The next stop in the PFF/IPCentral global tour is South America, namely Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Ray Gifford, Jim DeLong and Tom Lenard will join US and South American officials and IP experts in two conferences on IP, innovation, interoperability and economic development. You can learn more here.

In Buenos Aires we're partnering with ESEADE and in Sao Paulo with ABPI to host the all-day conferences. It's a bit of a flight for many, but we encourage all of our friends and readers to attend either or both conferences. If that proves impossible, we hope you'll enjoy following the summits on the Digital Americas blog.

Digital Americas follows by three months the second annual Digital Europe in Prague (following the 2005 tour of Milan and Brussels), and builds on the eleven year tradition at PFF of hosting an annual Aspen Summit.