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International Symposium to
Promote Corporate Social Responsibility, Healthcare
Education, Technology, Responsible Media and
Competitiveness.
March 7th, 2005
10:00am . . . . . . . . . . . Opening Plenary: Millennium
Development Goals "Leadership Prescriptiveness"
Conference Room 4 (Open Meeting)
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The opening session will focus on
the role leadership can play in the Millennium
Development Goals. Currently, the United Nations and
member states are making progress to eradicate extreme
poverty and hunger, achieve universal and primary
education, promote gender equality and empower women,
reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat
HIV/AIDS and other diseases, ensure environmental
sustainability and develop a global partnership for
development. The Secretary General of the UN widely
recognizes that closing the gap between the haves and
have nots requires leadership from both the public and
private sectors.
Introduced by: Josie Thomas, Senior Vice President, Diversity, CBS Television
Moderator: Ken Brown,
Correspondent, The Wall Street
Journal
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H.E.
Leonel Fernandez, President of the
Dominican Republic
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Loretta
Sanchez, United States Congresswoman
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George
Hara, DEFTA Partners, Managing Director
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Amir
Dossal, Executive Director of the UN Fund for
International Partnerships (UNFIP)
* Closing
Remarks: Arthur
Navarro, Conference Chairman
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11:00am-1:00pm Session I . . . . . . . . .
. Competitiveness as
Key to Growth & Employment: What Every Country Needs to
Know
Conference Room 4 (Open Meeting)
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While access to markets dominates
the business headlines, another critical debate
concerning access to capital in a macroeconomic
environment looms. With entire regions of the world
facing serious economic challenges, countries like the
Dominican Republic, Mexico and Costa Rica find
themselves in competition with other countries for
technology and innovation, which can lead to conflict,
loss of jobs, and increased unemployment. Recently
elected with great optimism and a mandate to strengthen
the economy, President Fernandez of the Dominican
Republic addresses these issues on a daily basis. This
panel will cover access to markets, technology
innovation, macroeconomic environment and governance and
frameworks that are the pillars to creating a dynamic
economy.
Introduced by: Lisa Anastos,
General Counsel, Falconhead Capital
Moderator: Eli Noam, Professor of
Finance and Economics at Columbia University
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Eddy
Martinez, Secretariat for Trade and Investment
of the Dominican
Republic
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Vince
Wolfington, Chairman World Travel and Tourism
Council
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Rafael
P. Colon, Microsoft-Latin America
& Caribbean
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Fernando
Espuelas, Founder and CEO of Voy
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Richard
A. Stone, President, Trajectory Sports &
Media Group
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Andrew
Fentress, Columbus
Nova, Private Investment Firm
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Mercedes
Colon, The Bravo Group,Young & Rubicam Company
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Vincenzo
Auaro, CEO Formit Servizi
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Closing
Marks: Eli Norm
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1:00pm - 3:30pm Session II . . . . . . . Luncheon
Becoming a
Corporate Social Responsibility Champion When There's No Script
Delegates
Dining Room (By Invitation Only)
Management theories abound about how to become a leader within your organization, yet when it comes to becoming a CSR leader, there is no handbook. This session features a select group of CSR leaders who will share their expertise on managing CSR change in their organizations and institutions.
Introduced
by: Joseph Kopser, Assistant Professor
USMA
Moderator:
Meera T. Gandhi, Moderator
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Marty
Franks Executive Vice President CBS & Viacom,
Inc.
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Adam
Chavarria, Exec. Director, White House Initiative
on Hispanic Education Excellence
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Fred
Tipson, Senior Counsel and Director for International
Development, Microsoft
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Dori
Bernstein, Founder
& CEO, Dramatic Forces, Broadway Producer
& Director
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David
Gonzalez, Sr. Vice President Community Relations,
Pepsico
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Carol
Kim, Co-Founder, 100 Women in hedge funds
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Deborah
Dagit, Executive of Director of Diversity,
Merck
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George
Kell,
Executive Head of the Global Compact, United Nations
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Michael
Madnick , Vice President for Partnership Development
2:00pm - 4:45pm Session III (Group A &
B) .
. . . . . . . . . Artificial
Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence &
Human-Computer Interfaces for Real Social
Need
Conference Room 4 (Open Meeting)
This session will cover how and why artificial intelligence needs to be informed by emotional intelligence, and to invent a new platform and network to share world technologies made by and for people of all languages and levels of physical ability .
Introduced
by: Stuart Flerlage, Managing Director, Brownstone
Advisors
Moderator:
Dr. Lizbeth Goodman, Director, SMARTlab UK
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Reaching out through the
Screen
Group
A.
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Dr
Jeb Wesiman - Chief Information Officer,
The Children's Health Fund
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Ed
Mishrell, Direcotr of BGCA in partnership with
Microsoft Community Affairs
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Dr
Brian Duffy,
University
College
Dublin
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Jose
Santana, Executive Director of the President's
International Advisory Council on Science and
Technology,
Dominican
Republic
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Professor
Holly Carter, Northeastern University &
Community Technology Development, Inc.
Telemedicine, the exchange of
medical information from one site to another using
electronic communication (telephone
lines,broadband and
satellite), is available for applications to
support medical needs in remote and/or underserved
locations. The technology is rapidly
evolving and the costs are decreasing.
However, efforts at organizing the non technical
aspects are
what is
holding back the field. This panel will
address the requirements for a successful program
including the definition of clear needs to which the
technology can be applied, as well as the
organizational and legal
barriers
that arise.
Group
B. Telemedicine
Introduced by: Steve Ebert, Esq. Ebert
& Associates
Moderator: Dr. Edward Feldman, M.D,
Cedars
Sinai
Hospital,
Los
Angeles
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Alan
Daley, Director, Infrastructure and Security
Issues, Verizon Government Relations
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Bob
Jalango, Former Ambassador to
Kenya,
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Dr.
Walter Palmas, M.D ,
Columbia
University
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Dinorah
Matos, Attorney
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4:45 pm
. . . . . . . . . . .Closing Remarks (Promote Conference in the Dominican Republic 2005)
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Ambassador
Francis Lorenzo, Deputy Permanent Representative,
Dominican
Republic
Mission to
the
United Nations
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John
R. Gagain Jr., Executive Director, Presidential
Commission on the Millennium Development Goals and
Sustainable Development (COPDES),
Dominican
Republic
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