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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21ST

6:00- 7:30 PM COCKTAILS NEW ORLEANS JAZZ WITH SHANNON POWELL & FRIENDSChampagne, wine, and spirits by Moet Hennessy USA

7:30- 10:00 PM OPENING DINNER

NEW ORLEANS INNOVATORS: WELCOME• LaToya Cantrell, President, Broadmoor Improvement Association and Broadmoor Development Corp. • Wendell Pierce, Actor and President, Pontchartrain Park Community Development Corp. • Sister Mary Lou Specha PBVM, Executive Director, Reconcile New Orleans, Inc. • Robbie Vitrano, Co-Founder and Chief Brand Architect, NakedPizza

TINA BROWN WELCOME• Tina Brown, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, The Daily Beast • Cheryl Dorsey, President, Echoing Green

NEW ORLEANS: EYES WIDE OPEN• Mayor Mitch Landrieu, City of New Orleans • Interviewed by Bob Schieffer, Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News and Moderator of Face the Nation

HBO PRESENTS: CULTURE AS A POLITICAL ACT • Rita Benson LeBlanc, Owner and Executive Vice President, New Orleans Saints • Spike Lee, Film Director, Producer, President of 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, Inc., and Artistic Director and Professor of NYU Graduate Film School • Wendell Pierce, Actor and President of Pontchartrain Park Community Development Corp. • David Simon, Co-Creator, HBO’s Treme • Interviewed by Walter Isaacson, President and CEO, The Aspen Institute

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22ND

8:00 AM WELCOME • Tina Brown, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, The Daily Beast • Stephen Colvin, President, The Daily Beast • Shane Robison, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Technology Officer, HP • Intro Tim Williamsen and Idea Village

NEW FACES/ NEW IDEAS

8:05 AM YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TROUBLE WE’RE IN! • Glenn Hutchins, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Silver Lake • Interviewed by Sir Harold Evans, Author, They Made America and Editor-at-Large, The Week

8:20 AM AND HERE’S HOW TO GET OUT OF IT • Sheila Bair, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation • Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor, Harvard Business School • Glenn Hutchins, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Silver Lake • Peter Orszag, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations • Peter G. Peterson, Chairman, Peter G. Peterson Foundation • Joseph Stiglitz, University Professor, Columbia University • Moderated by Sir Harold Evans, Author, They Made America and Editor-at-Large, The Week

9:25 AM AGAINST THE GRAIN: MY MONEY’S ON… • Vinod Khosla, Partner, Khosla Ventures • Interviewed by David Kirkpatrick, Author, The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World and Contributor, The Daily Beast

9:45 AM GETTING IT DONE: HOW WE CHANGE THE EQUATION • John Kao, Chairman, Institute for Large Scale Innovation • David Neeleman, Chairman and CEO, Azul Airlines • Michael Polsky, Founder and CEO, Invenergy LLC • Shane Robison, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Technology Officer, HP • Beth Galante, Director, Local Green’s New Orleans Resource Center and Office • Moderated by Gillian Tett, U.S. Managing Editor, Financial Times

10:30 AM BREAK

10:50 AM INVESTING IN VISIONARIES: CHERYL DORSEY AND ECHOING GREEN• Cheryl Dorsey, President, Echoing Green • Interviewed by Tina Brown

11:10 AM DRIVING BACK TO THE FUTURE • Johan de Nysschen, President, Audi of America, Inc. • Interviewed by David Kirkpatrick, Author, The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World and Contributor, The Daily Beast

11:25 AM STAYING AHEAD OF THE CURVE: DIANE VON FURSTENBERG • Diane von Furstenberg, CEO and Founder, DVF Studio • Interviewed by Bianna Golodryga, Anchor, Good Morning America Weekend Edition and Business Correspondent, ABC News

11:45 AM HOW TO OWN THE DIGITAL EXPERIENCE • Michael Mendenhall, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, HP • Sean Parker, Managing Partner, Founders Fund • Lori Senecal, President and CEO, kirshenbaum bond senecal + partners • Lauren Zalaznick, President, NBC Universal Women & Lifestyle Entertainment Networks • Moderated by Ken Auletta, Writer, The New Yorker and Author, Googled: The End of the World As We Know It

12:35 PM THE PUMA PIONEER: JOCHEN ZEITZ BREAKS THE RULES • Jochen Zeitz, Chairman and CEO, Puma, Chief Sustainability Officer, PPR, and Founder, Zeitz Foundation • Interviewed by Tina Brown, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, The Daily Beast

1:00 PM LUNCH

THE RISK FACTOR • Barry Diller, Chairman and CEO, IAC • Interviewed by Ken Auletta, Writer, The New Yorker and Author, Googled: The End of the World As We Know It

