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EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2001
TIME: All Day
EVENT: WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE holds the Sustainable Enterprise Summit, which will convene more than 100 participants representing over 60 corporations. The Summit will highlight product and process innovations that deliver environmental and social performance and create financial growth and competitive advantage.
WHO: The speakers are:
Gil Bamford, Vice President, Toyota
Michael Eskew, CEO-designate, United Parcel Service
Tim W. Faithfull, President and CEO, Shell Canada Ltd.
Michael Gilbert, Sr. Corp. Environmental Manager, Pitney Bowes
Jeffrey Hollender, President, Seventh Generation
Richard Holohan, Equity Analyst, Salomon Smith Barney
Jeffrey Kolstad, Chief Scientist, Cargill Dow LLC
Edward Mongan, Manager, Environmental Stewardship, DuPont
Bernhard Voll, Vice President, ABB Renewable Energy
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: Washington Court Hotel, 525 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Lydia Vermilye, 202-729-7635
WEB ADDRESS: wri.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: BUSINESS SOFTWARE ALLIANCE, FORTUNE MAGAZINE AND BUSINESS 2.0. hold Global Tech Summit.
AGENDA: Highlights:
10 a.m. - Dialogue III: The DNA of Technology Creation & Dissemination
Bruce Chizen, President & CEO, Adobe, USA
Carol Bartz, Chairman, CEO & President, Autodesk
Gregory S. Bentley, CEO, Bentley Systems
President, Macromedia, USA
F. William Conner, President & CEO, Entrust Inc.
Dominique P. Goupil, President, Filemaker, USA
Eric Schmidt, Novell, USA
Rob Burgess, Chairman, CEO &
Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft, USA
John W. Thompson, Chairman, CEO &
President, Symantec Corporation, USA
12 noon - Tom Wolfe, Author, The Right Stuff, Bonfire of the Vanities, Hooking Up
2:30 p.m. - Dialogue IV: Is the "Internet "International?
Robert Zoellick, United States Trade Representative, USA
Alvaro Diaz, Secretary, Ministry of the Economy, Chile
Dale Fuller, President and CEO, Borland Software Corporation,
James Jarrett, Vice President, World Government Affairs, Intel, USA
Ali A. Mufuruki, Chairman & CEO, Infotech Investment Group Limited, Tanzania
Virgilio Peña, Executive Director, International Technology and E-Commerce Council, Philippines
S. Ramadorai, CEO, TaTa Consultancy Services, India
Christopher Roberts, Former UK Director General for Trade, UK
John Weekes, Chairman, APCO Worldwide, Switzerland
4 p.m. - Robert Holleyman, President and CEO, Business Software Alliance
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 1-866-GTS-1101
WEB ADDRESS: globaltechsummit.net
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LAGISLATURES holds its Assembly on Federal Issues and Assembly on State Issues Joint Meeting.
AGENDA: Highlight:
8 a.m. - Driver Focus and Technology Forum
Students of the 21st Century: Skills for the New Economy
Children's Health and the Environment
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: Hyatt Regency -- Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-624-5400
WEB ADDRESS:ncsl.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL SOCIETY OF GENETIC COUNSELORS annual conference.
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: Hyatt Regency -- Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 312-558-1770, ext. 8227
WEB ADDRESS:nsgc.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE ORGANIZATION holds Management and Leadership Conference.
AGENDA: Highlight:
10:30 a.m. - "MEDICARE AND END-OF-LIFE CARE: WHERE ARE WE GOING?" Thomas A. Scully, JD, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD (INVITED)
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: Hyatt Regency -- Crystal City, 2799 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA
CONTACT: 703-837-3139
WEB ADDRESS: nhpco.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: AMERICAN LEAGUE OF LOBBYISTS holds its Technology Trade Show and Annual Meeting.
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: Hotel Washington, 15th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-960-3011
WEB ADDRESS:alldc.org
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION holds a program on "GeoGov 2001 Leveraging Geographic Information to Improve Government Performance."
