Agenda For Supply Chain Summit

Supply Chain Summit Agenda

September 10, 2024 
9:30am to 3:45pm ET

9:30 - 9:35  Welcome and Logistics 

• Marti Flacks, Director, Supply Chain Center, U.S. Department of Commerce
• Matthew P. Goodman, Distinguished Fellow and Director of the Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

9:35 - 10:05  Tackling Economic and National Security Risks in Supply Chains 

• Gina Raimondo, Secretary, Department of Commerce
• Tom Polen, Chairman, CEO and President, Becton Dickinson
• Moderator: Mike Froman, President, Council on Foreign Relations

10:05 - 10:20  A Proactive and Strategic Approach to Supply Chain Resilience 

• Grant T. Harris, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Analysis, Department of Commerce

10:20 - 11:00  How Far We’ve Come: U.S. Government Efforts to Build More Resilient Supply Chains 

• Don Graves, Deputy Secretary, Department of Commerce
• Dave Turk, Deputy Secretary, Department of Energy
• Daleep Singh, Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics and Deputy Assistant to the President, White House National Security Council
• Anne Neuberger, Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Tech and Deputy Assistant to the President, White House National Security Council
• Rana Foroohar, Global Business Columnist and Associate Editor, Financial Times (Presider)

11:00 - 11:40  Coffee Break 

11:40 - 12:15  Morning Sessions 

Session 1: How the Private Sector Evaluates Supply Chain Risk 

• Lisa Schroeter, Global Director of Trade & Investment Policy, Dow Inc.
• Michael Bunge, Vice President for Global Supply Chain and Operations, Hamilton Beach Brands Inc.
• Frank Sanders, Corporate Vice President for Supply Chain, Intel Corporation
• Sameera Fazili, Industry Policy and Trade Fellow, Roosevelt Institute (Presider)

Session 2: IPEF Convening on the Margins of the Summit: Building Resiliency with Indo-Pacific Partners 

• Carol Chong, Director for Strategy and Policy, Supply Chain and Economic Resilience Division, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Republic of Singapore
• Tapan Mazumder, Additional Director General of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Republic of India
• James Hartley, General Manager, Communications, Infrastructure and Trade, Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, New Zealand
• Others, pending confirmation
• David Talbot, Executive Director, Indo-Pacific Partnership for Prosperity (Presider)

12:15 - 1:15  Networking Lunch 

1:15 - 2:00  Afternoon Sessions 

Session 1: Responding to Disruption 

• William (Bill) Oplinger, President and Chief Executive Officer, Alcoa
• Joe Gasperov, Vice President, International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU)
• Shawn Marie Jarosz, Founder & Chief Trade Strategist, TradeMoves LLC
• Moderator: Eugene Seroka, Executive Director, Port of Los Angeles

Session 2: Ensuring U.S. Competitiveness by Securing Emerging Technology Supply Chains 

• Jason Kelly, co-founder and CEO, Ginkgo Bioworks
• Dr. Sarah Sewall, Executive Vice President for National Innovation Strategy, In-Q-Tel
• Dr. Zaira Nazario, Director, Science and Technology, ODR, IBM Research
• Kat Duffy, Senior Fellow for Digital and Cyberspace Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
• Emily Harding, Director of the Intelligence, National Security, and Technology (INT) Program and Deputy Director with the International Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies (Presider)

2:00 - 2:15  Coffee Break 

2:15 - 3:00  Next Steps in Supply Chain Resiliency 

• Monica Gorman, Special Assistant to the President for Manufacturing & Industry Policy, White House
• Willy Shih, Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration, Harvard Business School
• Shannon O’Neil, Vice President, Deputy Director of Studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations
• Grant T. Harris, Assistant Secretary for Industry & Analysis, Department of Commerce (Presider)

3:00 - 3:45        A Competitive America: Supply Chains, Jobs, and Consumers 

• Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE-At Large)  
• Representative Larry Bucshon (R-IN-08)
• Steve Clemons, Contributing Editor, The National Interest (Presider)