Poder 360°

Enhanced connectivity, content delivery and interactivity are changing customer behavior and presenting strategic challenges for decision-makers in the media and telecommunications industries. As this brave new world unfolds, service providers and brand-owners face the extraordinary opportunity of harnessing customer relationships with unprecedented customization, richness and
reach in a new era governed by the power of the individual.

PODER analyzes the challenges ahead for traditional media as the sector reinvents itself in order to survive.

Mayors from throughout the hemisphere present their cities’ sustainable development initiatives. FROM LEFT: Miami Mayor Manny Diaz, former

FROM LEFT: Alberto Ibargüen, former Publisher of the Miami Herald and president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; Dan Rather, news anchor for 24 years on CBS and who today directs a current affairs show on HDNet, the high-definition television network owned by billionaire Mark Cuban; Don Browne, president of Telemundo, one of the two largest Hispanic Networks in the U.S.; Alfonso de Angoitia, executive vice president of Grupo Televisa; Enrique Senior, executive vice president and managing director for Allen and Company, the New York-based investment bank; Ralph de la Vega, group president of Regional Telecommunications & Entertainment at AT&T and Jason Pontin, former editor of Red Herring magazine and current editor of the MIT publication Technology Review.

Jaime Lerner’s overhaul of Curitiba is the blueprint for

Michael Eisner left Disney Co. in October 2005 after more that 20 years as CEO of the country’s biggest entertainment company. His achievements say it all. Between 1984 – the year he landed at Disney – and his departure, Disney’s enterprise value had increased 32-fold from $2.8 billion to $69 billion. Its tax-free cash flow had increased 29 times to $2.9 billion. Today, Eisner remains on the Disney board and he is one of the company’s major shareholders. Eisner is now dedicating most of his time and money to the Internet.