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EVENTS ON TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2003
TIME: ALL DAY
EVENT: FOSE EXPO AND GCN MANAGEMENT EXHIBITION. FOSE hosts over 400 exhibitors showcasing the newest and most exciting integrated IT products and services.
AGENDA: Highlight:
9 a.m. - Stephen J. Rohleder, Group Chief Executive, Government Operating Group Accenture discussing Global e-Government Leadership: Charting the Path to Progress
1 p.m. - Steve Cooper, CIO and Senior Director for Information Integration
Department of Homeland Security with Homeland Security: From Day 1 to Year 1 .... Let's Roll
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: Washington Convention Center, 900 9th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-237-0300
WEB ADDRESS: fose.com
TIME: All Day
EVENT: BUREAU OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS holds a conference on "Contracting with the Department of Homeland Security."
AGENDA: Highlights:
9:45 a.m. - Homeland Security Budget: FY '03 and Beyond
Walter Bruce Shirk, Partner
Powell Goldstein Frazer & Murphy LLP, (Moderator)
G. William Hoagland, Staff Director and Head Clerk
Senate Majority Leader's Office
Howard Schmidt, Vice Chair, President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board
11 a.m. - Inside the Department of Homeland Security
John J. Pavlick, Partner, Venable LLP, (Moderator)
Elaine Duke, Director of Acquisition
Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
Janice Hill, Director of Procurement, U.S. Customs
Ashley Lewis, Acquisition Transition, Department of Homeland Security
12:15 p.m. -- Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA), Chair,
House Government Reform Committee
2 p.m. - Homeland Security Procurement: The Other Agencies
Ralph Kissick, Partner, Zuckert, Scoutt & Rasenberger LLP (Moderator)
David Drabkin Deputy Associate Administrator,
Office of Acquisition Policy, General Services Administration
Peter F. Verga, Special Assistant for Homeland Security,
U.S. Department of Defense
Benjamin Wu, Deputy Under Secretary for Technology,
U.S. Department of Commerce
3:15 p.m. - Homeland Security Procurement: The Big Picture
John H. Horne, Partner
Powell Goldstein Frazer & Murphy LLP (Moderator)
Cathy Garman, Vice President, Contract Services Association
Christopher R. Yukins, Partner, Holland & Knight
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: The Washington Marriott, 1221 22nd Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Karen James Cody, 202-452-4169
WEB ADDRESS: bna.com
TIME: All Day
EVENT: INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION holds The Global Technology Conference 2003.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9:30 a.m. - Keynote Address
James Richardson, Chief Marketing Officer, Cisco Systems
10:15 a.m. - Innovation Trends in the Global Technology Industry
Jim Lynch, Managing Partner, Draper Atlantic
Per-Kristian Halvorsen, VP, HP Labs
Mark Heesen, President, National Venture Capital Association
Alex Pentland, Managing Director, MIT Media Lab, Asia
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: International Finance Corporation, 2121 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-473-8859
WEB ADDRESS: ifc.org
TIME: ALL DAY
EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY Center for the Global South holds a program on "The State of Human Development in the Global South: A Comparison of the Latin American and Arab Regions."
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-885-1612
WEB ADDRESS: american.edu
TIME: All Day
EVENT: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF HOME AND SERVICES FOR THE AGING holds its Future of Aging. Services Conference.
AGENDA: Highlight:
12:30 p.m. - Media Briefing on Quality in Aging Services
Larry Minnix, President & CEO of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging
Brian Boon, President & CEO of CARF, the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities
Rick Stiffney, Chair of the Continuing Care Accreditation Commission
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: Omni Shoreham, 2500 Calvert Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-508-9499, cell 301-922-6179
WEB ADDRESS: aahsa.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: Children's Defense Fund holds its 2003 National Conference on "New Voices New Choices! It's Time to Truly Leave No
Child Behind."
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Toby Chaudhuri, 202-662-3609
WEB ADDRESS: childrensdefense.org
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS ECONOMICS holds its breakfast series featuring Dominique Guellec of the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD discussing "From patent indicators to patent policy in OECD countries. "
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: OECD Washington Center, 2001 L Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-785-6323
WEB ADDRESS: nabe.org
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds its "Iraq: What Lies Ahead -- Black Coffee Briefings on the War in Iraq."
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m. - Military Operations Analysis:
Thomas Donnelly, AEI resident defense and national security fellow
Michael Vickers, military analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
9 a.m. - Briefing:
Karlyn Bowman, AEI resident fellow, on public opinion of the war
Reuel Marc Gerecht, AEI resident fellow, on the future of Iraq
Kanan Makiya, Iraqi National Congress and Harvard University, on the role of the opposition in rebuilding post-Saddam Iraq
Danielle Pletka, AEI, moderator
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS holds AMERICA AT WAR Press Briefing Series entitled Background and Update on Baghdad and the Role of the Kurds
WHO: The speakers are:
Rachel Bronson is Senior Fellow and Director of Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations
Dr. Najmaldin Karim is president of the Washington Kurdish Institute, and was formerly president of the Kurdish National Congress of North America
Charles E. Wilhelm, a retired four-star Marine Corps general, is Vice
President and Director of Homeland Security at Battelle
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: Rome Building, Johns Hopkins-SAIS
1619 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C
CONTACT: Marieke Beeuwkes, 212-434-9716
WEB ADDRESS: cfr.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a Bridging the Gap: America and the Muslim Middle East.
