SIEPR Economic Summit 2015

Friday, March 13, 2015

• 7:30am - 8:00am PDT

  Registration and Breakfast

• 8:00am - 9:00am PDT

  Opening Session: Preventative Medicine: The Way Ahead

  George Shultz, SIEPR Honorary Chairman
  Elizabeth Holmes, Founder and CEO, Theranos

• 8:01am - 9:01am PDT

  Welcome Remarks

• 9:00am - 10:00am PDT

  Session I: Perspectives from Engineering: What Ails Europe?

  Hans-Werner Sinn, Professor of Economics and Public Finance, University of Munich; President of the Ifo Institute; Director of the University of Munich’s Center for Economic Studies; Director of CESifo 

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• 10:00am - 10:20am PDT

  Break

• 10:20am - 11:45am PDT

  Session II: Two Views of the Global Economy

  Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus, Harvard University; Mark and Sheila Wolfson Distinguished Visiting Scholar

  John Lipsky, Senior Fellow, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; SIEPR Advisory Board Member

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• 11:45am - 12:30pm PDT

  Lunch

• 12:30pm - 1:30pm PDT

  Lunch Remarks: John Taylor interviews Arminio Fraga on The State of the World and the Brazilian Economy

  Arminio Fraga, Founding Partner, Gávea Investimentos; Former Chairman of the Board, BM&F Bovespa, Brazil's securities, commodities and derivatives exchange; Former President, Central Bank of Brazil

  John B. Taylor, Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics; George P. Shultz Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Former Director, SIEPR

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• 1:30pm - 2:50pm PDT

  Session III: The Challenges of Innovating in a Large Company Environment

  Urusula Burns, Charman and CEO, Xerox
  Steve Mollenkopf, CEO, Qualcomm

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  Moderator:  

  Susan L. Bostrom, SIEPR Advisory Board Member

• 2:50pm - 3:10pm PDT

  Break

• 3:10pm - 4:10pm PDT

  Session IV: San Francisco Giants’ Economic Impact on the Bay Area

  Steven Kohlhagen, SIEPR Advisory Board Member interviews

  Laurence Baer, President & CEO, San Francisco Giants 

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• 4:10pm - 4:30pm PDT

  Break

• 4:30pm - 5:45pm PDT

  Session V: Critical Issue Sessions and Their Locations: Oil

  Panelist(s):

  Tom Stephenson, Partner, Sequoia Capital; SIEPR Advisory Board member  

  Douglas Michael Laxton, Economist, IMF  

  Frank Wolak, Holbrook Working Professor of Commodity Price Studies, Department of Economics, Stanford University; SIEPR Senior Fellow

• 4:31pm - 5:45pm PDT

  Session V: Critical Issue Sessions and Their Locations: ISIL, Iran, and the Taliban: Assessing the Threats to American Security

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  Panelist(s):

  Brad Kapnick, Partner, Katten & Temple, LLP; SIEPR Advisory Board member  

  Martha Crenshaw, Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science  

  Karl Eikenberry, Consulting Professor, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; and William J. Perry Fellow in International Security, Center for International Studies  

  Scott Sagan, The Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science; The Peter and Mimi Haas Fellow in Undergraduate Education; Senior Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation