December 3, 2012

Agenda | Global Trends 2030

Agenda | Global Trends 2030

US Leadership in a Post-Western World

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 10

1 p.m.	Registration
1:30 p.m.	WELCOME Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council Christoper A. Kojm, Chairman, US National Intelligence Council
1:40 p.m.	STRATEGIC ADDRESS Chuck Hagel, Chairman, Atlantic Council
2:00-3:30 p.m.	WHAT KIND OF WORLD IN 2030? THE NIC’S FOUR ALTERNATIVE SCENARIOS Presenter: Mathew J. Burrows, Counselor, US National Intelligence Council; Author, “Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds” Keynote Response: Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council Moderator: David Ignatius, Associate Editor, Washington Post
3:30-3:45 p.m.	Coffee Break
3:45-5:15 p.m.	EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES THAT COULD CHANGE OUR FUTURE Speakers: James Cartwright, Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies Mikael Hagstrom, Executive Vice President, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, SAS Paul Saffo, Managing Director of Foresight, Discern Analytics; Senior Fellow, Strategic Foresight Initiative, The Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council Moderator: Mariette DiChristina, Editor in Chief, Scientific American
5:30 p.m.	Welcome Reception

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11

8:30 a.m.	Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:00a.m.	WILL THE US BE ABLE TO LEAD IN A POST-WESTERN WORLD? Speakers: Annette Heuser, Executive Director, Bertelsmann Foundation Robert Kagan, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution Moises Naim, Senior Associate, International Economics Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Chief International Columnist, El País Moderator: Philip Stephens, Associate Editor, Financial Times
10:00-10:15 a.m.	Coffee Break
10:15-11:15 a.m.	THE INDIVIDUAL VS. THE STATE: WHO WILL HAVE THE UPPER HAND IN 2030? Speakers: Jared Cohen, Director, Google Ideas; Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations Hisham Kassem, Founding Publisher, Al-Masry Al-youm Newspaper Marne Levine, Vice President of Global Public Policy, Facebook Moderator: Banning Garrett, Director, Strategic Foresight Initiative, The Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council
11:15-11:30 a.m.	Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 p.m.	THE CHANGING NATURE OF WARFARE Speakers: Thomas Enders, CEO, EADS NV Michèle Flournoy, Senior Advisor, Boston Consulting Group; Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, US Department of Defense George Lund, Chairman, Torch Hill Investment Partners; Vice Chair, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council Moderator: Steven Grundman, M.A. and George Lund Fellow for Emerging Defense Challenges, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council
12:45-2:15 p.m.	LUNCHEON A conversation with Brent Scowcroft, former National Security Advisor to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush Moderator: Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council
2:30-3:30 p.m.	URBAN WORLD 2030 Speakers: William Cobbett, Manager, Cities Alliance, The World Bank Robert Hormats, Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and Environment, US Department of State H.E. Ashok Kumar Mirpuri, Ambassador to the United States, Republic of Singapore Moderator: Diana Farrell, Director, McKinsey Center for Government, McKinsey & Co.
3:30-4:00 p.m.	Coffee Break
4:00-5:30 p.m.	ENVISIONING 2030: THE ATLANTIC COUNCIL’S US STRATEGY IN A POST-WESTERN WORLD Presenter: Barry Pavel, Director, The Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council Commentators: Stephen J. Hadley, Principal, RiceHadleyGates LLC James L. Jones, Founder and President, Jones Group International; Chairman, The Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council James Steinberg, Dean and Professor of Social Science, International Affairs, and Law, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University