Embassy Programs and Events
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Conference in Support of Independent Media - Agenda
June 22, 2006
Thursday, June 22nd
9:30 Welcome Remarks Ambassador Jeffrey D. Feltman U.S. Embassy Beirut
Facilitator: Jacques de Suze, Senior Director of Station Development, Chum Television International (CTI)
9:45 Opening Speaker: The Way Forward -- Financing, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Speaker Michael Garin, CEO, Central European Media Enterprises (CME)
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11:00 Future Trends in Media Management Speakers:
Omer Ghani, Director Business Development, CNBC Arabia
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Harold W. Fuson, Jr., SVP and Chief Legal Officer, The Copley Press, Inc (Download Copy of Presentation in PowerPoint)
Gabriel Chahine, Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton
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Makram Azar, Head of European Media Division, Lehman Brothers London
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1300 Advertising and Research Speakers
Keith McCracken, Global Director General, Marketing Agencies Association Worldwide (MAAW)
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Rabih Haber, Managing Director, Statistics Lebanon Ltd
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Mazen Hayek, Managing Director, Manning Selvage & Lee Public Relations (MS&L)
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1400 Lunch sponsored by MTV
1500 New Media Content Trends and Your Future Audience Speakers
Salwa Soueid, Executive Producer, MBC
Omar S. Amanat, BridgesTV, former Founder, CEO of Tradescape Corp
Nasser Saleh Al-Sarami, Senior Editor, Elaph.com
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Bassam Tueni, Naharnet
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1630 Informal Talk on Converging Technologies by Media
1) Print
2) Broadcast
2100 Gala Dinner sponsored by ARAMEX Speaker: Riz Khan, Al Jazeera International
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Friday, June 23rd
9:30 Ted Koppel, Managing Editor, Discovery Channel, 42-year veteran of ABCNews, former Anchor of
Nightline
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10:45 Regulations and Responsibility: Defining Standards and Self Control Speakers
Michael Wagner, Asst. Chief of the Audio Division, Media Bureau, Federal Communications Commission
Michael Getler, Ombudsman, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), formerly Executive Editor, International Herald Tribune
Nakhlé El-Hage, Head of News and Current Affairs, Al Arabiyyal
Riz Khan, Al Jazeera International, former BBC and CNN journalist
12:45 Building a Media Company of the Future Case Study Speaker
William Campbell, III President, U.S. Networks, Discovery
Communications, Inc
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13:30 How to Build a Media Company for the Future Speakers
Mary Lou Fulton, Vice President of Audience Development, The Bakersfield Californian
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Hazel Reinhardt, President and Founder Hazel Consulting Services and professor at Northwestern University’s Media Management Center (Download Copy of Presentation in PowerPoint)
