Offshore Patrol Vessels Latin America

18 - 19 June, 2013

Centro de Convenções Bolsa do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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This event will be held in English with simultaneous translations in Portuguese and Spanish.

A conferência será realizada em Inglês com tradução simultânea em Português e Espanhol.

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2013 speaker faculty includes:

Admiral Luis Jaramillo Arias
Commander in Chief
Ecuadorian Navy

Rear Admiral César Cier Sáenz
Director of Naval Enlistment
Peruvian Navy

Rear Admiral José Augusto Vieira da Cunha de Menezes
Chief of Strategy
Brazilian Navy General Staff

Rear Admiral Ivan Taveira Martins
Program Head, Directorate of Strategic Programs Management
Brazilian Navy

Commodore Stephen Braham
Head of Global Combat Ship Integrated Export Team
Royal Navy

Rear Admiral Gregorio Bueno Murga
Canary Island Naval, Command
Spanish Navy

Rear Admiral Onofrio Flagiello
Chief of Design Department
Italian Navy

Captain Oscar Tascon
Director of Research and Development
COTECMAR

Mustafa Seker
Head of Naval Department, Undersecretariat for Defence Industries
MOD Turkey

Captain Mario Emilio Gobbi
Head of the Cutter Service
Argentinian Coast Guard

Captain Ronnie Gil Gavan
Director, Office for Maritime Studies and Special Concerns
Philippines Coast Guard

Captain Ang Cheng Hwa
Senior Assistant Director Maritime Criminal Investigation’s Department
Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency

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Welcome to OPV & Surface Combatants Latin America 2013: Uniting Latin American navies in an effort to optimise patrol craft and surface combatants to heighten efficient and secure the EEZ

Defence IQ’s inaugural OPV Latin America conference was born out of popular demand from the region following the success of our long-standing OPV conference series. Incorporating similar themes to our European, Asian and Middle Eastern events, OPV Latin America 2012 offered a unique perspective on the procurement strategy and operational concepts of key Latin American navies.

Following the success of last year’s event OPV & Surface Combatants Latin America 2013 is the only naval event in South America that provides an honest assessment of how to balance requirements and capability with acquisition and operational costs while sharing combating solutions to the most prevalent security concerns.

In addition to revealing procurement and acquisition strategies and inspecting several fleet renewal and OPV projects, the event will include in-depth technological presentations covering innovative solutions on system integration and capability implementation.

The focus for the 2013 OPV & Surface Combatants Latin America conference is:

Enhancing security of the EEZ to safeguard trade and inward investment
Developing a robust model for technology transfer
Helping create a world class naval defence industry with the ability to compete globally
Better understand the drivers behind new ship acquisition in Latin American navies

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Attendee Stories

"Defence IQPC OPV Conferences provide a veritable platform and ample opportunity for intellectual exchange and networking by leaders of world navies, maritime operators and other stakeholders with the ultimate objective of developing requisite architecture for enhanced security of the global commons" - Vice Admiral OS Ibrahim, Chief of the Naval Staff, Nigerian Navy

“I look forward to sharing in discussions, and exchanging ideas with the diverse range of navies and coast guards, on their latest OPV developments and performance at the 6th Annual Offshore Patrol Vessels conference.” Commander Bessa Pacheco, Plans & Policy Division, Portuguese Navy

"The annual Offshore Patrol Vessels Conference organized by IQPC has become an important reference world forum concerning the growing use of these naval assets, when senior representatives from different Navies can present and discuss the solutions they have found to reconcile technical issues with operational tasks and budget constraints so as to better accomplish their missions. ..." - Rear Admiral Francisco Deiana, Director of Naval Engineering, Brazilian Navy

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