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EVENTS ON TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: PROGRESSIVE POLICY INSTITUTE holds a conference to discuss IT and Economic Growth Conference themed "The Next Phase of IT-Driven Growth and Productivity and What Government Can Do To Help It.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Will Marshall, President, Progressive Policy Institute
9:10 a.m. - THE DIGITAL ECONOMY: IT'S A LOT HEALTHIER THAN YOU THINK
Rob Atkinson, Vice President and Director of the Technology and New Economy Project, Progressive Policy Institute
9:25 a.m. - "THE NEXT PHASE OF IT GROWTH"
David Moschella, author of Customer-Driven IT: How Users Are Shaping Technology Industry Growth, Harvard Business School Press, 2003.
10:10 a.m. - EMERGING SUPPORTING TECHNOLOGIES
Grid Computing: Tom Hawk, General Manager, Grid Computing Worldwide, IBM
Smart Cards, Biometrics, and Digital Authentication: Henry Dreifus, CEO, Dreifus Associates Limited and author of SmartCards: A Guide to Building and Managing Smart Card Applications.
10:50 a.m. - WHAT DOES A CUSTOMER-DRIVEN IT PARADIGM MEAN FOR POLICY?
Overview and Implications: Rob Atkinson, PPI
E-Home Buying: How IT Can Transform the Residential Real Estate Industry: Shane Ham, Senior Analyst, PPI
Designing an IT-Driven Health Care System: Janet Marchibroda, CEO, eHealth Initiative
Transforming Transportation with Technology: Dr. Richard Mudge, Vice President, Delcan, Inc.
12 noon -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-OR
DATE: March 18, 2003
LOCATION: Hyatt Regency -- Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-547-0001
WEB ADDRESS: ppionline.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO holds its legislative conference.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. -- Rep. Artur Davis, D-AL
Rep. Stephanie Stubbs Jones, D-OH
Sen. Arlen Spector, R-PA
12 noon -- Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-CA
DATE: March 18, 2003
LOCATION: Washington Hilton and Towers, 1919 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-429-1145
WEB ADDRESS: afscme.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIREFIGHTERS holds its 21st annual conference
AGENDA: Highlights:
Capitol Hill Kick-off Breakfast
FIREPAC Awards
Special Briefing: Health Care with Sen. John Kerry, MA
Meet with Senators and Representatives (All Day)
on Capitol Hill and Lobby visit debriefing session - Regency Foyer
Congressional Reception
DATE: March 18, 2003
LOCATION: Hyatt Regency- Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-737-8484
WEB ADDRESS: iaff.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: THE NATIONAL FOOD PROCESSORS ASSOCIATION, NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION AND FOOD MARKETING INSTITUTE hold the Food Safety Summit focusing on Food safety and food security.
AGENDA: Hundreds of household name food companies will gather here, as Kraft, General Mills, Campbell's Soup, M&M, ConAgra, Tyson, Olive Garden, Hormel, Burger King to give presentations during the conference. Topics include dealing with listeria, e-coli, food allergens, food irradiation, and other issues, as well as a comprehensive series of sessions on food security and how to secure the nation's food supply from bioterrorism.
DATE: March 18, 2003
LOCATION: Washington Convention Center, 900 9th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 800-746-9646
WEB ADDRESS: foodsaftysummit.org
TIME: 7:30 a.m.
EVENT: NORTHERN VIRGINIA TECHNOLOGY COUCIL CFO Forum holds a program on "Lessons Learned and Moving Forward."
WHO: The speakers are:
Eric Brown, President and CFO, MicroStrategy, Inc.
Todd Headley, CFO, BioNetrix
John Mendonca, Partner, KPMG LLP
DATE: March 18, 2003
LOCATION: The Ritz-Carlton, 1700 Tyson's Boulevard, McLean, VA
CONTACT: 703-904-7878
WEB ADDRESS: nvtc.org
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY The Center for Latin American Issues and Organization of American States' Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development holds a roundtable discussion to examine how to put into action last year's Monterrey Summit mandates relating to debt reduction, social development and reducing poverty throughout the world.
WHO: The speakers are:
James Ferrer Jr., director, CLAI
Ambassador Miguel Ruiz-CabaƱas, permanent representative of Mexico to the OAS
L. Ronald Scheman, director general, Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development
DATE: March 18, 2003
LOCATION: Organization of American States, Hall of the Americas, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202- 994-5205
WEB ADDRESS: gwnewscenter.org
TIME: 8:45 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a Black Coffee Briefings on the War in Iraq.
