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[[Latin America EPC Summit, Highlights]]
[This is an extremely valuable event for us,]
[we have gotten in touch with up to 70]
[different engineering and procurement companies]
[[Hugo Silva, Latin America Region Leader-GE Mining Solutions]]
[So this is really a very cost-effective way of getting in touch with the ]
[very important engineering community. ]
[[Peter Carter, global Leader-GE Mining Solutions]]
[The EPC community has quite a large critical mass here. ]
[The amount of projects that have been implemented in Chile]
[over the last decade and the number of new projects]
[that are planned here in Peru and Brazil]
[We have to have partners to execute on a global basis. ]
[[Jim Suciu, President, Sales&Marketing, GE Energy]]
[And we're going to continue to grow, and we're going to grow with our partners.]
[That's one of the themes of these events is that ]
[we're both going to grow together,]
[and it's not about just GE technology, ]
[but it's about working with our partners to execute on a global basis. ]
[[Fernando Garcia, Senior VP, Latin America-SNC Lavalin]]
[Our company is an engineering and construction company.]
[We are integrators of different technologies. ]
[The way that General Electric really ]
[provides an excellent technologies]
[not only for the mining industry ]
[but all the supporting structure and the water management]
[I think it's important to have these kind of alliances.]
[[Jose Luis Fernandez, GM, Foster Wheeler-Chile]]
[Now is Foster Wheeler in Chile, but we are trying to]
[extend this collaboration to other countries. ]
[[Shane Fitzsimons, CFO-GE Global Growth Operations]]
[I think it's interesting because it's multi-business, it's multi-region, ]
[so things that you learn in one region, or in one business,]
[apply in others, and I think that's where it kind of comes together. ]
[A summit like this is great to kind of connect those dots]
[either commercially or as a finance function. ]
[[John Lavelle, VP-GE Projects Operation] ]
[These things are always great opportunities to get together and network with 150 people]
[from around the industry, so it's efficient use of your time. ]
[We actually have a number of dinners and side meetings.]
[We're doing actual negotiations and deal structuring]
[with some of these companies, and it's a great opportunity to learn. ]
[having a foreign minister of mines doing the keynote speech, ]
[providing that insight to the audience is so important. ]
[How do we get the appropriate power solutions?]
[What energy intensive extraction and processing?]
[The water management we're moving into areas where ]
[the scarcity of water and the emphasis]
[to reuse and manage the quality of water]
[as it impacts the communities that we now move closer to. ]
[We always do a better job if we focus. ]
[[Magued Eldaief, Executive Director, Energy Accounts-GE Energy]]
[The reason why we put a global industries group together is]
[because we wanted to focus on those particular industries and have that domain,]
[expertise, and knowledge to be successful in those industries. ]
[So having events that are focused like this one]
[makes us smarter about what we need to be doing better]
[in order to be successful in that space. ]
[[Diego Hernandez, CEO-Codelco]]
[I think that we need to continue this partnership.]
[Of course, one issue is that ]
[We are also a very big company.]
[The relationship between big companies is not obvious. ]
[take advantage of that relationship,]
[and of course to take advantage ]
[people in each organization. ]
[That's an additional value to what we are doing here today. ]
