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2022 Latin American Virtual Conference

New Opportunities for Growth: Technology, Talent and Trust

10/4/2022 - 10/5/2022
Virtual

Overview

Who Attends

Multiple parallel sessions will be designed to address:

  • Strategic themes for head office chief executives of financial services companies operating in Latin America.
  • Management sessions for supervisors and sales team managers
  • Sales sessions for agents and advisors

Interpretation Services

This event will include presentations in English, Spanish and Portuguese.  Interpretation into and between Spanish and Portuguese will be offered at no additional cost. Presentations delivered in Spanish or Portuguese will NOT be interpreted into English.

Highlights

Mark your calendars and join us this October at the 2022 Latin American Virtual Conference!  Insurance professionals from throughout Latin America will be able to come together during this 2 day event to:

  • Receive insights, predictions and recommendations for new and upcoming growth opportunities.
  • Hear about the latest technologies and how to choose the right ones to support your business needs.
  • Discuss the best ways to find, keep and develop top talent.
  • Learn tactical tips and takeaways for how to win and grow trust among clients and colleagues.
  • Access a variety of content presented in both live and on-demand formats
  • Connect with other leaders from throughout the region
  • ”Meet” with sponsors to learn more about how they can help you continue improving your business  
  • Participate in live discussion and Q&A

Closing Keynote Speaker:

Ricardo Hausmann, Founder and Director, Harvard’s Growth Lab & Professor of the International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School

Ricardo Hausmann is regarded as one of the most prominent economists in Latin America. He has advised more than 80 governments of developing countries in the creation of strategies and policies for economic growth.

We are currently developing the program for this conference, so please continue to check back for additional details and updates!  To view last year’s information, please click here

Speakers

Christian Brisson
Head of LATAM, ReMark Americas
  • Wednesday, October 5, 2022

    9:35 a.m. - 10:35 a.m.: CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Christian Brisson

Head of LATAM, ReMark Americas

Christian brought his passion for digital innovation to ReMark 9 years ago.  He combines ReMark technologies with his knowledge of data analytics, modeling, and product creation to lead digital implementation efforts across Latin America. Christian and his team help insurance carriers grow by developing, implementing, and managing omni-channel marketing campaigns. Prior to joining ReMark, Christian worked for two leading Mexican insurers, gaining experience in contact centers and alternative channel insurance sales.

Gina Castañeda
Membership and Benefits Manager, Latin America & the Caribbean, LIMRA and LOMA
  • Wednesday, October 5, 2022

    10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.: CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Gina Castañeda

Membership and Benefits Manager, Latin America & the Caribbean, LIMRA and LOMA

Gina Castañeda joined LIMRA and LOMA in 2011, and currently serves as the Membership and Benefits Manager for Latin America & the Caribbean. In her role, she is responsible for the region’s research agenda, academic forums and events, and for bringing together related organizations to work together for the development and growth of the life insurance industry. Gina has 16 years of experience in the insurance industry and has held various positions in the planning and marketing areas at Colmena, Allianz and MetLife.

Claudio Correa
General Manager, Ohio National Seguros de Vida S.A.

Claudio Correa

General Manager, Ohio National Seguros de Vida S.A.

Claudio has more than 35 years of insurance experience, and has held management positions in companies like Allianz México, Bhifamérica Seguros de Vida and the Asociación de Aseguradores de Chile A.G. He has worked as a professor at the Escuela de Seguros, teaching the Introduction to Insurance and Insurance Company Administration courses, has a degree in Engineering Sciences from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and is a graduate of Industrial Civil Engineering with a mention in Computing from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.  He is also a permanent member of multiple committees of the Association of Insurers of Chile A.G.

Lic. Paula Culotta
Independent consultant and Training and Personal Development Specialist
  • Tuesday, October 4, 2022

    10:35 a.m. - 11:05 a.m.:

Lic. Paula Culotta

Independent consultant and Training and Personal Development Specialist

Paula has a Bachelor of Public Relations and has done postgraduate course work related to the Analysis, Development and Evaluation of Human Potential and Negotiation. She is a Counselor - Psychological Consultant with certifications in the Points Of You methodology. She has worked with large multinational consulting firms on various projects related to quality, training, selection, and talent retention, of which 8 years was spent in the insurance and investment industry. She is currently finishing her BA in Psychology at UDEMM.

