Business Leadership and Public Policy: Inventing a More Sustainable Economy

Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Washington, D.C.

Together we have begun to move this timely idea of a progressive business leaders network to the next level of action; but we are just beginning. Our next major opportunity is the incomparable, energizing and third annual PBLN Washington Summit.  We will gather on Capitol Hill May 11th for a day unlike any other you may have had in Washington. Join 100 CEOs and other top business leaders for dynamic, interactive sessions with top Congressional and Obama Administration leaders and senior White House staff.

Agenda | Register now

Highly Interactive Sessions

• Pricing Carbon for Competitiveness, Growth and Jobs
• The Role of Business in Healthcare Reform and Innovation
• How School Reform Can Help Drive Growth and Opportunity
• Financial Market Regulation After the Financial Crisis – Protecting Access to Capital and the Future of Innovation
• Calibrating the Role of Government to Support Job Growth

Featured Speakers
Trent Bauserman, Legislative Aide to Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)*
Jared Bernstein, Chief Economist and Economic Policy Advisor to Vice President Joseph Biden Jonathan Black, United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Legislative Aide to Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)*
Peter Cunningham, Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education
Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), House Financial Services Chair
Maria Ghazal, Director of Public Policy & Counsel, Business Roundtable
Diane Hessan, CEO, Communispace Corporation, Inc.
Lindsay Hunsicker, Senior Education Policy Advisor for Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), United States Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee*
Gloria Larson, President, Bentley University
Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA), Chair, House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming
Will Marshall, President, Progressive Policy Institute
Terrell McSweeny, Domestic Policy Advisor to Vice President Joseph Biden
Shailagh Murray, National Politics Reporter, Washington Post
Melanie Nakagawa, Legislative Aide, Senate Foreign Relations Committee*
Len Nichols, Professor of Health Policy & Director of the Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics, George Mason University*
Barry O'Callaghan, CEO, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Paul Sagan, CEO, Akamai Technologies
Neera Tanden, COO, Center for American Progress
Mitch Tyson, CEO, Advanced Electron Beams
Senator Mark Warner*
Ron Zwanziger, CEO, Inverness Medical Innovations*

*Invited

Member Spotlight

Diane Hessan, President & CEO - Communispace
According to Advertising Age Communispace is one of the fastest growing marketing and technology companies in the country, with a Blue Chip client list that would make a Madison Avenue giant jealous. A pioneer in creating online communities to help marketers deeply engage customers, Diane helped found Communispace in 1999 and hasn't looked back.