Forum on Innovation for Government Effectiveness at CSIS

Press Release — January 23, 2013

WASHINGTON, January 23, 2013 – The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Project on Prosperity & Development will host a half-day forum featuring Carly Fiorina, former President and CEO of Hewlett Packard, General James Cartwright, Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies at CSIS and Former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and William Lynn, Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense. The panels appear below.

WHEN/WHERE:
Thursday, January 24, 2013
9:30 AM - 2:00 PM
B1 Conference Center
CSIS, 1800 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006

Credentialed members of the press who would like to attend must RSVP to aschwartz@csis.org

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Introductions by:
 
Carly Fiorina
Former Chairman and CEO, Hewlett-Packard and Co-Chair, US Leadership in Development, CSIS

Daniel F. Runde
Director, Project on Prosperity and Development and Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis, CSIS

Keynote Speakers:

General James “Hoss” Cartwright
Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS and Former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

William Lynn
Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense

Panel 1:
Steven Kelman
Harvard University, and former Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy, OMB

Stan Soloway
President, Professional Services Council
 
Steven Schooner
GWU Law School, and Co-Director of the Government Procurement Law Program

Moderated by:
Rhett Dawson
Principal, Ervin Hill Strategy

Panel 2:
David Zolet
Executive Vice President, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)

Richard Spires
Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
 
Stephanie von Friedeburg
CIO and VP for Information Management and Technology, World Bank

Elaine Kamarck
Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard University

Moderated by:
James A. Lewis
Senior Fellow and Director, Technology and Public Policy Program, CSIS
 
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