AGENDA: Highlights:
Welcome and Conference Overview
Conference co-chairs (Ramon Barquin, Jane Fishkin, C. Lawrence Meador)
8:45 a.m. - GeoGov: The Grand Plan
Panel Leader: Ramon C. Barquin (Conference Co-chair)
Allen Carroll, National Geographic Society
Rep. Paul Kanjorski, D-PA
Kim Nelson, EPA
Jay Waite, Census Bureau
William Wood, Department of State
10 a.m. - GeoGov: Its Role in Homeland Defense
Gen. Jim Clapper, NIMA
10:45 a.m. - The Use of GeoSpatial Data for Emergency Management: A Demo
John Calkins, ESRI
11 a.m. - GIS and E-Gov (GeoGov): The Vision
Sen. Conrad Burns, R-MT
11:30 a.m. - The Architecture of GeoGov
Panel leader: Larry Meador (Conference Co-Chair)
Kurt Buehler, OpenGIS Consortium
Jack Dangermond, ESRI
Ira L. Hobbs, USDA
Barbara Ryan, USGS
2:15 p.m. - The Administration's Strategic Direction on GeoGov
Anthony Frater, OMB
3 p.m. - The Policy Impact of GeoGov: An Urban Planning Example
Robert Puentes, The Brookings Institution, Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy
3:45 p.m. - Charting a Course: A Discussion on Next Steps
Jack Dangermond, ESRI & James Lee Witt, Formerly with FEMA
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 8 a.m.
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE holds a conference that will assess legislation on border and immigration controls pending in Congress and explore ways technology and other tools can be employed to create an effective and equitable visa screening process, improve border management for security and efficiency and monitor foreign
nationals within the country.
WHO: The speakers are:
James Ziglar, Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner
Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-WI, Judiciary Committee Chairman
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-MA, Immigration Subcommittee Chairman
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS: uschamber.com
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Lights and Shadows: The Fox Administration After One Year in Power with Yemile Mizrahi, Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar.
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION AND VERMONT GOVERNOR HOWARD DEAN hold a news conference releasing a survey on the Cost of Homeland Security State Survey.
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: Hall of States, 444 North Capitol Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-624-5334
WEB ADDRESS: nga.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on "Islamist Politics in the Horn of Africa with Ken Menkhaus, Associate Professor of Political Science, Davidson College."
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: PUBLIC CITIZEN holds a briefing to discuss outcomes of two days' meetings between the TRANS ATLANTIC CONSUMER DIALOGUE, the US government and the European Commission on key consumer trade concerns.
WHO: The speakers are:
Rhoda Karpatkin, President Emeritus, Consumers Union
Jim Murray, Director, European Consumers Association (BEUC)
Joan Claybrook, President, Public Citizen
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: Radisson Barcelo Hotel, 2121 P St. NW
CONTACT: CONTACT: Angela Bradbery, Public Citizen, 202-588-7741
WEB ADDRESS: citizen.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a director's Forum: Diversity in American Foreign Policy: Does It Matter? with Walter E. Massey, President, Morehouse College, former Director of the National Science Foundation.
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: SOCIAL INVESTMENT FORUM holds a news conference releasing a study that reveals a dramatic surge in community investing.
AGENDA: Community investing is financing that generates resources and opportunities for economically disadvantaged people in U.S. and overseas communities that are underserved by traditional financial institutions.
WHO: The speakers are:
Deborah Momsen-Hudson, Self-Help Credit Union, Durham, NC
Bob Nash, ShoreBank Corporation, Chicago, IL.
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-276-3258
TIME: 11:30 a.m.
EVENT: FRIENDS OF THE EARTH holds a news conference to denounce the fast track legislation.
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: House Triangle, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-783-7400
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program on "Sino-U.S. Relations after September 11." In the context of the global antiterrorist campaign, will a partial partnership between the United States and China in fighting terrorism help downplay residual bilateral problems, such as Taiwan, human rights, and China's treatment of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang and Tibet?