NEW FACE/NEW IDEA

2:15 PM UP FROM ZERO: BRADDOCK, PENNSYLVANIA & ITS REVOLUTIONARY MAYOR, JOHN FETTERMAN • John Fetterman, Mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania • Interviewed by Dan Senor, Investor, Bestselling Author, and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations

2:35 PM AFTER THE DRUG CARTELS: REVIVING MEDELLIN • Sergio Fajardo, Former Mayor of Medellin, Colombia • Interviewed by Maureen Orth, Special Correspondent, Vanity Fair

2:55 PM COUNTERINSURGENCY & THE GANGS OF LA: ONE WOMAN’S DANGEROUS MISSION • Connie Rice, Co-Director, The Advancement Project in Los Angeles • Interviewed by Tina Brown, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, The Daily Beast

3:20 PM BREAK

3:45 PM GENERAL MCCHRYSTAL (USA-RET.): LESSONS OF LEADERSHIP • GEN Stanley A. McChrystal (USA-Ret.), Former Commander of U.S. and International Security Assistance Forces Afghanistan; Joint Special Operations Command • Interviewed by Frances Townsend, Senior VP, MacAndrews and Forbes and Former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism

—FOLLOWED BY—

4:30 PM GENERAL MCCHRYSTAL (USA-RET.) LEADERSHIP LAB: LEADING AGAINST THE TIDE • Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor, Harvard Business School • Theodore Forstmann, Chairman and CEO, IMG • David Neeleman, Chairman and CEO, Azul Airlines • Michelle Rhee, Chancellor, District of Columbia Public Schools

5:15 PM EVENING BREAK

Friday Night

7:00 PM COCKTAILS ON ROYAL STREET JAZZ WITH KERMIT RUFFINS OF HBO’S TREME Champagne, wine, and spirits by Moet Hennessy USA

8:00- 10:30 PM DINNER & DISCUSSIONS NOUVELLE ORLEANS BALLROOM

EDUCATION: THE TIME IS NOW • Joel Klein, Chancellor, New York City Schools • Paul Pastorek, State Superintendent of Education, Louisiana • Michelle Rhee, Chancellor, District of Columbia Public Schools • Moderated by Steven Brill, The American Lawyer and Court TV and Co-Founder, Press+

—AND—

A NEW GENERATION OF INNOVATORS • Kara Bobroff, Founder, Native American Community Academy • Rafiq Kalam Id-Din, Founder, Teaching Firms of America • Ashni Mohnot, Founder, Enzi • Jennifer Schnidman, Founder and CEO, Drop the Chalk • Hosted by Cheryl Dorsey, President, Echoing Green

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23RD

8:15 AM 2010: THE MIDTERM RUMBLE• James Carville, Political Consultant • Harold Ford, Jr., Executive Vice Chairman, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Chairman, Democratic Leadership Council • Leslie Gelb, President Emeritus and Board Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations • Leslie Sanchez, Founder and CEO, Impacto Group LLC • Moderated by George Stephanopoulos, Anchor, Good Morning America and Chief Political Correspondent

9:15 AM THE VIEW FROM INDIA’S INNOVATION CZAR • Sam Pitroda, Adviser to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information, Infrastructure and Innovations • Interviewed by James Hoge Jr., Counselor, Executive Office, Council on Foreign Relations and Former Editor, Foreign Affairs

9:35 AM INDIA & CHINA: THE ADVANCING GIANTS• Robert Hormats, Undersecretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs • Yasheng Huang, Professor of International Management, International Program Professorship in Chinese Economy and Business, and Founder of China Lab and India Lab, MIT Sloan School of Management • Dambisa Moyo, Economist and Author of Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa • Tarun Tejpal, CEO, Tehelka • Interviewed by James Hoge, Jr., Counselor, Executive Office, Council on Foreign Relations and Former Editor, Foreign Affairs

10:30 AM BREAK

10:50 AM NEW FACES/ NEW IDEAS• Jane Chen, Founder, Embrace Global • David del Ser, Founder, Frogtek • Mark Hanis, Founder, Genocide Intervention Network

MY PASSION, MY PURPOSE: HOW I STARTED MY COMPANY• Robin Chase, CEO, Meadow Networks and Founder, Zipcar • Cheryl Dorsey, President, Echoing Green • Marc Koska, Founder, The SafePoint Trust • Moderated by Ralph Simon, Chairman Emeritus and Founder, Mobile Entertainment Forum Americas and CEO, Mobilium Internationa

11:50 AM SUMMIT WRAP: SOLUTIONS TO GO HOME WITH • Tina Brown and the editors and writers of The Daily Beast

12:30 PM FAREWELL FROM TINA BROWN

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