8:30-9:00

Coffee, registration

9:00-9:20

Welcome remarks:

U.S. Senate President Pro-Tem Ted Stevens

9:20-9:30

Special viewing of video: "Innovation, Culture and Rural Economies: Mapping the Future"

9:30-9:50

Special Challenges and Opportunities of Investing in Emerging Markets Special Guest: David Rubenstein, Founding Partner and Managing Director of the Carlyle Group

9:50-10:10

Managing the World Economy - Special Guest: Kenneth Rogoff, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics, Harvard University, former Chief Economist and Director of Research, International Monetary Fund

10:10-10:25

Remarks: David W. Anderson, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of Interior

10:25-12:30

Knowledge-Based Economies in a Multicultural World: Our History, Our Cultures and Our Future

This discussion will explore various aspects of our history and relations with the United States that have determined the range of opportunities available to Native Americans and the challenges we need to overcome. We will explore how these policies can be changed to better accommodate our cultural and economic development within Native communities. We will further explore the central role of education and what knowledge-based economies are all about.

Participants will be invited to share concrete examples of Native American success in the knowledge-based economy and "blue-prints" of how to do it.

Seminar facilitator: Richard Trudell, Executive Director, American Indian Resources Institute, Oakland, CA

David Getches, Raphael J. Moses Professor of Natural Resource Law and Dean of the University of Colorado Law School, Boulder, CO

Jackie Johnson, Executive Director, National Congress of American Indians, Washington D.C. (invited)

Nicholas E. Flanders, Ph.D., Program Leader (designate), Corporate Citizenship Facility, Environment and Social Development Dept., International Finance Corporation, Washington, D.C.

Brent Dark, Deputy Resident Director

Asian Development Bank's North American Representative Office, Washington, D.C.

Dennis Whittle, CEO and Co-Founder, GlobalGiving, Bethesda, MD

Jerry Straus, Partner, Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, LLP, Washington, D.C.

Others: TBA

12:30

Conclusion of seminar