The 2007 Program
8:00 a.m.
Registration and complimentary continental breakfast;
Koumantzelis Auditorium, Lindsay Hall
8:30 a.m.
Welcome from J. Terence Carleton ’77, Chairman, Bentley Board of Trustees and Edward J. McCarrick, Worldwide President and Publisher, TIME magazine
FEATURED ADDRESS:
Enlightened Globalization: Economic Development and Poverty Alleviation
— Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, Earth Institute at Columbia University, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development
— Follow-up discussion with Richard Stengel, Managing Editor, TIME magazine
9:50 a.m.
BREAK
10:00 a.m.
PANEL DISCUSSION:
Taking Action: Priorities, Partnerships and Innovation
— Vikram Akula, Founder and CEO, SKS Microfinance, India
— Reverend Gloria White-Hammond, MD, Co-Pastor of the Bethel AME Church and Founder, My Sister's Keeper, Sudan
— Dean Kamen, Founder and President, DEKA, Research and Development Corp.
— David J. Refkin, Director of Sustainable Development, TIME, Inc.
Moderated by Anthony Buono, Bentley Professor and Coordinator of the Bentley Alliance for Ethical and Social Responsibility
11:00 a.m.
FEATURED ADDRESS:
Global Social Enterprise: Creating Environments That Care
— Jeffrey Swartz, President and CEO, Timberland
— Follow-up discussion with Bentley Professor Anthony Buono
12:15 p.m.
Lunch in the Executive Dining Room, LaCava Center; presentation of the Tomorrow25 awards
FEATURED ADDRESS:
Technology: Catalyst for Change
— Nicholas Negroponte, PhD, Founder and Chairman, One Laptop Per Child
— Introduction by Bentley Trustee R. Marcello Claure ’93
