IMPORTANT: 'Dr Ed Yardeni's COUNTDOWN 2000 CONFERENCE
August 19, 1998
Global Y2K Awareness Day
(T-Minus 500 Days & Counting!)
Join the Chief Economist and Managing Director of Deutsche Bank Securities in a live, marathon Internet
audio program all day with many of the world's top experts on the Year 2000 Problem. The conference will
start at 8:00 am in New York and last until 6:00 pm.
Tune in for the live broadcast and rebroadcasts by clicking on the links on the schedule below once it is
show time. You will need to download Real Player 5.0 to hear the conference. During the broadcast, e-mail
questions and comments to yardeni@ix.netcom.com.
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Proposed Schedule:
Speakers to be invited
= Confirmed
Keynote Statements
08:00
Tony Blair, Prime Minister (UK)
08:15
Al Gore, Vice President (US)
08:30
Global Year 2000 Problem
Moderator: Ed Yardeni
Senator Bob Bennett (US), Chair, Special Senate Y2K Committee
Jean Monty (Canada),Chair, Task Force 2000
Maurice Newman (Australia), Chair, Stock Exchange
James Purnell (UK), Special Assistant to Prime Minister
Steve Forbes, Publisher
09:30
Energy Systems
Hugh Thompson, Jr., US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Kathleen Hirning, CIO, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Electric Power Research Institute
North American Reliability Council
Rick Cowles, author "Electric Utilities & Y2K"
10:00
Telecommunications
Michael K. Powell, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
AT&T Y2K Office
State Department
Bell Atlantic Network Services
10:30
Global Banking & Finance
Edward W. Kelley, Jr., Fed Governor
Ernest T. Patrikis, Fed Reserve NY, Chair Joint Y2K Council
Securities Industry Association
11:00
Health Care
Arthur Gross, CIO, Albany Medical & formerly IRS
Food and Drug Administration
Joel Ackerman, Rx2000 Solutions Institute
11:30
Embedded Systems
Embedded Systems Solutions
General Accounting Office
12:00
Investment Strategy
Moderator: Dennis Grabow, Millennium Investments
Ed Yardeni, Deutsche Bank Securities
Merrill Lynch
Paine Webber
ING Barings
13:00
Government Progress
Moderator: Bruce Webster, Chair Washington, D.C. Year 2000 Group
John A. Koskinen, Special Assistant to President Clinton for Y2K
Charles Rossotti, Commissioner, IRS
Jim Flyzik, CIO Treasury
Jane Garvey, FAA Administrator
Kathleen Adams, Chair Y2K Interagency Committee
General Accounting Office
14:00
Corporate Disclosure
Arthur Levitt, SEC Chairman
National Assoc. Of Manufacturers
Ann Coffou, Giga Informatiion Group
Gartner Group
15:00
Global Strategic Issues
Moderator: Arnaud de Borchgrave, CSIS
John Hamre, Deputy Secretary, US Defense Department
William A. Curtis, US military special assistant for Y2K
United Nations
Carlos A. Primo Braga, manager World Bank Information for Development
16:00
Community Awareness & the Press
Moderator: Paloma O'Riley, Cassandra Project for Community Action
Rep. Constance Morella (R-Maryland), Co-Chair House Special Y2K
Committee
Rep. Stephen Horn (R-Calif ), Co-Chair House Special Y2K Committee
The Economist
Newsweek
David Cassano, Y2K Manager, IBM
17:00
Legal Issues
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