Monday, November 30
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| 4:00 p.m.
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Check-in begins & Innovation Showcase
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| 4:45 p.m.
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Welcome remarks by Walter Isaacson, President and CEO, The Aspen Institute
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| 5:00 p.m.
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American Students in the Global Classroom: Are We Making the Grade?
A Conversation with Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education
Moderator: Gwen Ifill, Senior Correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and Moderator and Managing Editor, Washington Week
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| 5:30 p.m.
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Cocktail hour & Innovation Showcase
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| 6:45 p.m.
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Call to Dinner & Evening Session Innovation Economy Conference
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| 7:00 p.m.
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Opening remarks by Paul Otellini, President and CEO, Intel Corporation
Dinner begins
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| 7:10 p.m.
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American Innovation: Past, Present, and Future
John Kao, Innovation Expert and Author, Innovation Nation
Sir Harold Evans, Editor-at-Large, The Week and Author, They Made America
Moderator: Jon Meacham, Editor, Newsweek
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| 8:20 p.m.
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Innovation and Economic Growth
A Conversation with Lawrence Summers, Director of the National Economic Council and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy
Moderator: Judy Woodruff, Senior Correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
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| 8:45 p.m.
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Closing remarks
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Tuesday, December 1
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| 7:30 a.m.
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Check-in begins & Innovation Showcase
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| 8:55 a.m.
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Welcome remarks by Elliot Gerson, Senior Vice President, The Aspen Institute
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| 9:10 a.m.
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Educating the Next Generation of Innovators
Michelle Rhee, Chancellor, District of Columbia Public Schools
Joel Klein, Chancellor, New York City Department of Education
John Hennessy, President, Stanford University
Moderator: Ray Suarez, Senior Correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
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| 9:45 a.m.
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Are We Doing Enough to Support Science in America?
Francis Collins, Director, National Institutes of Health
Brian Greene, Founder of World Science Festival and Physicist, Columbia University
Madeleine Jacobs, Executive Director and CEO, American Chemical Society
Moderator: Margaret Warner, Senior Correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
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| 10:30 a.m.
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BREAK & Innovation Showcase
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| 11:00 a.m.
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Innovation, Competitiveness and the Future of the American Corporation
A Conversation with GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt and Intel CEO Paul Otellini
Moderator: Walter Isaacson, President and CEO, The Aspen Institute
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| 11:30 a.m.
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Building the Infrastructure for Progress
Julius Genachowski, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
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| Noon
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Lunch and Presentation
Creativity, Innovation, and American Leadership
Walter Isaacson, President and CEO, The Aspen Institute
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| 1:17 p.m.
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Risk, Return and the Global Recession: Who Will Invest in Tomorrow's Big Ideas?
Sue Siegel, Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures
Austan Goolsbee, Staff Director and Chief Economist, President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board
Dr. Sophie Vandebroek, CTO of Xerox and President, Xerox Innovation Group
Justin Rattner, Senior Fellow and CTO of Intel
Moderator: Jeffrey Brown, Senior Correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
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| 2:30 p.m.
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Breakout Sessions
1. Building the Innovation Workforce
Daniel Pink, Author of the forthcoming, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us and A Whole New Mind
Gerhard Schmidt, CTO, Vice President Research and Advanced Engineering at Ford Motor Company
Sidney Harman, Founder and Chairman Emeritus, Harman International Industries, Inc.
Moderator: Paul Solman, Business and Economics Correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
2. Broadband -The Next American Frontier
Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officer, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Blair Levin, Executive Director, The Omnibus Broadband Initiative
Moderator: Charlie Firestone, Director, The Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program
3. Cradle to Cradle: Design and Sustainability
William McDonough, Founding Principal of William McDonough + Partners, Architect and Author, Cradle to Cradle
4. Thinking About Innovation: A Revealing Look at Attitudes in the U.S., China, and Beyond
A presentation of the Newsweek/Intel Global Innovation Survey
Rana Foroohar, Senior Editor, Business, Newsweek International
Beth Lester, Vice President, Penn, Schoen & Berland
Moderator: Richard M. Smith, Chairman, Newsweek
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| 3:15 p.m.
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BREAK & Innovation Showcase
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| 3:45 p.m.
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Leadership and the Innovation Economy: Finding the Political Will to Work Together
Shirley Ann Jackson, President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Robert Atkinson, President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Steve Case, Co-Founder, America Online; Chairman and CEO, Revolution; Chairman, the Case Foundation
U.S. Senator Mark Warner
U.S. Representative Bart Gordon
U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar
Moderator: James Fallows, National Correspondent for The Atlantic
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| 4:45 p.m.
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After Copenhagen: Climate Change Policy and the Green Economy
Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change
Moderator: Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Global Correspondent for The Economist
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| 5:30 p.m.
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Closing Remarks
Elliott Gerson, Senior Vice President, The Aspen Institute
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| 5:30 p.m.
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Innovation Showcase
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