Carlos Eduardo Gondim
Executive Director of Life and Pensions, Porto Seguros
  • Tuesday, October 4, 2022

    11:30 a.m. - 12:25 p.m.: CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Carlos Eduardo Gondim

Executive Director of Life and Pensions, Porto Seguros

Carlos Eduardo Gondim is Executive Director of Life and Pensions at Porto, responsible for individual and group life, travel and credit life insurance, as well as Private Pension products. Prior to joining Porto, Gondim worked for more than 20 years with Strategy and Business Transformation at Booz-Allen Hamilton and McKinsey consultancies and at Patria Private Equity. Gondim graduated from the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA) as an Electronic Engineer and holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.

Mauricio Fonseca Valverde
Agency Director, Grupo Nacional Provincial (GNP)
  • Wednesday, October 5, 2022

    9:35 a.m. - 10:35 a.m.:

Mauricio Fonseca Valverde

Agency Director, Grupo Nacional Provincial (GNP)

As Agency Director, Mauricio created a company called ALFA CONSULTORES EN SEGUROS where he is responsible for executing start-up strategies, including:

  • Recruiting and evaluating new candidates to select quality agents for the organization.
  • Development and training based on coaching, with the aim of developing new agents in both professional and economic growth.
  • Retention of agents based on an attractive career plan that provides activity and generates income for agents.
  • Compliance with goals and objectives set by the company and by ourselves.

Prior to his current position, Mauricio worked at several other insurance companies, most recently at MetLife, where he was a member of the MDRT from 2017-2021 and gave talks, courses and conferences to different agents and promoters within the company about products, sales techniques, and objection handling.

Rajatesh Gudibande
Co-founder and CEO, GraphWear Technologies Inc.
  • Wednesday, October 5, 2022

    9:35 a.m. - 10:35 a.m.: CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Rajatesh Gudibande

Co-founder and CEO, GraphWear Technologies Inc.

Rajatesh Gudibande is the co-founder and CEO at GraphWear Technologies Inc., a venture-backed startup based in San Francisco, California that is transforming the way human health is mapped. GraphWear is building the first no-needle, no-blood platform to diagnose and monitor diseases continuously without breaking the skin, with the first target being glucose levels for patients with diabetes. Before founding GraphWear, Rajatesh was the lead scientist and later Sr. Product Manager at Graphene Frontiers, where he managed the development of a cardiac troponin diagnostic test for Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI). Prior to that Rajatesh was a nano-fabrication engineer at University of Pennsylvania, where he developed, characterized, and fabricated devices made of novel 2D nanoscale materials-including the Nobel prize winning material, Graphene. Rajatesh received his M.S. in Nanotechnology from University of Pennsylvania and B.Tech. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in India. Rajatesh has patents and peer reviewed publications in electrical engineering, nanotechnology and signal processing.

Antonio Guzman Buscemi
Product Innovation Director, In Motion
  • Tuesday, October 4, 2022

    10:35 a.m. - 11:05 a.m.: CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Antonio Guzman Buscemi

Product Innovation Director, In Motion

Antonio leads In Motion’s cutting-edge new solutions, currently focused on the product suite called Nebula. Having worked in multiple roles throughout his more than 7 years at In Motion, he is now in charge of product ideation, roadmaps, strategy, recruitment, delivery, and technological direction across all products in the Nebula suite. He holds a master’s in information technology from Carnegie Mellon and a bachelor’s in software engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Richardo Hausmann
Founder and Director, Harvard’s Growth Lab & Professor of the International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School
  • Wednesday, October 5, 2022

    11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.: CLOSING KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Richardo Hausmann

Founder and Director, Harvard’s Growth Lab & Professor of the International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School

Ricardo Hausmann is a pioneer in researching the causes of macroeconomic volatility in emerging markets, studying the role of budgetary and political institutions in achieving a fiscal balance, the role of external debt in foreign currency in economic crises, and its effects on the growth, poverty and inequality in developing countries. Under his leadership, Harvard’s Growth Lab has grown into one of the most well regarded and influential hubs for research on international development.

