30th Annual World Russia Forum 2011
March 29-30, 2011, Washington D.C. USA
U.S. Congress, Hart Senate Office Building, Room 902
8:00 – 9:00 AM: Registration
9:00 – 9:30 AM: Welcoming Remarks
His Excellency Sergei Kislyak, Russian Ambassador to the United States of America
Daniel Russell, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, United States of America
9:30 - 11:00 AM: U.S.-Russia Business Council Panel: From Silicon Valley to Skolkovo
Edward Verona, President, U.S.-Russia Business Council, Panel Moderator
Dmitry Akhanov, President, Rusnano USA
Lorraine Hariton, Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Clay Lowery, Vice President, International Government Affairs, CISCO Systems
Daniel Satinsky, Partner, Russia Innovation Collaborative
Oleg Svintsitski, Senior Vice President, Siguler Guff & Company
11:00 AM - 11:20 PM: Coffee Break
11:20 AM - 1:00 PM: Russia’s Road to Economic Modernization
Gerson Sher, Executive Vice-President, U.S. Industry Coalition, Panel Moderator
Fred Seamon, Campbell Applied Physics
Vladimir Shiltsev, Chair-Elect, Russian American Science Association
David Trudil, Principal, NHDetect
David Yakobashvili, President, Russia-U.S. Business Council
Yuri Mamchur, Director, Real Russia Project, Discovery Institute
1:00 - 2:30 PM: Senate Luncheon
Konstantin Kosachev – Chairman, Committee on International Relations, Russian State Duma
Richard Perle – Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, former Assistant Secretary of Defense
Tom Price, U.S. Congressman (R-GA)
2:30 - 5:00 PM: Future agenda for U.S.—Russia cooperation.
Edward Lozansky, President, American University in Moscow, Panel Moderator
Dana Rohrabacher, U.S. Congressman, (R-CA)
Leonid Gozman, Co-chairman, Political party “The Right Cause”
Thomas Graham, Partner, Kissinger & Associates
Andrew Kuchins, Director of the Russia and Eurasia Programs, CSIS
Robert Legvold, Columbia University
Sergei Markov, Deputy of the Russian State Duma
Arkady Murashev, President, Center for Liberal Conservative Policy
Sergey Rogov, Director, Institute of USA and Canada, Russian Academy of Science
Yevgeny Savostyanov, Executive VP, the Center for U.S.—Russia Rapprochement
Nikolay Zlobin, President, Center for Russian & Eurasian Development
6:30 - 9:00 PM: Reception at the Russian Embassy, 2650 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first manned flight to space. Forum guests will be joined by the American Astronauts, Russian Cosmonauts and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. Kolodzei Art Foundation presents: Dawn of Manned Space Exploration, Photographs by Leonid Lazarev.
10:00 - 11:45 AM: Business Roundtable: Business, Investment and Innovations
Presentations and discussion of specific proposals for U.S.–Russia cooperation in high-tech and other areas of business and innovation with representatives of American and Russian companies and venture funds.
Noon - 1:30 PM: Lunch at GWU
Transfer to Russian Cultural Center, 1825 Phelps Place
2:30 - 5:00 PM: The Role of Russian Diaspora in Bolstering U.S.–Russia Cooperation
Roundtable Discussion presented by the leadership of the newly formed Center for U.S.–Russia Rapprochement. Presentations by American experts and Russian diaspora activists.
5:00 - 7:00 PM: Final Reception and Cultural Program at the Russian Cultural Center