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EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: U.S.ENERGY ASSOCIATION AND JOHNSON CONTROLS, INC. holds the 13th Annual Energy Efficiency Forum themed "Evolution of the Energy Economy: Ensuring Security and Stability."
AGENDA: Highlights:
8 a.m. - Tom Gannon, VP & GM Controls Systems & Services, Johnson Controls, Inc.
Welcome Remarks
8:15 a.m. -- Creative Energy Awards
Christine Todd Whitman, EPA Administrator
Rep. Tom Udall, D-NM
Rep. Mark Udall, D-CO
10:15 a.m. - Evolution of the Energy Economy: How do we ensure security and stability?
Lewellyn King, Publisher, Energy Daily
T.J. Glauthier, President/CEO, Electricity Innovation Institute
Jefferson Seabright, Director, Green Strategies, Inc.
11 a.m. - Elizabeth Lowery, VP Environment & Energy, General Motors
1 p.m. - John Hoeven, Governor, North Dakota
1:30 p.m. - Spencer Abraham, U.S. Secretary of Energy
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Darryll Fortune, 414-524-7770
WEB ADDRESS: eeforum.net
TIME: All Day
EVENT: MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE World Bank 7th Annual Conference entitled Transparency and the Rule of Law: Implications for Development in the MENA Region.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Introduction
Shaha Ali-Riza, World Bank
9:15 a.m. - Opening Remarks
Edward S. Walker, Middle East Institute
Jean-Louis Sarbib, World Bank
9:30 a.m. - Session 1: The Rule of Law in the MENA Region: An Overview
Cheryl Gray, World Bank
Chibli Mallat, Mallat Law Office, Lebanon
Tamara Cofman Wittes, Middle East Institute
11:30 a.m. - Session 2: Case Studies and Comparisons
Jean AbiNader, Managing Director, Arab American Institute
Christian Delvoie, World Bank
Emad Tinawi, Booz Allen & Hamilton
Mustapha Nabli, World Bank
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: World Bank H-Auditorium, 1915 G Street, N.W., Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-785-1141
WEB ADDRESS: mideasti.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT BUSINESS holds the National Small Business Summit.
AGENDA: Summit delegates will discuss and express their views on some of the most pressing issues facing them as business owners today. Senior Bush administration officials and members of Congress will attend the meeting as well, both listening and speaking to the business owners gathered there.
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: Hyatt Regency --Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-554-9000
WEB ADDRESS:nfib.com
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: ALASKA FORUM FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY holds a briefing to release a report on the status of the aging trans-Alaska Pipeline System entitled "The Emperor's New Hose: How Big Oil Gets Rich Gambling with Alaska's Enviroment."
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: 366 Dirksen Office Building, Washington DC
CONTACT: 907-479-7778
WEB ADDRESS: alaskaforum.org
TIME: 9:15 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program on "Are Fannie and Freddie Adequately Disclosing What Investors Need?"
AGENDA: Highlights:
9:15 a.m. - Peter J. Wallison, AEI
Rep. Christopher Shays, R-CT
10:15 - PANEL I: Comparing Fannie and Freddie to Banks
Bert Ely, Ely & Co.
W. Scott Frame, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Larry D. Wall, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Ed Golding, Freddie Mac
Ray Soifer, Soifer Consulting, LLC
11:40 a.m. - PANEL II: Disclosure for Derivatives and Mortgage Bank Securities
Dwight M. Jaffee, University of California at Berkeley
Steven D. Thomas, Financial Security Assurance Inc.
Susan E. Woodward, Sand Hill Econometrics
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB presents a program entitled "Is it Acceptable to Hunt Down Terrorists at all Costs?" There is growing concern by human rights advocates that treatment of POWs, humanitarian access, and treatment of non-combatants is being forgotten in the war against terrorism.
WHO: The speakers are:
Roy Gutman, the diplomatic correspondent for Newsweek,
Christian Blickenstorfer, Swiss Ambassador to the United States
Maj. Gen. Altenburg, Deputy Judge Advocate General (ret.)
Urs Boegli, head of Regional Delegation for North America, International Committee for the Red Cross
Serge Duss, director of public policy and advocacy at World Vision
Ken Hurwitz, senior associate at International Justice Program.
