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WEEK AHEAD EVENTS FOR MAY 20, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: THE ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL AUTOMOBILE DEALERS OF AMERICA hosting a two-day "Automotive Congress."
AGENDA: Highlights:
3:30 p.m. - Closing Session - Panel Discussion:
Greg O'Neill, President, COO, Mitsubishi Motors North America
Peter Butterfield, President & CEO, KIA Motors America
Bob Cosmai, Vice President, Natl Sales, Hyundai Motor America
Tom Purves, Chairman and CEO, BMW of North America, LLC
Remarks: Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR)
Remarks: Ambassador Robert Zoellick, USTR
6 p.m. - Dealer of the Year Reception
7 p.m. - Dealer of the Year Dinner
Jean Jennings, Editor-in-Chief, Automobile Magazine
Gen. Barry McCaffrey, International Affairs Expert
DATE: May 20, 2003
LOCATION: JW Marriott Hotel Pennsylvania Avenue
1331 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC,
CONTACT: 202-393-2000
WEB ADDRESS: aiada.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: PEOPLE SOFT holds CFO Magazine's forum for Federal Finance Executives themed How to Transform Organizational Performance Through Finance Process Excellence.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m. - Welcoming Remarks
Mary Driscoll, President and Editorial Director, CFO Enterprises
8:45 a.m. - Special Opening Address: The CFO Leadership Challenge — Building a New Unisys: A Case Study
Janet Brutschea Haugen, CFO, Unisys
9:30 a.m. - The First Step to Blazing the Trail Towards a High Performing Financial Organization: Strategic Human Capital Management
Angela Antonelli, CFO, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
10 :30 a.m. - Finance Transformation: Focusing on Results to Achieve Improved Financial Performance
Joseph Kull, Deputy Controller, Office of Management and Budget
11:15 a.m. - Accelerating Reporting: Using Timely Financial Information to Drive Program Operations
Donald Hammond, Fiscal Assistant Secretary, Department of the Treasury
12 noon - Why IT Project Portfolio Management Matters to the CFO
David Thompson, SVP and CIO, PeopleSoft
1:30 p.m. - Developing Finance Leadership
Jonathan Schiff, Founder, Finance Development & Training Institute
2:30 p.m. - Linking Budgeting and Performance
W. Todd Grams, CFO, Internal Revenue Service
3:30 p.m. - Holistic Performance Management: A Long-Term Solution for Improved Financial Management
JoAnn Boutelle, Deputy CFO, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense (Comptroller), Department of Defense
4:15 p.m. - Facilitated Group Discussion: Building the New Financial Agenda
Pete Smith, President, Private Sector Council, panel moderator
Donna McLean, CFO, U.S. Department of Transportation
Bob Waldron, CFO, NetCom Solutions International
Samuel Mok, CFO, U.S. Department of Labor
DATE: May 20, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 888-767-5924
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, FEDERATION OF GERMAN INDUSTRIES, ASSOCIATION OF GERMAN CHAMBERS OF INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE, AND THE GERMAN EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON host the German American Executive Summit highlighting the importance of U.S.-German economic relations.
WHO: The speakers are:
- Thomas Donohue, President and CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
- Hon. Robert Bennett, U.S. Senator (R-UT), Chairman, Joint Economic
Committee
- Paul S. Sarbanes, U.S. Senator (D-MD)
- Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick, United States Trade Representative
- Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger, German Ambassador to the U.S.
- Wolfgang Clement, German Federal Minister of Economic Affairs and Labor
- Ludwig Georg Braun, President, Association of German Chambers of
Industry & Commerce
- Dr. Michael Rogowski, Chairman of the Federation of German Industries
- William Rhodes, Senior Vice Chairman, Citigroup Inc.
- Robert A. Lutz, Vice Chairman, General Motors Corporation-
- Dr. Ludolf-Georg v. Wartenberg, Chief Executive Officer, Federation of
German Industries
DATE: May 20, 2003
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS: uschamber.com
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION 35th Annual Conference on National Legislation and Public Affairs
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. – Rep. Gil Gutknecht (R-Minn.),
9:45 a.m. – Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.),
10:30 a.m. - James Sheehan, associate U.S. attorney, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
11:15 a.m. - Doug Badger, special assistant to the President for economic policy
11:45 a.m. - Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.)
12:30 p.m. – Briefing
Joe Smith, R.Ph., NCPA president; Bruce Roberts, R.Ph., NCPA executive vice president
and CEO; and John Rector, Esq., NCPA senior vice president, government
affairs Topics include: Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), Medicare reform.
