JAPAN UPDATE PROGRAM
emceed by Andrew Schneider, Houston Public Media Business Reporter
| 8:00 AM | Registration | ||
| 8:45 AM | Breakfast | ||
| 9:30 AM | Keynote Address | ||
| ADMIRAL DENNIS BLAIR | |||
| Chairman of the Board and CEO of Sasakawa USA and Former Director of U.S. National Intelligence and Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Command | |||
| 10:00 AM | Trade and Investment Panel | ||
| BOB HARVEY | |||
| President and CEO, Greater Houston Partnership | |||
| MARC WATTS | |||
| Chair Pro Tem, Board of Directors Houston Branch, Dallas Federal Reserve Bank and President, The Friedkin Group Inc. | |||
| GEORGE AVDEY | |||
| President, Kuraray America Inc. | |||
| AMBASSADOR THOMAS SCHIEFFER | |||
| Former US Ambassador to Japan | |||
| 11:15 AM | Energy Panel | ||
| HISANORI NEI | |||
| Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies | |||
| MICHELLE FOSS | |||
| Chief Energy Economist, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin | |||
| TADASHI ISHIZUKA | |||
| Chief Operating Officer, Mitsui Co. LNG Investment USA, Inc. | |||