THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP CONFERENCE AGENDA

9.00 am

Welcome      

Kim Phan
Executive Director
International Law Institute

Introduction   

Patrick Macrory
Director, International Trade Law Center
International Law Institute

Warren Maruyama
Hogan Lovells

"Introduction: A Brief Primer on TPP"

9.30 am

The View
from Congress

Everett Eissenstat
Chief International Trade Counsel,
Senate Finance Committee

Jayme White
Chief Advisor for International Trade (Minority), Senate Finance Committee

Angela Ellard
Chief Trade Counsel,
House Ways and Means Committee

Jason Kearns
Chief Minority Trade Counsel,
House Ways and Means Committee

10.30 am

The View
from USTR

Barbara Weisel
Assistant USTR for Southeast Asia & Pacific

Mike Harney
Assistant USTR for Congressional Affairs

11.15 am 

Break

11.30 am

Economic Perspectives

Gary Hufbauer
Peterson Institute for International Economics

Kimberly Ann Elliot
Center for Global Development

12.15  pm

Overview

Claude Barfield
American Enterprise Institute

1. "The TPP: If not a “gold standard” agreement, then at least a “silver” — and worth supporting"

2. "The Future Paths for the TPP"

12.45 pm

Lunch

1.30  pm

Intellectual
Property
Issues

Matthew Schruers
Computer and Communications Industry Association

Brian Pomper
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld

2.15 pm

Market
Access Issues

Devry Bougher
Cargill

Stephen Lamar
American Apparel & Footwear Association

David Salmonsen
American Farm Bureau Federation    

"U.S. Agriculture & the Trans-Pacific Partnership"

3.15 pm

Break

3.30 pm

Investment
Issues

Michael Smart
Rock Creek Advisers

Celeste Drake 
AFL-CIO

4.15-5.15 pm

The Future

Scott Miller
Center for Strategic & International Studies

Richard Cunningham
Steptoe and Johnson

"After TPP and TTIP: Then What?"

Gary Horlick
The Law Offices of Gary Horlick