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Tuesday, February 16 |
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6:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
Welcome dinner for participants and AS/COA Board Members, Americas Quarterly Editorial Board, and other guests
Welcome:
Susan Segal, President and CEO AS/COA, publisher Americas Quarterly
Christopher Sabatini, Senior Director, AS/COA and Editor-in-Chief, Americas Quarterly
Welcome:
Nicolás Aguzín, Chief Executive Officer, JP Morgan Latin America – The World Economic Outlook for 2010
Keynote Address:
Introduction: Angela Camacho, Corporate Director, Microsoft Latin America
James Traub, The New York Times - The Obama Administration’s Foreign Policy in its First Year |
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Wednesday, February 17 |
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8:30 am — 9:00 am |
Registration and Breakfast |
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9:00 am—10:00 am |
Welcome: Susan Segal, AS/COA, AQ
Introduction: Guillermo Almada, Microsoft
Conference Goals and Participant Introductions:Christopher Sabatini, AS/COA, AQ (moderator) |
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10:00 am—10:20 am |
Innovation and Recovery in Politically Difficult Environments
Alberto Vollmer, CEO, Ron Santa Teresa and Founder, Proyecto Alcatraz |
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10:20 am—11:30 am |
Roundtable I: What Does It Take To Be An Entrepreneur?
The Commonalities of Business, Social and Political Innovators
Panelists:
Vonda Brown, Program Officer, Open Society Institute
Alan Clutterbuck, President, Red de Acción Política
Diana Gomez, Director, Endeavor
Jim Swigert, Senior Associate and Regional Director, National
Democratic Institute for International Affairs
Juan Henao, Resident Country Director, International Republican
Institute:
Christopher Sabatini, AS/COA, AQ (Moderator) |
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11:45 am—12:45 pm |
Roundtable II: Communicating, Educating and Mobilizing Today: New Media and Social Networks
Panelists:
Phil Gutis, Director of Communications, National Resources Defense Council
Yvette J. Alberdingk Thijm, Executive Director, WITNESS
Steve Gilmer, Worldwide Director of Applied Innovations, Microsoft
Ari Melber, Correspondent, The Nation
Marco Enriquez-Ominami Independent Presidential Candidate, Chile
Jason Marczak, Director of Policy, AS/COA and Senior Editor, Americas Quarterly (Moderator)
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11:45 am—12:45 pm |
Working Lunch
Working Groups:
Positive Examples of Collaboration and Institution Building Across Sectors (working group assignments and questions to be attached later) |
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2:45 pm—3:30 pm |
Report Out by Working Group Leaders |
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3:45 pm—4:00 pm |
Conclusions and Next Steps
Christopher Sabatini, AS/COA and AQ (moderator) |
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5:30 pm—7:20 pm |
Americas Quarterly Winter Launch and Cocktail Reception
Welcome:Susan Segal, President and CEO AS/COA, publisher, AQ
Introduction: Christopher Sabatini, Senior Director AS/COA and Editorin-Chief, AQ
Keynote Address: Alma Guillermoprieto, Journalist
Leadership Panel:
Megan Leslie, (Canada) Member of Parliament
Jenny Manrique (Colombia) Journalist, www.votebien.com
Sebastián Mendoza (Panama) Chief Strategy Officer, Container Consultants & Systems
Adrián Pérez, (Argentina) National Deputy, Republic of Argentina
Paulo Rogério, (Brazil) Founder, Instituto Mídia Étnica |
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Thursday, February 18 |
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9:15 am—10:30 am |
The United Nations
Greetings and Briefing by United States Mission to the U.N. Deputy Chief of Mission, Jeff de Laurentis |
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10:30 am—11:30 am |
Tour of Rockefeller Center (TBC) |
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12:30 pm—2:30 pm |
Keynote Speaker: Arturo Valenzuela (Video conference)
Roundtable Discussion on U.S. Foreign Policy
Carl Meacham, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Sophia King, Office of Representative Greg Meeks
Mark Lopez, Office of Senator Menendez
Peter Quilter, House Western Hemisphere Sub-Committee (TBC)
Eric Jacobstein, Office of Representative Elliot Engel (TBC)
The Next Generation of Entrepreneurs and Innovation: Susan Segal, AS/COA and AQ |