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL TRADE ASSOCIATION, GLOBAL BUSINESS DIALOGUE AND NATIONAL FOREIGN TRADE COUNCIL hold Truth & Consequences: Environment and Investment in the WTO with a mid-series luncheon that will highlight the overall outlook for the Doha Round against the backdrop of the Fast Track-TPA legislation and other developments and in the run up to the 2002 G8 meeting.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9:30 a.m. - Environment Panel
Jennifer Haverkamp, USTR
Petros Sourmelis, EU Delegation
William Krist, the Woodrow Wilson Center
Anne Alonzo of the National Foreign Trade Council.
10:45 a.m. -- Investment Panel
Joseph Papovich, USTR
Felipe Lopeandia, Chile's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Renaud Lassus, EU Delegation
Stephen Canner, US Council for International Business.
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: The St. Regis Hotel, 16th & K Streets, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5074
WEB ADDRESS:wita.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Morning Newsmaker" news program featuring The Leader of the Union of the Right Forces in the Russian State Legislature, Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov.
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a policy forum on Digital Copy Protection: Mandate It? Ban It? Or Let the Market Decide?
WHO: The speakers are:
Rick Lane, News Corporation
Jonathan Potter, Digital Media Association
Sarah B. Deutsch, Verizon
Stewart Verdery, Vivendi Universal
Jonathan Zuck, Association for Competitive Technology.
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS:cato.org
TIME: 11:30 a.m.
EVENT: REP. LUIS GUTIERREZ, D-IL, AND REP. SAM FARR, D-CA, hold a news conference to discuss a bill to help Mexican workers recruited to work in the U.S. during World War II receive back pay that was never paid to them.
WHO: The speakers are:
Lupe Martinez, Executive Director, UMOS and Co-Chair of the National Alliance of Farmworkers
Bruce Goldstein, Co-Executive Director, Farmworker Justice Fund
Arnoldo Resendez, Vice President, Office of Special and International Projects, National Council of La Raza
Ventura Gutierrez, Alianza Braceroproa
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: Triangle, (Alternate rain location: Room 334, Cannon House Office Building)
Washington, DC
CONTACT: Marilyn Katz, 312-822-0505
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION Media Issues Lunch Forum on The Future of Television: Patents, Policy and the Need for Innovation with Henry Yuen, Founder, Chairman & CEO Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc.
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: 211 U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on The Agreement for the Conservation of Marine Life of the Black and Mediterranean Seas: Regional Approaches with William C.G. Burns, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy, Burlingame, CA, and EES Short-term Scholar.
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE holds a luncheon and book release DEADLY ARSENALS: Tracking Weapons of Mass Destruction
WHO: The speakers are:
Joseph Cirincione, Carnegie Senior Associate on global proliferation trends
Jon Wolfsthal, Carnegie Associate on Russian nuclear programs
Miriam Rajkumar, Carnegie Project Associate on South Asia
Rose Gottemoeller, Carnegie Senior Associate on strategic nuclear forces
George Perkovich, Carnegie Senior Associate on Iran and Iraq
Michael Swaine, Carnegie Senior Associate on China
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: CEIP, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Toni Elam, 202-939-2296
WEB ADDRESS: ceip.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE presents a program on "Does Race Matter? An Examination of Polluting Plants' Location Decisions," with Ann Wolverton, National Center for Environmental Economics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Many studies find that firms locate waste sites or polluting plants disproportionately in minority or poor communities. Wolverton will address several shortcomings in these studies and suggest that, contrary to many previous results, race is not a significant determinant of plant location.
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: 1616 P Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-328-5000
WEB ADDRESS: rff.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Royce Holland, CEO of Allegiance Telecom, discussing competition in the telecommunications business, looking into the question who will survive?
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 1:30 p.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION /PEW FORUM ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE hold a program on "Liberal Pluralism: The Paradoxes of Freedom and the Challenges for Democratic Government."
WHO: The speakers are:
E.J. Dionne, Jr., senior Fellow, Brookings Institution and syndicated columnist, The Washington Post Co-chair, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
William Galston, Professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland Director, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy Director, Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) Senior Adviser, Democratic Leadership Council and the Progressive Policy Institute
Stephen Macedo, Professor of Politics and Director, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University National Advisory Committee, Center for Civic Education, Project on International Standards for the Teaching of Civics and Government
Nicholas Wolterstorff, Professor of Philosophical Theology, Yale University Divinity School Author, On Universals; Reason Within the Bounds of Religion; and Faith and Rationality
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE holds a Congressional briefing on Building Corporate Markets for Green Power
WHO: The speakers are:
Rep. Mark Udall, D-CO
Zach Wamp, R-TN
Jonathan Lash, President, World Resources Institute
Lee Califf, Manager, Government Affairs, Alcoa Inc.
