"WORLD RUSSIAN FORUM 2004"
RUSSIA - USA
Towards Economic, Political and Military Alliance
Organized by the American University in Moscow and Russian High-Tech Development
Fund
April 26 - 29, 2004 Washington, DC
United States Congress
PROGRAM
Monday, April 26, 2004
Russell Senate Office Building, Room 325
9.00 9.30 AM Opening Ceremony. Welcoming Remarks
by His Excellency Yuri V. Ushakov, Russian Ambassador to Washington
Session One
9:30-10:45 AM
Investing in Russia
Moderator: Trevor Gunn - Director of BISNIS,
U.S. Department of Commerce
Alexandr Braverman - Russian Marketing Association
Roberta Brzezinski - Emerging Markets Partnership
Marlena Hurley -Vice-President,
Delta Capital
Yuri Isaev Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade
Peter Koelle - Managing Director
CIS, GE HVB Group
Eugenyi Zaritsky- General
Director, Financial Leasing Company
Session Two
11:15-12:30
Russian Investment in the Global Economy
Moderator: Sarah
Carey - Squires, Saunders & Dempsey, Chairman, Eurasia Foundation
Anton Berlin - Head of Department
Market Analysis and Development, Norilsk Nickel
Mikhail Delyagin Chairman, Institute
of Globalization Problems
Bruce Marks - Managing Partner,
Marks & Sokolov, LLC
Yuri Ossipyan - Russian Academy of Sciences,
Former Gorbachev Science Advisor
Vladimir Slutsker
Industrial Policy Committee, Federation Council RF
12.30 - 1.30 pm: Lunch Keynote address by Thomas Graham, Director of Russian Affairs, White House, National Security Council
Session Three
2:00-4:30PM
US - Russian Cooperation in IT Sector
Moderators: Valentin Makarov - President,
FORT-ROSS, Harris Miller President,
Information Technology Association of America (ITAA)
Arcady Dobkin, CEO, EPAM Systems
Len Erlikh - CEO, Bridge Quest
Trevor Gunn - Director of BISNIS, U.S. Department
of Commerce
Tim Pelland - Quality Assurance Institute (QAI
USA)
Scott
Robertson - CEO, Robertson & Blums
With participation in the discussions by representatives of the following
companies:
Ernst&Young, Arcadia, Bridge-Quest, Lanit-Tercom, Artezio, E-Style,
EPam Systems, Epsylon Technologies, SPIRIT, Intetics
6.00 - 6.30
PM US - Russian Plaza, 3600 Calvert Street, NW
Tree
Planting Ceremony for the Alley of Russia Poets:
Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev,
Fet, Block
6.30 PM: Russian Embassy Reception under patronage of His Excellency Yuri Ushakov, Russian Ambassador to Washington
Tuesday, April 27
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room G-50
Session Four
9.00 10.30 AM
US Russian cooperation in Science and Education
Moderator: Greg Guroff, President, Foundation for
International Arts and Education
Steve Grant - State Department
Mark Pomar - President, IREX
Yale Richmond - State Department (retired)
Aleksei Semenov Rector, Moscow
Institute of Open Education
Lamar Alexander, United
States Senator (R-TN)
Session Five
11.00 12.30 AM
US Russian cooperation in Research and Development
Moderator: Gerson Sher, President, Civilian
Research and Development Foundation
Hon. Phillip Bond - Undersecretary of Commerce
for Technology
James Collins - Akin Gump Strauss Hauer
& Feld, former US Ambassador to Moscow
Anne Harrington - State Departments Office
of Proliferation Threat Reduction
Roald Hoffmann - Department of Chemistry,
Cornell University, Nobel Laureate
Laura Schmidt Williams - Chief, Bio-Chem
Engagement Team (NP/PTR), U.S. Department of State
12.30 - 1.30 PM: Lunch. Keynote address by Congressman Curt Weldon (R-PA)
Session Six
2 .00 3.15 PM
US - Russian Cooperation in Advanced Technologies
Moderator: Glenn
Schweitzer, The National Academy of Sciences
Victor Alessi - United States Industry Coalition
(Commercialization of Technology)
David Franz - Midwest Research Institute (Biotechnology)
Barry Gale - Department of Energy (Energy Research
and Development)
Paul McNeill - Director for International Relations, Boeing Company
Session Seven
3.30 5.00 PM
Requirements for US-Russia Alliance as theyre seen in Washington and
Moscow
Moderator: Edward Lozansky - President, American
University in Moscow
Aleksei
Bogaturov The Brookings Institution, Institute of USA and Canada, RAS
Susan
Eisenhower - The Eishenhower Institute
Irina Hakamada - Founder of "Free
Russia"
Bill Lind - Free Congress Foundation
Arkady Murashev - President, Center for
Liberal Conservative Policy
Igor Panarin - Diplomatic Academy, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, RF
Eugene Vertlieb - George Marshall European Center
for Security Studies
Anatoly Utkin Institute of USA and Canada, RAS
Paul Weyrich - Chairman and CEO, Free Congress
Foundation
Nikolai Zlobin, Center for Defense Information,
Washington Profile New Agency
Thursday, April 29
New York, NY
Russian Consulate General Reception
Presentation of the Art Constitution Project the First Illustrated Constitution of the Russian Federation by the Kolodzei Art Foundation, Inc. and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art
