Conference Program
9:00 am Continental Breakfast
9:30 am WelcomeGeorge Shultz, the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution
9:40 am Panel I: Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
- Moderator:
- Ward Hanson, SIEPR Policy Forum Director
- Robert E. Litan, vice president for research and policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
- Vivek Wadhwa, senior research associate with the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, executive in residence/adjunct professor at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University, and visiting scholar at UC Berkeley
10:40 am Case Study: Partnership for Growth in
Italy–Promoting Entrepreneurship
as U.S. Foreign PolicyRichard Boly, national security affairs fellow, Hoover Institution
11:00 am Panel II: U.S. Embassy Role in Promoting Economic Dynamism Abroad
- Moderator:
- William H. Draper, III, General Partner, Draper Richards
- James R. Jones, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
- Alec Ross, Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State
- Ronald P. Spogli, former U.S. ambassador to Italy
- Steve Westly, former California state controller and managing director of the Westly Group
12:00 pm Lunch in Hatfield Court
1:00 pm Transformational Economic DiplomacyCondoleezza Rice, the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy, Hoover Institution
1:15 pm Panel III: Promoting Entrepreneurship Both at Home and Abroad
- Moderator:
- Curtis Carlson, President and CEO, SRI International
- Suren G. Dutia, CEO, the Indus Entrepreneurs
- Carl Schramm, CEO, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
- Bert van der Vaart, chairman, Small Enterprise Assistance Funds
- Paulo Veras, Endeavor Brazil Board Member
2:45 pm Break
3:00 pm Entrepreneurship and the Information EconomyCharles E. Phillips, President of Oracle Corporation and member to the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board
3:15 pm Panel IV: An Entrepreneur’s View on Promoting Entrepreneurship Abroad
- Moderator:
- Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli, The Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; and co-founder of Cadence and Synopsys
- Wences Casares, Co-CEO of Bling Nation and founder of Lemon Bank, Wanako Games, and Patagon
- Vinita Gupta, founder and chairman of Quick Eagle Networks
- Loïc Le Meur, founder of Seesmic and LeWeb conference, one of Business Week's 25 Most Influential People on the Web
- Giacomo Marini, cofounder Logitech, founder and managing director at the VC, Noventi
- Kanwal Rekhi, serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, and 1987 Arthur-Young/Venture magazine Entrepreneur of the Year
- Don Wood, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
4:30 pm SummationCarl Schramm, CEO, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
4:45 pm ClosingJohn L. Hennessy, president, Stanford University