Women in the World Agenda

See the tick-tock for our entire three-day summit, from panel discussions to interviews and performances. Plus: Click here for photos and bios of every speaker and performer.

Friday, March 12th

5:00 PM

WELCOME

• Tina Brown, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, The Daily Beast
• Diane von Furstenberg CEO and Founder of DVF Studio and President of CFDA
• Kathy Bushkin Calvin, CEO, United Nations Foundation
• Susan Davis, Chair of the Board, Vital Voices Global Partnership

5:10 PM

ON THE BRINK: WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN

• Ching Eikenberry, Strategic Communication Coordinator, Development Outreach Communication, USAID /Afghanistan
• Andeisha Farid, Founder, AFCECO, and graduate of Goldman Sachs' 10,000 Women
• Suraya Pakzad, Executive Director, Voice of Women
• Gayle Lemmon, Journalist and Book Author
• Fatima Bhutto, Pakistan Correspondent for The Daily Beast, Book Author and Activist
• Moderated by Frances Townsend, Corporate Partner, Baker Botts LLP and former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism

6:25 PM

SHORT FILM PRESENTATION: GOLDMAN SACHS 10,000 WOMEN

• Presented by Dina Powell, Global Head of Corporate Engagement, Goldman Sachs

7:00 PM

DINNER AND CONVERSATION

• Remarks by Melanne Verveer; U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues, on "The Unfinished Beijing Agenda"

8:30 PM

U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON INTRODUCES A READING OF THE PLAY SEVEN By Paula Cizmar, Catherine Filloux, Gail Kriegel, Carol K. Mack, Ruth Margraff, Anna Deavere Smith, Susan Yankowitz

• Reading directed by Julie Taymor, director of Theater, Opera, and Film
• Performances by Meryl Streep, Marcia Gay Harden, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Stephanie Okereke, Archie Panjabi, Julyana Soelistyo, Lauren Vélez
• Presented by HP

REMARKS

• Alyse Nelson, President and CEO, Vital Voices Global Partnership

CONVERSATION

• Led by Melanne Verveer, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues

Saturday, March 13th

8:00 AM

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:30 AM

GUATEMALA: SOUL OF THE EARTH

• Maria Pacheco, Member, Vital Voices Global Advisory Council, announces an illuminating learning expedition to meet the women of Guatemala and collaborate with Central American leaders.

8:35 AM

RAPE AS A WEAPON OF WAR

• Dr. Denis Mukwege, Founder, The Panzi Hospital of Bukavu
• Annie Rashidi-Mulumba, Consultant on Human Rights for the United Nations in Cameroon, native of the Democratic Republic of Congo
• Leymah Gbowee, Executive Director, Women Peace and Security Network Africa
• Moderated by Christiane Amanpour, CNN Chief International Correspondent & Host of Amanpour

9:25 AM

WOMEN IN THE WORLD INTERVIEW: MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

• Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chair of Albright Stonebridge Group
• Interviewed by Barbara Walters, ABC News Correspondent and Creator, Executive Producer and Co-Host of The View

10:05 AM

BREAK

10:30 AM

THE HEART OF HAITI: IN MEMORIAM

• Performance by Haitian Singer/Songwriter Emeline Michel

10:35 AM

HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND MODERN SLAVERY

• Luis CdeBaca, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
• Dao Tuyet Lien, Businesswoman and Former Trafficking Victim
• Sunitha Krishnan, Chief Functionary, Prajwala
• Shoma Chaudhury, Managing Editor, Tehelka
• Tribute to Sohini Chakraborty, Dance Activist and Founder of Kolkata Sanved, and Somaly Mam, Founder of AFESIP
• Moderated by Tina Brown

11:45 AM

YES MADAM, SIR: KIRAN BEDI

• Featuring Kiran Bedi, India’s first and highest-ranking woman in the leadership ranks of the Indian police service
• Interviewed by Marie Brenner, Author and Writer-at-Large for Vanity Fair

12:10 PM

CONVERSATION AND LUNCH HOSTED BY BANK OF AMERICA

• Introduction by Sallie Krawcheck, President of Global Wealth & Investment Management for Bank of America
• Christine Lagarde, French Minister of Economy, Industry & Employment, on the “Happiness Report,” commissioned by President Nicolas Sarkozy
• Interviewed by Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times Columnist and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