Since launching the Growth Lab in 2006, Hausmann has served as principal investigator for more than 50 research initiatives in nearly 30 countries, informing development policy, growth strategies and diversification agendas at the national and sub-national levels. His work has been published in top international economic journals, including Science, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of International Economics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of International Money and Finance, Economic Policy and the Journal of Economic Growth. These publications have been cited more than 42,000 times, and their main findings have been highlighted in mass media outlets such as The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.

Before joining Harvard University, he served as the first Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank, Minister of Planning of Venezuela, a member of the Board of the Central Bank of Venezuela, and Chair of the IMF-World Bank Development Committee. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University.

Harry Hoopis
CEO, Hoopis Performance Network
  • Wednesday, October 5, 2022

    10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.: CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Harry Hoopis

CEO, Hoopis Performance Network

Harry Hoopis is the Chief Executive Officer of the Hoopis Performance Network and is a renowned entrepreneur, leader, speaker and industry icon. Over his 40 year career, he built one of the largest and most successful financial services firms in the world in Chicago, Illinois. During his illustrious career, Harry was awarded the Master Agency Award every year since its inception, received the Robert Templin Award for his many contributions to management development and is the recipient of NAIFA Chicago’s Leadership in Life Award. Harry was inducted in the GAMA International Management Hall of Fame. He served on the Board of Trustees for the GAMA International Foundation and is Past President of GAMA International as well as Northwestern Mutual’s General Agent’s Management Association. He is still an active member of two of the industry’s most elite study groups, the LIMRA Research Agencies Group and the General Agents Symposium. Harry is also the principal author of The Essentials of Management Development, creator of the Firm Foundations seminar series, and developer of the Fixed Activity Commitment System. Harry is the author of the best-selling book, The Road to the Bountiful Life: Achieving Success in Financial Services and donates all proceeds to the GAMA Foundation.

Carlos Islas Murguía
Member Development Director, Mexico, LIMRA and LOMA
  • Tuesday, October 4, 2022

    9:30 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.: WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS

Carlos Islas Murguía

Member Development Director, Mexico, LIMRA and LOMA

For more than 25 years, Carlos has worked for in the insurance and banking sectors in several positions as officer in various insurance companies; most recently as director of AXA Corporate University leading a new distribution channel, overseeing 300 direct agents in two different cities.

He was Risk Management Director in Grupo Financiero Promex Finamex, and prior to this, he was an insurance agent for Grupo Nacional Provincial, holding important positions in sales and attending Conventions every year.

He served as co-Chair of AMIS´ Distribution Channels Committee, participated as a spokesperson promoting an insurance culture in national media in programs such as Fernanda Familiar, was a columnist for Forbes Magazine and was on TV for more than 2 years in Excelsior TV with journalist Rodrigo Pacheco.

Academically, Carlos has a degree in Business Administration from La Salle University, a degree in Psychology from the University of the Valley of Mexico, a Master´s Degree in Clinical Psychology and a Ph.D. in Neuropsychoanalysis from the Intercontinental University. 

Joe Jordan
Inspirational Speaker & Behavioral Finance Expert
  • Tuesday, October 4, 2022

    9:40 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.: OPENING KEYNOTE

Joe Jordan

Inspirational Speaker & Behavioral Finance Expert

Joe Jordan, inspirational speaker and behavioral finance expert, is the author of the award-winning book Living a Life of Significance which has sold over 100,000 copies and is translated in five languages. Formerly, Joe ran insurance sales at PaineWebber and more recently was a senior vice president at MetLife. He was responsible for retail product development and started their fee-based financial planning program and behavioral finance department. Joe is also a founder of the Insured Retirement Institute (formally known as the National Association of Variable Annuities or NAVA) and has been featured on the cover of Life Insurance Selling magazine.  For three consecutive years, he has been honored by Irish America magazine as one of the “Top 50 Irish Americans on Wall Street.” He was inducted into the Fordham University Football Hall of Fame and has played rugby for the New York Athletic Club for 30 years.

Claudia Mercedes Padrón Mercado
Director of Management and Knowledge Transfer, and Postgraduate Director in Consumer Psychology, Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz
  • Tuesday, October 4, 2022

    12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.:

Claudia Mercedes Padrón Mercado

Director of Management and Knowledge Transfer, and Postgraduate Director in Consumer Psychology, Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz

Claudia Padrón is the Director of Management and Knowledge Transfer, and Postgraduate Director in Consumer Psychology Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz. As a researcher with 12 years of experience in market and social studies, she has also been a teacher for 10 years in the areas of qualitative research and decision making and choices as they relate to consumption.