DATE: May 20, 2003
LOCATION: Loews L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 703-683-8200, ext. 686
WEB ADDRESS: ncpanet.org
TIME: 9:15 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program on Implementing the New Health Insurance Tax Credit: A Model for Expanding Coverage?"
WHO: The speakers are:
Allen Dobson, The Lewin Group
JoAnn Lamphere, The Lewin Group
Discussants:
Jeff Lemieux, the Progressive Policy Institute
Richard Popper, Maryland Health Insurance Plan
Janet Stokes Trautwein, National Association of Health Underwriters
Robert B. Helms, AEI
DATE: May 20, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Morning Newsmaker" news program featuring The Head of Defense Cooperation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Susan Pond and Fund for Peace Board Member Lieutenant General Nicholas B. Kehoe, discussing the "Plan to Destroy 1.5 Million Small Arms and Light Weapons & 133,000 tons of Munitions in Ukraine."
DATE: May 20, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: MARSHALL INSTITUTE'S Washington Roundtable on Science and Public Policy presents Towards a Theory of Space Power with James Oberg, who worked for 22 years as a space engineer in Houston, where he specialized in NASA space shuttle operations for orbital rendezvous, as a contractor employee.
DATE: May 20, 2003
LOCATION: The Army & Navy Club, 901 17th Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-296-9655
WEB ADDRESS: marshall.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Sudan: The Road to Progress with A presentation on Sudan: The Road to Progress presented by the Foreign Minister of the Republic of the Sudan, Dr. Mustafa Osman Ismail.
DATE: May 20, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Bob Schieffer, CBS's most experienced Washington reporter, giving accounts of the news you've never heard before
DATE: May 20, 2003
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program entitled "Can Increased Marriage Sharply Reduce Child Poverty? Featuring Wade Horn, Ph.D. Assistant Secretary for Children and Families U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
DATE: May 20, 2003
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS: heritage.org
TIME: 1:30 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a book forum for Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists."
WHO: The speakers are:
Charles W. Calomiris, AEI
Presenters:
Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago
Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago
Discussants:
Charles W. Calomiris, AEI
Desmond Lachman, AEI
Peter J. Wallison, AEI
DATE: May 20, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM hold a panel discussing of leading transportation and public policy experts to examine the need for and political considerations behind proposals to adjust highway user fees.
WHO: The speakers are:
Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform
Rob Atkinson, Democratic Leadership Council
Jack Schenendorf, Covington & Burling
David Burwell, Center for Transportation Policy
Jack Basso, American Association of State Highway & Transportation Officials
Alan Pisarski, Author, Commuting in America
Marty Wachs, University of California, Berkeley
DATE: May 20, 2003
LOCATION: Capital Hilton, 16th and K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Rob Murchison, 202-857-1200
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a book launch for Cities Transformed: Demographic Change and Its Implications in the Developing World.
WHO: The speakers are:
Editors Mark R. Montgomery, The Population Council
Richard Stren, University of Toronto
DATE: May 20, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds its ninth annual dinner with House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. CEI will also honor Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, with the 2003 Julian L. Simon Memorial Award, and celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Warren T. Brookes Journalism Fellowship, established by CEI in 1993. Fred Barnes, editor of The Weekly Standard, and co-host of The Beltway Boys on the Fox News Channel will serve as emcee.
AGENDA: Highlights:
5 p.m. Julian L. Simon Award Presentation, Recipient: Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist
6 p.m. Reception
7 p.m. Dinner and Program
DATE: May 20, 2003
LOCATION: Capital Hilton, 16th and K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jody Clarke, 202-331-2252
WEB ADDRESS: cei.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE NSO Young Soloists Concert presents Lyric soprano Jessica Swink and pianist Sam Post, winners of the 2003 Young Soloists' Competition, making their debut with the National Symphony Orchestra.
DATE: May 20, 2003
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL holds a book forum for Looking For My Country: Searching for an American Self featuring author Robert MacNeil relating his search for an American identity, and how his distinguished career often elicited such moments of self-discovery. Mr. MacNeil reflects on a life lived between nations, and why he finally decided to call himself an American.
DATE: May 20, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-293-1051
WEB ADDRESS: worldaffairsdc.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Alan Furst discussing and signing copies of his books
Blood Of Victory: A Novel and The Book Of Spies: An Anthology of Literary Espionage.
DATE: May 20, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
