last call for 9/26 National Press Club election forum on S and T policy

[Nigel Cameron]

Members of this list may be interested in details of tomorrow's conference at the National Press Club which will feature keynotes from at least one, and we hope both, of the presidential campaigns.

 

Some places are still available. Please email me direct at nigel....@c-pet.org with your name and affiliation if you wish to join us.

 

 

Nigel Cameron

 

 

 

Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies (C-PET)

with the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute

and the Society for Industrial Microbiology

 

The Future of Science and Technology Policy

A Forum on the Presidential Election

 

National Press Club, Washington, DC,

Friday September 26, 2008, 9.30-5.00

 

 

Chair

Nigel Cameron, President, Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies; Research Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology

 

Co-chairs:

Jennie Hunter-Cevera, President, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute

Jonathan Moreno, David and Lyn Silfen University Professor and Professor of Medical Ethics and of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania;Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

 

 

Representatives from the Obama and McCain campaigns:

 

9.30

Floyd DesChamps (McCain)

Obama campaign (invited)

 

10.30 Coffee/tea

 

PANELS

 

10.45 The Federal Role in S and T:

 

David Goldston, former Staff Director, House Science Committee (Moderator)

 

Phillip J. Bond, President and CEO, Information Technology Association of America; former Undersecretary, Department of Commerce

 

Neil Munro, National Journal

 

Reece Rushing, Center for American Progress

 

12.30 Lunch

 

1.30 Space:

 

Paul Root Wolpe, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics, Emory University (Moderator)

 

Catharine A. Conley, Planetary Protection Officer (Acting), NASA

 

Arnauld Nicogossian, former Chief Health and Medical Officer, NASA

 

2.45 Coffee/tea

 

3.00 Emerging Technologies:

 

Una Ryan, former CEO, AVANTI Immunotherapeutics (Moderator)

 

Dawn A. Bonnell, Trustee Professor of Materials Science & Engineering; Director, Nano/Bio Interface Center, University of Pennsylvania

 

Jennifer Camacho, Partner, Proskauer Rose, Boston

 

Jennie Hunter-Cevera, President, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute

 

Caroline Wagner, Center for International Science and Technology Policy, George Washington University

 

 

4.30 Concluding discussion Moderators and co-chairs

 

5.00 Conclusion

 

 

Hosted by the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies (C-PET),

10 G Street NE
Washington, DC 20002

a not-for-profit corporation registered in the District of Columbia

(more information at c-pet.org)

with the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute

and the Society for Industrial Microbiology

 

--
Nigel M. de S. Cameron
Research Professor
Illinois Institute of Technology

President
Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies
10 G Street NE, Suite 710
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