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WTC Life Science | JLL

May 9, 2019 - We organized with JLL an event focused on C-Levels of Life Science, where they could discuss their challenges for the second semester of 2019. 25% of the guests said that their most difficult challenge is process improvement, because they impact in their results limiting their news initiatives for the company. The speaker, Washington Botelho (Managing Director of JLL) instigated the guests asking about the values, creativity, workspace and productivity. We also had as guest Lidia Abdala, CEO of Laboratorio Sabin, bringing to the discussion some cases and her expertise. Read More

WTC Exchange | The Challenges of IPO

May 8, 2019 - Alper Insurance, the official WTC partner, had in their office organized by WTC São Paulo, 14 members of WTC São Paulo attended to the Exchange. The meeting had as main subject "The Challenges of IPO" had as intermediation speaker Fundação Dom Cabral, bringing ideas through the exchange of business practices. Read More

WTC Connections | A disruptive roundtable

April 26, 2019 - We are more than happy sharing the success of WTC Connections, last Apr 26. The project has as main goal to connect people for business but in a different way, focusing on a genuine business relationship for promoting new opportunities. During the event, when we asked which word defines the most common difficult for finding good suppliers, the most voted was "compromising", "quality" and "confidence". Also during the event, 26,3% of the guests believe that will replace and hire a new law services office for the second semester of this year. Read More

II Corporate & Investment Forum Ethio-Brazil

April 22, 2019 - WTC São Paulo Business Club organized on March 28 the II Corporate & Investment Forum Ethio-Brazil 2019 with an organization representing approximately 20 companies from Ethiopia. We had the pleasure of having 4 speakers on stage, Mr. Zenemedeneh Nigatu (President of Global Fairfax Africa Fund), Mr. Yalew Abate (Ambassador of Ethiopia in Brazil), Ms. Natalia Melo (CEO at Standard Bank Group) and Mr. Lucas Pladevall Moreira (CEO at CBA Sementes). During the great presentations about market and incentive for investments in Ethiopia they gave emphasis that until next year, 2020, Africa will have one of the most important urban areas in the world. Ms. Natalia Melo presented some numbers about investment and opportunities in the country and their average investments, being around 1,4tri. of dollars. Read More

WTC Business Forum | Customer Success

April 15, 2019 - On Thursday April 11 we organized the WTC Business Forum focusing on Customer Success. We had the experts Claudia Wharton (Customer Service Director at MAPFRE), Joao Moressi Junior (CEO at Opah IT Consulting) and Tarcisio Triviño (Customer Service Director at Volvo Cars) as speakers, bringing cases and experiences in their companies. Our interactive survey gave us the statistics of 22,4% of the executives are still studying the best index for the company and 63,4% believe there is some difficult about planning a trust relation between values of the company and the final customer. Read More

Where will be your company tomorrow? | By Oracle

April 15, 2019 - Where will be your company tomorrow? That was the discussion by a team of specialists of Oracle with WTC São Paulo Business Club, focusing on process automation of the financial team with technology, discussing about keeping the focus on companies improvement, bringing results and talents. Read More

WTC C-Level Meeting

April 15, 2019 - Today WTC São Paulo Business Club organized the WTC C-Level Meeting focusing on the Future of Companies. We had the pleasure of having Alessandra da Costa Morrison (HR Director at Kimberly-Clark), Luciano Faustinoni (CIO LatAm at IBM), Rodrigo Zambon (CEO at TMF Group), Washington Botelho de Souza (Managing Director at JLL) as speakrs and Cleber Morais (CEO at Amazon), who intermediate the discussion. During the event, more than 40 leaders as attendants answered the question about what strategies that are being applied in the companies for the next years, being 18% implementing technologies and 18% looking for new talents. When the innovation is the main subject, the executives say there are barriers inside their companies for many reasons, translating these barriers in some words as "culture" and "bureaucracy". Read More