WHO: The speakers are:
Thomas Donnelly, AEI resident fellow, on the geography of conflict
Michael Vickers, military analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, on possible casualties of war
Daniel Goure, Lexington Institute, on strategy (invited)
DATE: March 18, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION holds a breakfast briefing on "Health Care for All: Finding Common Ground" which will explore proposals to expand access to health care for all Americans. The bipartisan briefing is sponsored by Sen. Ron Wyden, Sen. Orrin Hatch, Rep. Joseph Crowley and Rep. Sherrod Brown.
WHO: The speakers are:
Dr. Georges C. Benjamin and Dr. Jay Glasser, American Public Health Association
Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg, President, Institute of Medicine
Dr. Bruce Vladeck, Professor, Health Policy and Geriatrics, Mount Sinai School of
Medicine, (Former Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration)
Walter B. Maher, Former VP of Public Policy, DaimlerChrysler Corporation
Dr. Jack Hadley, Principal Research Associate, Urban Institute
DATE: March 18, 2003
LOCATION: B-340 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: David Fouse, 202-777-2501
WEB ADDRESS: apha.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER PARTNERSHIP FOR EFFECTIVE PEACE OPERATIONS AND WORLD FEDERALIST MOVEMENT-INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL POLICY hold a conference on the report from the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty entitled "The Responsibility to Protect."
AGENDA: The discussion will focus on a possible NGO role in operationalizing the concept of the Responsibility to Protect, in particular by ensuring that governments meet their commitments to prevent serious humanitarian crises from developing, and to protect civilians when conflicts emerge.
DATE: March 18, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY holds a national symposium to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the
Supreme Court's decision in Gideon v. Wainwright addressing the role of defense counsel in ensuring a fair justice system.
WHO: The speakers are:
Moderators: Raymond Brown, Jr., Prof. Abbe Smith, & Prof. Ellen Podgor
Keynote Speaker: Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), United States Congress
Justice Robert Benham, Georgia Supreme Court
Anthony Lewis, New York Times columnist and author of Gideon's Trumpet
Abe Krash, Partner, Arnold & Porter; assisted in representing Clarence Earl Gideon before the U.S. Supreme Court
Prof. Yale Kamisar, University of San Diego and Michigan law schools
Stephen Bright, Director, Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta
Barry Scheck, Co-Director, The Innocence Project
Bill Rankin, staff reporter, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Miriam Goharra, staff attorney, NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund
Michele Nethercott, Maryland Public Defender
Bernard Webster, exonerated client
Judge Alfred Swersky, Alexandria (VA) Circuit Court
Richard Trodden, Commonwealth's Attorney, Arlington, VA
Dean Judith Areen, Georgetown University Law Center
Prof. Kristin Henning, Georgetown Juvenile Justice Clinic
Prof. Samuel Dash, Georgetown University Law Center
Larry Rogers, Baltimore Public Defender Office
Kathleen Behan, Partner, Arnold & Porter
Robin Steinberg, Executive Director, The Bronx Defenders
Lawrence Goldman, President, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Jo-Ann Wallace, Vice-President, NLADA
DATE: March 18, 2003
LOCATION: 600 New Jersey Avenue N.W. Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-4328
WEB ADDRESS:Georgetown.edu
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program entitled The Worldwide Campaign against Pharmaceutical Innovation.
WHO: The speakers are:
10 a.m. - Perspectives from Japan, Germany, and the U.S. Presentations
Frank Lichtenberg, Columbia University
Lacy Glenn Thomas, Emory University
John E. Calfee, AEI
12:30 p.m. - The Campaign against Pharmaceutical Innovation
Introduction:
Christopher Demuth, AEI
Sidney Taurel, Eli Lilly
Christopher Demuth, AEI
DATE: March 18, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: MEDIA RESEARCH COUNCIL holds a news conference to discuss ABC's Coverage of Iraq.
DATE: March 18, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Doug Mills/Liz Swasey, 703-683-9733
WEB ADDRESS: mediaresearch.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program on Montenegro: Politics, Foreign Relations.
WHO: The speakers are:
Srdjan Darmanovic, Director, Center for Democracy and Human Rights, Podgorica
Rade Bojovic, Senior Analyst, Center for Democracy and Human Rights, Podgorica
Janusz Bugajski, Director, CSIS East Europe Project
DATE: March 18, 2003
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS: csis.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Morning Newsmaker" news program featuring Executive Director, Catholic Relief Services, Ken Hackett, reporting on a just-completed trip surveying famine conditions in Ethiopia. Kathryn Wolford, President, Lutheran World Relief and Julius Coles, President, Africare, will join him.
DATE: March 18, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 10:15 a.m.
EVENT: RESEARCH! AMERICA holds a National Forum "Leaders in Research and Technology Face the Nation: Aiming for Quantum Leaps in Medical and Health Research."