2:15 PM

CHANGING THE EQUATION: HOW TECHNOLOGY CAN CHANGE WOMEN’S LIVES

• Ann Livermore, Executive Vice President, HP Enterprise Business
• Cherie Blair, Founder, Cherie Blair Foundation for Women
• Moderated by Mika Brzezinski, Co-host, Morning Joe and MSNBC Anchor

2:45 PM

TWO WOMEN IN CHINA

• Wei Christianson, CEO, Morgan Stanley China
• Anchee Min, Bestselling Memoirist and Novelist, Author of Red Azalea and Becoming Madame Mao
             --Moderated by Jane Spencer, Managing Editor, The Daily Beast

3:35 PM

BREAK

4:00 PM

THE LIVES OF GIRLS

• Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in conversation with Katie Couric, Anchor and Managing Editor, CBS Evening News
• Kakenya Ntaiya, Founder, The Kakenya Center for Excellence
• Kathy Bushkin Calvin, CEO, United Nations Foundation
• Helen Amdemikael, Assistant Representative for the United Nations Foundation Populations Fund, Ethiopia
• Donnady, Girl's Rights Advocate, Plan International
• Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva, NPR’s The Kitchen Sisters
• Performance by the Brooklyn Jazzy Jumpers and the Dynamic Diplomats of Double Dutch

4:50 PM

TOPPLING TRADITIONS

• Edna Adan Ismail, Maternal and Child Health Activist and former Foreign Affairs Minister of Somaliland
• Molly Melching, Founder and Executive Director, Tostan International
• Marietou Diarra, Tostan Participant and Human-Rights Activist
• Maria Otero, U.S. Undersecretary for Democracy and Global Affairs
• Moderated by Diane Sawyer, ABC News Anchor

5:40 PM

WOMEN ARE THE PEACEMAKERS

• A tribute to the thousands of women meeting on bridges all over the world, presented by Women for Women International founder Zainab Salbi
• Finale by Sistas of the Flame, Founder and Director Jeff Bolding

8:00 PM

DVF AWARDS DINNER

• Diane von Furstenberg hosts an awards ceremony dinner at the United Nations, honoring four women who are using their vision, resources, and commitment to transform lives

Sunday, March 14th – SOLUTIONS SUNDAY

9:00 AM

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

9:30 AM

CHANGEMAKERS AND INNOVATORS:
WOMEN|TOOLS|TECHNOLOGY

• Featuring Katherine Lucey of Solar Sister, a startup NGO that is lighting Uganda one lantern and one woman at time. (Solar Sister is a contestant in Ashoka's "Women|Tools|Technology Challenge")
• Lorie D. Jackson, Director, Women’s Economic Opportunity Initiative, ExxonMobil
• Katherine Lucey, Founder and Executive Director, Solar Sister
• Hosted by Juju Chang, News Anchor, Good Morning America

9:45 AM

WOMEN IN THE WORLD INTERVIEW: VALERIE JARRETT

• Featuring Valerie Jarrett, Senior Adviser to President Barack Obama
• Interviewed by Lesley Stahl, Correspondent, 60 Minutes

10:30 AM

BREAK

10:50 AM

PATIENT CAPITAL FOR AN IMPATIENT WORLD: THE BLUE SWEATER

• Conversation with Author Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder, Acumen Fund
• Interviewed by Campbell Brown, Anchor, Campbell Brown, CNN

11:15 AM

REINVENTING AID

• Diana Taylor, Managing Director, Wolfensohn & Co.
• Dambisa Moyo, Economist and Author of Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
• Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder, Acumen Fund
• Moderated by Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations

12:00 PM

SEIZE THE SPOTLIGHT, HARNESS THE POWER!

• Nora Ephron, Director, Author, Screenwriter
• Susan Lyne, CEO, Gilt Groupe
• Victoria Jackson, Cosmetics Entrepreneur and Founder of The Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation
• Jane McGonigal, Director of Game Research & Development, Institute for the Future
• Sheryl WuDunn, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist, President of TripleEdge, and Co-Author of Half The Sky
• Lauren Zalaznick, President, NBC Universal Women & Lifestyle Entertainment Networks
• Moderated by Tina Brown

1:00 PM

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