WHO: The speakers are:
Arthur Waldron, AEI
Willy Wo-Lap Lam, CNN Asia Pacific
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY The BMW Center for German & European Studies Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service presents Victoria Pope Managing Editor, US News and World Report on The American Perspective on Foreign News: What We Highlight, What We Leave Out
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Alison Hillegeist, 202-687-8067
WEB ADDRESS: Georgetown.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a book forum Oxymorons: The Myth of a U.S. Health Care System.
WHO: The speakers are:
author, J. D. Kleinke, President and CEO of Health Strategies Network
Paul B. Ginsburg, President, Center for Studying Health System Change
Veronique de Rugy, Health Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS: cato.org
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
EVENT: ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH REFORM briefing on the "Approaching Dying: Improving How We Pay For Care Near the End of Life."
WHO: The speakers are:
Karen Kaplan, head of Partnership for Caring and director of the Last Acts program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
Donald Schumacher, director of the Hospice Association of Western New York
Joseph Fins, medical ethics chief at Cornell University's Weill Medical College,
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: Room 325, Russell Senate Office Bldg. Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-466-5626
WEB ADDRESS: allhealth.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring NPC Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter discussing "Mental Health Issues and the 20th Anniversary of the Carter Center."
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Is an Economy of Solidarity the Key to Sustainable Development?" with Trinidad Sanchez, executive director of the Alternative Community Trade Network (COMAL) in Honduras and the American Friends Service Committee Central America field representative.
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds an "Afternoon Newsmaker" on "Cooperation or Competition? American and German Policies in the Balkans."
WHO: The speakers are:
Dr. Lily Gardner Feldman, discussing "How U.S. - German Cooperation in the Balkans May Impact the Global War on Terrorism."
Dr. Mary Hampton, Visiting Scholar, Air War College
Dr. Keith Crane, Director of Research, PlanEcon, Inc.
Jonathan Davidson, Senior Advisor, Political and Academic Affairs, Delegation of the European Commission
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION holds forum on Foreign Correspondents' Perspectives: Covering the Anti-Terrorism War from Washington.
WHO: The speakers are:
Stephen Hess, Senior Fellow, Governmental Studies, The Brookings Institution; author of numerous books on media and politics
Marvin Kalb, Executive Director, The Shorenstein Center, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government; Former Chief Diplomatic Correspondent for CBS News and NBC News; Former Moderator of NBC's Meet the Press
Andrei Sitov, Washington Bureau Chief, ITAR-TASS, (Russian News Service)
Hafez Al-Mirazi Osman, Washington Bureau Chief, Al Jazeera Television
Jose Carreno, Washington Correspondent, El Universal (Mexico)
Yasemin Congar, Washington Bureau Chief, Milliyet (Turkey)
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: Foreign Press Center, 800 National Press Building, 429 14th Street, N.W., Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 2:30 p.m.
EVENT: SEN. ROBERT TORRICELLI, D-NJ AND SEN. JON CORZINE, D-NJ, hold a news conference to discuss the Victims of Terrorism Relief Act of 2001.
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: Senate Swamp, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-224-3224
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION public policy forum on Free Trade, Sovereignty, Democracy: The Future of the WTO.
WHO: The speakers are:
Claude Barfield, Resident Scholar, Director of Science and Technology Policy Studies, Coordinator of Trade Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute
Bruce Stokes, Columnist, The National Journal
Susan Aaronson, Senior Fellow, National Policy Association
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY forum on "What's A Nice Gal Like You Doing in the Field of Counter-Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism?"
WHO: The speakers are:
Amoretta Hoeber, president, AMH Consulting
Caroline Barnes, acting deputy director, Office of Counter-intelligence, U.S. Department of Energy
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-885-5950
WEB ADDRESS: au.edu
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Global Problems, Global Solutions with Margaret Beckett MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, United Kingdom.
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.-China Relations."
WHO: The speakers are:
David M. Lampton, director of the China Studies Program at SAIS
Michael Mandelbaum, director of the SAIS American Foreign Policy Program
Anne Thurston, associate professor of China Studies at SAIS and co-author of The Private Life of Chairman Mao.
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents Last Train Home delivers original holiday tunes alongside interpretations of yuletide classics from their new recording, "Holiday Limited."
DATE: December 5, 2001
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
