AND EVENTS

In addition to the different collaboration agreements and consultancy projects, during 2011 we organized academic, cultural and sports activities and events with institutions of the education, corporate and governmental sectors, which gave us better positioning and a closer relationship between UDLAP and such sectors.

As part of the connection works, the Second National Science Conference was carried out with the participation of Rodolfo Neri Vela, PhD first Mexican astronaut that went to space, in the framework of the UDLAPs 2011 Spring Celebrities Conferences.

The2011UDLAPBusinessChallengewasorganized, more than 4,500 individuals attended the event with a high-level program: Peter Foyo, President and General Manager of Nextel México; Daniel Servitje Montull, General Manager of Grupo Bimbo; Luis Peña

Kegel, General Manager of Grupo Financiero HSBC y HSBC México; Gerardo Rodríguez Regordosa, MC Sub-Secretary of Revenue and Public Credit; Mónica Flores Barragán, MBA, General Manager for Mexico, Manpower of Central America and Dominican Republic; Javier Soní Ocampo, MBA Director and Manager of PricewaterhouseCoopers; Simón Levy, PhD President for LatinAsia; and Ary Kahan, PhD Vice- President of LatinAsia.

Alejandro Valenzuela del Río, PhD General Manager of Grupo Financiero Banorte and UDLAP Adviser, held the master conference Perspectivas económicas y retos futuros de México (“Economic perspectives and future challenges for Mexico”).

In the month of August, UDLAP hosted the Integral Course for Professionalization of Private Charity Institutions together with Nacional Monte de Piedad, which has placed us as an active foundation that