Oren Nissim
CEO & Co-founder, Brook Health
  • Wednesday, October 5, 2022

    9:35 a.m. - 10:35 a.m.: CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Oren Nissim

CEO & Co-founder, Brook Health

Oren is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, and the founder and CEO of Brook Health, a leading healthcare platform for chronic disease management and remote patient monitoring. Oren’s background is in consumer software where he created foundational elements of the mobile mapping and location eco-system through leading one of Israel’s most successful mobile companies, Telmap, which then successfully was acquired by intel corp.

Pratyay Poddar
Founder and CEO, DocMe
  • Wednesday, October 5, 2022

    9:35 a.m. - 10:35 a.m.: CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Pratyay Poddar

Founder and CEO, DocMe

With 9+ years of professional experience in Physics (Cambridge) and a $100bn electronics multinational corporation with a major interest in healthcare, Pratyay has collaborated and managed large-scale global projects and represented Hitachi and Cambridge University at multiple international conferences, and won many awards, including the Royal Commission 1851 Industrial Fellowship and the Kenkai Award in 2016 for “commercialisation of his academic research”.

Salomón Spak
Partner, McKinsey & Company
  • Wednesday, October 5, 2022

    10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.: CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Salomón Spak

Partner, McKinsey & Company

Salomón has nearly 20 years of industry experience working with organizations throughout Latin America.  He currently leads the Insurance practice for South America, advising clients on digital transformations, analytics and operational model changes. More broadly, he works with financial institutions to develop their digital and analytical capabilities to achieve substantial performance improvements.

Terry Sullivan
Founder, BuzzPro
  • Tuesday, October 4, 2022

    11:30 a.m. - 12:25 p.m.:

Terry Sullivan

Founder, BuzzPro

Terry Sullivan is a thought leader and technology advisor in the world of Social Media. He previously served as Director of Marketing for Verizon Communications where he launched many successful national marketing programs that gained more than 456,000 new customers and reduced churn by more than 6% annually, in spite of multiple price increases and competitor product launches. In 2012, Terry founded BuzzPro, an Integrated Marketing and Social Media Marketing and Training company, to meet the needs of business owners and leaders that were unsure about how to use online marketing tools to find and connect with potential prospects and clients. He now works with his clients to show them how to fill their sales funnels with more sales using advanced LinkedIn branding and Social Selling strategies. His presentations have helped hundreds of clients learn how to expand their influence and grow their businesses. His programs focus on keyword optimization, branding and Social Selling strategies that help his clients tap into the unlimited world of Social Media to get better leads, more prospects and clients. Terry received his Social Media Marketing Certification from Splash Media University, one of the nation’s premier Social Media training companies.

José S. Suquet
Chairman of the Board & CEO, Pan-American Life Insurance Group
  • Tuesday, October 4, 2022

    11:30 a.m. - 12:25 p.m.: CONCURRENT SESSIONS

José S. Suquet

Chairman of the Board & CEO, Pan-American Life Insurance Group

José leads Pan-American Life Insurance Group as Chairman of the Board and CEO, overseeing operations in 22 countries and spearheading the company’s strategic planning.  José joined Pan-American Life in November 2004 and has led the organization to record growth and success thanks to an initial restructuring of the Group’s operations; a renewed and strategic focus on life, accident and health insurance solutions; and a combination of organic growth and strategic mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Pan-American Life, José held senior management posts in the insurance industry for more than four decades, including serving as senior executive vice president and chief distribution officer of AXA Financial. He also opened “The Suquet Agency” which was among the sales and marketing leaders of The Equitable and awarded Equitable’s President's Trophy for eight consecutive years.  José is currently serving on the Boards of Directors of  Regions Financial Corporation; and the Ochsner Health System. He previously served as a board member for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; Retail Payments Oversight Committee; and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, New Orleans Branch.  José graduated from Fordham University in New York with a Bachelor of Science and holds an M.B.A. from the University of Miami. He is also a National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Governance Fellow.

