During Infrastructure Week at Expo Milano 2015, a delegation from ANI (the national infrastructure agency) headed by the agency’s leader, Luis Fernando Andrade, participated in an agenda that included visits to different regions of Italy to see some of the most important recent infrastructure projects in North Italy, and to participate in one-on-one meetings with representatives of companies in the sector to explore business and investment opportunities.

The program, which involves all the transportation routes – roads, railways, harbors, airports, rivers – aims to strengthen the internal and international connections, and the competitiveness of the Colombian territory.

The icon par excellence of Colombian coffee, Juan Valdez was one of the protagonists of the International Day of Coffee at Expo.

During an event in its own Pavilion in Expo, Colombia presented its projects in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for the development of the agricultural sector.

The Italian mission of SENA (National Colombian Apprenticeship Service) for strengthening cooperation and partnership opportunities, ended with a visit to the Illy University of Coffee in Trieste, where an agreement for promoting the exchange of knowledge and technology was signed in a bid to help small Colombian coffee entrepreneurs enter the international market.

The city of Medellin presented today, during an event held at the Colombia pavilion at Expo, its potential as an ideal destination to attract tourists and foreign investors.

At the Colombian Pavilion in Expo 2015 the National Federation of Biofuels presented the politics of the Country to give a push to this sector, as well as the benefits, the progresses and the potential of development for an advanced production of biofuels of second generation, which will allow Colombia to position itself in this field on the global scale.

El Cholo Valderrama, one of the greatest representatives of Colombian folk music, enchanted the audience at Expo with an extraordinary live show in front of the Colombia Pavilion last night. The popular songwriter and singer, master of the traditional “joropo” genre, performed in an thrilling concert involving over 1,500 people crowding the Decumano to listen to his most famous songs, on the day in which Expo collected the highest number of visitors .

Over twenty representatives and Italian companies of the sector, together with buyers from Spain and France, explored the investment opportunities in the sector of fresh flowers from Colombia during a day filled with meetings organized by Asocolflores, the Colombian Association of Flower Exporters , coordinated by the Colombian Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, and ProColombia, the cultural promotion and investment board in the Country.

SENA, the main government institution in career training in Colombia, comes to Expo Milano 2015 to introduce its most important programs and share knowledge, technology development and agribusiness strategy with the whole world.

A delegation of many industries from the Colombian capital, composed of the public-private agency Invest of Bogotá, the Chamber of Commerce, the Secretary for Economic Development and the Director of International Relations of the city of Bogotá arrived in Italy yesterday as a partner of the Colombia Pavilion at Expo 2015, and met Italian Piedmont companies and institutions today in Turin to discuss subjects of technological innovation, tourism and culture.

Today, the Fruit and Vegetable Festival was celebrated at Expo Milano 2015, and the Colombia Pavilion played a major role.

On Monday July 20th, Colombia will celebrate its National Day in Expo 2015 with parades, music and tasting sessions. The Colombians living in Italy be able to celebrate this important date also here in Expo, which marks their Country’s independence from Spain, by meeting at the Colombia Pavilion to participate in a day packed full of events.

Today the British Embassy in Colombia has launched the IFSec cooperation project for Colombia and Paraguay at the Colombia Pavilion at Expo Milano 2015 in front of an audience made up by 20 British entrepreneurs in the sector. This is an advanced satellite system to improve agricultural production and guarantee the offer security.

From June 24-26, a delegation of the Cauca Valley’s administration is present at Expo Milan 2015 to introduce the Italian and European public to the vast fruit and vegetable offerings the district can export and its potential to attract foreign investment, tourism development and its cultural specialties.

During the Colombian Agriculture Week at Expo 2015, the delegations from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development had the opportunity to go to Piedmont, a worldwide renowned region for its traditions rooted in chocolate, to get to know the advances in the sector and look for new investment opportunities in this Italian region.

Port of Cartagena presented at the Colombia Pavillion the features and capabilities that have made it one of the best ports in the Caribbean for tourism and trade worldwide to an audience composed of representatives of the most important Italian and European shipping companies.

Agrolac is the multilateral financial platform of the Interamerican Development Bank (BID). The news was announced by Alejandro Gamboa, executive director of the Presidential Agency for Cooperation of Colombia.

The Colombian band Herencia de Timbiquí has captivated audiences at the Expo with an extraordinary live performance that took place last night at the Colombia Pavilion. For the first time in Italy, this group, which is the country's cultural ambassador to Expo, performed in a rousing concert of about an hour and a half.

Colombia is one of pavilions chosen by Irish president, Michael D. Higgins, for his day at Expo Milano 2015. "Colombia is a Country that fascinates me a lot", said President Higgins, who, during his visit, told about his journey there in 2010. On that occasion he visited Bogota, Medellin, Cartagena and Buenaventura and – he continued his humorous recount amidst general laughter – he broke a knee, due to an accident. “It is a unique and joyful Country” confirmed his wife Sabina Higgins.

Ivan Ramiro Cordoba, today elected one of the ambassadors of the Colombian Pavilion during the Universal Exposition, has invited visitors from Italy and the rest of the world to discover the extraordinary natural diversity of his country. "This is exactly what inspires me to take my role of ambassador so seriously, I would like to reach out to the Italians who have never had the opportunity of getting to know Colombia, and invite them to visit EXPO so that they can discover all the beautiful and special things my country has to offer."

On the first day of the Colombian Agriculture Week at Expo Milano 2015, over 40 Italian investors discovered the investment potential and opportunities in the Colombian agricultural industry during the seminar organized by the Colombia Pavilion.

Expectation travels through Milan just two days away from the Expo’s opening. Delegates from 148 countries look at the last details to assure an impecable inauguration next May first.

As a preface of Colombia’s pavilion opening in Milano, eight journalists from Italy, France, Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom, invited by ProColombia, had the chance of traveling through different thermic floors that Colombia shows to the world in Italy. During ten days they got to know from Chingaza moor in Cundinamarca to Cartagena de Indias, passing through the coffee region, where they enjoyed the Coffee Cultural Landscape and had the chance to know the country’s  agro-industrial offers.

Expo Milano will gather, for 184 days, 20 million people that want to get to know the 148 pavillions, built specifically for this event that plan to make people think about food security and agricultural sustainability. During six months, 60 thousand people will vist the Expo every day, and almost 500 thousand people may arrive on weekends and high season (July to August). 60% of them will be Italian and the rest, foreigners. 1.5 millión china visitors are expected.