WHO: The speakers are:
Carolyn Clancy, MD, director, Agency for Healthcare Research and QualityRita Colwell, PhD, DSc, director, National Science Foundation
David Fleming, MD, deputy director for science and public health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, commissioner, Food and Drug Administration
Elias Zerhouni, MD, director, National Institutes of Health
6 p.m. - 2003 Advocacy Awards Dinner will honor outstanding advocates for a strong national medical and health research enterprise.
DATE: March 18, 2003
LOCATION: American Association for the Advancement of Sciencem Auditorium, Second Floor, 1200 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Cindy McConnell, 703-739-2577, ext. 35,
WEB ADDRESS: researchamerica.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: HOUSE DEMOCRATIC WHIP STENY HOYER, D-MD, will hold his regular pen and pad briefing.
DATE: March 18, 2003
LOCATION: H-306 in the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-225-3130
WEB ADDRESS: house.gov
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a book forum on "Wild Bill: The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas."
WHO: The speakers are:
Author, Bruce Allen Murphy;
James L. Swanson, Editor in Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review
DATE: March 18, 2003
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS: cato.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program entitled The Budget Conundrum: How to Rein in Spending, Create Jobs and Promote Growth.
WHO: The speakers are:
William Beach, Director, Center for Data Analysis, The Heritage Foundation
Steve Moore, Club For Growth
Brian Riedl, Fellow, Roe Institute, The Heritage Foundation
DATE: March 18, 2003
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS: heritage.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan, discussing Big Doctoring in America, which speaks of his story and his renewed energy to fix and untangle the contradictions of primary care medicine.
DATE: March 18, 2003
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Foreign Minister of Chechnya, Ilyas Akhmadov discussing "A Peace Proposal for Chechnya."
DATE: March 18, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 2:30 p.m.
EVENT: THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS holds a entitled, "The 2003 Social Security Trustees Report: What Does it Mean?" featuring Social Security Trustee, Dr. Thomas R. Saving, Director of the Private Enterprise Research Center at Texas A&M University and NCPA Senior Fellow.
DATE: March 18, 2003
LOCATION: 562 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Sean Tuffnell, 800-859-1154
WEB ADDRESS: ncpa.org
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on International Terrorism and Moscow Politics with Dmitry Furman, Head Researcher, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow.
DATE: March 18, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents jazz saxophonist Marty Nau, who has performed with legends such as Dizzy Gillespie, Nancy Wilson and Diane Schurr, performing original songs and arrangements from his latest CD recording "String Attached."
DATE: March 18, 2003
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Reflections After the Spanish Presidency" with Javier Ruperez, ambassador of Spain to the United States.
DATE: March 18, 2003
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: ALLIANCE FOR NUCLEAR ACCOUNTABILITY holds an Awards reception honoring individuals who have been leaders in the movement to clean up radioactive wastes, address the needs of workers and neighbors who have been contaminated by U.S. nuclear weapons facilities, and stop unnecessary weapons research and production.
WHO: The awards ceremony:
Senator Carl Levin -- For his steadfast leadership in opposing
new nuclear weapons, supporting the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and
working for meaningful reductions in the nuclear arsenal.
Rep. Tom Allen -- For his leadership in challenging
a new and provocative nuclear posture, including efforts to cut funding
for the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator.
Rep. Ed Markey -- For his tireless leadership in
stemming nuclear proliferation, opposing a resurgence in U.S. nuclear
weapons design production and testing, and protecting whistleblowers.
Christopher Steele -- For his vigilance and unlimited
determination enforcing radiation health and safety standards despite
relentless harassment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Dr. Steven Wing -- For his steadfast work to bring integrity
to the field of epidemiology, making the science accessible to
communities, and making community knowledge part of the science.
Daryl Kimball -- For years of effective leadership at the
grassroots and in Washington, DC helping to protect communities, the
nation, and the globe from nuclear insanity.
DATE: March 18, 2003
LOCATION: G-50, Dirksen Senate Office Bldg., Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-833-4668 or 202-547-5083
WEB ADDRESS: ananuclear.org
TIME: 6:45 p.m.
EVENT: THE WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND THE FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION hold a panel discussion on "Great Decisions 2003."
WHO: The speakers are Foreign Correspondents from the Washington Post:
Glen Frankel, European, Integration
Robert G. Kaiser, U.S.-Saudi Relations
Karen DeYoung, U.S. Policy: Multilateralism Vs. Unilateralism
Pamela Constable, Afghanistan
Leonard Downie, Jr., Executive Editor, The Washington Post
Noel V. Lateef, President, Foreign Policy Association
DATE: March 18, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Ed Pauker, 202-293-1051
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents William Hitchcock discussing and signing copies of The Struggle For Europe: The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent, 1945-2002, which traces the continent's postwar achievements and pitfalls through the dawn of the Euro.
DATE: March 18, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
