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DLC Conference Public Program
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Creating an Innovative and Entrepreneurial Economy
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How Broadband Can Transform Communities
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Broadband brings the action to you!

This summer in Chicago, amidst the most exciting political year in memory, hundreds of rising political stars from every corner of America will gather at DLC’s most important annual event. Participants will hear from leading national voices who will discuss ideas that will shape the country’s future. Broadband allows you to be part of the action!

Broadband is bringing democracy to more and more people: log on to NextGenWeb.org to catch all the lively discussion in Chicago. This live stream is just one example of how high-speed Internet is changing the way we live, work and communicate!

So join us on NextGenWeb on Sunday, June 29th and Monday, June 30th – but know you’re welcome anytime! Please take the time to look at all the wonderful resources on the site and the examples of how broadband is making health care more affordable and accessible, closing the gap in access to the nation’s best educational resources and reducing our carbon footprint by getting cars off the road.

See the full agenda below.

Please note the following sessions are Central Standard Time

Sunday June 29
1:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. (CST)
Breakout Sessions II
How Broadband Can Transform Communities

3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. (CST)
Breakout Sessions III
Creating an Innovative and Entrepreneurial Economy

Monday June 30

8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. (CST)
Conference Public Program

Featuring:
Mayor Richard M. Daley, Chicago
Harold Ford, Jr., DLC Chair

Panel: Winning Middle America
Al From, DLC Founder and CEO
David Brooks*, Columnist, New York Times
Susan Estrich*, Robert Kingsley Professor of Law and Political Science, University of Southern California
Drew Westin*, Professor, Emory University, and Author, The Political Brain

Panel: Winning in Global Competition
Competitiveness: James McNerney Jr.*, Chairman, President and CEO, Boeing
Energy: Tom Vilsack*, Former Governor, Iowa
Economy: Gene Sperling*, Council on Foreign Relations
Health care: Andy Stern* or Divided We Fail bigwig
Education: Michelle Ree*, Chancellor, District of Columbia Public Schools

Governors Roundtable
Gov. Joe Manchin, West Virginia, Chair, Democratic Governors Association
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, Kansas
Gov. Phil Bredesen, Tennessee
Gov. Ed Rendell*, Pennsylvania

* Indicates invited, not confirmed.