Desiree Wagner
Senior Partner Success Manager, Plug and Play
  • Wednesday, October 5, 2022

    9:35 a.m. - 10:35 a.m.: CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Desiree Wagner

Senior Partner Success Manager, Plug and Play

Desiree is a Senior Partner Success Manager at Plug and Play, the world’s largest global innovation platform. Here she operates with some of the largest insurers, reinsurers and brokers in the world including: Munich Re, Unum, Aon, Swiss Re, Sanlam, Zurich Insurance, WTW and many more. In her role, Desiree is responsible for the execution of innovation strategies within Europe, South Africa and North America, and also supports program operation as well as the further development of the Insurtech platform.

César Rivera Wilson
General Manager, Pacífico Seguros
  • Tuesday, October 4, 2022

    11:30 a.m. - 12:25 p.m.: CONCURRENT SESSIONS

César Rivera Wilson

General Manager, Pacífico Seguros

César has more than 25 years of experience in the Insurance and Pensions sector, and has held management positions in insurance companies like Santander Vida Compañía de Seguros in Peru, American Life Insurance Company in Argentina and also Pacífico Vida Compañía de Seguros. He has worked as a professor at the University of Piura, in the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, has a Diploma in Corporate Finance from the Universidad del Pacífico and has completed various programs in managerial and technical areas such as the Management Development Program at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, the Life Insurance Program at the Swiss Insurance Training Center in Zurich , and the Management and Leadership Program at the Gen-Re Business School with The Chartered Insurance Institute, in Germany, among others.

Agenda

9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
7:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua
8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Colombia, Ecuador, México, Panamá, Perú
9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Bolivia, Puerto Rico, República Dominicana, Venezuela
10:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. – Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay

Registration

Early Registration Rates (Register by September 2 and save!)

  • Individual Member Registration: US $250
  • Individual Nonmember Registration: US $300

Standard Registration Rates (Register after September 2)

  • Individual Member Registration: US $300
  • Individual Nonmember Registration: US $350


Join us as a Supporting Organization! 

For companies looking to send 12 or more people, our Supporting Organization group enrollment package offers tiered flat fee pricing to send multiple employees and agents, located within a single country.  Supporting Organizations will have their logo prominently displayed in “Supporting Organization” recognition areas, and will be given verbal recognition from the general session platform during the event.  For more information or to register a group, please contact Megan Schwartz at mschwartz@limra.com.

Early Registration Rates (Register by September 2 and save!)

*Supporting Organization (Member):

  • 1-100 attendees: $2,950
  • 101-200 attendees: $3,500
  • 201-300 attendees: $4,000
  • 301-400 attendees: $4,500
  • 401-500 attendees: $5,000
  • Over 500 people: $5,500

* Supporting Organization (Nonmember):

  • 1-100 attendees: $3,700
  • 101-200 attendees: $4,250
  • 201-300 attendees: $4,750
  • 301-400 attendees: $5,250
  • 401-500 attendees: $5,750
  • Over 500 people: $6,250

Standard Registration Rates (Register after September 2)

* Supporting Organization (Member):

  • 1-100 attendees: $3,450
  • 101-200 attendees: $4,000
  • 201-300 attendees: $4,500
  • 301-400 attendees: $5,000
  • 401-500 attendees: $5,500
  • Over 500 people: $6,000

* Supporting Organization (Nonmember):

  • 1-100 attendees: $4,200
  • 101-200 attendees: $4,750
  • 201-300 attendees: $5,250
  • 301-400 attendees: $5,750
  • 401-500 attendees: $6,250
  • Over 500 people: $6,750

 

Cancellation Policy

All cancellations must be received in writing. Email: customer.service@limra.com. Cancellations received by September 20, 2022, will be refunded, less a $75 processing fee. No refunds will be issued after September 20, 2022. In the event that a scheduled meeting or event is cancelled by LIMRA/LOMA for any reason, LIMRA/LOMA shall refund any conference registration fees that have been paid by the registrant. Under no circumstances, however, shall LIMRA/LOMA be liable to the registrant for any other expenses.

Become a Sponsor or Exhibitor

Sponsors and Exhibitors

Gold Sponsor

Media Sponsors

Contact us to learn more:

Mr. Jinhai Guo

International Conference Coordinator

LIMRA and LOMA

GUOJ@loma.org

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