Binational Meeting & Awards Gala Dinner-Mexico 2009

BINATIONAL Meeting & AWARDS GALA DINNER

"U.S.-Mexico: New Opportunities & Shared Responsibilities"

December 8^th- 10^th, 2009

Four Seasons Hotel, Mexico City

Tentative Agenda

(Invited Speakers)

Tuesday, December 8^th, 2009

                                                                Ambassadors Residence

7:00 p.m.                                              welcome reception

    Amb. Carlos Pascual, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico

Wednesday, December 9^th, 2009

                                                              Four Seasons Hotel

8:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.                     Breakfast:   Health, Medical Tourism

& Retirement Communities

Keynote Speaker:  José Angel Córdova Mexico`s Secretary of Health

- Laurent Poole, CEO, Global Hospitality Investments

- Bruce Greenberg, Valuaciones Montaña Verde, SA de C V

- Edward Kadunc, ABC Hospital Foundation

- Oscar Espinosa, President, Bufete Consulta, S.A. de C.V.

- David Collins, Managing Partner, Active Living International

10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.                   Panel One:  Transportation & Infrastructure

                                                          Keynote Speaker: Alonso García Tamés, Director General Banobras

- Jose Luis Guerrero, Director General, Empresas ICA

- Alejandro Aboumrad González, CEO, Impulsora del Desarrollo

  Económico de America Latina (IDEAL)

- José Zozaya, President, Kansas City Southern de México

- Juan Manuel Carreon, President, Union Pacific México

12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.                    Panel Two: Commerce, Manufacturing, PYMES

                                                         Keynote Speaker: Gerardo Ruiz Mateos, Mexico’s Secretary of

                                                         the Economy

-  Anthony McCarthy, Director General Adjunct, Bancomext

- Tony Jimenez, President & CEO, MicroTech

- Armando Paredes, President, Consejo Coordinador Empresarial

- Flavio Díaz-Mirón, Director General, Bombardier de México

Bolsa Mexicana de Valores

2.30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.                        Luncheon at Mexico’s Stock Exchange

                                                          Keynote Speaker: Luis Tellez, President, Bolsa Mexicana de

                                                          Valores

Free Afternoon

Museo Del Ex-Arzobispado

8:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.                      Gala Dinner:

                                                                Awardees:

-          Alfredo Elías Ayub, Director General, CFE

-          Juan Vega, President, Naviera Integral

-          Ricardo Salinas, Chairman, Grupo Salinas

Thursday, December 10^th , 2009           

Four Seasons Hotel                         

8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.                     Roundtable: U.S. – Mexico Security Cooperation

                                                            Keynote Speakers:   

- Gerónimo Gutierrez, Mexico’s Undersecretary of Gobernación      

- Genaro García Luna, Mexico’s Secretary of Public Security

- Arturo Chávez Chávez, Mexico’s Attorney General

- Alan Bersin, Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Special Representative for Border Affairs, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

10:00 a.m.  – 10:45 a.m.                   Feature Presentation:  Mexico's Fiscal Policy in 2010

                                                            Keynote Speaker:

- Agustín Carstens, Mexico’s Secretary of Finance and Public

Credit

11:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.                  Panel Three:  Energy, Environment & Water
                                                           Keynote Speaker: Georgina Kessel, Mexico’s Secretary of Energy

- Juan José Suarez Coppel, Director General PEMEX

- José Luis Luege, Director General, Mexico’s National Water

  Commission (CONAGUA)

- Sandra Dennise Herrera, Undersecretary for promotion and Legal Environmental Affairs, Mexico's Ministry of the Environment

- Tania Ortiz Mena, Regional Vice President-International Relations, Sempra Energy

12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.                 Panel Four: Political Reform

                                                        Moderator:  Sergio Sarmiento, Columnist and Director of the

Editorial Board, TV Azteca

- Beatriz Paredes, President, Institutional Revolutionary Party(PRI)

- César Nava, President, National Action Party (PAN)

- Jesús Ortega, President, Party of the Democratic Revolution(PRD)

2:30 p.m. –4:00 P.M.                          Luncheon: President Felipe Calderon                              Los Pinos