Latin America Security Summit

The tour will kick off March 23, 2010 in Panama City, Republic of Panama

Click HERE to reserve your ticket to this event (limited seating)




Key economic stats on Panama according to the International Money Fund (IMF) report of June 2009:

• Real GDP in 2008 grew by 9.2 percent, following an annual average growth of 8.8 percent in 2004-07
• The high-growth period has led to a significant fall in poverty and a sharp decline in the unemployment rate, from 10.9 percent at the end of 2003 to 4.2 percent in August of 2008
• Inflation, after peaking at 10 percent in September 2008, driven by the spike in international food and fuel prices and demand pressures, has declined rapidly and reached 3.7 percent in March 2009
• Panama’s large banking system has weathered the global financial crisis relatively well. The system is well-capitalized, highly liquid, and has strong financial soundness indicators
• The Panama Canal expansion, estimated to cost US$5.3 billion, is broadly on track, and the external financing for the project has been secured on very favorable terms

Another factor we see as very positive for pursuing technology business in Panama is the government's launch of public WiFi access with first phase of implementation being completed during the month of November which will cover eleven cities including Panama City. They also are promising a laptop for every citizen of Panama.  This should vastly impact penetration of the internet within the population while also posing many new challenges for securing networks and transactions in the country.


EVENT LOCATION:



The brand new "Holiday Inn Ciudad de Saber", overlooking the beautiful Panama Canal.

Session Schedule:

9AM-             Opening session

10AM-           Richard Stiennon, Keynote address

11AM-

12:30 - 2PM   Luncheon and Keynote

2-5PM           Vendor presentations & Exposition



SPEAKERS:

 

Richard Stiennon

Richard Stiennon is a security industry expert. He writes the security blog for ThreatChaos.com and founded  IT-Harvest, an independent analyst firm that researches the 1,200 IT security vendors.  He was Chief Marketing Officer for Fortinet, Inc. the leading UTM vendor.  Prior to that he was VP Threat Research at Webroot Software where he evangelized Webroot’s battle against adware and spyware vendors. He represented Webroot at the Anti-Spyware Coalition in Washington DC, and assisted congressional staffers in formulating security legislation. He traveled extensively on behalf of Webroot and met with journalists and IT leaders throughout Europe, Asia, and North America.

Before Webroot, Mr. Stiennon was VP Research at Gartner Inc. where he covered security topics including firewalls, intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, security consulting, and managed security services for the Security and Privacy group. He is a holder of Gartner's Thought Leadership award  and was named "One of the 50 most powerful people in Networking" by NetworkWorld Magazine.  He is currently completing “Surviving Cyber War”, a soon to be published Scarecrow Press book.