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1 From the Andes to the Major Leagues of Innovation: It's Hot in Chile! Demystifying the natural resource curse

2 It s HOT in Chile

3 Area similar to Texas Chile: km 2 Texas: km 2

4 Population similar to New York State Chile: million New York : 19.8 million

5 With its Km 2, Chile fits 13 times In China 12 times In USA 11 times in Brazil For each Chilean 76 Chinese 18 North Americans 11 Brazilean Chile s GDP is worth 50% Apple s valuation 50% Google s valuation 77% Facebook s valuation

6 Persistent growth Billion $300 Chile s GDP $258.1 billion $200 $

7 The lure of Chilecon Valley

8 Burgeoning Innovation & Entrepreneurship Ecosystem «Most innovative country for early stage entrepreneurs» WEF » 2017 LatAm Global Innovation Index 2016

9 We are not that Chili

10 We are this Chile

11 A small country At the end of the World We cannot change the cards dealt but how we play the hand and the passion we commit

12 Our Cards

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14 Ring of Fire

15 Chile, 1960 (9,5 Mw) Chile, 2010 (8,8 Mw) California 1994 (6,7 Mw) Chile - Leader in Earthquake Ranking

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17 High Quality Engineering Securing Lives deaths (1960) by earthquake 6 deaths (2014) Striving for NONE

18 Tallest building of Latin America in the most seismic country

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20 An Astronomers Paradise Largest number of clear nights in the world, Lack of precipitation and Low-to-zero light pollution

21 In 2020 Chile will produce 70% of the total astronomical data generated in the World Astronomy Capital of the World

22 1 petabyte Big Data Dimensions Very BIG Data 50 petabytes Astronomy Data Big Data 24 petabytes 15 petabytes

23 Credit: S. Otarola (ALMA)

24 Science pushing industry to serve a global stage

25 We transformed a universe of stars into a universe of data

26 From a Niche Sector to State-of-the-Art Infrastructure: New Global Export Sector

27 Highest Solar Radiation in the World +45% Calama Atacama Desert Northern Chile Source: 3Tier (Map) Lugar GHI Anual (kwh/m2) DNI Anual (kwh/m2) Arizona Sevilla Atacama - Tarapacá

28 The Grand Potential 0,3% of fiscal land in the Atacama desert could generate all the energy Chile requires

29 Solar Chile First country in the world with competitive renewable energies with no subsidies IDB

30 The rapid path to solar Cluster Solar Expansión LATAM MW Δ = 280% Integración y Fabricació n 1,621.6 Price 16: 29 USD/MWh Servicios Especializados Planta Piloto C4E Almacenamient o Generación distribuida 1, ,2 GW Plataforma Solar Atacama Aplicaciones energía solar Servicios (Cluster Minero) Comp. Laborales y Aseg. Calidad Modelo Desarrollo Solar PV: Solar Chile

31 Future of Solar Energy in Chile Here s an advanced Country that is a small country when President Bachelet came back to power at the end of 2013, Chile had 11 MW, by the end of 2014 they had grown it to 402, by the end of last year 848, so they ve signed a lot of new contracts - Al Gore on The Chilean Solar Market Skoll World Forum

32 Investments in Renewable Energy rise while Oil and Gas CAPEX falls BNEF Summit, New York, 5 April 2016

33 Can an 80% Fossil Fuel World become100% renewable? YES with Solar Energy. From Chile

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35 Far from Close to China in Scale China Chile 77x Population 40x GDP 13x Size

36 However, when it comes to Copper & Lithium China Chile produces 3x 6x more Copper more Lithium Chile than China 1/3 of the world s copper production 1/3 of the world s copper reserves 1/3 of the world s Lithium production 1/2 of the world s Lithium reserves

37 Chuquicamata, equivalent to: 2 of the Tallest Buildings in LATAM + 3 times Egyptian Pyramids

38 El Teniente, equivalent to: Tunnel of miles underground Distance from San Francisco to Chicago

39 From a Natural Resource-based Economy to a Knowledge Economy Robotics Automation IOT VR Sophisticated Engineering

40 Unleashing Chile 4.0

41 Current Car Market 2016 Bloomberg Business.1%

42 Yearly Adoption Growth Rates Horse & Buggy Ford Model T Solar Panels Led Ligh-Bulbs Tesla Model S 60% anual growth 50% anual growth 140% anual growth 60% anual growth

43 It s All About the Batteries

44 The Rise of the Electric Car % Bloomberg Business

45 Innovation strategy: vision 2025 Long term supply of lithium Carbonate/hydroxide (battery grade) Lithium value added products (cathodes) Chile: leading supplier of lithium and lowemission Copper for the electric car industry Solar energy for continuous Electricity supply Fossil fuel substitution Hydrogen and Synthetic fuels on circular economy approach

46 Not Just Digging Dirt in the Desert! Becoming a heavy weight champion By creating world class hi tech companies

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48 We do not want to be a mere observer of future trends but an active builder of the future A BETTER FUTURE

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