Among the activity's objectives were to understand the role of technology in financial operations and its impact on trade.

The breakfast featured a panel featuring Daniel Quiroga, Wilfredo Cabrera, Gilles Maury, Williams Pacheco, and Pedro Taveras.

Santo Domingo, October 17.- The American Chamber of Commerce of the Dominican Republic (AMCHAMDR), together with its Trade Facilitation Committee, held a business breakfast to analyze its central topic, "Smart Logistics: Digitalization and Other Emerging Technologies for Trade Facilitation."

The breakfast's objectives were to expand collective knowledge and interest in the development of digitalization, blockchain, the Internet of Things, the collaborative economy, and other emerging technologies in the Dominican Republic. In addition, the general benefits and challenges were discussed. The context in which they are used in commercial activities was also detailed.

The panelists also presented success stories related to international trade and highlighted the importance of understanding the role of these technologies in financial operations and how they affect trade.

In this regard, AMCHAMDR President David Fernández stated that "the American Chamber of Commerce's Trade Facilitation Committee is organizing this event, aware that we live in an increasingly interconnected world, where technologies are advancing ever more rapidly, continually transforming the way transactions are conducted, the flow of goods, and the channels through which sales are initiated and finalized."

Fernández also took the opportunity to congratulate the executive branch for issuing Decree 384-18, aimed at streamlining and strengthening Dominican foreign trade.

The business breakfast featured Daniel Quiroga, process and organization manager for the Central America and Caribbean region at DHL; Wilfredo Cabrera, vice president of treasury and foreign trade solutions for the Dominican Republic and Haiti at Citi; Gilles Maury, consulting director at Deloitte and member of the AMCHAMDR ICT Committee; Williams Pacheco, IT advisor to the General Directorate of Customs; and Pedro Taveras, IT professor at the Pontifical Catholic Mother and Teacher University. The panel was moderated by Alexander Schad, president of the AMCHAMDR Trade Facilitation Committee.