Clinton Global Initiative - CGI America 2012

This June, President Clinton will host the second convening of CGI America, an annual event focused on finding solutions that promote economic recovery in the United States. This working meeting will bring together leaders from the business, foundation, NGO, and government sectors to develop solutions that address unemployment, prepare Americans to be competitive global citizens, and rethink current models that shape our economy and society.

Agenda

Wednesday, June 6th

5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Registration

Thursday, June 7th

7:30 AM - 8:30 PM

Registration

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Welcoming Remarks
The State of Our Union: Opportunities and Challenges to Economic Recovery

Remarks By:

President Bill Clinton
Founding Chairman, Clinton Global Initiative; 42nd President of the United States
J.B. Pritzker
Managing Partner, The Pritzker Group
Fareed Zakaria
Host, CNN - GPS

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Opening Plenary Session
Jumpstart Nation: Getting America Back To Work

Dynamic Duo:

Rahm Emanuel
Mayor, City of Chicago
Randi Weingarten
President, American Federation of Teachers

Participants:

President Bill Clinton
Founding Chairman, Clinton Global Initiative; 42nd President of the United States
Ellen Alberding
President, The Joyce Foundation
Darlene Miller
Chief Executive Officer, Permac Industries
Bill Simon
President and CEO, Walmart Stores, Inc.
Robert G. Wilmers
Chairman and CEO, M&T Bank Corporation

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Working Group Session #1

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Plenary Session
Place-Based Innovation: Creating Centers of Prosperity

Remarks By:

Bill Haslam
Governor, State of Tennessee

Participants:

Maria Bartiromo
Anchor, CNBC
John Sibley Butler
The Herb Kelleher Chair and J. Marion West Chair of Management and Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin
Ann Miura-Ko
Managing Partner, FLOODGATE
Jerry Sanders
Mayor, City of San Diego
Christine Shapard
Executive Director, Colorado Cleantech Industry Association

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Social Reception

Friday, June 8th

7:30 AM - 2:00 PM

Registration

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Plenary Session
Sustainable Finance

Dynamic Duo:

Stanley Litow
President, IBM International Foundation; Vice President Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs, IBM Corporation
Karen Mills
Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration

Participants:

Donna Gambrell
Director, Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Lisa Hall
President and CEO, Calvert Foundation
Ted Howard
Executive Director, The Democracy Collaborative
Jim Koch
Chairman, The Boston Beer Company, Inc.
Laura D'Andrea Tyson
S.K. and Angela Chan Professor of Global Management, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Working Group Session #2

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch Plenary Session
Pathways to Opportunity

Participants:

John Hope Bryant
Founder, Chairman and CEO, Operation HOPE, Inc.
Chelsea Clinton
Board Member, Clinton Global Initiative and William J. Clinton Foundation
Kyle McCollom
Founder, Triple Thread Apparel
Ai-jen Poo
Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance
Jerry Sue Thornton
President, Cuyahoga Community College

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Working Group Session #3

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Closing Plenary Session
What's Next?: Towards a More Perfect Union

Participants:

President Bill Clinton
Founding Chairman, Clinton Global Initiative; 42nd President of the United States
Regina E. Dugan
Former Director, DARPA, U.S. Department of Defense
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Frederick P. Rose Director, Hayden Planetarium
Mark Vachon
Vice President, Ecomagination, General Electric