Agenda



 7:30AM - 8:00AM
Registration

 8:00AM - 8:30AM
Welcome
Edmund Fleet
Executive Director, THEARC

Councilman Marion Barry
Ward Eight, Washington D.C.

  Opening Remarks
John Hope Bryant
Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Operation HOPE, Inc.
Vice Chairman, President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy (PACFL)
Chairman, PACFL Committee on the Underserved
Introduction by Esther Silver-Parker
Senior Vice President, Diversity Relations, Wal-Mart


Ambassador Andrew Young
Chairman, GoodWorks, International
HOPE Global Spokesman

 8:30AM - 9:00AM
Congressional Town Hall

 9:00AM - 9:35AM
Keynote Address
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke
Introduction by John Hope Bryant

 9:40AM - 10:00AM
Keynote Address
FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair
Introduction by John Hope Bryant

 10:15AM - 11:15AM
Global Town Hall
Global Financial Literacy Models Around the World

 11:30AM - 12:45PM
Plenary Sessions

Financial Literacy and Banking the Unbanked: from Third World Poor to First World Under-Served

Financial Literacy and Making Lending Work

Financial Literacy and the Education System; Making Education Aspirationally Relevant

Financial Literacy Empowerment

12:45PM Lunch

Viewing of President Barack Obama Official Webcast

 1:45PM - 3:00PM
Plenary Sessions

Financial Literacy and Progressive Public Policy and Regulation

Financial Literacy and Nurturing a Generation of Entrepreneurship

Financial Literacy and the Business Case

 3:15PM - 4:45PM
Global Town Hall
From Civil Rights to Silver Rights; Defining Success for Financial Literacy in an Aspirationally Relevant World


 4:45PM - 5:15PM
Closing Keynote Address
Valerie B. Jarrett
Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs
  and Public Liaison
The White House