WHO: The speakers are:
Ambassador Chris Ross, Special Coordinator for Public Diplomacy and deputy to the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, University of Maryland, and senior fellow, Brookings Institution
Shamil Idriss, Chief Operating Officer, Search for Common Ground
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: DAVID AND LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION, will release the latest research on efforts to increase children's health insurance coverage.
WHO: The speakers are:
Rep. Hilda Solis, D-CA, Chair, Hispanic Caucus Task Force on Health
Ray Scheppach, Executive Director, National Governors Association
Lois Salisbury, Director, Children, Families and Communities Program, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Eugene Lewit, Senior Program Manager, Children, Families and Communities Program, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Courtney Bennett, Policy Analyst/Editor, The Future of Children
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Linda Loranger or Bethanne Fox, 301-652-1558
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION AND CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE hold a press briefing on "The Future of Global Goverance.
WHO: The speakers are:
Strobe Talbott, President, The Brookings Institution
Ann Florini, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, Brookings; Author of The Coming Democracy: New Rules for Running a New World (April 2003)
Jessica Mathews, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
James B. Steinberg, Vice President and Director, Foreign Policy Program
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: HOUSE DEMOCRATIC Whip Steny Hoyer will hold his regular pen and pad briefing Hoyer will review the House Floor Schedule for the week of April 7th.
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: H-306, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Laura Nichols, 202-225-0100
WEB ADDRESS: house.gov
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service presents a faculty seminar with Carlo Mongardini, Visiting Italian Fulbright Professor, BMW Center for German and European Studies discussing "Rethinking Western European Democracy."
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: ICC 462, 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-8316
WEB ADDRESS: Georgetown.edu
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
EVENT: REP. CURT WELDON, R-PA, AND SEN. ARLEN SPECTER, R-PA, hold a news conference to discuss their efforts to hold Iraqi war criminals accountable for their actions.
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: Senate Radio-TV Gallery, US Capitol, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Bud DeFlaviis, 202-225-2011
WEB ADDRESS: senate.gov
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Tom Toles, 1990 Pulitzer Prize winner and the Washington Post's new and gifted cartoonist, will show us how he produces his timely cartoons.
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwoman.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: PEW HISPANIC CENTER holds a telephone press briefing by Pew Hispanic Center about an updated national poll of U.S. Hispanic adult attitudes toward the war in Iraq. This survey will provide information about how U.S. Latino attitudes have changed since the war began.
AGENDA: Ask to be connected to "Pew Hispanic call" 1-800-860-2442.
WHO: The speakers are:
Roberto Suro, Director, Pew Hispanic Center
Sergio Bendixen, President, Bendixen & Associates
DATE: April 8, 2003
CONTACT: Dianne Saenz, or 202-292-3304
WEB ADDRESS: pewhispanic.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on "Angola's First Year of Peace: An Assessment."
WHO: The speakers are:
Ibrahim Gambari, Under Secretary and Special Advisor for African Affairs to the UN
Walter Kansteiner III, Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Ambassador Paul Hare, Executive Director, U.S.-Angola Chamber of Commerce
Witney Schneidman, President, Schneidman and Associates
John Prendergast, Co-Director, Africa Program, International Crisis Group
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a Book Launch for James MacGregor Burns, Transforming Leadership: The Pursuit of Happiness with author James MacGregor Burns, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Government Emeritus, Williams College, and commentator Georgia Sorenson, Jepson School of Leadership, University of Richmond.
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 4:30 p.m.
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a book event for Black Aces High featuring author Robert K. Wilcox. Robert Wilcox spent two weeks with The Black Aces aboard the aircraft carrier, USS Roosevelt and here provides a long-awaited, never-before-seen glimpse into the world of a modern navy fighter squadron. Wilcox takes readers into the cockpits as the pilots go out and attack targets while avoiding anti-aircraft weaponry.
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS: heritage.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE features Solo guitarist Alex de Grassi, touring his Grammy award nominated album The Water Garden, in which he showcases his ability to create a highly orchestrated sound by weaving together melody, counter-melody, bass, harmony, and rhythm.
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Club's International Connection Speaker Series presents "Where is Romania Now After 12 Years Since the Fall of Communism?" a program featuring Mariana Stoian from the Romanian Embassy who will discuss her country's history, culture and tradition.
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: 1918 F Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-994-2355
WEB ADDRESS: gwu.edu
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Central Europe Between NATO and the E.U." with Martin Palous, ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United States.
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, Dc
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Ira Berlin discussing and signing copies of Generations Of Captivity: A History of African American Slaves.
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE AND THE WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL will sponsor a special two-day discussion to allow participants to hear from hands-on peace activists what works at the grassroots level, then reflect with three theologians on how religious traditions evolved to embrace shared understandings of peace.
WHO: The speakers are:
Mohammed Abu-Nimer, Assistant Professor of International Peace and Conflict Resolution, American University
Marie Dennis, Director, Maryknoll office for Global Concerns
Yehezkel Landau, International Relations Director, Open House, Israel
William Lowrey, Director of Reconciliation and Peace building, World Vision International
Adam Seligman, Professor of Religion, Boston University, and Research Associate, Institute for the Study of Economic Culture
David Smock, Director, Religion and Peacemaking Initiative, U.S. Institute of Peace
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Steven Gotfried, 202-537-6248
WEB ADDRESS: nationalcathedral.org
