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DAY ONE - THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2005
08:00 - 09:00 Registration and Breakfast
09:00 - 09:45 Opening Ceremony

Welcoming remarks by co-chairs Secretary William Perry and Minister Andrey Fursenko
Introduction by Coit Blacker, Director, Stanford Institute for International Studies
Opening remarks by George Shultz, Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution
"Presidential policy on technology and innovation" by Arcady Dvorkovich (Head, Council of Experts of the President of the Russian Federation)


09:45 - 11:00 Government Policy Towards Entrepreneurship and Innovation

    Moderator: Phillip J. Bond (The Honorable Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology)
    Dmitry Milovantsev (Deputy Minister of Communications)
    Mary Warlick (Director, State Department Office of Russian Affairs)
    Sergey Kravchenko (Boeing, Boeing Russia/CIS President)
    Cynthia Hostetler (OPIC - Vice President for Investment Funds)
  • Relevance of creative entrepreneurship for economic growth
  • U.S. - Russia trade in the technology sector
  • Policies fostering entrepreneurship

  • 11:00 - 12:30 Opportunities for U.S. - Russia technology partnerships

    Moderator: Alexandra Johnson (Landbridge Capital)
    Carly Fiorina (Hewlett-Packard, CEO)
    Andrey Fursenko (Russian Minister of Education and Science)


    12:45 - 14:00 Lunch Keynote

    Michael J. Copps, FCC Commissioner


    14:00 15:30 Global Flows of Capital and Technology

    Moderator: Esther Dyson (CNET Networks)
    Drew Guff (Siguler Guff & Company, Managing Director and Founding Principal)
    Catherine Mannick (Executive VP of Cole Management)
    Claude Leglise (Vice President of Intel Capital)
    Global Technology Leaders
  • Silicon Valley and Other Centers of Innovation
  • Changing business models
  • New sources of comparative advantage

  • 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
    16:00 - 17:45 Institutions for fostering entrepreneurship: universities, incubators, and others

    Moderator: Tom Byers (Professor, Stanford University)
    Cathleen Campbell (CRDF, Senior Vice President)
    Charles Kruger (Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University)
    Katharine Ku (Stanford University Office of Technology Licensing, Director)
    Nikolai Kudryavtsev (Rector, Moscow Institute of Physics & Technology)
  • Creating entrepreneurial culture
  • Encouraging the formation and growth of knowledge based businesses
  • Technology transfer

  • 18:15 - 21:00 Reception and dinner keynote

    Ray Bingham (Cadence Design Systems, Executive Chairman)



    DAY TWO - FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2005
    08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
    09:00 - 10:15 Innovation and leading companies in the field

    Moderator: Andrew Somers (President, American Chamber of Commerce)
    Jon Khazam ( Vice President, Software and Solutions Group General Manager, Intel)
    Andrej Tikhonov (Director, Sales & Distribution, Eastern Europe / Asia, IBM)
    Kyril Faenov (Director of High Performance Computing, Windows Server Group, Microsoft)
    Joseph Lehman (Director Government Affairs, Lockheed Martin)
    Tony Bastian (Development Manager for Engineering Data Retrieval Systems, Boeing)
  • Globalization and national adjustment
  • International competition and innovation
  • Innovative technologies: buying vs. developing in-house

  • 10:15 - 11:15 Regional Aspects of Innovation

    Moderator: Helen Teplitskaia (President of American-Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry)
    Sergei Generalov (Russian Investor Protection Association, Chairman of the Board)
    Neil Godick (President, PHLburg Technologies)
    Julia Mozharenko (President, Russian Biotechnologies)


    11:15 - 12:30 Success Stories

    Wimm-Bill-Dann - David Yakobashvili (Chairman of the Board)
    Symantec - John Schwarz (President and COO)
    Aelita - Ratmir Timashev (President and Chief Executive Officer)


    12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Keynote

    Secretary William Perry

    14:00 - 16:00 U.S. versus overseas venture investing: A view from Silicon Valley

    Moderator:Heidi Roizen (Mobius Venture Capital, Managing Director)
    Vladimir Bernstein (Russian Technologies)
    Pierre Lamond (Sequoia, Partner)
    Robert Grady (Managing Partner, Carlyle Venture Partners)


    16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
    16:30 - 18:00 Russia and Venture Capital: Then and Now

    Moderator: Kenneth Rind, Ph.D. (Co-founder of ten VC funds)
    Kirill Dmitriev (Delta Capital Management, Managing Director)
    Bruce Shewmaker (MVC Capital Inc., Managing Director)
    Robert Towbin (Stephens Inc., Managing Director)
    Pavel Khokhryakov (President & CEO of Promsvyazcapital)


    18:00 - 21:00 Closing Remarks, and Farewell Reception


    The information in this draft agenda is subject to change.
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