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NIA President Moderates the NASA Digital Learning Network Session
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NIA News Release 2007-10
June 19, 2007
HAMPTON, Va. – The National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) President and Executive Director, Dr. Robert Lindberg hosted the NASA Space Program and Digital Learning Network session at the Department of Commerce Americas Competitiveness Forum (ACF) on June 10, 2007. The session was webcast live and featured students from Bolivia and Atlanta, Ga. interacting with Astronaut Cady Coleman at NASA Johnson Space Center.
To view the webcast, visit http://www31.nortel.com/webcast.cgi?id=5704.
This interactive event supported the education and workforce development track of ACF, hosted by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez. ACF provided a venue for government ministers from the Western Hemisphere to come together with leaders from the private sector, academia and non-governmental organizations to explore cutting-edge ideas and best practices in several key areas of competitiveness including sparking and sustaining innovation; creating solutions in education and workforce development; designing successful global supply chain strategies; and fostering small business development and growth.
All plenary sessions are active on the web.
Welcome to the ACF
Keynote: Carlos M. Gutierrez, Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce
Remarks: Shirley Franklin, Mayor, City of Atlanta and, U.S. Department of Commerce
http://www31.nortel.com/webcast.cgi?id=5702
The State of Competitiveness in the Western Hemisphere
Moderator: Luis Alberto Moreno
Speakers: Hernando de Soto, Eduardo Solorzano and Ana Vilma de Escobar
http://www31.nortel.com/webcast.cgi?id=5703
NASA Space Program and Digital Learning Network
(Interactive video conference with NASA Astronaut)
Moderator: Robert Lindberg, President and Executive Director, NIA
http://www31.nortel.com/webcast.cgi?id=5704
Innovation Luncheon
John Roese, Chief Technology Officer, Nortel
Keynote: Vinton Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
http://www31.nortel.com/webcast.cgi?id=5705
Town Hall with Government Ministers: Competitiveness in Practice
(Interactive moderated question and answer session with ministers from the region)
Moderator: Carlos M. Gutierrez, Secretary US Dept of Commerce
Speakers: Mercedes Araoz from Peru, Maxime Bernier from Canada, Alejandro Ferreiro from Chile, Alejandro Ferrer from Panama, Luis Guillermo from Colombia and Eduardo Sojo from Mexico.
http://www31.nortel.com/webcast.cgi?id=5706
Closing Remarks - June 11, 2007
Jamie Morales Carazo, Vice President, Nicaragua and Hazel Manning, Minister of Education, Trinidad and Tobago
http://www31.nortel.com/webcast.cgi?id=5707
Opening - June 12, 2007
Speakers: Enrique Garcia, Executive President, Corporacion Andina de Fomento and Robert Mosbacher, President, Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Keynote: Henry M. Paulson, Secretary, U.S. Department of the Treasury
http://www31.nortel.com/webcast.cgi?id=5708
Supporting National and Regional Innovation for Economic Prosperity
Opening: Bill Jeffrey, Director, National Institute for Standards and Technology
Moderator: Deborah L. Wince-Smith, President, Council of Competitiveness
Speakers: G. Wayne Clough, President, Georgia Institute of Technology, Oscar Garreton, President, Fundacion Chile, Jorge Gerdau, Chairman, Brazilian Competitiveness Movement, Roberto Newell, CEO, Institute of Competitiveness, Mexico and Jose Tadeu Alves, President, Latin America Human Health, Merck&Co. Inc.
http://www31.nortel.com/webcast.cgi?id=5709
Supply Chain Strategies
Felisa Micelli, Minister of Economy, Argentina and Michael L. Eskew, Chairman and CEO, UPS
http://www31.nortel.com/webcast.cgi?id=5710
NIA is a non-profit research and graduate education institute headquartered in Hampton, Va. It was formed by a consortium of research universities to ensure a national capability to support NASA’s mission by expanding collaboration with academia and leveraging expertise inside and outside NASA. NIA performs research in a broad range of disciplines including space exploration, systems engineering, nanoscale materials science, flight systems, aerodynamics, air traffic management, aviation safety, planetary and space science, and global climate change. The institute’s graduate program offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the fields of engineering and science through its university partners: Georgia Tech, Hampton University, North Carolina A&T State University, North Carolina State University, the University of Maryland, the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, Old Dominion University, and the College of William & Mary.
More information about the National Institute of Aerospace is available at http://www.nianet.org.
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