Edwin Mongan, Manager, Environmental Stewardship, DuPont
Jeff Kolstad, Chief Scientist, Cargill Dow LLC
Merwin Brown, Market Sector Manager, Electricity and Natural Gas Markets, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: 2325 Rayburn Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-628-1400
WEB ADDRESS:eesi.org
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on "Reinventing the Alliance: U.S.-Japan Security Relations in an Era of Change."
WHO: The speakers are:
Thomas Berger, Boston University
Takashi Inoguchi, University of Tokyo, Japan
John Ikenberry, Georgetown University
Michael Mastanduno, Dartmouth College
Jitsuo Tsuchiyama, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES presents former president of Argentina Carlos Menem discussing governance, economic, and security challenges facing his country and South America.
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS:csis.org
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "America's New Aid Program for Afghanistan: Work of the Central Asia Task Force" with Leticia Kelly Butler, director of policy planning at USAID.
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENNIUM STAGE presents Youth Orchestra of Prince William String Quartet.
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB "Tales from the Bar" presentation on "Combat Correspondents" with Peter Arnett.
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: NORTHERN VIRGINIA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL is hosting the "Hot Ticket Awards" to celebrate the efforts of companies and individuals in the tech community who have exhibited that 'special something' that makes them 'Hot Tickets' - great vision, the ability to implement and deliver, innovative management approach or star-quality charisma. The winners will be announced at an invitation-only pre-party on June 12 for finalists and sponsors, followed by a celebration for the winners.
WHO: The ticket categories and finalists are as follows:
Hottest Buzz: Bionetrix, Entremed, Human Genome Sciences, Riptech, and XM Satellite Radio.
Hottest Friend of the Entrepreneur: Century Club Grubstake Breakfast Program; Fairfax County EDA; John May, New Vantage Group; John Sanders, Founder, Washington Technology; and Jonathan Silver, Core Capital Partners.
Hottest Management Team: Blackboard, CNSI, Current Analysis, i3solutions, and Sophia Wireless.
Hottest New Service or Product: Aptagen, Ensco, Hemodyne, XM Satellite Radio, and Xtreme Spectrum.
Hottest Staying Power: Anteon, CACI, Multicity, SAIC, and Software AG.
Hottest Venture-Backed Company: Blue Ridge Networks, IJET Travel Intelligence, ISR Solutions, Mantas, and Megisto Systems.
Hottest Visionary: Dan Bannister, DynCorp; Vint Cerf, WorldCom; Ted Leonsis, AOL; Jack London, CACI; and April Young, Comerica Bank.
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: Rooftop at Clarendon Ballroom, 3185 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA
CONTACT: Nancy Rollman, 703-904-7878
WEB ADDRESS: nvtc.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Jeffrey Frank's The Columnist which is the fictitious memoir of DC-based newspaperman Brandon Sladder-revealed as a self-absorbed, sex-obsessed name-dropper, whose single-minded pursuit of success and power have prevented him from empathizing with even his own child and Darin Strauss's discussing and signing his novel THE REAL Mccoy which charts the life of Kid McCoy, a prizefighter forging his fate at the turn of the last century.
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: THE CAPITAL PRESS CLUB holds a national forum on Critical Issues holds a program on Facing the Sickle Cell Community.
WHO: The speakers are:
Charles F. Whitten, M.D., founder/president emeritus, SCDAA and Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Assoc. Dean, Wayne State University School of Medicine
Oswaldo Castro, M.D., Director, Howard University Center for Sickle Cell Disease
Lennette J. Benjamin, M.D., SCDAA Chief Medical Officer, Assoc. Professor of Medicine/Clinical Director, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Kwaku Ohene-Frempong, M.D., SCDAA National Board and Director, Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA
Shirley Miller, Sickle Cell Patient and SCDAA National Board Member, Dallas, TX
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: Charles Sumner School, 1201 17th St., NW, Washington, DC.
CONTACT: 202-442-6060
WEB ADDRESS: cpcnet.org