WTC Business Coffee | Innovation for SMEs

April 11, 2019 - On Mar 26 we had more than 30 leaders attending to WTC Business Coffee, discussing about Innovation for Small and Middle Market. The discussion had as speakers Adalberto Bem Haja (CEO of BHC Sistemas de Segurança Eletrônica), André Maluf (Business Director of Growth Sopa.ag) Miguel Lopes Filho (CIO LatAm at Motorola Solutions), Reynaldo Gama (Head of Corporate at Cubo Itaú) and Silvio Fernandes (Partner and Director at Five Forces Consulting). During the event the most used words by the attendants, when we talk about innovation barriers in the companies, were "conservatism" and "bureaucracy". We also discussed about Open Innovation models that are used or would be useful for implementing inside the companies and 42% believe in Corporate Events and 20,3% believe that Startups accelerators are better. Miguel Lopes also asked, teasing the attendants, "When was the last time that you were innovative?". Read More

53° Advisory Board | Successful Education Model

April 10, 2019 - On Mar 22, WTC São Paulo Business Club organized the 53° Advisory Board Committee discussing about Successful Education Model. This exclusive meeting happens 4 times an year and it is chaired by Dr. Ozires Silva and Mr. Alexandre Silva, Founder and President of Embraer, respectively. We had the pleasure of having as special guests and speakers Mr. João Cury Neto (Municipal Secretary of Education), Ms. Ana Maria Diniz (President of the Advisory Board of Peninsula Institute), Mr Antonio Batista da Silva Junior (Executive President of Fundação Dom Cabral), sharing their expertise with more than 40 Presidents and CEOs of the main companies in Brazil. During the discussion, Sofia Esteves (President of Advisory Board of Grupo Cia. de Talentos) asked to the speakers what the executives can do for helping with the issues and challenges that the Brazilian education is facing. Mr. Joao Cury Neto and Ms. Ana Mariz Diniz gave emphasis that it is not enough to adopt a school or donate them annually, for improving the education it is really necessary to invest time and dedication. Read More

2º CHRO Committee

April 8, 2019 - On Mar 27 we organized the 2nd CHRO Committee 2019, discussing about the balance of the 5 healthy points at work. We had Luiz Edmundo Rosa (Director of People Development at ABRH), Miriam Branco da Cunha (CHRO at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein) and Erika Braga (CHRO at PwC), sharing their expertise with more than 40 leaders. The interactive survey showed us 91% of the attendants saying that the stress level of their employees increased in the last 3 years and 73% of the leaders of HRs believe that the investiment on health is important. Considering all the subjects, Erika Braga gave some statistics calculated by Be Well, Work Well! of PwC, one of these numbers shows that small breaks during the day can increase until 80% the productivity of the employees. Read More

Global Commerce: The International Trade Barriers

April 3, 2019 - The World Trade Center São Paulo Business Club organized the first Global Commerce Committee focusing on the new economy. The speakers Felipe Del Nero (WorldPay Customer Experience VP), Gabriela Szprinc (Head of Small and Middle Companies at PayPal) and Milton Achel (Head of Government & Institutional Affairs at Yellow) shared their knowledge and know-how with more than 40 leaderships during the Mar 19th morning. During the event WTC São Paulo asked to the attendants their business model for internationalization of companies and 21,1% prefer local distributor/representant and local partnership and only 7% believe that the best business model is the M&A strategy. Considering all the relevant contents, Mr. Del Nero talked about the payments technologies abroad: “Considering the evolution, the technology is changing the commercial payment methods scenario.” Read More

B2B Sales | WTC Business Forum

March 27, 2019 - On 15th Mar happened our WTC Business Forum discussing about insights and trends to new customers profiles focusing on B2B sales. Analyzing the main challenged of the companies, 16,1% confirm about problems with qualified leads and 14,3% can see obstacles for leadership commercial knowledge. Once we discussed about effective strategy for providing leads, we had 24,2% for directed campaigns focusing on social media and 25% for created content via newsletter. We appreciate our guests, specially our speakers, Carlos Campos (CEO of MKT4Sales), Christian Rojas (President of Jani-King) and José Augusto (International Head of Truckvan), bringing to the event their expertise and know-how of market. Thank you to our HUB PMEs partners: Regus, AlphaGraphics, CCLi, MKT4Sales and Nexoos. We also appreciate our sponsors Sames Kremlin, Focus and Sapore. Read More