"Creating opportunities and connections"

FEBRUARY 2021

From PCCC: SANDRA BARRETO, our Finance / Accounting / Strategy expert

The PCCC family continues to grow as we have new Volunteers and Directors joining our mission and lending a hand to the amazing work that the Chamber is doing, to connect people and opportunities within the Canadian and Peruvian economies.

This month, meet Sandra Barreto, another member of PCCC's Board of Directors. Sandra is a results-driven entrepreneur, consultant and leader with over 20 years of experience in manufacturing, biotechnology and service industries, across various organizations worldwide. With her extensive experience in cost & financial accounting, budget & forecasting, and review & implementation of internal controls, Sandra is a huge asset to our team.

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How Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) are transforming enterprises during the pandemic

We are thrilled to announce the start of yet another series of PCCC webinars, and would like to invite you all to tune into the first one themed around "How Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) are transforming enterprises during the pandemic", on March 25th, 2021, at 11 am EST.

Organisations are increasingly adopting innovative technology solutions, and recent studies suggest that the use of AR and VR is on the rise due to COVID. As our esteemed panelists - Kamran Baqai, Global Managing Director Altitude XR and Shameer Kanji, SVP Adastra Corporation - join us to share insights into this realm, tune in to explore how the use of these technologies can boost productivity, increase safety, and enhance training efforts.

How can organizations safeguard themselves against the increasing threat to cyber security?

Tête-à-tête with Sura Alshaer, Director, IT Security, Kinross Gold Corporation.

Kinross Gold is a Canadian gold mining company with a diverse portfolio of mines and projects in the United States, Brazil, Chile, Ghana, Mauritania, and Russia. We recently caught up with Sura to discuss how the recent surge in technology in all organisational operations should be addressed from the point of view of Cyber Security.

As the Director of IT Security; Sura has a global responsibility for running the cyber security program for her company and managing IT Risk. With her team, she built and advanced their cyber security capabilities as they adopted a defense-in-depth strategy.

excerpt of the interview

Peru: PROINVERSION promotes infrastructure projects to European, U.S. investors

The State-run Private Investment Promotion Agency (ProInversion) began the year actively promoting important infrastructure projects to draw the interest of investors and executives representing major companies in Europe and the United States.

Executive-Director Rafael Ugaz highlighted the opportunities to invest in Peru through ProInversion's portfolio of projects for the 2021-2022 period, which includes initiatives worth over US$8.00 billion -between mature ones and those in the process of maturing.