Fashion shows, lectures, and panels marked the first day of the Workshop, inaugurated by Cuban Women’s Federation (FMC) General Secretary Teresa Amarelle Boué, Italian Ambassador to Cuba Roberto Vellano, and other participants.

The Workshop, which has an outstanding presence of Italian artists, hosted the lecture “Business relations with producers associated with fashion with projects for wholesale and retail marketing with developed foreign investment,” by Elvia Rosabal, head of the Business Group. Albus, Mercantile Society.

Lara Soler, a graduate in International Relations and Deputy Director of Trade Policy Management with Europe at the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Investment (MINCEX), lectured on “Local Development and Women at the Center of International Cooperation.”

Later, the lecture “Professionalism, Leadership in Competitive, and Sustainable Companies” by Laura Lara, from Pujalte S.U.R.L. Group, Piso 34. Women working towards female empowerment in contemporary art circles in Cuba.

At the end of the meting, the most outstanding papers and booths will be honored, and the WEIC Special Prize for Extraordinary or Outstanding Women in Culture will be awarded.

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