Council on Competitiveness 2003 Annual Meeting - Challenges in Globalization Challenges in Globalization: Council National Innov
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Council on Competitiveness 2003 Annual Meeting - Challenges in
Globalization Challenges in Globalization: Council National
Innovation and Security Launch of the National Innovation
Initiative by Samuel J. Palmisano, Chairman and CEO of IBM
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The following press release is
being issued by the Council on Competitiveness: What: Council on
Competitiveness Annual Meeting Challenges in Globalization: Council
National Innovation and Security When: Thursday October 30th, 2003;
7:30 am to 3:30 pm Where: St. Regis Hotel, 16th and K Streets, NW,
Washington, DC All sessions open to the media. Lighting and sound
provided. The Council on Competitiveness Annual Meeting will
feature the following three sessions: Panel 1. -- Strategies for
Innovation: How Does a Nation Keep its Edge? To open this panel,
IBM Corporation Chairman and CEO Samuel J. Palmisano will launch a
new National Innovation Initiative -- an effort over the coming
year engaging Council Members with the White House, Governors,
Members of Congress and other key stakeholders to develop a
national innovation strategy. Mr. Palmisano will also call for the
Council's 3rd National Innovation Summit to discuss the findings
and recommendations of an innovation strategy, and to forge a broad
national consensus around the path ahead. The purpose of the
National Innovation Initiative is threefold: * Identify the key
challenges and opportunities to strengthen innovation capacity. *
Develop strategic recommendations for the public and private
sectors * Create consensus among all elements of the national
innovation enterprise -- the companies, workers, universities and
governments -- on a vision and strategy. Mr. Palmisano will discuss
the initiative and its intended impact along with National
Innovation Initiative Co-Chair Wayne Clough, President, Georgia
Institute of Technology; Molly Broad, President of the University
of North Carolina; John S. Hennessy, President, Stanford
University; Patricia J Russo*, Chairman and CEO of Lucent
Technologies; and W.J. Sanders III, Founder and Chairman, Advanced
Micro Devices. Panel 2. -- Global Networks and the Security
Imperative The Networks and Security panel will address the
progress that has been achieved in areas such as financial
services, energy, and IT sectors over the past year and the
challenges that remain to be met in securing America economic
infrastructure in a world of global networks. Charles M. Vest,
President of MIT, will start the panel discussion with an overview
of the results of the 2003 Competitiveness and Security Survey, a
follow-up to last year's Council on Competitiveness survey. He will
be joined on the panel by Catherine Allen, CEO, BITS, Financial
Services Roundtable; Tom Balanoff, President, Service Employees
International Union, Local 1; Robert R. Bishop, Chairman and CEO,
Silicon Graphics, Inc.; and Robert M. Gates, President, Texas
A&M University. Panel 3. -- Accelerating the Global Economic
Engine The Global panel will examine the key factors needed to
accelerate the global economic engine, review some of the barriers
to overcome and begin to identify policies and actions that would
support global economic growth while safeguarding US
competitiveness. Raymond V Gilmartin, Chairman and CEO of Merck
& Co, Inc., will present an overview on the issues. Ambassador
Thomas R. Pickering, Senior Vice President, The Boeing Company will
moderate the panel. He will be joined by Morton Bahr, President of
the Communications Workers of America; Ray Stata, Chairman, Analog
Devices, Inc.; and Lawrence Summers, President, Harvard University.
In addition to these three panels, the 200 conferees will hear a
luncheon keynote address from Daniel Yergin, Chairman, Cambridge
Energy Research Associates. * To be confirmed DATASOURCE: Council
on Competitiveness CONTACT: Bill Booher of the Council on
Competitiveness, +1-202-969-3385, or Web site:
http://www.compete.org/
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