Written Transcripts
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Change, Innovation and Immigration in the American Ethos
George P. Shultz
the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution -
Panel I: Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
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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
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Case Study: Partnership for Growth in Italy - Entrepreneurship as U.S. Foreign Policy
Richard Boly
U.S. diplomat and Hoover Institution National Security Affairs Fellow -
Panel II: U.S. Embassy Role in Promoting Economic Dynamism Abroad
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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
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Transformational Economic Diplomacy
Condoleezza Rice
the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy, Hoover Institution -
Panel III: Promoting Entrepreneurship Both at Home and Abroad
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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
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Entrepreneurship and the Information Economy
Charles E. Phillips
President of Oracle Corporation and a member of the Board of Directors -
Panel IV: An Entrepreneur’s View on Promoting Entrepreneurship Abroad
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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
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Summation
Carl Schramm
CEO, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation -
What Drives Silicon Valley's Success?
John L. Hennessy
President of Stanford University