policies: Recent initiatives and execution stages
Objective: To identify and discuss major recent initiatives, coming from the public sector, which focus on the development of the region, such as: Suframa’s Critical Strategic Planning Actions; Stage 2 of the Industrial, Technological and Foreign Trade Policy; Strategic Planning in the States; the projects covered by the Accelerated Growth Plan (PAC); the unification of Research and Development (R&D) governance for the Amazon Region; the Territories of Citizenship project; structuring the States’ Science and Technology (S&T) Systems; creating the Manaus Metropolitan Region, and other things.
Technical and Academic Responsibility: Faculty of Social Studies Postgraduate Program in Regional Development - Federal University of Manaus (PRODERE/FES/UFAM) and the State of Amazonas Planning Department (SEPLAN/AM)
Detailed program

12- Research, development and post-graduate training in the Amazon Region: Relevant initiatives and those being developed
Objective: To identify the research, development and post-graduation initiatives that currently exist or are being developed in the states in the area where SUFRAMA operates, and analyzing the real possibilities they have for being transformed into dynamics that would form part of a regional science and technology system with convergent objectives.
Technical and Academic Responsibility: University of the State of Amazonas (UEA)
Detailed program

13- Productive Integration Round for FCCR Governors: Mercosur North Front and the Seminar
“Foreign trade as a vector for making the economies of the Western Amazon Region more dynamic”.
Objective: To discuss the role of foreign trade in the process of inserting the Western Amazon in the global economy; the obstacles and opportunities facing companies related to increasing their foreign sales: as well as the tendency for northern South America to join Mercosur and the consequences of this on trade dynamics in the Pan-Amazonian Region.
Technical and Academic Responsibility: The Superintendence of the Manaus Free Trade Zone (SUFRAMA) and the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade (MDIC)
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14 - Water Resources and Economic Development: The Role of Innovation, New Technologies in the Sustainable Development of the Amazon Region.
Object: To present and discuss the role of technological innovation in the sustainable development of water resources in the Amazon region. To also discuss the role of water resources in the future economic development of the region, and to present technologies and know-how that can generate solutions for improving the administration of the Amazon region’s water resources.
Technical and Academic Responsibility: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
Detailed program

15 - The R&D resources of the information technology in the Manaus Free Trade Zone Law: relevant applications and good practices for managing it.
Object: To present and discuss the application of R&D resources resulting from the Information Technology in the Manaus Free Trade Zone Law and to identify good practices in use at the companies and research bodies that are considered to successfully and transparently manage these resources.
Technical and Academic Responsibility: Nokia Technology Institute (INDT) and the Reference Centers in Innovative Technologies Foundation (CERTI)
Detailed program

16 - Gas & oil and mineral Industry for the Amazon sustainable development
Object: To identify the business opportunities in the mining, and oil & gas industries in the context of sustainable development policies for the Amazon Region.
Partner Institutions: Geology, Mining and Mineral Transformation Secretariat (MME), National Department of Mineral Production (DNPM), CPRM – Geological Survey of Brazil, State of Amazonas Environment and Sustainable Development Secretariat (SDS/AM).
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