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)
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