17:30 - 19:00

Pre-Event Registration & Welcome Cocktail Reception

08:00 - 09:00

Registration

09:00 - 09:05

Welcome and Housekeeping (Portuguese)

Marina Faleiros

Managing Editor Latin America

Fastmarkets

09:05 - 09:10

Welcome Remarks (English)

09:10 - 09:45

KEYNOTE: Economic Outlook- What Lies Ahead for Latin America?

• Navigating the varied regional inflationary landscape
• Recessionary headwinds
• Bosting investment and attracting investors in an unstable environment
• Overcoming the hurdle of high interest rates

09:45 - 10:15

Brazil: an Evolving Global Power in the Bioeconomy

Lifting the lid on renewable energy opportunities in Brazil’s forest products sector.

João Paulo Pieroni

Superintendent- Innovation and Foreign Trade

BNDES

10:15 - 10:45

Fastmarkets Outlook: Fluff and Dissolving Pulp

• Overview of the global dissolving pulp market
• Recovery of textile fiber demand after the pandemic
• Outlook for the global fluff pulp market

Hema Kalathingal

Associate Economist

Fastmarkets Forest Products

10:45 - 11:15

Networking Coffee Break

11:15 - 12:00

Panel: Carbon markets and ESG- How Finances are Getting Greener

• Is there a realistic opportunity for the forest industry?
• Voluntary markets
• How are ESG factors impacting credit?

Luis Sucupira

Head of International Timber Analysis

Fastmarkets

Marco Antonio Fujihara

Director

Aggrego

12:00 - 12:30

Fastmarkets Outlook: Global Wood Pulp

Patrick Cavanagh

Senior Economist, Fiber

Fastmarkets Forest Products

12:30 - 14:00

Networking Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:30

Fastmarkets Outlook: Latin America Tissue

· Tissue market recovered in most regions in 2022, but China weak · Turbulent years over, back to normality · Global overcapacity – what next? · Major restructuring expected in Brazil

Esko Uutela

Principal, Tissue

Fastmarkets

14:30 - 15:15

Tissue CEO Panel: Challenges Amid Higher Integration

• How to tackle rising costs?
• Will there be room for non-integrated producers?
• Perspectives for the Latin American market

15:15 - 15:45

Networking Coffee Break

15:45 - 16:05

Latin American CEO of the Year Award: Presentation and Fireside Chat

This award honours a CEO of a Latin American pulp, paper or packaging business, in recognition of outstanding leadership, delivering on strategy including sustainability and ESG to drive growth in a unpredictable landscape. The award will be followed by a sit down discussion with Fastmarkets Managing Editor Marina Faleiras.

16:05 - 17:00

CEO Panel Discussion- Pulp and Fiber

• Strategies for a volatile short-term environment
• Increased Latin American capacity against a global slowdown
• Looking east – what next for Chinese demand?
• ESG – driving accountability and investment

Walter Schalka

CEO

Suzano

Rodrigo Libaber

Director of Sales & Logistics

Eldorado Brasil

17:00 - 18:30

Cocktail Reception and Close of Day 1

08:00 - 14:15

Registration & Continental Breakfast

09:10 - 09:45

Fastmarkets Outlook: Global Graphic Markets

• Current challenges within global graphic paper industry
• Two year outlook for the Latin American graphics industry
• Developments in Europe, North America and Asia and its relevance for Latin America

Alejandro Mata Lopez

Director- Europe Graphic and Packaging Paper

Fastmarkets

09:45 - 10:30

Packaging End-users panel

• How can the industry overcome the cost barrier for plastic substitution?
• What are Latin American consumers looking for? Cost sensitivities?
• Are paper packaging producers innovating enough?

10:30 - 11:00

Networking Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:30

Fastmarkets Outlook: Asian Boxboard

11:30 - 12:15

Corrugators in Latin America

· Product development and new consumer demands

· Navigating the challenges amid political-economic uncertainty

· Supply perspectives after the pandemic

12:15 - 12:45

Bags and New Packaging: What’s New?

· How are the region’s key packaging paper producers responding to growing demand for alternatives to single-use plastics? · Developments for food services, retail and ecommerce

12:45 - 14:15

Networking Lunch Break

14:15 - 15:00

Sustainability Trends in Latin America Packaging

• How are producers innovating to address sustainability in packaging?
• Can suppliers help producers move the dial and increase efficiencies?
• Plastic vs wood products – price pressures and other challenges

Rafael Barisauskas

Economist, Latin American Pulp, Paper & Packaging

Fastmarkets Forest Products

15:00 - 15:30

Fastmarkets Outlook: Latin American Packaging

• How the main economic challenges in Latin America may affect the packaging consumption?
• Which specific regional risks and opportunities should you be aware of?
• How should the packaging paper supply & demand balance be in the coming two years?
• What are the main risks and opportunities for sustainability in Latin America?

Rafael Barisauskas

Economist, Latin American Pulp, Paper & Packaging

Fastmarkets Forest Products

15:30 - 16:00

Networking Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:30

Transport and Freight: A regional update

16:30 - 17:15

CEO Panel: Packaging and Paper

• B2B vs B2C – how consumers are driving demand
• Is the pandemic e-commerce boom over?
• What will drive investment in capacity and integration?

Marina Faleiros

Managing Editor Latin America

Fastmarkets

17:15 - 17:16

Close of Day 2 & End of Conference