| WORLD RUSSIAN FORUM May 16-18, 2006 Washington, DC Tuesday, May 16: Hart Senate Office Building, Room 902 9.00 – 9.15 AM: Opening Remarks by His Excellency Yuri Ushakov, Russian Ambassador to Washington 9.15 – 11.00 AM: Building strong economic base for US – Russian cooperation Leonid Bokhanovsky,
First Vice-President, StroyTransGaz
Laura Brank, Partner, Chadbourne & Parke Vadim Gluzman, President and CEO, Lukoil Americas Corporation Peter Koelle, Managing Director, Hypo Vereinsbank 11.00 AM – 12.20 PM: U.S.-Russian Collaboration in Technology Commercialization Cathy Campbell, President
and CEO, U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF)
Thomas D’Agostino, Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Industry Coalition (USIC) Ellen House, BISNIS, U.S. Department of Commerce Jeffrey Milanette, President, Innovative Partners Inc. Leon Polott, President, 5iTech, LLC 12.20 – 2.00 PM: Lunch Break. Keynote Address by Congressman Curt Weldon 2.00 - 5.00 PM: Current situation in Russia and the future of U.S. – Russian relations Vladislav Inozemtsev,
Director of Research, Centre for Post-Industrial Studies (Moscow)
Alexander Konovalov, President, Institute of Strategic Analyses Anatol Lieven, Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation Sergei Markov, Deputy Chairman, Committee on Public Diplomacy Vyacheslav Nikonov, Chairman, Committe on Foreign Relations, Public Chamber Alexander Shumilin, Institute of USA and Canada, RAS; Editor, www.america-russia.net 6.30 PM: Reception at the Russian Embassy Wednesday, May 17: U.S, Capitol Building, Room HC-5 9.00 – 11.45 AM: Breakout sessions according to participant’s interests 3.30 – 4.30 PM: Award Ceremony for Thomas Pickering,
former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, Senior Vice-President, Boeing Corporation
for his outstanding Contribution to US – Russian cooperation 6.30 – 7.30 PM: Tree Planting Ceremony at the Alley of Russian Poets and Composers “Russian Composers Memorial Meadow”
( Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninov, Igor Stravinsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev ) Address: Guy Mason Center, 3600 Calvert St., NW, Washington DC 20007 Thursday, May 18: Russian Cultural Center, 1825 Phelps Place, NW 2.00 AM– 5.00.00 PM: U.S. – Russian Science, Education and Cultural Cooperation Aleksandr Grigoryev,
Washington ProFile information agency, Editor in Chief
Greg Guroff, President, Foundation for International Arts and Education Natalia Kolodzei, President, Kolodzei Art Foundation Edward Lozansky, President American University in Moscow Alexei Lunkov, President, Russian Cultural Center Alexander Zhurbin, Composer Yurii Zyslin, Curator, Washington Literary & Music Museum of Russian Poetry 5.00 – 7.00 PM: Closing Ceremony and Reception |
