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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

  6:00 AM - 8:30 PM

Registration

  6:30 AM - 7:45 AM

Business Leader's Toolkit: How Business Executives Can Influence Education Reform
Roundtable Session

A Look Inside a Brazilian Growth Engine: A Discussion With Gov. Luiz Enrique da Silveira, State of Santa Catarina
Breakout Session

Grameen America
By invitation only

Private breakfast

Investing in China Workshop
Roundtable Session

  6:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Continental Breakfast

  8:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Play Video U.S. Overview: A Perfect Storm Ahead?
Plenary Session

Play Video Steve Wynn on Building and Sustaining Great Customer Service
A Conversation with ....

Philanthropy Advisory Service (PAS) Focus Group
By invitation only

Private meeting

  9:30 AM - 10:40 AM

The Year After the Year of Private Equity: What Now?
Breakout Session

Play Video Campaign 2008: The Long Road to the White House
Breakout Session

Play Video Innovator: Kevin Walsh on Financing the Future of Renewable Energy
Breakout Session

Play Video Business Aviation: Providing Tools, Not Toys
Breakout Session

Mr. and Mrs. Asia: Demographic Trends That Are Transforming a Continent
Breakout Session

Play Video Seizing the Opportunity to Eliminate Malaria as a Global Health Threat
Breakout Session

Play Video The Latin American Economy and the New Left: Where Are They Heading?
Breakout Session

Play Video Innovative International Education Models That Produce Excellence
Breakout Session

SAVE Update: Can Financial Innovations Pave the Way to Energy Independence?
Roundtable Session

  10:55 AM - 12:05 PM

Play Video Sovereign Wealth Funds: The Global Transfer of Capital
Breakout Session

Play Video Water: The Global Battle for the World's Most Precious Resource
Breakout Session

Play Video Generation Next: Preparing Tomorrow's Leaders Today
Breakout Session

Play Video Mind If We Get Personal? The Role of Genomics in Your Life
Breakout Session

Business Aviation 101
By invitation only

Private meeting

Play Video Japan: Which Direction for the World's No. 2 Economy?
Breakout Session

Keep America Moving: Designing a Transportation Infrastructure to Enhance Competitiveness
Breakout Session

Play Video The Changing Demographics of the Muslim World: Implications for the Future
Breakout Session

Play Video Improving Education Worldwide: Where Are the Business Opportunities?
Breakout Session

A Conversation With Lefei Liu, CIO of China Life
By invitation only

Private meeting

Investing in Small and Medium-Sized Companies to Create Global Prosperity
Roundtable Session

  12:15 PM - 2:00 PM

Play Video Lunch Panel: A Discussion With Nobel Laureates in Economics
Plenary Session

  2:15 PM - 3:00 PM

Book Signing: Dalia Mogahed
Who Speaks for Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think
Book Signing: Jared Cohen
Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East
Book Signing: Reza Aslan
No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam

Book Signing

  2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

Play Video Financial Convergence: The Changing Investment World
Breakout Session

Play Video Global Risk: What's Keeping the Experts Up at Night?
Breakout Session

Play Video Lowering Barriers to Investing in China's Small Businesses
Breakout Session

Play Video The Future of Health Care: What Kind of Reform Makes Sense?
Breakout Session

Play Video Innovator: Across the Universe With Physicist Lisa Randall
Breakout Session

Play Video Harnessing Growth to Break Poverty's Grip on the Developing World
Breakout Session

Play Video Institutional Investor Activism
Breakout Session

Play Video Moving From Me to We: The New Competitive Edge
Breakout Session

Eliminating Malaria: A Workshop
Roundtable Session

The Increasing Impact of Online Teaching in Primary and Secondary Schools
Breakout Session

Giving It Away Takes Creative Effort: Philanthropy Tales From Those Who Know
Roundtable Session

  3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Play Video State of the State of Wall Street: Creating Opportunity Out of Chaos
Breakout Session

Play Video A Conversation With T. Boone Pickens
Breakout Session

Play Video Green Is Green: Remaking Business in the Age of Sustainability
Breakout Session

Play Video NAFTA Under Assault: Reassessing Its Impact
Breakout Session

Play Video Paying the Piper: How Can Music Keep Its Revenues and Its Customers?
Breakout Session

Play Video Financing Medical Innovation
Breakout Session

Play Video What's the Rate of Return on Your Philanthropy?
Breakout Session

Play Video A New Era for Investing in Africa
Breakout Session

A Conversation With Lefei Liu, CIO of China Life
By invitation only

Private meeting

Indiana Jones Meets Wall Street: Valuing the Past To Save Antiquity for the Future
Roundtable Session

Social Networking for Companies: A Hands-On Guide
Roundtable Session

  5:15 PM - 6:00 PM

Book Signing: Col. Matthew Bogdanos
Thieves of Baghdad: One Marine's Passion for Ancient Civilizations and the Journey to Recover the World's Greatest Stolen Treasures

Book Signing

  5:15 PM - 6:15 PM

Play Video Business Innovations That Are Changing the World
Plenary Session

  6:15 PM - 7:15 PM

Reception for Speakers and Sponsors
Sponsored by Credit Agricole Group

Reception

Canada Reception
By invitation only

Private reception

Milken Institute Young Leaders Circle
By invitation only

Private reception

General Reception
Reception

  7:15 PM - 9:30 PM

Play Video Dinner Panel: Decision '08: What Awaits the Next President?
Plenary Session

  9:30 PM - 10:30 PM

Late Night at the Milken Institute Global Conference Pavilion Sponsored by Newedge
By invitation only

Private meeting


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