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March 7, 2005
United Nations
Entrance: 46th St & 1st Avenue
(Visitors Center)
Conference Room 4
Manhattan, NY
9:30am to 5pm
Hosted by Communications Careers For Latinos, Inc.
The 5th Annual Media, IT and Telecommunications Conference marks a
significant milestone for the event with an exciting day and agenda. This year's
conference will be held at the United Nations headquarters in New
York and will focus on global issues of competitiveness, multiculturalism,
healthcare, UN's Millennium Development Goals, technology and corporate social
responsibility. The day-long series of insightful panel discussions will be held
on March 7, 2005.
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2005 Keynote Speaker
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List of 2004 speakers, advisors, co-chairs and community leaders
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Congressman Rodriguez fully supports the the 2005 conference."By empowering our
youth through technology, Communications Careers For Latinos, Inc. and the
larger Hispanic community can create a dynamic and practical model for
public-private partnerships in the area of Information Technology that can
ignite the engines of growth for future generations in the U.S and Latin
America."
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| Nebraska's senior United States Senator gave opening
luncheon remarks. Kerrey became a candidate for the U.S. Senate. He was elected
in 1988 and re-elected in 1994. He chose not to run for re-election a third
time because of the offer to be President of New School University and his
desire to return to private life. |
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Mr. Alvarez has an extensive background in advanced communications
services focused on business markets, having held various executive positions
with NYNEX and Bell Atlantic. He is, without challenge,
one of the most highly respected and inovative communications executives of our
time. Felipe will be our business keynote speaker.
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| Akhtar brings to the conference extensive experience as an
educator, researcher, and development expert. He has served as a consultant for
such organization as The Asia Society, Rockefeller Foundation, UNDP, USAID,
World Resources Institute, World Bank-EDI, and others in the US, Asia, and the
Middle East and is an internationally recognized author, particularly in the
field of urban planning and development. Akhtar will be the moderator of our
Leave no child behind without a computer and access to broadband panel.
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The Hispanic community is a wonderful and rich mosaic of different ethnicities,
united by a common
language, culture and historical affinity. Latinos are a prominent part of
American society and have had
a lasting influence on this nation's history, values, culture and economic
vitality. Please join one of the
busiest and most profound thinkers of the non-profit community, Lorraine
Cortes- Vazquez as she publicly
comments on the state of the New York Hispanic community. |
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| One of the busiest, most conscientious actors in Hollywood, Martin
Sheen has put together a Herculean body of work, that places him to beg his
mention among the great actors of his generation. He became established playing
youths run amok, and though the resume boasts its share of villains, he has
grown over the years into a patriarchal figure, whose rectitude and social
responsibility is in keeping with his very liberal Catholic activism.
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Ambassador/Permanent Representative of Kenya to the UN and
Chairman of the UN Ecosoc Working
Group on Informatics will participate on the E-Healthcare panel. |
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| Nominated July 10, 2002; confirmed November 14, 2002; sworn in
December 3, 2002. Before joining the FCC, Adelstein served for fifteen years as
a staff member in the United States Senate. Please join Commissioner Adelstein
as he represents the FCC at our 4th Media, IT and Telecommunications. |
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Eli M. Noam, professor of finance and economics at Columbia
University, will Address a plenary session
of the 4th Media, IT and Telecommunications. He is also the Director of the
Columbia Institute for
Tele-Information. CITI is a university-based research center focusing on
strategy, management, and policy
issues in telecommunications, computing, and electronic mass media.
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Anthony Komaroff, M.D., left, professor of medicine and editor and publisher of
Harvard Medical Publications, with Dean Sanderson, general manager and
publishing director. Dr. Komaroff is serving as an advisor to Communications
Careers for Latinos, Inc. on our e-healthcare panel.
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| A former high-level Fox Administration official from Mexico will
offer participants insight into Mexico's new media, regulation, reforms, market
assessment, Internet governance, and digital access in Mexico and Central
America.
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As a former Senior Vice President at Y & R, Connis Wishner managed several
national accounts in the technology and business-to-business categories
including AT&T International and Calling Card, Motorola Corporate, and
Andersen Consulting. Her contributions were lauded by industry recognition and
awards for creative excellence and advertising effectiveness. Connie Wishner,
Founder Communications Careers For Latinos, Inc.
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| Beatrice Rangel is Vice President and Senior Advisor to the
Chairman of Cisneros Group of Companies. A featured speaker at the Global
Summit of Women, Beatrice has been promoting women's participation in the
global market. Morover, she has been a strong advocate of corporate social
responsibility. Beatrice will join our distinguished CSR panel.
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Antonia Novella, MD, MPH, DrPH, Commissioner of New York State Department of
Health and former US Surgeon General will be a keynote speaker . In 1990,
President George Bush appointed Antonia Novello to be Surgeon General of the
United States. She was both the first woman and the first Latin American to be
appointed to this post.
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| Dr. Jane Fountain is the Director for the National Center for
Digital Government. The center is the focus at the John F. Kennedy School of
Government for research on information technology, institutions, and
governance. Jane will serve as an advisor to developing our Emerging Wireless
and Broadband technologies panel.
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| George Foote is a partner and corporate lawyer with a focus in
telecommunications, technology and defense representation for domestic and
international companies. He has represented new entrants and established
companies, as well as trade associations, in the wireless telephone industry,
fiber optic markets and wireless broadband industry. George will be joining our
Emerging technologies and broadband panel.
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Sharon serves as Executive Director of the MIT Program on Internet
& Telecoms Convergence (ITC). She is also the Principal of Victory
Research, a consultancy. Ms. Gillett's research lies at the intersection of
Internet infrastructure technology and policy and has resulted in numerous
publications. Her current work focuses on broadband first-mile issues, and
industry structure for wireless Internet.Sharon
will join our panel discussion on broadband and emerging wireless technologies.
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| Adolfo Carrión, Jr., the 12th chief executive of The Bronx, since
municipal incorporation in 1898, was born in lower Manhattan and moved with his
family to the Baychester section of the Northeast Bronx when he was in fourth
grade. Aldolfo Carrion will open up the conference.
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| Adam Chavarria presently serves as the Associate Director of the
White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans, a
position he was appointed to by the Bush Administration in June of 2001. In
this capacity, he is responsible for ensuring that the Department of Education
and all relevant federal agencies are promoting the participation of Hispanic
Americans in all federal education programs and services. Mr. Chavarria will
join our panel on Leave no child behind without a computer and access to
broadband.
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